The Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Recovery and Resilience (URSOO) is expected to submit on behalf of the Government a second request for payment, consisting of the second and third tranches of grants and the first tranche of loans, by the end of this week. The competent ministries deem that all 44 instalment-related milestones and goals, which have been set as a condition for this payment, have been met.

The amount of the request for payment is currently still unknown, as the process of approval of the proposed amendment to the RRP by EU institutions is in progress in parallel with the submission of the request. The amended RRP, due to the reduction in the amount of available grants and other objective circumstances, the Government proposes to delete from the plan or to make financial adjustments for some of the planned measures. This means a proposal to delete or postpone compliance with certain milestones or goals from the planned payment instalments to a later date. How this will impact the amount of the second request for payment, which takes account of the proposed amendments, will be known when the Council of the EU issues the implementing decision approving the European Commission's opinion regarding the proposed amendment to Slovenia's Recovery and Resilience Plan.

The Government then took not of the financial implementation of the RRP. Out of EUR 1.49 billion of available grants approved under the Facility, Slovenia received EUR 281 million in EU funds for recovery and resilience for the implementation of RRP measures (advance payment and the first grant instalment), and the final recipients of funds from the state budget received EUR 243 million in payments for implemented project activities by the end of July 2023. In 2023, the bulk of funds was paid to final recipients who implement their projects as part of the measures of the Ministry of Economy, Tourism and Sport. During the entire period, the largest amount of funds was paid out for the Ministry of Infrastructure's investment in increasing railway infrastructure capacity.