Portugal's Recovery Plan Gets a Major Update
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This resolution revises Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan by cutting, adjusting, and simplifying many measures, adding a few new ones, and updating targets and costs so the plan can be carried out and meets EU rules.
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What’s the problem that is being addressed.
Portugal asked to update its Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) because some measures needed more effective solutions, many
measures needed simplification, and some funding levels had to be changed. The plan also had to be checked again against EU rules,
including “do no significant harm” to the environment. The original Council decision from 13 July 2021 therefore needs updating.
How that problem is being solved here.
The Commission evaluated the modified PRR and found it still meets the required criteria. Portugal is changing 2 specific measures,
modifying 100 measures to reduce administrative burden, adding 3 new measures, and increasing the implementation level of 12
measures. The plan’s climate contribution is now 37.33% (down from 39.09%), and its digital contribution is 22.80% (up from
21.67%). The Commission confirms the modified plan should not significantly harm environmental goals.
What changes as a result of this document.
The Council decision of 13 July 2021 is amended. The total estimated cost of the modified PRR is 21,905,333,169 EUR. The EU
financial contribution remains 16,325,113,960 EUR. The maximum loan available to Portugal is reduced to 5,580,219,209 EUR (from
5,890,756,353 EUR). The annex of the 2021 decision is полностью replaced. The proposal date is 20.11.2025 (COM(2025) 718 final).
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