Monitoring and evaluation
Article 23
1. No sooner than 26 June 2028, the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of this Directive and present a report on the main findings to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee. The evaluation shall be conducted in accordance with the Commission’s better regulation guidelines. In the report, the Commission shall in particular assess the scope of this Directive laid down in Article 2 and Annex I and the functioning and effectiveness of this Directive in cross-border situations, including in terms of legal certainty. 2. Member States shall provide the Commission, for the first time by 26 June 2027 and annually thereafter, with the following information necessary for the preparation of the report referred to in paragraph 1: (a) the number and type of representative actions that have been concluded before any of their courts or administrative authorities; (b) the type of infringements as referred to in Article 2(1) and the parties to those representative actions; (c) the outcomes of those representative actions. 3. By 26 June 2028, the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of whether cross-border representative actions could be best addressed at Union level by establishing a European ombudsman for representative actions for injunctive measures and redress measures, and shall present a report on its main findings to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee, accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal.