Article 37

Annual and final implementation reports 1. For multiannual assistance, the managing authority shall, within six months of the end of each full calendar year of implementation, submit to the Commission an annual implementation report as provided for in Article 34(1)(c). A final report shall be submitted to the Commission at the latest six months after the final date of eligibility of the expenditure. For all assistance to be implemented over a period of less than two years, the managing authority shall submit only a final report to the Commission. This shall be submitted within six months of the last payment made by the paying authority. The report shall be examined and approved by the Monitoring Committee before it is sent to the Commission. Once the Commission has received an annual implementation report, it shall indicate within a period of two months if the report is considered unsatisfactory, giving its reasons; otherwise, the report shall be deemed to be accepted. In the case of a final report the Commission shall respond within a period of five months from its receipt of the report. 2. All annual and final implementation reports shall include the following information: any change in general conditions which is of relevance to the implementation of the assistance, in particular the main socio-economic trends, changes in national, regional or sectoral policies or in the frame of reference referred to in Article 9(c) and, where applicable, their implications for the mutual consistency of assistance from the different Funds and consistency between Fund assistance and that from other financial instruments; the progress in the implementation of priorities and measures for each of the Funds in relation to their specific targets, with a quantification, wherever and whenever they lend themselves to quantification, of the physical indicators and indicators of results and of impact referred to in Article 36 at the appropriate level (priority or measure); the financial implementation of the assistance, summarising for each measure the total expenditure actually paid out by the paying authority and a record of the total payments received from the Commission and quantifying the financial indicators referred to in Article 36(2)(c); financial implementation in the areas receiving transitional support shall be presented separately in respect of each priority; financial implementation of the EAGGF Guarantee Section for the measures referred to in Article 33 of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 shall be presented at the level of the total amount of the financial implementation; the steps taken by the managing authority and the Monitoring Committee to ensure the quality and effectiveness of implementation, in particular: monitoring, financial control and evaluation measures, including data collection arrangements; a summary of any significant problems encountered in managing the assistance and any measures taken, including action on recommendations for adjustments made pursuant to Article 34(2) or requests for corrective measures pursuant to Article 38(4); the use made of technical assistance; the measures taken to ensure publicity for the assistance in accordance with Article 46; the steps taken to ensure compatibility with Community policies as stipulated in Article 12 and to ensure coordination of all the Community structural assistance referred to in Article 17(1) and the second subparagraph of Article 19(2); a separate section, where appropriate, on the progress and financing of major projects and global grants. CHAPTER II FINANCIAL CONTROL

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.