
Article 1 
This Regulation shall apply to the ex post evaluation of operational programmes and to the annual report to be sent by Member States as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1198/2006.
Article 2 
The ex post evaluation referred to in Article 50(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1198/2006 shall be completed by the Commission by 31 December 2016.
Article 3 
In the year 2016 the Member States shall not be required to send the annual report on the implementation of the operational programme provided for in Article 67(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1198/2006.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 2 February 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER