News item | 17-02-2025 | 12:15 PM
The European Commission has positively assessed the second payment request of the Dutch repair and resilience plan. The European Commission announced this on 17 February 2025. The Netherlands had submitted this payment request on December 13, 2023. The positive assessment is an important step towards official approval of the payment request and the payment of the associated amount of € 1.2 billion. In the autumn of 2024, the Netherlands received the payment of € 1.3 billion of the first payment request.
Milestones and objectives
With this positive assessment, the European Commission confirms that the 21 milestones and objectives that are part of the second payment request have been achieved. This includes improvements in the field of digitization, affordable homes, education and care. Specifically, this is about making a structural budget available for the additional and retraining of the unemployed with a weak labor position. Agreements have also been concluded between provinces and municipalities on the number of new homes to be realized and compensations have been granted for the termination of 277 pig farms.
Follow-up
After this positive assessment of the committee, a final procedure will follow, in which all EU member states may comment on the judgment of the European Commission or ask questions to the Netherlands. After this final procedure, the European Commission and the European Member States will officially approve the second payment request. The Netherlands intends to submit three more payment requests to claim the remaining € 2.9 billion reserved for the Netherlands from the recovery and resilience facility.