Monitoring and evaluation; determination of compliance costs

The ministries of the Länder and of the Federation responsible for administrative digitalisation shall
1. carry out, involving the IT Planning Council and beginning on 24 July 2024, ongoing monitoring of the implementation of the provisions of this Act, and commission a subject-independent scientific institution to evaluate this Act every three years, for the first time after three years have elapsed from 24 July 2024, and
2. determine, as part of the evaluation under number 1 and on the basis of a survey by the IT Planning Council as at 1 January 2026, 1 January 2028 and 1 January 2030, the compliance costs arising from this Act, from the Act on the Connection of the Information-Technology Networks of the Federation and the Länder — Act Implementing Article 91c(4) of the Basic Law — and from the E-Government Act, insofar as the provisions also apply to the Länder. This also applies to the statutory ordinances to be issued, with future effect, on the basis of the authorisations to issue ordinances contained in these Acts. The evaluation reports are published electronically.