(AGENPARL) – BRUXELLES mer 26 aprile 2023 Malta’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) has a total value of €344.9 million. However, under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which is at the core of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) instrument, Malta was expected to receive around €316.4 million, slightly below the value of the NRRP, entirely in grants. On 30 June 2022, the European Commission recalculated the maximum grant amounts for all Member States; this resulted in a cut for Malta and a new total of €258.3 million. Malta has not requested any loans so far. Malta will also be entitled to additional grants worth €30 million if it submits a REPowerEU chapter, subject to Council’s approval. While in nominal terms, Malta has the second smallest allocation, it ranks higher in terms of RRF grants per capita. The value of Malta’s grants under the RRF equals about 2.3 % of its 2019 gross domestic product (GDP), less than the average for the EU overall (in comparison, the RRF equals 5.2 % of EU-27 GDP in 2019). In December 2021, Malta received €41.1 million in pre-financing. A year later, on 19 December 2022, it submitted to the Commission the first payment request for a total of €52.3 million in grants. Following approval, funds were disbursed to Malta on 8 March 2023. The Maltese plan takes into consideration the Council’s 2019 and 2020 country-specific recommendations, and aligns with both national economic and investment plans and funding under EU cohesion policy programmes for the 2021-2027 period. The overall objective is to contribute to a sustainable, equitable, green and digital recovery. In particular, the plan aims to digitalise small and medium-sized enterprises and the public administration, promote sustainable public transport and electric vehicles, and step-up the fight against money laundering. It embraces the green and digital transitions – major common European challenges – and envisages 53.8 % of the total allocation for climate objectives, while 25.5 % will contribute to the digital target. The share of the allocation dedicated to the green transition makes Malta’s NRRP one of the greenest. The European Parliament participates in interinstitutional forums for cooperation and discussion on the implementation of the RRF, and scrutinises the European Commission’s work. This briefing is one in a series covering all EU Member States. Third edition. The ‘NGEU delivery’ briefings are updated at key stages throughout the lifecycle of the plans.

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