Austria
Commission proposes to greenlight a payment of €1.6 billion to Austria under NextGenerationEU
The European Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Austria's second payment request for € 1.62 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centrepiece of NextGenerationEU.
The Commission has preliminarily concluded that Austria has satisfactorily completed the 67 milestones and targets set out in the Council Implementing Decision for the second and third instalments.
The payment request covers important steps in the delivery of 54 reforms and 13 investments benefiting Austrian citizens and businesses. Key focus areas include digitalisation in public administration, health, energy, circular economy and biodiversity, sustainable mobility, pensions, skills, culture, support to growth-oriented start-ups, and carbon taxation.
Flagship measures linked to this payment request include the acceleration of the decarbonisation of buildings, including with a ban on fossil-fuel heating systems in new buildings from 2025, as well as the replacement of more than 30.000 fossil-fuel heating systems in existing buildings. Other measures include a pension reform aiming at improving the sustainability of the pension system and investments in longer term care.
More information is available in a press release online.
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