Article 9U.K.Evaluation

1.Each of the Member States referred to in Article 4(1) shall, by 31 January of each year, draw up and send to the Commission and CFCA an evaluation report concerning the control and inspection activities carried out in the previous calendar year under the specific control and inspection programme laid down in this Decision and the national control and inspection programme referred to in Article 5.

2.The CFCA shall take into consideration the evaluation reports referred to in paragraph 1 in its annual assessment of the effectiveness of a Joint Deployment Plan as referred to in Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 768/2005.

3.The Commission shall convene once a year a meeting of the Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture to evaluate compliance with the specific control and inspection programme and the national control and inspection programmes.