Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/594 of 18 April 2016 establishing a template for the structured survey on end recipients of food and/or basic material assistance operational programmes of the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (1), and in particular Article 17(4) thereof,

After consulting the Committee for the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 requires the managing authority of a food and/or basic material assistance operational programme (‘OP I’) to carry out a structured survey on end recipients in 2017 and 2022.

(2) This structured survey on end recipients is one of the instruments to be used to evaluate the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (‘FEAD’). In order to ensure the survey yields high-quality results and makes a useful contribution to the evaluation of the FEAD, it is necessary to establish a template that enables the aggregation of data at European Union level,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The structured survey on end recipients referred to in Article 17(4) of Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 shall be carried out in accordance with the template set out in the Annex.

Article 2

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, 18 April 2016.

For the Commission The President Jean-Claude JUNCKER

(1) OJ L 72, 12.3.2014, p. 1.