Fundamental rights • This Regulation respects fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. 4. BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS The budget of all proposals is presented in current prices. The Commission may continue, on the of a cost-benefit analysis, to use executive agencies to implement of Horizon Europe. 5. ELEMENTS Implementation plans and monitoring, evaluation and reporting arrangements • The Commission may increase the share of the budget delegated to executive agencies, subject to the outcome of the mandatory cost-benefit analysis. Given the new elements in the remit of the new Framework Programme (e.g. missions and the European Innovation Council) and the increased budget to be delegated, changes to agencies’ mandates will be needed. This approach will help reduce of administrative improve synergies with other programmes and help focus more on performance. Activities with a particularly substantial policy content are in principle excluded from delegation to executive agencies, but the feedback of R&I data and results from agencies to the Commission will be stepped up in line with the dissemination and exploitation strategy, in order to strengthen the evidence-base for policy-making. Evaluations will be carried out in line with paragraphs 22 and 23 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 2016, where the three institutions confirmed that evaluations of existing legislation and policy should provide the basis for impact assessments of options for further action. The evaluations will assess the programme's effects on the ground based on the programme indicators/targets and a detailed analysis of the degree to which the programme can be deemed relevant, effective, efficient, provides enough Union added value and is coherent with other Union policies. They will include lessons learnt to identify any deficiencies/problems or any potential to further improve the actions or their results and to help maximise their exploitation/impact. In order to be able to better track and communicate the Programme’s impact, the Horizon Europe monitoring and evaluation system will have three main building blocks: Annual monitoring of the programme performance: tracking of performance indicators in the short, medium and longer-term according to key impact pathways towards Programme objectives, based on baselines and targets where possible; Continuous collection of programme management and implementation data; Two fully-fledged (meta)-evaluations of the programme at mid-term and ex-post (upon completion). These evaluations will build on the coordinated evaluations of each programme part, type of actions and delivery mechanism according to common evaluation criteria and standard methodologies and will inform adaptations to be made to the programme.
• Fundamental rights This Regulation respects fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. 4. BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS The budget of all proposals is presented in current prices. The Commission may continue, on the of a cost-benefit analysis, to use executive agencies to implement of Horizon Europe. 5. ELEMENTS • Implementation plans and monitoring, evaluation and reporting arrangements The Commission may increase the share of the budget delegated to executive agencies, subject to the outcome of the mandatory cost-benefit analysis. Given the new elements in the remit of the new Framework Programme (e.g. missions and the European Innovation Council) and the increased budget to be delegated, changes to agencies’ mandates will be needed. This approach will help reduce of administrative improve synergies with other programmes and help focus more on performance. Activities with a particularly substantial policy content are in principle excluded from delegation to executive agencies, but the feedback of R&I data and results from agencies to the Commission will be stepped up in line with the dissemination and exploitation strategy, in order to strengthen the evidence-base for policy-making. Evaluations will be carried out in line with paragraphs 22 and 23 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 2016, where the three institutions confirmed that evaluations of existing legislation and policy should provide the basis for impact assessments of options for further action. The evaluations will assess the programme's effects on the ground based on the programme indicators/targets and a detailed analysis of the degree to which the programme can be deemed relevant, effective, efficient, provides enough Union added value and is coherent with other Union policies. They will include lessons learnt to identify any deficiencies/problems or any potential to further improve the actions or their results and to help maximise their exploitation/impact. In order to be able to better track and communicate the Programme’s impact, the Horizon Europe monitoring and evaluation system will have three main building blocks: Annual monitoring of the programme performance: tracking of performance indicators in the short, medium and longer-term according to key impact pathways towards Programme objectives, based on baselines and targets where possible; Continuous collection of programme management and implementation data; Two fully-fledged (meta)-evaluations of the programme at mid-term and ex-post (upon completion). These evaluations will build on the coordinated evaluations of each programme part, type of actions and delivery mechanism according to common evaluation criteria and standard methodologies and will inform adaptations to be made to the programme.
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