The CoST Board and International Secretariat monitor the performance of its’ participating countries to ensure that national programmes are making progress towards implementing the standards it sets and are complying with the CoST principles. Currently countries are required to submit progress reports to the International Secretariat (IS) every 6 months.

This short paper outlines the COST IS process of monitoring, from meaningful to poor performance, non-compliance with CoSt principles and the process of monitoring.