Kiri

Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111

EUROPEAN COMMISSION REFORM AND INVESTMENT TASK FORCE (SG REFORM)

The Director-General

Brussels REFOR.A.2/FP

Mr Urmo Merila

Deputy Director General at State

Shared Service Centre

[email protected]

For the attention of the Minister

Subject: A new approach to TSI 2026

Your Excellency, Dear Mr Merila,

It is my pleasure to personally inform you of the launch of the TSI 2026 general call for

requests from Member States. In the coming weeks we will also send a letter to your

Ambassador as we did in the previous cycles.

As you are aware, both the Commission and Member State authorities face an increasing

workload in finalising the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility,

including with regard to the substantial number of milestones and targets included in the

national recovery and resilience plans that will still have to be assessed by 2026.

On 4 June, the Commission published a Communication highlighting these challenges and

providing guidance to Member States on how to ensure that their recovery and resilience

plans can be made fit for the 2026 deadline. The Commission also provided guidance on

the preparation of payment requests in 2026, stressing the importance for both the Member

States and the Commission to ensure that sufficient resources are allocated to processing,

respectively, the submission and the assessment of the last payment requests.

Against this background, under the TSI 2026 cycle the Commission and the Member States

need to focus their efforts on the most impactful reform projects. Therefore, as

communicated at this year’s TSI Annual Conference "Supporting reforms – Shaping

the Future Together" on 13 May 2025 and at the meeting of the network of TSI national

coordinating authorities on 14 May 2025, I would like to call on your support to

thoroughly scrutinise Estonia’s needs for technical support and only submit a limited

number of requests that you expect to have the greatest impact on the implementation of

your reform agenda.

To further assist Member States in identifying and submitting focused requests under the

TSI 2026 cycle, a single TSI 2026 flagship “Technical Support for the Implementation

2

of Country-Specific Recommendations” has also been designed. The flagship suggests

concrete areas for support in each Member State by linking them to the national priorities

identified in the context of the European Semester process.

I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for our collaboration on the TSI until now

and – along with my team – look forward to working with you in making the most of the

Commission’s continued support to your reform efforts.

For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our central contact point, SG

REFORM’s Unit 01 - Legal Affairs and Coordination through its functional mailbox for

all TSI coordination matters: [email protected]

Yours sincerely,

Céline GAUER

Director General

Reform and Investment Task Force

(SG REFORM)

Electronically signed on 13/06/2025 17:34 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121

Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË – Tel. +32 22991111

EUROPEAN COMMISSION REFORM AND INVESTMENT TASK FORCE (SG REFORM)

The Director-General

Brussels REFOR.A.2/FP

Mr Urmo Merila

Deputy Director General at State

Shared Service Centre

[email protected]

For the attention of the Minister

Subject: A new approach to TSI 2026

Your Excellency, Dear Mr Merila,

It is my pleasure to personally inform you of the launch of the TSI 2026 general call for

requests from Member States. In the coming weeks we will also send a letter to your

Ambassador as we did in the previous cycles.

As you are aware, both the Commission and Member State authorities face an increasing

workload in finalising the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility,

including with regard to the substantial number of milestones and targets included in the

national recovery and resilience plans that will still have to be assessed by 2026.

On 4 June, the Commission published a Communication highlighting these challenges and

providing guidance to Member States on how to ensure that their recovery and resilience

plans can be made fit for the 2026 deadline. The Commission also provided guidance on

the preparation of payment requests in 2026, stressing the importance for both the Member

States and the Commission to ensure that sufficient resources are allocated to processing,

respectively, the submission and the assessment of the last payment requests.

Against this background, under the TSI 2026 cycle the Commission and the Member States

need to focus their efforts on the most impactful reform projects. Therefore, as

communicated at this year’s TSI Annual Conference "Supporting reforms – Shaping

the Future Together" on 13 May 2025 and at the meeting of the network of TSI national

coordinating authorities on 14 May 2025, I would like to call on your support to

thoroughly scrutinise Estonia’s needs for technical support and only submit a limited

number of requests that you expect to have the greatest impact on the implementation of

your reform agenda.

To further assist Member States in identifying and submitting focused requests under the

TSI 2026 cycle, a single TSI 2026 flagship “Technical Support for the Implementation

2

of Country-Specific Recommendations” has also been designed. The flagship suggests

concrete areas for support in each Member State by linking them to the national priorities

identified in the context of the European Semester process.

I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for our collaboration on the TSI until now

and – along with my team – look forward to working with you in making the most of the

Commission’s continued support to your reform efforts.

For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our central contact point, SG

REFORM’s Unit 01 - Legal Affairs and Coordination through its functional mailbox for

all TSI coordination matters: [email protected]

Yours sincerely,

Céline GAUER

Director General

Reform and Investment Task Force

(SG REFORM)

Electronically signed on 13/06/2025 17:34 (UTC+02) in accordance with Article 11 of Commission Decision (EU) 2021/2121