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It is a tool for effective management and a formal requirement of the Commission about Impact assessment,long-term effects of Community-funded actions on the economy, the society, the environment. A distinction is made between "Ex-ante evaluation or impact assessment" and "Ex-post impact assessment".It presents several issues: the impact of the IST Programme and its predecessors, The Impact Study, IST Impact Assessment Observatory,and Ongoing studies. (Au)