Article 51 — Reporting and control

1. A SEAP shall produce an annual activity report, containing a technical description and a financial report of its activities referred to in Article 40. It shall be transmitted to the Commission within six months of the end of the financial year. The Commission shall distribute the report to all Member States. 2. The Commission shall provide the European Parliament and the Council with an aggregated annual report on the activities of all active SEAPs. 3. The Commission may provide recommendations to a SEAP regarding the matters covered in the annual activity report referred to in paragraph 1. 4. A SEAP and the Member States concerned shall inform the Commission of any circumstances which threaten to seriously jeopardise the achievement of the task of the SEAP or to hinder the SEAP from fulfilling the requirements laid down in this Regulation. 5. Where the Commission obtains indications that a SEAP is acting in serious breach of this Regulation, the implementing act establishing it, its statutes or other applicable law, it shall request explanations from the SEAP or its members. 6. Where the Commission concludes, after having given the SEAP or its members at least two months to provide their observations, that the SEAP is acting in serious breach of this Regulation, the implementing act establishing it, its statutes or other applicable law, it may propose remedial action to the SEAP and its members. 7. Where no remedial action as referred to in paragraph 6 of this Article is taken, the Commission may repeal the implementing act establishing the SEAP. The repealing act shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The publication of the repealing act shall trigger the winding-up of the SEAP as referred to in Article 50.