Thoughtful and effective implementation of the NRRP is one of our top priorities

The National Recovery and Resilience Plan represents an opportunity for ground-breaking change in a number of areas, from health to energy transition, to investments in public transport or broadband Internet, in areas that are blank spots in Poland.

‘The NRRP is a major community-wide undertaking that goes far beyond the government itself. We all take this great opportunity into our own hands and we can make it happen. This means almost €60 billion for 55 reforms and 55 investments,’

the Head of the MDFRP said.

The main topics discussed at today’s meeting of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Monitoring Committee:

• the state of implementation of the NRRP;
• presentation of information on the repayment arrangements of the Recovery and Resilience Facility;
• the current status of the work of individual ministries on the organisation of the Sub-Committees set up under the NRRP MC.

Minister Pełczyńska-Nałęcz stressed the importance of the work done by the sub-committees in the various ministries.

‘The departmental sub-committees that are currently being set up are extremely important elements of the Committee’s functioning,’

Minister Pełczyńska Nałęcz said.

‘All meetings of the departmental sub-committees will take place in the first half of this year. These are places where representatives of the social partners, experts in a particular field, can already discuss profiled investments and reforms with a particular ministry. These are extremely important bodies in which it will be possible to be even closer to investments and to work together on their implementation,’

she added.

First application for payment under the NRRP

In December 2023, Poland and the European Commission signed annexes to the agreement for the grant part and the agreement for the loan part. This paved the way for the first payment request from the NRRP, which was submitted to the European Commission on 15 December. The procedure for its evaluation is to be finalised by the end of February 2024. As a result, almost EUR 7 billion should be transferred to Poland in April. We plan to submit further payment claims from the NRRP this year.

A review of the reforms and investments included in the NRRP was also carried out in January this year. Due to the 2-year delay in the implementation of this Plan, it was necessary to verify which of these reforms and investments, and to what extent, could be completed by the end of 2026. A preliminary negotiation package should also be ready in March this year, which will then be subjected to public consultation and then forwarded to the European Commission.

Origins and tasks of the NRRP Committee

The establishment of the Monitoring Committee for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, whose work is led and overseen by the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, completes one of the milestones included in the first payment request from the NRRP.

The Committee’s main task is to monitor the implementation of reforms and investments. Among other things, the MDFRP is responsible for analysing situations that affect the implementation of the development plan and making recommendations to the institutions responsible for implementing reforms and investments to remove obstacles to achieving the set goals.

The Committee is also tasked with involving representatives of local governments, social and economic partners, civil society organisations and the scientific community in monitoring the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.