Abstract The EU is expediting environmental permitting for strategic projects to accelerate their deployment. To this end, it has adopted several legal acts to streamline permit‐granting procedures. This article analyses how these streamlining measures function by applying the conceptual framework of streamlining strategies. It argues that the streamlining measures in EU law rely on three main strategies: setting binding permitting timelines, centralising leadership and decision‐making, and reducing the scope of permit‐granting procedures. While these strategies can expedite permitting, the article contends that they also pose challenges that may hamper procedures' capacity to achieve their statutory objectives. However, by surveying EU acts, the article demonstrates that streamlining measures can be designed to mitigate the associated challenges. Through this analysis, the article further develops streamlining strategies as a conceptual tool to guide the design of effective permitting reforms and inform the academic debate surrounding them.
Markus Sairanen (Mon,) studied this question.
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