Article 20 — Monitoring activities and feedback

1. The performance and cost-effectiveness of the EU Talent Pool shall be regularly monitored by the Secretariat. In particular, data shall be collected on: (a) the number and type of profiles of registered jobseekers from third countries; (b) the number and type of participating employers and other participating entities; (c) the number and type of job vacancies made available on the IT Platform; (d) the number of visits on the IT Platform; (e) the number and type of job placements facilitated via the EU Talent Pool; (f) the number of profiles of registered jobseekers from third countries including a Flag as referred to in Article 12(2); (g) the number of job placements facilitated via the IT Platform in the context of the Talent Partnerships, bilateral arrangements or national frameworks on the development and validation of skills in a third country; (h) the levels of skills and qualifications of jobseekers from third countries who have been recruited from the EU Talent Pool. 2. The Secretariat shall set up the data collection in accordance with established statistical concepts and definitions and exchange information and data with the Commission for the purpose of ensuring the quality of data collected under this Regulation and for producing and ensuring the quality of European statistics. 3. The Secretariat shall collect the data referred to in paragraph 1 with the support of the National Contact Points and the Steering Group. 4. The performance of the EU Talent Pool shall be regularly monitored by the Secretariat, taking into account the feedback gathered from and experiences of registered jobseekers from third countries and participating employers and other participating entities as well as civil society organisations, in particular those working with third-country nationals, including persons with disabilities.