Greece's Ministry of National Economy and Finance has filed its sixth payment request with the European Commission for EUR 2.1bn in grants from the Recovery and Resilience Facility, after completing 39 additional milestones and targets under the national plan “Greece 2.0”. Greece has already completed five payment requests totalling EUR 21.3bn, and a successful assessment of the sixth request would raise cumulative disbursements to EUR 23.4bn, equivalent to 65% of the country’s overall allocation, with grant disbursements reaching EUR 12.04bn or 66% of available grants. The milestones cover education, health, social policy, infrastructure, justice, public administration, tax administration and energy, including installation of more than 36,200 interactive classroom boards, phase one of the electronic health record and changes to the framework for the Personal Doctor, and the shift of social benefits for nearly 1.3 million recipients to prepaid cards. Other measures include contracting LED smart lighting and road-safety works across 7,780 high-risk points, subsidising 11,580 photovoltaic systems for households and farmers, advancing the cadastre to 95% completion and completing the integration of 400,000 cash registers and point-of-sale terminals with MyDATA; REPowerEU-related steps include a framework to add storage to renewable generation and approval of 175MW of electricity storage projects. A separate payment request for the loan component of EUR 1.8bn is scheduled for submission within September.

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