Towards a climate neutral EU:
efficient allocation of EU funds

The EU budget

• General information with many links:
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/eu-budget_en

NextGenerationEU

• General information with many links:
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_en#nextgenerationeu 

The Recovery and Resilience Facility

• General information with many links:
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/recovery-coronavirus/recovery-and-resilience-facility_en 
• Regulation establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility:
  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R0241 
• National Recovery and Resilience Plans:
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/recovery-coronavirus/recovery-and-resilience-facility_en#national-recovery-and-resilience-plans 
• Recovery and resilience scoreboard – common indicators and detailed elements (draft of the Commission Delegated Regulation):
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13071-Recovery-and-resilience-scoreboard-common-indicators-and-detailed-elements_en 
• Publication from the European Commission (September 2020) : Guidance to Member States’ Recovery and Resilience Plans
  part 1: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/3_en_document_travail_service_part1_v3_en_0.pdf
  part 2: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/3_en_document_travail_service_part2_v3_en_0.pdf 

European Semester

• The European Semester | European Commission
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/economic-and-fiscal-policy-coordination/eu-economic-governance-monitoring-prevention-correction/european-semester_en
• The Environmental Implementation Review
  https://ec.europa.eu/environment/eir/index_en.htm
• Greening the European Semester
  https://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/green_semester/index_en.htm
• Studies (European Commission, other government organisations)
  https://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/green_semester/studies_en.htm

DG REFORM (supporting MS to implement structural reforms) 

• Structural Reform Support
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/structural-reform-support_en

DG REGIO EU policy on regions and cities)

• Update on EU Funds
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/regional-and-urban-policy

MFF 2021-2027 and its relation to the EU 2030 Climate Target

• MFF regulation:
  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.LI.2020.433.01.0011.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2020%3A433I%3ATOC 
• Common Provisions Regulation:
  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R1060 

Rule of law and public participation

• General information on the rule of law mechanism:
  https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/upholding-rule-law/rule-law_en 
• The Rule of Law Regulation (Regulation on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget):
  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32020R2092 
• The Rule of Law Regulation:
  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32020R2092 
• European code of conduct on partnership in the framework of the European Structural and Investment Funds
  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32014R0240 
• The Aarhus Convention (Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters)
  https://ec.europa.eu/environment/aarhus/ 

Documents of civil society organisations and other independent institutions

Our previous projects were financed by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety

• An EU budget to address the climate crisis (2018-2020):
  https://eeb.org/work-areas/climate-energy/an-eu-budget-to-address-the-climate-crisis/
• Towards a climate-neutral EU: funding and incentives for a transformative European Green Deal and Recovery Plan (2020-2021):
  https://www.levego.hu/en/campaigns/eu-funding-for-the-climate/ 

Other publications

• Publication from European Environmental Bureau (EEB) : EU 2030 Climate Target – Statement from the Coalition for Higher Ambition (October 2020):
  https://eeb.org/library/eu-2030-climate-target-statement-from-the-coalition-for-higher-ambition/ 
• Publication from European Environmental Bureau (EEB) : EU 2030 climate target – NGO views on European Commission’s proposal (September 2020):
  https://eeb.org/library/eu-2030-climate-target-ngo-views-on-european-commissions-proposal/
• Publication from European Environmental Bureau (EEB) : an EU budget to address the climate emergency (December 2019):
  https://eeb.org/work-areas/climate-energy/an-eu-budget-to-address-the-climate-crisis/ 
• Assessment from Bankwatch and Friends of the Earth Europe (2015) “Climate’s enfants terribles : how new Member States’ misguided use of EU funds is holding back Europe's clean energy transition”:
  https://bankwatch.org/sites/default/files/enfants-terribles.pdf