New proposals for 2021 tentative dates for the IPA Monitoring Committee (MC) and the Sectoral Monitoring Committee (SMC) meetings.

• The IPA I Sector Monitoring committee should be used as an established platform for the SMC under IPA II.
• The IPA II Sector Monitoring committee should discuss on equal terms the implementation issues, under direct and indirect management, provided that all the necessary and timely data on implementation are collected and properly disseminated to the members of the Sector Monitoring committees. 
• As per Article 53 (1) of the Framework Agreement, in case of indirect management by the IPA II beneficiary the IPA II SMC should be established 6 months after the signing of the first Financing Agreement in each sector. 
• The SMC should provide basis for the discussion under the IPA MC meeting. 
• The reporting requirements for drafting IPA II Annual Report on Implementation heavily depends on the issues and information provided by and discussed on the Sector Monitoring committees’ meetings.
• Sector progress review meetings were organised and attended by high level officials on a monthly basis. This is reinforced monitoring introduced to deal on a more frequent basis with any sector specific issues.
• In order to be time and resource efficient back-to-back SMC meetings can be organised.
• Due to the high number of sectors and in pursue of efficiency and effectiveness the SMCs will be organized once in 2021.

For such reason, in 2021 (having in view the signed Financing Agreements for different sectors/subsectors), there should be:

1. IPA Monitoring Committee meeting once per year;
2. IPA II Sector Monitoring Committee meeting on Rule of Law and Fundamental rights -once per year
3. IPA II Sector Monitoring Committee meeting on Transport and Environment- once per year
4. IPA II Sector Monitoring Committee meeting on Regional Competitiveness and Innovation and Agriculture-once per year
5. IPA II Sector Monitoring Committee meeting on Democracy and Governance including Public Administration Reform – once per year
6. IPA II Sector Monitoring Committee meeting on Education, Employment and Social Policy – once per year

The tentative schedule is proposed by the NIPAC office in December year n-1 and agreed with the EUD by beginning of year.

The dates agreed for SMC and IPA MC meetings could only be modified in limited and highly exceptional cases.