«The plan needs to be revised, inflation has increased costs»- Corriere.it

We will have to review the Pnrr with Europe, because due to inflation, only my Ministry of the Environment has a greater burden of 5 billion for the interventions, out of the 35 foreseen. Either you cut down on the works, or we don’t fit in. To tell the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Picetto Fratin, at the webinar The alphabet of the future de The print. The expenditure forecast of the Pnrr at the beginning of its approval was 42 billion euros as of December 31st of this year. This expenditure was revised downwards to 33 billion and in September was revised to 21 billion. In the coming days we will take note of what has been spent but I fear that the percentage of expenditure will not be very high and will be far from 22 billion euros, said the Minister for European Affairs, Cohesion Policies and Pnrr Raffaele Fitto, speaking at an event organized by Eunews and Gea-Green Economy Agency.

The Pnrr continues to be something that must not be changed, but retouched, revised in the light of everything that is happening, you have to review the times, because all the works will be closed and reported by 2026, we are at the end of 2022, it seems to me absolutely ambitious, therefore it seems to me that times and prices need to be reviewed, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, had said in recent days. An initial intervention to fill the gap caused by the extra costs appears in the Maneuver, which includes the replication of the fund on extra costs intended for the 2023 tenders.

The targets of the Ministry of the Environment

The Ministry of the Environment is responsible for the most significant portion of the activities of Mission 2 of the Pnrr Green revolution and ecological transition with 34.7 billion divided into 26 investments and 12 reforms, but it also has the most important share of milestones and targets, equal to 89 distributed during the implementation period. We are ready to respect all the deadlines agreed in the plan – the minister explained – whose time and milestone targets could undergo some slight modification dictated solely by the changed socio-economic and market conditions. First, inflation levels are much higher than those expected in the planning stage. On the basis of a precise estimate of each of the measures owned by the Ministry of the Environment, this impact could exceed 5 billion euros in the next few years. Another critical issue that could arise in the coming months, added Pichetto, concerns the ability of the production chains to implement specific segments of the plan. For this – he added – with a view to prevention, we are about to launch a dedicated study on the most relevant measures owned by the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security.

Fitto: In the next few days real data on spending

The Minister of European Affairs, Raffaele Fitto also spoke on the subject. In the next few days we will communicate the real spending situation of the Pnrr, he declared to the Alis Assembly, where he recalled that the expenditure forecast of the national recovery and resilience plan at the beginning of the plan was 42 billion euros at the end of this this year, this programming was revised downwards to 33 billion and then reduced to 22 billion in September. The spending target is not one of the objectives that allows us to reach the targets and milestones, which are linked to the reforms, adds the minister, but it is indicative because if spending does not grow, there is a signal that must be grasped in the initial planning phase and not in the next one.

Musumeci asks us to postpone the deadline

According to Minister Nello Musumeci, Minister for the South and Marine Policies of the Meloni government, the Pnrr should be extended by at least a couple of years. Colleague Fitto is in a position of great responsibility. The first objective, with the deadline remaining unchanged, is to try to speed up the procedures, which unfortunately, at least up to now, have not gone particularly fast. If the 2026 deadline is not compatible with the inertia or slowness that has so far characterized, at least in part, the first step of this extraordinary resource, it will be necessary to ask for at least a two-year extension, Musumeci said about the Pnrr, guest of AdnKronos Live referring to a hypothesis to postpone the deadline to 2028.