Last update: 23 August 2022
Buildings in the content of the Plan (extracted from the REC/E3G Bulgarian Country Profile)
Bulgaria’s draft NRRP comprised measures worth €10bn of which €6.5bn from the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility. It allocates a relatively high share of funding to energy efficiency – nearly €1.4bn of which €947m from the Recovery Facility (14.6%), €318 m national financing, and €129 m private financing. The largest share of energy efficiency measures targets multifamily residential buildings (€627m), followed by state and municipal buildings (€185m), and industrial and commercial buildings (€118m). Around €1.6m are in place for four reforms: one stop shop; quality of the energy efficiency certificates; digital system for management of the process; and assessment of the sustainability of projects. Around €3m are set aside for administrative capacity investment, and €7.5m for programme management and information campaigns. €4m are foreseen for a pilot project for rolling out building information modelling (BIM) and €1.5m for the creation of a unified information system for spatial planning, investment design and construction permitting.
Read the full Bulgarian Country Profile here.
Disbursements’ timeline
- No disbursements made
Indicative timeline for future payment requests (based on the signed operational arrangements)
Operational Arrangements not yet signed.
Table of buildings' measures (categorised under their specific instalments)
The renovation-related targets and milestones expected by Q3 2022 are:
| Number of Milestones | Name of Milestone | Value of whole measure | Indicator | Progress & Comments |
| Milestone 1 | Investment 2.2.b – Guarantee instrument for energy efficiency and renewable energy
(C3.I2:Investment 2.2.b) |
€37.5 million | Signature of the contribution agreement between the European Commission and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria | To be requested under instalment 2 |
| Milestone 2 | Establishment of a National Fund for Decarbonisation (C4.R1) |
– |
An assessment of the national energy efficiency regulatory framework shall be carried out by an independent expert panel | To be requested under instalment 2 |
| Milestone 3 | Facilitating investments in energy efficiency renovations in residential buildings
(C4.R2) |
– | Provision in the Condominium Ownership Management Act indicating the entry into force of the amendments with the aim to, among others, facilitate decision-making by owners of individual sites in multi-apartment buildings | To be requested under instalment 2 |
| Milestone 4 | Support for the renovation of the building stock (C4.I1) | Links to investments below | Publication of the Ministerial order establishing a national support scheme for energy efficiency renovation for residential and non-residential buildings | To be requested under instalment 2 |
| Milestone 5 | Support for the renovation of the building stock: Sub-measure 1: Renovation of residential buildings (C4.I1) | €608.18 million | Publication of call specifications | To be requested under instalment 2 |
| Milestone 6 | Support for the renovation of the building stock: Sub-measure 2: Renovation of non-residential buildings, including public buildings and Sub-measure 3: Renovation of non-residential buildings in manufacturing, trade and services, as well as buildings from the tourism sector (C4.I1) | €315.08 million | Publication of call specifications | To be requested under instalment 2 |
All information has been extracted from the Study: “E3G. (2021). Renovate2Recover: How transformational are the National Recovery Plans for Buildings Renovation?” and the European Commission’s Recovery and Resilience Scoreboard.