Portugal’s first recovery plan payment request presented
Before presenting the request, Portugal had to comply with 38 indicators contracted with the European Commission for this phase, 21 associated with reforms and 17 with investments.
Portugal on Tuesday submitted the first payment request to the European Commission, under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), amounting to €1.336 billion, after having met 38 contracted indicators, it announced.
Before presenting the request, Portugal had to comply with 38 indicators contracted with the European Commission for this phase, 21 associated with reforms and 17 with investments.
According to a presentation sent to the media, the reforms cover issues such as the National Health Service, housing, social responses, business capitalisation and innovation, qualifications and skills, forestry, the sea, sustainable bio-economy, hydrogen and renewables, quality and sustainability of public finances, and a more efficient public administration.
In this scope, actions such as mental health reform, the national plan for urgent and temporary accommodation, the strategy to combat poverty, or the general waste management system are highlighted.
The reforms associated with investments cover infrastructures, decarbonisation of industry, companies 4.0, digital school, hydrogen and renewables, sustainable bio-economy, decarbonisation of industry and the National Health Service, housing, social responses and capitalisation and business innovation.
There are actions such as the user classification system for the regional model of integrated continued care in Madeira in these reforms.
The Recuperar Portugal Mission Structure also highlighted the tender for industrial decarbonisation projects and the contracting of the acquisition of 600,000 individual computers for students and teachers.
The RRP, which has an execution period until 2026, aims to implement reforms and investments to recover economic growth. Besides having the objective of repairing the damages caused by Covid-19, this plan also supports investments and generates employment.
The total allocation of the RRP exceeds €16.6 billion, distributed across its three structuring dimensions – resilience (€11.125 billion), climate transition (€3,059 million) and digital transition (€2.46 billion).
