The Ministry of Development is up to date with all payments for investments carried out through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, said the relevant minister, Cseke Attila, at Victoria Palace on Thursday.
„For the investments carried out through the PNRR, we took over the ministry at a 15% absorption rate, we are at over 30% in 4 months, we are up to date with all payments on the PNRR, on all investments. We have paid over 600 million euros in 3 and a half months on invoices that were in the ministry. We are paying invoices issued, submitted 4 weeks ago,” the minister stated in a press conference.
He was asked how many of the projects undertaken by MDLPA through PNRR could lose funding and be removed from this European program.
„We are now in the debate procedure with the European Commission, of course, colleagues from the Ministry of Investments and European Projects are the ones leading this debate. Considering the evaluation and payment capacity that the Ministry of Development has shown in the last four months, the discussions with the European Commission in February were in the sense that we made an analysis related to the investments that need to be reduced as a target, because they cannot be realized in the physical time remaining until the middle of next year, but at the Ministry of Development there will not be very many such investments,” stated Cseke Attila.
According to him, an investment undertaken through the PNRR regarding the construction of nZEB housing would be reduced by half in number of objectives.
„An investment for which we have a reduction of half of the target, that is, the number of objectives, let me explain to you why – the investment refers to the construction of nZEB housing, which means higher costs. Here, the part that can be settled from the PNRR is 794 euros per square meter. The market price today, if you ask the beneficiaries, the UATs that entered into public procurement, there is no contract for the execution of works below 1,200 euros, even at 1,400 – 1,500 euros. As a result, where they have not physically started the execution of the work and where, from our assessment, there is no chance of completing the work until next year, also having this problem of the increase in the price per square meter for the construction of nZEB housing, we proposed to the Government, and the Government was „We agreed, and the Commission, to reduce that target, and that reduced target should be used to adjust the price for those that remained under execution, so that we can finance those investments,” the minister explained.
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