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| Slovakia requests the highest payment from the recovery plan in history |
| EU, 01.07.2025 |
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| Slovakia is submitting its sixth request for payment from the Recovery and Resilience Plan in the amount of 977 million euros. This is the highest request in history for funds from the European mechanism, from which the Slovak Republic should receive a total of 6.4 billion euros. This was announced on Monday by Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery Plan and the Knowledge Economy Peter Kmec (Hlas-SD).
He emphasized that Slovakia is following the schedule agreed with the European Commission (EC). "Slovakia has already approved five payment requests. The sixth, almost 1 billion euros, is on its way, and we still have three payment requests waiting for us in the total amount of 6.4 billion euros. We will submit the seventh in the fall of this year, and next year, the final year of the implementation of the Recovery Plan, we have two more, an eighth and a ninth payment request waiting for us," announced Kmec.
Within the current sixth application, the Slovak Republic is to receive almost one billion euros for the fulfillment of 31 milestones and goals, including several partial fulfillments, which will be definitively declared in the final ninth application for payment. "But already at this stage we had to declare, for example, 13,000 family houses, which will already be more energy-efficient, that is about half of the final ambition. We are also declaring the renovation of 48,000 square meters of public historic buildings. There are important reforms that must connect renewable energy sources to our energy infrastructure," the Deputy Prime Minister explained.
The current application also includes projects to support research, development, innovation, providing scholarships for talented students, and reforming the financing of preschool education. The construction and reconstruction of several hospitals is also continuing, and the capacities of social service homes are being expanded. "We are establishing shared service centers, equipping over 6,000 court workers with IT equipment, and creating new platforms to address important life situations," added Kmec.
The European Commission normally has two months to assess the application, but according to him, the entire process will also be affected by the summer break, when the approval of the sixth payment application will be interrupted for several weeks. By the time it is evaluated sometime in October, the deputy prime minister assumes that the replacement deadlines for some milestones and goals that are still "catching up" will also be met. "In the fall, we are already starting to prepare very intensively for the seventh payment application, which should be submitted at the end of October," he announced.
According to Kmec, the challenge will be to conclude the recovery plan next year, as the deadlines are stricter. According to him, Slovakia originally planned to submit the last ninth payment application during the second half of 2026. "However, a strict deadline was presented, where all milestones and targets must be declared as met by August 2026. The Commission then has time until the end of the year to evaluate whether these milestones and targets have been met, with the proviso that no corrections or corrective periods will be possible in the ninth payment application," he pointed out, adding that the possibility of corrections as with other applications was originally envisaged.
Therefore, much stricter monitoring and supervision of large investment projects that are under development is also needed. This applies, for example, to two flagship hospitals in Martin and Banská Bystrica. The Deputy Prime Minister is convinced that they will be "brought up" to the level of the rough construction by August next year, as planned.
According to Kmec, the goals that cannot be implemented by the set deadline will be taken into account in another revision of the recovery plan, which the EC allows in the second half of this year. "We are working on it intensively, but the vast majority of projects, as planned and declared, have also been revised, so it should be possible to achieve it by August 2026," he added.odkaz na stránku |
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