In July 2020, the European Council agreed on an exceptional temporary recovery instrument known as the Next Generation EU, which guarantees a coordinated European response with member states to deal with the economic and social consequences of the pandemic. Funds can be used to grant repayable loans and non-repayable transfers.
The two most volume instruments in Next Generation EU are:
- The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which is the core of the Recovery Fund, whose purpose is to support investment and reforms in member states to achieve a sustainable and resilient recovery, while the EU's ecological and digital priorities are promoted.
- The REACT-EU Fund, which operates as a structural fund, but with greater flexibility and agility in execution. REACT-EU will promote the ecological, digital and resilient recovery of the economy.
Next Generation EU will also provide additional funding to other European programs or funds, such as the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the Just Transition Fund (JTF).
More information on Next Generation EU can be found on the Institutional Portal of the Ministry of Finance and Civil Service, among others in the Funds related to COVID section, from which the one just reported.
Specifically regarding the RRF, detailed information can be found in the Recovery and Resilience Facility section, including documents of the Plan, documents of approval of the Plan (including the operational provisions of the Recovery Plan agreed by the Government of Spain and the European Commission), and additional documents on the components (see specifically the link Recovery plan, documents and links).
Information on MRR and PRTR can also be found on the website set up by the General Secretariat for European Funds. Among other things, it offers a list of different documents and regulations for the management of the PRTR, as well as a collection of plans for anti-fraud measures drawn up by different ministries, as well as by the Autonomous Communities or the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.
Also on the official website of the European Union, among others in the web page Recovery plan for Europe | European Comission
To make easier the search, a brief selection of regulations and other documents of interest is included belows:
Criteria for distribution of Recovery Plan funds to the autonomous communities
Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2021 establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility (and corrigendum)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2106, of 28 September 2021, on supplementing Regulation (EU) 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility by setting out the common indicators and the detailed elements of the recovery and resilience scoreboard
Recovery and resilience facility financing agreement between the Comission and the Kingdom of Spain
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. Resolution of 29 April 2021, of the Undersecretariat, publishing the Agreement of the Council of Ministers of 27 April 2021, approving the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan
Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (ESP) and related documents and links
Royal Decree-Law 36/2020, of 30 December, approving urgent measures for the modernization of the Public Administration and for the execution of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (link to text consolidated at the date of publication of this information)
Decree-Law 5/2021, of 2 February, approving urgent measures for the implementation and management of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the REACT-EU fund for the Administration of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government) and its public sector
Order HFP/1030/2021, of 29 September, by which configures the management system of the Plan of Recovery, Transformation and Resilience
Order HFP/1031/2021, of 29 September, which establishes the procedure and format of the information to be provided by State, Autonomous and Local Public Sector Entities for monitoring compliance with milestones and objectives and budgetary and accounting execution of the measures of the components of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2017 on the fight against fraud to the Union's financial interests by means of criminal law (transposed into national law by Organic Law 1/2019, of 20 February, amending Organic Law 10/1995, of 23 November, of the Criminal Code, to transpose European Union directives in the fields of finance and terrorism, and to address issues of a nature international)
Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (EU Financial Regulation) (and corrigendum)
Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (and corrigendum)
Instruction of 23 December 2021 of the Advisory Board of Public Procurement of the State on aspects to be incorporated in the files and in the governing documents of the contracts that will be financed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan
