The numbers are all very interesting but, in our experience, a scorecard can tell only a part of the story. By ticking off
a list of targets the Scorecards attribute equal weight to each target. In practice, some goals are more important than
others.
Equally, the Scorecards don’t weight or otherwise analyse the ease of implementation for specific targets. In practice,
it is usually the easiest steps that are taken first with the harder (but fewer in number) left to the later stages.
Also, it should be noted that the data that member states supply that is used to derive the AEC Scorecards is selfreported,
with no objective third-party verification or evaluation.
Finally, completion for this purpose is what has been agreed rather than what has been implemented or, better still,
what has been objectively confirmed as having been implemented.
Using a wide range of unofficial but published sources of progress, we have built up a simple summary of what all
the activity has achieved to-date: