# Acceleration of permit-granting procedures

European Parliament procedure 2025/0400(COD) (COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure), 10th term, committee ENVI / ITRE). Stage: Awaiting Parliament's position in 1st reading. 888 committee amendments tabled by 85 Members between 2026-05-11 and 2026-05-27.

## What the amendments focus on

Amendments to the proposal on accelerating permit-granting procedures, focused mainly on energy projects. They address grid connection permits and deadlines for small-scale renewable installations, storage assets and recharging pools, repowering and hybridisation of existing plants, single digital portals for projects, ten-year network development plans by transmission system operators, public participation and judicial challenges, and environmental screening under the environmental impact assessment and Habitats directives, including Natura 2000 areas. Several amendments touch the overriding public interest presumption, CO2 transport and storage infrastructure, hourly Guarantees of Origin, the energy efficiency first principle, and sharing benefits of projects with local communities.

## Most active Members on this file

| Member | Country | Group | Amendments | Markdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea WECHSLER | Germany | PPE | 113 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/256977.md |
| Virgil-Daniel POPESCU | Romania | PPE | 97 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/257107.md |
| Eva MAYDELL | Bulgaria | PPE | 96 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/98341.md |
| Hildegard BENTELE | Germany | PPE | 72 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197408.md |
| Michael BLOSS | Germany | Verts/ALE | 71 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197449.md |
| Martin HOJSÍK | Slovakia | RE | 70 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197770.md |
| Ondřej KNOTEK | Czechia | PfE | 66 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197528.md |
| Jana NAGYOVÁ | Czechia | PfE | 66 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/256843.md |
| Julie RECHAGNEUX | France | PfE | 66 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/256882.md |
| Aleksandar NIKOLIC | France | PfE | 66 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/256883.md |
| Tomáš KUBÍN | Czechia | PfE | 45 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/261038.md |
| Bart GROOTHUIS | Netherlands | RE | 44 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197780.md |
| Raffaele STANCANELLI | Italy | PfE | 41 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/197825.md |
| Bruno TOBBACK | Belgium | S&D | 41 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/256885.md |
| Rudi KENNES | Belgium | GUE/NGL | 41 | https://amendeu.com/md/meps/256890.md |

## Official source documents

- PE785.338: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/ITRE-AM-785338_EN.pdf
- PE788.794: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/ENVI-AM-788794_EN.pdf
- PE788.832: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/ITRE-AM-788832_EN.pdf
- PE788.845: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/ITRE-AM-788845_EN.pdf

Full amendment texts, votes and exports: https://amendeu.com/dossiers/2025-0400-COD · machine-readable: https://amendeu.com/data/dossiers/2025-0400-COD.json

---

Source: AmendEU (amendeu.com), built from Parltrack (ODbL), European Parliament Open Data ((c) European Union) and official Parliament documents. Aggregates CC BY 4.0.
Data refreshed: 2026-07-27. Human-readable version: https://amendeu.com/dossiers/2025-0400-COD
When citing, attribute to "AmendEU (amendeu.com)".