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Reporting to the European Parliament and to the Council The Commission shall submit annually to the European Parliament and to the Council a comprehensive report on the evaluations carried out pursuant to this Regulation during the previous year. That report shall be made public. The report referred to in the first paragraph shall include information on the evaluations carried out during the previous year, on the functioning of the pool of experts, including the availability of Member State experts, on the conclusions drawn from those evaluations and on the state of play with regard to remedial actions taken by the Member States. That report shall, on the basis of the results of the evaluation and monitoring activities carried out pursuant to this Regulation, identify common issues, best practices and innovative solutions in order to improve the implementation of the Schengen acquis. The report shall take into account synergies with other monitoring tools and mechanisms in order to increase awareness about the functioning of the area without internal border control.

The Commission shall transmit the report referred to in the first paragraph to the national parliaments without delay. The Council shall discuss the report, considering the contribution of the evaluations to the functioning of the area without internal border control. The Commission shall inform the European Parliament and the Council at least twice a year about the state of play with regard to the implementation of action plans drawn up by the Member States. In particular, the Commission shall provide information on its reviews of the adequacy of action plans and on the outcome of revisits and verification visits, as well as its observations where it considers that there has been a considerable lack of progress in the implementation of an action plan.