The European Commission has published an updated assessment of how each measure in Belgium's revised recovery and resilience plan contributes to the EU's climate and digital spending targets, assigning coefficients of 40% to 100% to individual measures. The staff working document, dated 30 July 2026 and accompanying a proposal to amend the Council Implementing Decision of 13 July 2021, marks the latest step in the revision of the Belgian plan, which now includes a REPowerEU chapter.
The document, issued by the Commission's recovery and resilience task force, updates the climate and digital tagging of the plan in line with Regulation (EU) 2021/241. Measures revised in the amended plan are marked in yellow, while unchanged measures retain their original coefficients. Climate measures receiving the full 100% coefficient include the renovation of social housing in the Flemish, Brussels-Capital and German-speaking regions, the hydrogen transition across the federal state and the Flemish and Walloon regions, low-carbon industry in Wallonia, the Flemish Blue Deal, marine nature restoration, offshore energy, cycling infrastructure, the Charleroi Metro, rail renovation on TEN-T and zero-emission lines, greening of bus fleets, charging stations, and the Digisprong digital education programme. Digital measures with a 100% coefficient span cybersecurity, digitalisation of social security and eHealth, fibre networks in the German-speaking Community, the AI institute, smart road signals, rail IT systems, the FLOYA app, ANPR camera networks, and digital skills initiatives across Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels.
The REPowerEU chapter, which was added to the Belgian plan to accelerate energy independence, is excluded from the digital target calculation, a point the Commission notes explicitly. This exclusion means that REPowerEU measures such as energy efficiency in social housing, solar panels, the offshore energy island and the greening of bus fleets count only toward the climate target, not the digital one.
The update follows a series of revisions to the Belgian plan since its original approval in July 2021. The Commission's proposal to amend the implementing decision is now subject to approval by the Council, which has four weeks to adopt it by qualified majority. The European Parliament has been kept informed of the changes, in line with the comitology procedures of the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
For stakeholders, the updated tracking has direct implications. Belgian authorities at federal, regional and community level will need to align their reporting and spending with the new coefficients, which determine the share of each measure that counts toward the 37% climate and 20% digital spending floors. For businesses and project promoters, the coefficients signal which investments are most likely to attract EU funding, with 100% climate or digital tagging offering the clearest alignment with the facility's objectives. The exclusion of REPowerEU measures from the digital target may reduce the incentive for digital investments within that chapter, while the high coefficients for climate measures reinforce the priority given to the green transition. The Commission's assessment also provides a basis for the disbursement of funds, as Belgium must demonstrate progress on these tagged measures to receive the next instalments of its €5.9 billion allocation.