In a resolution adopted (514 votes in favour, 163 against, and 9 abstentions) on Thursday, 10 June, the European Parliament states that the European Commission is expected to “only” approve national recovery plans that “fully” respect the provisions and targets of the regulation establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the instrument at the heart of the NextGenerationEU Recovery Plan.
The European Parliament requests that the European Commission make “no political concession” that goes against the spirit of the regulation, “while distancing itself from the fact that it was closely involved in the development of the plans ahead of their submission”. Moreover, the European Commission is asked to submit its “deep and comprehensive assessments” of the national plans before it presents its recommendations on the plans to be adopted by the EU Council, since MEPs complain that they are not well informed about the ongoing assessment process.
The European Commission had indicated during the plenary debate on Tuesday that its initial recommendations would be presented as soon as next week (see EUROPE 12736/2). Executive Vice-President for the Economy Valdis Dombrovskis had promised, “We will not approve any plan that does not meet the 37% climate and 20% digital spending requirements. We will not approve any plan where there are measures that do not respect the ‘do no significant harm’ principle. And we will not approve any plan that does not cover at least a significant subset of the country-specific recommendations”.
See the adopted resolution: https://bit.ly/3g8qZaS (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)