Recovery and resilience fund: Council gives green light to amended plans of Belgium, Cyprus, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and Slovenia 14:22...

The Council today approved the Commission’s positive assessment of the amended recovery and resilience plans (RRPs) submitted by Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Cyprus, Malta, Croatia and Slovenia. According to the analysis of the Commission, the targeted modifications do not affect the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and coherence of their recovery and resilience plans. Belgium The amendments to 22 measures in the RRP of Belgium relate for the most part to putting in place better implementation alternatives than previously included and reducing administrative burden.  The estimated total cost of Belgium’s RRP amounts to €5.2 billion. Cyprus The revisions requested by Cyprus concern 87 measures. Reasons for the amendments range from certain measures now being considered partially unachievable, better alternatives found to achieve the original ambition of some measures, and to reduce administrative burden. The estimated total costs for the RRP of Cyprus are €1.2 billion. Croatia The Croatian amendments concern 30 measures with most changes reflecting new circumstances such as demand, inflation and better alternatives for implementation. The estimated total cost of Croatia’s plan is €10 billion. Italy Italy requested 67 amendments to its RRP, most of which relate to implementation improvements. Other amendments aim to reduce administrative burden and to help mitigate unexpected factors. In its request, Italy also asked to add two measures in the field of...