1.The Commission shall regularly monitor this programme in cooperation with the Member States.
This monitoring shall include the reports referred to in paragraph 3 and specific activities.
2.This programme shall be evaluated regularly by the Commission in cooperation with the Member States. This evaluation is intended to increase the effectiveness of actions implemented with regard to the objectives referred to in Article 2 and to ensure that equality of access to the programme as laid down in Article 4(2) and (3) is guaranteed.
This evaluation will also examine the complementarity between actions under this programme and those pursued under other relevant Community policies, instruments and actions.
In accordance with criteria established using the procedure described in Article 8(2), there will be regular external evaluations of the results of the Community actions.
3.Member States shall submit to the Commission by 31 December 2004 and 30 June 2007, respectively, reports on the implementation and the impact of this programme.
4.The Commission shall submit to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions:
on the accession of new Member States, a report on the financial consequences of these accessions on the programme, followed, if appropriate, by financial proposals to deal with the financial consequences of these accessions on the programme, in accordance with the provisions of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure and with the conclusions of the Berlin European Council of March 1999. The European Parliament and the Council will take a decision on such proposals as soon as possible,
an interim evaluation report on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the implementation of this programme by 30 June 2005,
a final report on the implementation of this programme by 31 December 2007.