Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea del 31/5/2022 - Comunicaciones e Informaciones
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Source: Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea - Comunicaciones e Informaciones
31.5.2022
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Official Journal of the European Union
C 214/1
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Commission Notice Guidance on Recovery and Resilience Plans in the context of REPowerEU
2022/C 214/01
Since the adoption of the Regulation on the Recovery and Resilience Facility RRF 1, the geopolitical context has changed considerably. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has drastically impacted the Unions society and economy. These unprecedented geopolitical challenges make it even more important and urgent to reduce the EUs dependency on fossil fuels, in particular those imported from Russia, including by full implementation of the Fit for 55 proposals, as well as increasing the use of renewables and further enhancing energy efficiency. To address these challenges, and upon the request of the European Council, on 18 May 2022 the Commission published a REPowerEU plan setting out joint European actions in this area supplementing the measures taken with respect to energy security of supply and storage. In particular, the REPowerEU plan proposes a set of actions to save energy, diversify supplies and accelerate Europes clean energy transition.
Energy savings can be obtained at the level of households, buildings, transport, and the industry, and at the level of the power system by boosting energy efficiency.
Diversifying gas supplies can be done by increasing the amount of LNG imports and pipeline imports from non-Russian suppliers as well as by increasing the levels of biomethane and renewable or fossil-free hydrogen.
To accelerate Europes clean energy transition, the share of renewables in the energy mix needs to increase and measures need to be taken to address infrastructure and regulatory bottlenecks as well as labour and skill shortages.
These three sets of interventions are supported by smartly combining investments and reforms.
The RRF can play an important role in mobilising and implementing available resources at Union and national levels to achieve the objectives of the REPowerEU plan. To make the RRF framework better equipped to effectively address the objectives of the REPowerEU plan, the Commission put forward a targeted proposal to amend the RRF Regulation with a view to addressing the REPowerEU objective the Commission proposal for the Regulation on REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans. The aim is to swiftly provide the necessary framework to ensure that investments and reforms strengthening the EU energy resilience are mobilised as soon as possible. The proposal defines a specific set of REPowerEU objectives that should underpin the investments and reforms to be included in the existing recovery and resilience plans RRPs as part of dedicated REPowerEU chapters. In addition, it provides for dedicated funding sources to finance the relevant measures.
The modalities for devising the REPowerEU chapters are explained in this Guidance. This Guidance is focused on the process to modify existing plans whereas the guidance of January 2021 2 remains valid for the preparation of RRPs overall.
1 Regulation EU 2021/241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2021 establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility OJ L 57, 18.2.2021, p. 17.
2 Commission Staff Working Document 2021 12 final.
