Each Member State shall, by 31 March of each year, send to the Commission and to the EFCA a report concerning the control and inspection activities carried out under the specific control and inspection programmes of the preceding calendar year.

The report referred to in paragraph 1 shall at least include the information listed in Annex VI.

The information referred to in point IV of Annex VI shall continue to be listed and be updated in each report until the action is concluded under the laws of the Member State concerned. Where no action is taken following the detection of a serious infringement, an explanation shall be included.

For fisheries referred to in Annex I, the information referred to in point IV of Annex VI shall be transmitted by electronic means to the Commission and to the EFCA by 15 September and shall be updated by 31 March of the following year.

EFCA, for its annual assessment of the effectiveness of joint deployment plans referred to in Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 768/2005, shall take into consideration the reports referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.

The Commission shall convene at least every two years a meeting of the Committee for fisheries and aquaculture to assess the implementation and evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of the specific control and inspection programmes and their overall impact on compliance by fishing vessels and operators.