European Commission pays REPowerEU pre-financing to Romania and 8 other Member States under the Recovery and Resilience Facility

* The European Commission pays REPowerEU pre-financing to Romania, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia and Spain under the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

Today, 25 January, the European Commission paid the following pre-financing amounts related to REPowerEU funds under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF): EUR 145,1 million to Belgium and EUR 585.1 million to Croatia in the form of grants and loans; EUR 20.9 million to Cyprus, EUR 25.4 million to Finland, EUR 158,7 million to Greece, EUR 551.2 million to Italy, EUR 26.9 million to Latvia, EUR 288 million to Romania in the form of grants and EUR 340 million to Spain in the form of loans.  

These pre-financing will help accelerate the implementation of the main investment and reform measures presented in each REPowerEU chapter. This will accelerate the achievement of the objectives of the REPOwerEU plan for energy saving, clean energy production and diversification of energy supply, with the aim of making Europe independent of Russian fossil fuels following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Payments made today follow the approval by the Council of the revised plans of these countries, which include a chapter on REPowerEU, and the signing of the financial agreements. 

Pre-financing, paid in one or two stages, represents up to 20 % of the additional funds requested to finance each country’s REPowerEU chapter. If the pre-financing is paid in two stages, the second part must be paid within 12 months of the payment of the first part.

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