The Netherlands has not yet submitted its national recovery plan
to the European Commission. In a letter dated 30 April 2021 – the
due date for submission - the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs
and the Minister of Finance informed the Executive Vice-President
of the European Commission that they decided to leave the
finalization of the recovery plan to the new government, which is
being formed on the basis of the results of the 17 March 2021
election. As of writing, the process of forming a new government is
still ongoing.
Regulation (EU) 2021/241 establishing the Recovery and
Resilience Facility contains a ‘soft' deadline for
national recovery plan submissions, being that recovery plans
should be submitted before 30 April 2021 ‘as a rule'.
The European Commission's Q&A on the Recovery and Resilience
Facility further details that Member States may notify
their plans at any point in time until mid-2022.Therefore, the
Netherlands has not foregone the opportunity to
