Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility

Data de publicació electrònica: 16-02-2026

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Autores: Miró Artigas, Joan, Fernández-Pasarín, Ana Mar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10230/72877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2026.2629925
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Palabra clave:Contractual governance
Recovery and resilience facility
Performance budgeting
European semester
Conditionality
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spelling Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facilityMiró Artigas, JoanFernández-Pasarín, Ana MarContractual governanceRecovery and resilience facilityPerformance budgetingEuropean semesterConditionalityData de publicació electrònica: 16-02-2026This article examines the flexibility of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It asks under what conditions modifications to the original National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) have been accepted by the European Commission and the Council. In theoretical terms, the article revisits the nature of NRRPs as tools of EU economic governance. By drawing on applications of contracting theory to multi-level governance, it argues that NRRPs are best understood as contracts establishing mutual duties and enforcement mechanisms between the different layers of the EU polity. As with any contract, NRRPs face a trade-off between abiding to the original commitments versus being adaptable to implementation contingencies and exogenous shocks. The article studies how the RRF's performance-based financing system has navigated this trade-off in practice. Based on a dataset that includes all revisions introduced in the 27 NRRPs between 2021 and 2024, the article shows a degree of designed flexibility due to `objective circumstances' based on Article 21(1) of the RRF Regulation. Yet, the qualitative analysis of these changes unveils a broad interpretation of the latter, which opens the door also to `emergent flexibility'. Ultimately, contractual governance is a guiding normative aspiration rather than a legal reality.Taylor & Francis2026202620262026info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10230/72877http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2026.2629925https://hdl.handle.net/10230/72877reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésJournal of European Public Policy. 2026 Feb 16© 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/728772026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility
title Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility
spellingShingle Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility
Miró Artigas, Joan
Contractual governance
Recovery and resilience facility
Performance budgeting
European semester
Conditionality
title_short Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility
title_full Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility
title_fullStr Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility
title_full_unstemmed Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility
title_sort Negotiated and negotiable? Contractual governance and the flexibility of the EU's recovery and resilience facility
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Miró Artigas, Joan
Fernández-Pasarín, Ana Mar
author Miró Artigas, Joan
author_facet Miró Artigas, Joan
Fernández-Pasarín, Ana Mar
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author2 Fernández-Pasarín, Ana Mar
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Contractual governance
Recovery and resilience facility
Performance budgeting
European semester
Conditionality
topic Contractual governance
Recovery and resilience facility
Performance budgeting
European semester
Conditionality
description Data de publicació electrònica: 16-02-2026
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