Payment request 4 from PNRR has passed the preliminary evaluation of the European Commission, announced Minister Dragoș Pîslaru. What is the amount received by Romania
The Minister of European Investments and Projects, Dragoș Pîslaru, announced that payment request 4 within the PNRR passed the preliminary evaluation within the European Commission, which means that Romania will receive 2.622 billion euros.
Dragoș Pîslaru stated, at the end of the Government meeting, that the acceptance of the request was confirmed to him on Monday morning, in Brussels.
“We have confirmation that the analyzes regarding the fulfillment of milestones and targets on payment request 4 have been completed, so that on payment request 4 we will have a clean request of 2.62 billion euros of grant components, which will be formalized in the next period,” said the minister.
Pîslaru said the approval of claim 4 was in “total contrast” to how the requirements of claim 3 were met, for which payments were suspended in May 2025 for failing to meet four milestones.
“The Bolojan government submitted request 4 in December and it is clean, a first for Romania from 2021 onwards. It is not an easy request. We fought in the redoubt so that we could make the reforms: 62 targets and milestones for which we will receive 2.62 billion euros in grant alone,” said the minister.
Official EC approval mid-month
He claims that, if the preliminary evaluation is favorable, the process becomes a formal one that will be completed in the meeting of the college of European commissioners next week, so that the official announcement of the approval of the application by the European Commission could occur on May 13.
Regarding the submission of the 5th payment request for the PNRR, Pîslaru advanced the end of June, and if the request is approved, Romania will receive another one billion euros.
At the same time, Dragoș Pîslaru announced that negotiations were concluded with Norway and countries from the European Economic Area for a financing of almost half a billion euros.
“Romania concluded negotiations with Norway and with the countries of the European Economic Area, Liechtenstein and Iceland, in order to benefit from the financing of 497 million euros. We will have this amount of half a billion, composed of 291.6 million euros on the Norwegian side and 304 million euros on the EEA side. These are the gross contributions, the net contributions being 243 million euros for the Norwegians and 254 million euros for the EEA. The rate of Romania's co-financing of 15%, 68.6 million euros”, said Pîslaru.
The funding obtained from Norway will be able to be used for green transition, culture, justice, internal affairs, local development, institutional cooperation and administrative capacity building, research and innovation.
