Today, the European Commission positively assessed Czechia's sixth payment request for €897 million under the Recovery and Resilience Facility , the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU.
This represents an important step in delivering the reforms and investments linked to this payment request across key areas, including cybersecurity, the modernisation of heat distribution in district heating systems, climate adaptation, the regeneration of brownfield sites, cardiovascular and transplant medicine, eHealth services, cancer screening programmes, and grid flexibility.
The Commission found that Czechia has satisfactorily fulfilled the 14 milestones and 38 targets set out in the Council Implementing Decision .
Flagship measures in this payment request include:
- Constructing new facilities for the Centre for Cardiovascular and Transplant Medicine to increase the availability of highly specialised care in cardiovascular and transplant medicine in the South Moravian region.
- Supporting and enhancing the quality of preventive screening programmes by increasing the participation of the target population in colorectal cancer screening test.
- Revising the electricity network tariff rules to encourage electricity network operators to increase grid flexibility, ensuring smooth integration of additional renewable energy sources into the Czech energy mix.
- Further digitalising the health sector by introducing telemedicine and eHealth services and connecting healthcare providers to the interoperability ecosystem.
- Providing services to businesses including training, advisory and consulting services to support their effort to expand abroad.
Next steps
The Commission has now sent its preliminary assessment of Czechia's fulfilment of the milestones and targets required for this payment to the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC), which has four weeks to deliver its opinion. The payment to Czechia can take place following the EFC's opinion, and the adoption of a payment decision by the Commission.
Background
Czechia submitted its sixth payment request on 30 April 2026. The Czech recovery and resilience plan includes a wide range of investment and reform measures. The plan will be financed by €8.4 billion in grants and €343 million in loans.
The Czech recovery and Resilience plan has a strong emphasis on investments in the areas of energy, climate adaptation, transport and digital infrastructure, research and development, social and health services.
Key reforms and investments focus on simpler construction permissions and grid connection for renewables, zero-emission mobility, long-term care, affordable housing, energy-efficiency renovations of buildings, modernisation of railway infrastructure, and the construction of two university campuses.
Today's payment request would bring the funds paid out to Czechia under the Recovery and Resilience Facility to €7.7 billion (including the €915 million in pre-financing it received in September 2021 and the €147 million pre-payment under REPowerEU it received on 21 December 2023), which correspond to 88% of all the funds in the Czech plan, with 88% of all the milestones and targets in the plan fulfilled.
With a view to the closure of the Facility at the end of 2026, Member States must implement all outstanding milestones and targets by August 2026 and submit last payment requests by the end of September.
