The NRRP reforms

The success of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (‘NRRP’) crucially depends not only on the correct planning and efficient implementation of its measures, but also on its wide array of structural reforms. These reforms are essential to ensure that earmarked funds can be quickly transformed into construction projects, goods and services, encountering as few regulatory, administrative and bureaucratic barriers as possible.
The Plan includes three types of reforms:

1. ‘Horizontal’ reforms – to improve equitableness, efficiency and competitiveness and, therefore, the country’s economic climate. The NRRP’s horizontal reforms include those of the public administration and of the justice system;
2. ‘Enabling’ reforms – to ensure implementation of the Plan and break down barriers to public and private investment. The NRRP’s enabling reforms include a plan to simplify regulations and bureaucracy and a plan to boost competition through the annual market and competition draft law; 
3. ‘Sectoral’ reforms – consisting of legislative innovations for specific areas of intervention or economic activities. Sectoral reforms are specific to the individual Missions (e.g., simplification of approval procedures for renewable energy projects, or safety legislation for the use of hydrogen).

In addition to the above reforms, there are also other measures that contribute to achieving the general objectives of the NRRP, despite not being included in the Plan itself. These reforms support implementation of the NRRP and include the Government’s plans to streamline and improve the fairness of the tax system and to extend and strengthen the system of social safety nets.