Summary In its annual progress report, the Monitoring Committee takes stock of its activities since January 2020 and assesses the progress made by the 11 countries under the Assembly’s full monitoring procedure, and by the 3 countries engaged in a post monitoring dialogue, in honouring their obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe. It welcomes progress made and expresses concerns at setbacks and addresses specific recommendations to the countries concerned. In this reporting period, the committee prepared reports on “The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland” on the basis of which the Assembly opened a monitoring procedure with respect of this country; on the “Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the