Annual evaluation programme
Article 13
1. The Commission shall establish, by means of an implementing act, an annual evaluation programme by 15 November of the year preceding that to which the programme relates. That annual evaluation programme shall be based on, in particular, the risk analyses and other information obtained by the Commission in accordance with Articles 7 to 11. The implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 30(2). 2. The annual evaluation programme shall include a provisional time schedule of the following evaluations: (a) periodic evaluations of Member States as specified in the multiannual evaluation programme; (b) first-time evaluations of a Member State; (c) where appropriate, thematic evaluations, including their theme, the Member States to be evaluated and the intended methods. 3. The Commission shall transmit the annual evaluation programme to the European Parliament and to the Council without delay. In the event of force majeure preventing the conduct of evaluations in accordance with the provisional time schedule established pursuant to paragraph 2, the Commission may, in agreement with the Member States concerned, make adjustments to the time schedule for the evaluations concerned. The Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council about events referred to in the second subparagraph and of their anticipated impact on the scheduling of evaluations under the annual evaluation programme without delay.