(7)Pursuant to Article 20(1) of Directive 2011/24/EU, the Commission is to submit to the European Parliament and to the Council a report on the operation of that Directive every three years. That report relies heavily on the assistance and information provided by national competent authorities. Article 14(1) of Commission Implementing Decision 2014/287/EUnote provides that the European Reference Networks established under Directive 2011/24/EU are to be evaluated every five years. In order to align the reporting and evaluation requirements, and to reduce the administrative burden for the Commission and for the Member States that are requested to provide information on the implementation of Directive 2011/24/EU, the frequency of the reporting by the Commission should be changed to every five years. Considering that the most recent report on the operation of Directive 2011/24/EU was published in 2022, the next report should be published in 2027.