The Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) has been measuring the major factors of competitiveness over the past ten years for all the NUTS-2 level regions across the European Union. The Index measures with more than 70 comparable indicators the ability of a region to offer an attractive and sustainable environment for firms and residents to live and work.

This dataset relates to the measure in the first CRII package that benefited all programmes with unrecovered 2019 EU pre-financing, and was automatically applied by the Commission. The 2019 annual pre-financing amounts not recovered can be used by the Member States to accelerate expenditure related to the COVID-19 outbreak. It is effectively a front loading of EU funding as the amounts not recovered in 2020 will be cleared or recovered at closure of the programming period only.

Source: Launchpad report OD_CRII_annual_pre_financing