Malta receives its first payment under the Recovery and Resilience Fund

European Commission disburses €52.3 million to Malta

The European Commission has disbursed its first payment of €52.3 million in grants to Malta, from a total of €258.3 million in grants under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

As for all Member States, payments under the RRF, the key instrument at the heart of NextGenerationEU, are performance-based, and depend on Malta implementing the investments and reforms outlined in its national recovery and resilience plan.

Consequently, this payment was only possible following Malta’s fulfilment of the 16 milestones and 3 targets envisaged in Malta’s Recovery and Resilience Plan. This includes important measures such as:

• The adoption of a strategy to reduce waste through recycling in the construction sector;
• The establishment of office facilities to enable civil servants to work remotely across the country;
• Reforms to boost industrial research and investments;
• A national anti-fraud and corruption strategy; and
• Reforms to digitalise the justice system.

Malta's overall recovery and resilience plan will be supported by €258.3 million in grants. The amounts disbursed to Member States are published in the Recovery and Resilience Scoreboard, which shows progress made in the implementation of the RRF as a whole and of the individual recovery and resilience plans.

Malta has already received a pre-financing of €41.1 million in December 2021, to kick-start the implementation of the RRP.

More information on Malta’s Recovery and Resilience Plan can be found here.