Today, the European Commission greenlighted Czechia's seventh payment request worth €951 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 such as housing, energy efficiency renovations, grids, educational, medical and social infrastructure, and cybersecurity.
The Commission found that Czechia has satisfactorily fulfilled the 13 milestones and 25 targets set out in the Council Implementing Decision .
Flagship measures in this payment request include:
- Increased affordable housing with renovation and construction works for more than 130 housing projects, worth €350 million.
- Improved healthcare and medical education with additional support for the Czech Oncology Institute and for two new university campuses specialising in medicine, biomedicine and pharmaceutical sciences, alongside the provision of advanced medical equipment to oncology and haemato-oncology centres across the country.
- Energy efficient renovation of public buildings and upgrading of lighting systems to reduce energy consumption. More than 340 buildings and 678 municipal lighting systems have been upgraded, generating energy savings equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of more than 11,000 households.
- A stronger electricity infrastructure, through an improved electricity distribution grid, with more than 2 GW of additional capacity to connect renewable energy sources and ease grid congestion. New functionalities at the Electricity Data Centre have also been introduced to integrate more renewables, support grid stability and strengthen energy security.
- Better access to childcare and social services through the construction and renovation of more than 700 pre-school and social care facilities.
- Enhanced transport links and digital connectivity, including a trolleybus connection to Prague Airport, improved safety on 68 km of railway lines through the deployment of the ETCS regional system, and better mobile connectivity in 385 railway carriages.
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 seventh payment request on 31 August 2026. The Czech recovery and resilience plan includes a wide range of investment and reform measures. The plan is financed by €8.4 billion in grants and €260 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, as well as a limited number of important reforms.
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 €8.6 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). This corresponds to 99.4% of the total funds allocated under the Czech plan, including the €48.81 million decommitment resulting from the partial fulfilment of milestone 193 in Czechia's third payment request .
