Portugal missed the deadline of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) to complete decentralization in health, which implied transferring powers in this area to 201 municipalities because only 92 signed the document that formalized the transfer. But it will not suffer any suspension in the financing of the European Commission to implement this objective of PRR, the Ministry of Health confirmed to Public.
The value of this measure would be between 43.2 million and 200 million euros, but the payment could be suspended for failure to meet the deadline, which ends this Friday. But, since the PRR will be renegotiated, the European Commission has agreed that the The Government did not have to announce it by not completing the transfer. It could request the partial suspension of this disbursement at the end of the negotiations, explains Público.
The deadline for the renegotiation of the Portuguese PRR is scheduled for July, the newspaper continues, so Portugal will have until then to complete decentralization in health and the transfer of powers to at least 190 municipalities, the minimum number allowed by the European Commission so that the country is not penalized with the suspension of funding.
Until now, only Italy and Lithuania experienced a partial suspension of funding for non-compliance with the respective Recovery and Resilience Plans, according to Público. The Italians were accused by the European Commission of having missed three goals and now have a month to appeal the ruling. The Lithuanians will have missed two goals.
Source: Observadora
