While the transport sector, administrative and legal proceedings have been at the core of legislative accelerations in environmental and planning law for decades, the German legislator has now changed its approach. Starting with the “Osterpaket” mid 2022, new standards have been set in various fields of substantive law, be it EIA procedures, species protection law or public planning law. The incentive is as simple as that: No acceleration of planning and permit procedures, no energy transition.