Evaluation in the European Commission – Rolling Check-List and State of Play

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The general overview and state of play on the public availability of evaluations is completed by a rolling check-list comprising on-going and planned evaluations on the basis of information disclosed by the Commission in various sources (DGs' management plans and annual activity reports, the Single Evaluation Plans for 2016 and 2017, roadmaps published since July 2015) and the information available in individual DGs.

The annexes to this paper contain an overview of, and links to, the DGs' management plans for 2017 (Annex I); and a list of, and direct links to, the evaluations published between 2015 and 20 October 2017 in various sources (Annexes II and III). Finally, Annex IV covers the Commission staff working documents related to evaluation published on EUR-Lex and in the Register of Commission Documents up to October 2017.

Author: Lorna Schrefler

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, November 2017: Evaluation in the European Commission - Rolling Check-List and State of Play http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/611020/EPRS_STU(2017)611020_EN.pdf

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