Article 11 Evaluation

1.   Evaluations shall be carried out in a timely manner to feed into the decision-making process.

2.   The interim evaluation of the Programme shall be performed once there is sufficient information available about the implementation of the Programme, but no later than four years after the start of the period specified in Article 1(1). The interim evaluation shall also address the scope for modification of the multiannual work programmes referred to in Article 9.

3.   At the end of the implementation of the Programme, but no later than five years after the end of the period specified in Article 1(1), a final evaluation of the Programme shall be carried out by the Commission.

4.   The Commission shall communicate the conclusions of the evaluations, together with its observations, to the European Parliament and to the Council.