Recital 41

(41) To ensure that financial support is frontloaded to better respond to the current energy crisis, it should be possible that, upon request of a Member State to be submitted together with the REPowerEU chapter in a modified recovery and resilience plan, an amount of the additional funding required to finance measures of the REPowerEU chapter be paid in the form of two pre-financing payments. The Commission should make, to the extent possible, the first pre-financing payment within two months of it entering into the legal commitment for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2021/241, and the second pre-financing payment within 12 months of the entry into force of the Council implementing decision approving the assessment of the recovery and resilience plan including a REPowerEU chapter. Those payments should be subject to available resources, in particular the availability of funds from the NextGenerationEU account, of funds approved in the Union annual budget and of the revenue obtained from the auctioning of allowances of the emissions trading system under Directive 2003/87/EC, and to the effective prior transfer of resources under shared management programmes, if requested.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-13 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.