Roles and responsibilities of the European Coordination Office
Article 4
The European Coordination Office shall be responsible for supporting the exchange of information among Member States on the national work programmes and the joint review exercise, in particular by: (a) sharing information relevant for Article 30 of Regulation (EU) 2016/589 which is available at Union level with the National Coordination Offices to assist them with the preparation of their draft national work programmes; (b) developing and maintaining a tool on the EURES portal Extranet that makes available to the National Coordination Offices the template referred to in Article 7 and any related information on how to fill it in and submit it and provides the National Coordination Offices with an opportunity to review and comment on each other's national draft work programmes; (c) supervising the application of the deadlines set out in Annex II for the submission of draft national work programmes, the joint review exercise and the reporting on the implementation of national work programmes; (d) providing any other tools, training and support necessary to facilitate exchange of information and mutual learning on the programming cycle; (e) making available to the whole EURES network through a dedicated section on the EURES portal Extranet the relevant elements of the programming cycle with a view to increase transparency and mutual learning; (f) encourage National Coordination Offices to ensure consistency between the application of Article 31 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/589; (g) keeping the Coordination Group regularly informed on the functioning of the programming cycle and, where necessary, propose modifications to the template and the procedures.