The European Commission has published an updated climate and digital tagging of Bulgaria's modified recovery and resilience plan, detailing how each of the 60-plus measures counts toward EU climate and digital spending targets under the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation (EU) 2021/241. The staff working document, dated 4 August 2026 and accompanying a proposal for a Council implementing decision, marks the latest step in the revision of the plan originally approved on 4 May 2022. The updated tagging assigns coefficients of 40% or 100% to individual measures, determining the share of expenditure that contributes to the EU-wide climate and digital benchmarks. The largest climate-tagged items include EUR 603.31 million for electricity storage (100% coefficient), EUR 366.08 million for residential building renovation (100%), and EUR 342 million for new renewable generation capacity (100%).
On the digital side, the document lists EUR 269.59 million for digital infrastructure deployment, EUR 120.45 million for STEM centres, and EUR 9.88 million for court digitalisation, all with 100% coefficients. Some measures carry split tags, such as electricity grid digitalisation (EUR 189.18 million), which counts 100% toward climate and 40% toward digital. Reforms and investments under the REPowerEU chapter are excluded from the digital target calculation, a technical point that affects how Bulgaria's overall digital spending share is computed. The document marks revised measures in yellow, while unchanged measures retain the coefficients from the 4 May 2022 implementing decision. The reallocation of funds across education, energy, transport, and digital projects reflects Bulgaria's updated priorities under the plan. The proposal now moves to the Council for adoption, where member states will vote on the amended implementing decision. The updated tagging will determine the final amounts Bulgaria can claim for climate and digital objectives, with implications for the country's ability to meet the RRF's 37% climate and 20% digital spending floors. For Bulgarian authorities, the revised coefficients mean greater clarity on which investments qualify for preferential treatment, but also require careful tracking to ensure compliance. For businesses and project beneficiaries, the tagging affects the attractiveness of certain investment areas, as higher coefficients signal stronger EU backing. The Commission's technical update does not alter the overall financial envelope of the plan but reshapes how the funds are categorised, potentially influencing future disbursement requests and audit scrutiny.