Brussels, 15 April 2024
Today, the Commission disbursed to Poland the first payment for €6.3 billion (net of pre-financing) with €3.6 billion in loans and in €2.7 billion grants under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). As for all Member States, payments made to Poland under the RRF are performance-based, meaning that they depend on the implementation by Poland of the investments and reforms described in its recovery and resilience plan.
On 15 December 2023, Poland submitted to the Commission the first payment request of €6.3 billion under the RRF covering 37 milestones and one target. These cover five investments and 25 reforms in key areas such as improving the country’s investment climate, the resilience and competitiveness of the economy, agriculture, green energy, digital transformation, health and clean mobility.
On 29 February 2024, the Commission adopted a positive preliminary assessment of Poland’s first payment request. The Commission concluded that Poland had satisfactorily fulfilled the two “super milestones” to strengthen important aspects of the independence of the Polish judiciary through reforming the disciplinary regime for judges. It had also satisfactorily fulfilled another super milestone committing Poland to use Arachne, an IT tool that supports Member States’ audit and control systems.
The favorable opinion of the Economic and Financial Committee of the Council on the payment request paved the way for the Commission to adopt a final decision on this disbursement.
Poland’s recovery and resilience plan will be financed by a total of €59.8 billion in grants and loans. The amounts of payments made to Member States are published in the Recovery and Resilience Scoreboard, which shows the progress made in the implementation of the RRF as a whole and of the individual recovery and resilience plans. More information on the RRF payment request process can be found in this Q&A document. More information on the Polish Recovery and Resilience Plan can be found here.