COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION amending the Implementing Decision of 29 October 2021 on the approval of the assessment of the recovery and resilience plan for Romania

stimated total cost of the RRP is in line with the principle of cost-efficiency and commensurate with the expected national economic and social impact. 14452/25 10 ECOFIN.1.A EN Any other assessment criteria (23) The Commission considers that the amendments put forward by Romania do not affect the positive assessment of the RRP set out in the Council Implementing Decision of 29 October 2021 regarding the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and coherence of the RRP against the assessment criteria laid down in Article 19(3), points (a), (b), (d), (db), (g), (h), (j) and (k), of Regulation (EU) 2021/241. Positive assessment (24) Following the positive assessment by the Commission of the amended RRP, with the finding that the RRP satisfactorily complies with the criteria for assessment set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/241, in accordance with Article 20(2) of and Annex V to that Regulation, the reforms and investment projects necessary for the implementation of the amended RRP, the relevant milestones, targets and indicators, and the amount made available from the Union for the implementation of the amended RRP should be set out. 14452/25 11 ECOFIN.1.A EN Financial contribution (25) The estimated total cost of Romania’s amended RRP is EUR 21 410 527 593. As the amount of the estimated total cost of the amended RRP is higher than the updated maximum financial contribution available for Romania, the financial contribution determined in accordance with Article 4a of Regulation (EU) 2021/1755 of the European Parliament and of the Council4 and with Article 20(4) and Article 21a(6) of Regulation (EU) 2021/241 that is allocated for Romania’s amended RRP should be equal to EUR 13 566 055 514. Therefore, the financial contribution made available to Romania remains unchanged. 4 Regulation (EU) 2021/1755 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 October 2021 establishing the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (OJ L 357, 8.10.2021, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/1755/oj). 14452/25 12 ECOFIN.1.A EN Loans (26) In order to support additional reforms and investments, a total loan support of EUR 14 931 380 419 was made available to Romania by means of the Council Implementing Decision of 29 October 2021. Following the removal or decrease in the level of implementation of measures C1.I1, C1.I2, C1.I3, C1.I4a, C1.I7, C2.I4a, C3.I2, C4.I3, C4.I4, C5.I1, C5.I3, C6.I2, C6.I3, C6.I4, C7.I18, C9.I2a, C9.I6, C9.I7, C10.I2, C10.I3, C10.I4, C11.I1, C15.I13, C15.I15, C15.I17 and C16.I6 under Article 21 of Regulation 2021/241, Romania has requested to use part of the freed-up loan resources to support new measures or to increase the level of implementation of existing measures within the RRP. The amount of the estimated total costs of the RRP is lower than the combined financial contribution available for Romania and the loan support that had been made available to Romania by means of the Council Implementing Decision of 29 October 2021. Therefore, the total loan support made available to Romania should be reduced to EUR 7 844 472 079. (27) The amount of the financial contribution for Romania should be determined in accordance with Article 20 of Regulation (EU) 2021/241 and the amount of the loan should be set out in accordance with Article 20(5), point (h), of that Regulation. However, pursuant to the Commission Implementing Decision of 18 December 2024 on the reduction of the amount of the second instalment of the loan support for Romania, adopted in accordance with Article 24(8) of Regulation (EU) 2021/241, the loan has been reduced by EUR 10 772 581 and Romania cannot request its disbursement from the Commission. 14452/25 13 ECOFIN.1.A EN (28) The Council Implementing Decision of 29 October 2021 should therefore be amended accordingly. For the sake of clarity, the Annex to the Council Implementing Decision of 29 October 2021 should be replaced entirely. (29) This Decision should be without prejudice to procedures relating to distortions of the operation of the internal market that may be undertaken, in particular under Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty. It does not override the requirement for Member States to implement the measures in accordance with Union and national law and, in particular, to notify instances of potential State aid to the Commission under Article 108 of the Treaty, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: 14452/25 14 ECOFIN.1.A EN  Article 1 Approval of the assessment of the RRP The assessment of the amended RRP of Romania on the basis of the criteria provided for in Article 19(3) of Regulation (EU) 2021/241 is approved. Article 2 Amendments The Council Implementing Decision of 29 October 2021 on the approval of the assessment of the recovery and resilience plan for Romania is amended as follows: (1) in Article 3, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. The Union shall make available to Romania a loan amounting to a maximum of EUR 7 844 472 079.’; (2) the Annex is replaced by the text appearing in the Annex to this Decision. 14452/25 15 ECOFIN.1.A EN  Article 3 Addressee This Decision is addressed to Romania. Done at …, … For the Council The President 14452/25 16 ECOFIN.1.A EN