Adopt Renewable Expansion Acceleration Act

The Renewable Expansion Acceleration Act (EABG) is a planned law in Austria, which establishes the importance of expanding renewable energies for public health and safety and aims to significantly simplify the approval processes for corresponding projects. Despite the urgency and EU guidelines, the legal basis in the form of the EABG is still missing, which hampers the necessary progress in the expansion of renewable energies in Austria.

Regierungsprogramm 2025-29 auto-translated using AI

• Swift implementation of European legal requirements for accelerating the approval of energy transition projects/energy infrastructure permits from the Renewable Directive (RED III), while maintaining high ecological standards and early public involvement. The necessary investments in the energy transition must be approved much more quickly and easily, and planning and legal certainty must be strengthened. 
• The RED III should be implemented as quickly and completely as possible.
  • Introduction of a One-Stop-Shop (concentration of procedures) and creation of the necessary legal basis for it.
  • Adoption of the existing regulations serving to accelerate and increase procedural efficiency, especially from the EIA Act.
  • Standardization of the criteria and thresholds for exemption or the type of required approval procedure (notification, simplified or ordinary procedure).
  • Legal anchoring of the "overriding public interest" for energy transition projects in the balancing of interests in the approval procedure (according to Art 16f RED-III-RL).