The Government takes note of the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan and approves the fourth amendment proposal

On 4 June 2025, the European Commission called on Member States to conduct a thorough review of their RRPs with a view to maximising the use of funds available under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and, where necessary, to propose a streamlining of their measures.

To ensure the conditions for the maximum use of the non-repayable portion of funds available under the RRF, the Government in July called on ministries to review the feasibility of all reforms and investments under the RRP.  Based on the information received, the Office for Recovery and Resilience prepared, in coordination with the ministries, a proposal for the fourth amendment to the RRP.

In preparing the proposal, the Office took into account the European Commission’s guidelines for completing the plans by 2026, including the simplification of most of the measures to facilitate the demonstration of milestone and target achievement and to reduce the administrative burden.

The Government proposes to the European Commission that the amount of loans available under the RRF be reduced by EUR 82.97 million, from EUR 613.25 million to EUR 530.28 million. Part of the investment activities aimed at reducing flood risk, which were originally planned to be financed from the loan component, will be transferred to the non-repayable component. A total of EUR 61.39 million in grants (previously EUR 26.46 million) and EUR 90.66 million in loans (previously EUR 141.37 million) are now allocated to flood protection projects. Regarding part of other investments that can no longer be implemented within the RRF timeframe, ministries will seek alternative sources of funding. One such case concerns part of the investment to increase railway infrastructure capacity, for which EUR 216.30 million in grants and, at present, EUR 129.40 million in loans (previously EUR 152.66 million) remain allocated. The difference in the amount reflects the exclusion of the project to upgrade the Prevalje – state border railway section, which, according to the assessment of the competent ministry, is no longer feasible within the RRF timeframe.

The total amount of the available grants from the RRF for the implementation of the RRP remains unchanged under this amendment proposal, i.e. EUR 1.61 billion. Certain investments are being partially reduced in scope due to contract withdrawals or lower values of applications received through public tenders for project selection, such as the investment in the sustainable development of Slovenian tourist accommodation to increase tourism’s added value, and the investment in energy efficiency and the decarbonisation of the economy. To this end, the scope of investments in public and common tourist infrastructure, as well as investments supporting zero-emission mobility, is being partially increased.

Until it is formally approved by the Council of the EU, the proposed amendment will remain subject to further coordination with the European Commission and the relevant ministries, meaning that the final version of the amendment to the RRP may differ from the version submitted to the European Commission. The Government expects the Council of the EU to grant its final approval to the proposed amendment before the end of this year. 

The content of the proposed fourth amendment to the RRP will be published online at noo.gov.si.

Today, the Government also took note of the information on the implementation of the RRP. The ministries estimate that they have met 110 milestones and targets out of a total of 200 currently defined. Of these:

• 64 milestones and targets have been formally fulfilled – forming part of the first three payment requests already paid;
• 27 milestones and targets are included in the current fourth payment request, for which the European Commission has recently issued a preliminary positive assessment. The European Commission concluded that Slovenia has satisfactorily met all milestones and targets associated with this request. Before disbursement, which the Government expects to take place before the end of this year, the Economic and Financial Committee must still provide its opinion on the European Commission’s preliminary assessment.
• The remaining 19 milestones and targets will be included in the next payment requests.

After receiving the funds from the fourth payment request amounting to just under EUR 440 million, Slovenia will have recorded an inflow of 69.37% of the available funds under the current version of the RRP, totalling EUR 1.54 billion, of which EUR 1.07 billion will be grants and EUR 0.47 billion will be loans.