Recital 28

(28) InvestEU is the Union’s flagship programme to boost investment, especially the green and digital transition, by providing demand-driven financing, including through blending mechanisms, and technical assistance. That approach contributes to the crowding in of additional public and private capital under the current policy windows. To ensure a full absorption of available funds and provided that implementing partners do not have sufficient capacity to absorb the 25 % of the EU guarantee established by Regulation (EU) 2021/523 that is earmarked for them, the Commission should be able to grant more than 75 % of the EU guarantee to the EIB Group. In that context, the Commission should encourage and assist the implementing partners other than the EIB Group to absorb the funding that is available to them in full. Member States are encouraged to contribute to the Member State compartment of InvestEU to support financial products in line with the STEP objectives under the current policy windows, without prejudice to applicable State aid rules. It should be possible for Member States to include as a measure in their recovery and resilience plans a cash contribution for the purpose of the Member State compartment of InvestEU to support STEP objectives under the current policy windows. That additional contribution to support STEP objectives should be allowed to reach up to 6 % of their recovery and resilience plan’s total financial allocation to the Member State compartment of InvestEU. Additional flexibility and clarifications should also be introduced to better pursue the STEP objectives. For projects contributing to the STEP objectives, best efforts should be made to ensure that, at the end of the investment period, a wide range of sectors and regions are covered and excessive sectoral or geographical concentration is avoided.

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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.