Croatia expecting €897 million tranche from Recovery and Resilience Plan

On Friday, the European Commission confirmed a positive preliminary assessment, stating that Croatia has satisfactorily achieved all 17 reform and investment indicators required for the disbursement of the eighth tranche of the National Recovery and Resilience Fund (NPOO), worth €897 million, the Ministry of Finance announced.

Croatia met indicators across multiple sectors, including the economy, energy, water management, transport, agriculture, public administration, justice and digitization, the labor market and pension system, science, health, and construction.

According to the Ministry, Croatia is the only EU country so far confirmed to have fully met 100 percent of all indicators within the eight implemented requirements. In total, the European Commission validated the successful completion of 253 reform and investment indicators. Once approved, the eighth tranche is expected to be paid in March, bringing the total disbursed from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism to €7.3 billion out of the available €10 billion.

Croatia submitted its request for the eighth tranche in mid-December 2025. Key projects funded by this tranche include:

- Prototypes of 60 fully autonomous and electric vehicles and associated testing.

- Upgrades to the operational information system and installation of 90 permanent stations for monitoring agricultural land.

- Central management of parenteral preparations in nine hospitals.

- Upgrades to four regional PNUSKOK centers and a system for monitoring and preventing drug shortages.

- Construction of the expanded Zlobin-Bosiljevo gas pipeline.

As a reference, the seventh tranche of €1.07 billion, the largest single payment in Croatian history, arrived at the end of 2025. By the end of that year, a total of €6.4 billion had been withdrawn from the NPOO.