Today, the European Commission positively assessed Slovenia's sixth payment request for €41 million under the Recovery and Resilience Facility , the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU.
This is an important step in the delivery of the reforms and investments tied to this payment request, which aims to support Slovenia's labour market, education, renewable energy, while advancing the green transition through upgraded wastewater and drinking water infrastructure. Additionally, this funding helps companies and public services transition to an increasingly circular and digital economy through an e-Legislation platform, expanded telemedicine options, and enhanced applications within the police cloud system.
The Commission found that Slovenia has satisfactorily completed the six milestones and nine targets set out in the Council Implementing Decision .
Flagship measures in this payment include:
- Increasing the resilience of the labour market by adopting guidelines for the implementation of active labour market policies for the period 2026-2030. The guidelines are based on the OECD review of Slovenian active labour market policies in the areas of on-the-job training, wage subsidies, institutional training, and public works. The new guidelines include goals for reducing the number of long-term unemployed persons and for faster activation of older and low-skilled workers.
- Digitalisation of healthcare through new functionalities of the national telemedicine system, ensuring remote communication between patients and doctors, as well as between doctors themselves.
- Sustainable renovation of buildings by upgrading of air-conditioning and ventilation systems on more than 40,000 m2. The upgrade has been implemented in 22 municipality buildings, in particular in primary schools and kindergartens. It results in healthier conditions for children and other users of the buildings. The works were implemented while ensuring high environmental standards. The objective of the investment is to increase energy efficiency of buildings.
Next steps
The Commission has sent its preliminary assessment of Slovenia's fulfilment of the milestones and targets required for this payment to the Council's Economic and Financial Committee (EFC), which has four weeks to deliver its opinion. The payment to Slovenia can take place following the EFC's opinion, and the adoption of a payment decision by the Commission later.
Background
Slovenia submitted its sixth payment request on 27 March 2026. Slovenia's recovery and resilience plan has a strong focus on the green transition and is comprehensive, with a good balance between investments and reforms. Key reforms are promotion of renewable energy sources, long-term care, healthcare, pension reform, and deployment of alternative fuels. Key investments are renewable energy and energy efficiency, rail transport, flood prevention, healthcare, and digitalisation of public administration.
With a view to the closure of the Facility at the end of 2026, Member States must implement all outstanding milestones and targets by 31 August 2026 and submit their last payment requests by the end of September 2026.
