Portugal 2020 reaches 71% of global execution in the final tabulation says Government
According to a note sent by the office of the Minister of Planning, Nelson de Souza, the amount reached “exceeds by two percentage points the rate that had been established as a target in the 2014-20 Community Framework Closing Plan”.
“For the year 2021, the previous closure plan had an execution rate of 16%, a goal that was clearly surpassed and which today reached 18%, which corresponds to an amount of 3,736 million euros. This value is practically equal to the value registered in 2012 , of 3,843 million euros, which constitutes the absolute record of execution of competent funds in a single year, since the beginning”, highlights a tutelage.
Regarding thematic operational programs, the highlight is Competitiveness and Internationalization with an execution rate of 140%, followed by Social Inclusion and Employment (110%), Sustainability and Efficiency in the Use of Resources (100%) and Capital Human (100%).
Of the regional programs, the highlights are the Lisbon region (108%), the Center (107%), the North (105%) and Alentejo (100%).
According to the same data, only the regional operational programs in the Algarve (85%), Azores (85%), Madeira (77%) and the Technical Assistance Operational Program (86%) did not manage to achieve set implementation targets.
The final calculation of the values for Portugal 2020 on the last day of the year raised to 15,143 million euros the amount already consolidated, which corresponds to an execution rate of 71%.
For 2022, an estimated cumulative execution is 87%, which should reach 100% in the following year.
With a global allocation of around 26 billion euros, the PT 2020 program consists of a partnership agreement between Portugal and the European Commission, “the programming principles and priorities for the economic, social and territorial development policy of Portugal, between 2014 and 2020”.
The first tenders of the PT 2020 program were opened in 2015.