Right to appeal decisions by fund managing authorities abolished

PRR: more than 18,000 children and young people supported in the Azores

From nursery school exemptions to higher education scholarships, the Azorean government details how it distributed European funds across four measures aimed at the new generations.

“We expect to submit the ninth payment request in May”

Portugal is expected to submit its ninth payment request to Brussels in May, as soon as the European Commission gives the green light to the latest reprogramming exercise submitted on the last day of March, revealed Fernando Alfaiate on ECO dos Fundos. “We took advantage of this review to also adjust the schedule of some milestones and targets between the ...

Prior visa: “There is always a price to pay for ex-post audits”

“There is always a price to pay” for ending the Court of Auditors' prior visa and opting for ex-post audits, acknowledges Fernando Alfaiate. The president of the Recuperar Portugal mission structure argues that “public procurement is a very high concern in this aspect of the execution of European funds,” but the problems begin to...

Kristin: Companies gain six months to return European funds

The approved moratorium targets certain cases of undue payments and repayable aid, but excludes cases of fraud. It covers companies with headquarters or co-financed activity in municipalities affected by calamity.

Former vice-president of CCDR Centro appointed as member of European funds management

The former vice-president of the Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR) Centro, Alexandra Correia, was appointed this Thursday as an executive member of the steering committee for the regional programme's management authority in this part of the country. Meanwhile, Élia Janes Quintas, former mayor of Reguengos de Monsaraz (2017-2021), is the new member of the board of directors of the Unit...

Portugal to submit "new PRR reprogramming" to Brussels

Economist Pedro Dominguinhos, president of the PRR Monitoring Committee, analyses the impact of the war in Iran on meeting the deadlines for the use of these European funds.

ECO Funds Tip: What is DNSH

To obtain funding from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), projects must not harm the environment in any way. Complying with this set of environmental principles is pioneering and presents a binary challenge: failing a single criterion makes one ineligible for European recovery funds. Anabela Rodrigues, climate coordinator for the Mission Structure...

Pressure to execute European funds leads to risks of degradation in control and quality

The Court of Auditors considered that the 'slow absorption of European funds' creates execution pressure in the final years of programmes, posing risks to quality and control procedures. The President of the Court of Auditors (TdC) was heard this Wednesday in Parliament, at the Economy Committee, and submitted...

Court of Auditors has only rejected one PRR-funded project since the end of prior approval

Projects funded by European funds are no longer required to wait for prior approval from the Court of Auditors to proceed, as of the end of December 2024. The Executive's goal is to accelerate the execution of funds. Thus, the institution led by Filipa Urbano Calvão now carries out the oversight of projects only a posteriori. Since then...

General Inspectorate of Finance leaves Public Prosecutor's group created to prevent fraud with European funds

The IGF, the Portuguese state service with audit and anti-fraud coordination functions in the area of European funds, was accused of a lack of cooperation and of transmitting incorrect information to the European Union. The Ministry of Finance says that the IGF left the group created by the Public Prosecutor's Office because it does not agree with the criteria and intervention methodologies recently adopted by it.