The Portugal 2020 (PT 2020) implementation deadline ends within 500 days, while the program has a 75% rate and 20,100 million euros spent to complete the project.
PT 2020 has a total of EUR 26,900 million of available European funds and a maximum of EUR 30,700 million of funds approved for investment in project implementation.
According to the portal Mais Transparência, this program currently has 78,297 beneficiaries.
The Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP) is the largest beneficiary of European funds in Portugal, providing €1,900 million for 400 projects.
This is followed by the General Directorate of Higher Education (743 million euros), IP – Infraestruturas de Portugal (597 million euros), Banco Português de Fomento (402 million euros) and the Foundation for Science and Technology (335 million euros).
This list also includes several names whose projects were left without any funding, such as Helena Isabel do Amaral y Silva, WEMOB, Maria Ines Brito Batista, Carmonti-Industria de Carnes do Montijo, Filipe Miguel de Matos, Soma Efikaz. , Global Wines and Bravirop.
There are 145,863 projects in PT 2020, of which the northern line stands out in terms of cost – the modernization of the Ovar-Gaya section (stage 2) in the amount of 119 million euros, which is scheduled for completion on December 31.
Among the projects with the largest number of awards, there is also an exceptional incentive for the normalization of business activity (109 million euros), the expansion of the Metropolitano de Lisboa system (103 million euros), advanced training – doctoral programs (89.9 million euros). million euros) and the extension of the Metro do Porto — Pink line — Casa da Música — São Bento line (81.5 million euros).
The percentage of funds approved for investment in the implementation of the project is 114%, and the percentage of funds already spent on the project is 75%.
Until the end of the first semester, the implementation rate of PT 2020 was 66% and the payment rate was 68%.
The return rate is 104%.
All operational programs have a degree of implementation of more than 50%.
In the first places are Human Capital (89%), Compete 2020 – Competitiveness and Internationalization (84%) and the current program “Social Integration and Employment” (81%).
The PT 2020 program consists of a partnership agreement between Portugal and the European Commission, “which sets out the principles and programmatic priorities for Portugal’s economic, social and territorial development policy for the period 2014 to 2020.”
As envisaged by the European Commission, Portugal 2020 is subject to the n+3 rule, which means that although programs expire at the end of 2020, the budget can be executed up to three years later.
On the other hand, this rule defines, for example, the loss of funds in case of non-fulfillment of planned indicators.
The first tenders under the PT 2020 program were opened in 2015.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
