The Commission accepted one amendment made by Parliament. This is a new recital, which makes explicit the importance of this new instrument in the context of an enlarged EU. The other amendments were rejected. Since the Regulation will be directly applicable, it is not appropriate to require Member States to send an annual report to the Commission on implementing measures. In addition, the requirement for an evaluation three years after entry into force is not considered to bring added benefit. It should be noted that an evaluation of the current system has already taken place in 2002.�