A brief summary of this report is publicly presented, as well. Schools prepare a plan for improvement based upon this report, and the MoES and NASE are responsible for monitoring the progress in the implementation of the recommendations, the frequency of which depends on the school’s performance in the external evaluation (European Commission/EACEA/Euiydice, 2015). While all schools in Lithuania were to have been subject to external evaluation by 2014, in 2016 55% of schools had not undergone external evaluation (NAO, 2016). In 2013, Lithuania spent 1.9% of its GDP on basic education, below OECD (2.5%) and EU-22 (2.4%) averages, and below its neighbours Latvia (2.2%), Estonia (2.2%) and Poland (2.4%) (OECD, 2016b).