ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The national recovery and resilience plan advances at a total rate of 72%, with an increase of 8 points compared to the previous semester. This is what emerges from the Sixth Report on the implementation of the PNRR approved on 27 May by the Sections meeting in the audit of the Court of Auditors, which reports to Parliament on the progress of the Plan after the revision approved in November 2025 and the subsequent technical modification of March 2026.
The most significant result of the examined period is the complete achievement of the 50 European objectives expiring in the second half of 2025. The degree of completion is 87% for milestones and 56% for targets. Reforms reach 85%, investments 67%. It also raised the rate of achieving national procedural steps for internal monitoring, equal to 82%. On the front of the reforms, the results in public administration stand out: the reform of public procurement has produced a reduction of 26.5% of the average time between receiving the offers and signing of the contract, exceeding the objectives set. It also achieved an average reduction of 10.9% of the propensity for evasion in the two-year period 2022-2023 compared to 2019, the digitization of the entire flow of the first-degree criminal proceedings and the entry into force of the annual law for the market and competition. On the investment side, digital transformation, administrative justice advances – with reduced backwardness beyond the targets set (84.9% in TARs and 87.2% to the State Council) – and measures to support enterprises.
In the current half of the year 159 European targets expire, amounting to 28% of the total, with the prevalence of targets (120). In April 2026, 147 were still in progress, 11 already completed and one to start. On the financial level, the expenditure incurred increased strongly: at the end of February 2026 it reached 113.5 billion, compared to 83 billion August 2025, exceeding 58% of the overall resources of the Plan. The strengthening is widespread among missions, with more marked dynamics in Infrastructures for sustainable mobility, inclusion and cohesion and REPowerEU.
However, there is still a significant amount of expenditure to be spent more than 2026: according to the first estimates of the administrations, it is about 24.2 billion related to 66 measures, almost 40% of the allocation of the measures concerned. The phenomenon mainly concerns financial instruments and incentives to productive units. For the part already departed at a time level, almost half of the expenditure is expected in 2027. The revision of the Plan approved in November 2025 has increased the resources available for a total of 16.4 billion, through 8 new lines of investment (9.1 billion) and the strengthening of 9 already existing interventions (7.1 billion), but also involved the full definancing of 7 investments (1.5 billion) and partial reductions on 32 initiatives (14.7 billion). The revision also affected the budget law for 2026: the allocation of resources on projects already financed, for about 5.5 billion, and the economies of expenditure, for about 1.6 billion, have helped to free resources used as maneuvering covers.
On the front of public works, the Court notes that the Plan progresses without further slowdowns but also without recovering the accumulated delays, with an elongation of the average working time of almost two months between the last two surveys. In March 2026 almost half of the projects (48.5%) is completed or in testing, net increase compared to last autumn, while projects for more than 75 billion remain in execution. In contrast, the projects proceed faster in the Mezzogiorno than in the national average. For internal areas – marked by demographic, productive and administrative fragility – the resources allocated amount to 31.4 billion, of which 21.9 of PNRR funds. At the beginning of March 2026 payments reached 57% of loans, compared with 46% of the Plan average. In physical terms, 70% of the projects are concluded by number, but the share falls to 46% if measured by amount, reporting a slower advance of the more relevant economic interventions. Key measures such as nurseries, school buildings and Community houses are lagging behind.
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