Organisation of the permit-granting procedure

1. The project promoter shall notify the project to the designated authority or, where appropriate, to the joint authority established in accordance with Article 7(2). The notification of the project by the project promoter, shall serve as the start of the permit-granting procedure.

2. In order to facilitate the assessment of the maturity of the project, Member States may define the level of detail of information and the relevant documents to be provided by the project promoter when notifying a project. If the project is not mature, the notification shall be rejected by a duly justified decision not later than four months after the receipt of the notification.

3. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that project promoters receive general information as a guide to notification, adapted, where relevant, to the mode of transport concerned, containing information about the permits, decisions and opinions that may be required for the implementation of a project.

That information shall, for each permit, decision or opinion, include the following:

general information about the material scope and the level of detail of the information to be submitted by the project promoter;

applicable time-limits or, if there are no such time-limits, indicative time-limits; and

details of the authorities and stakeholders normally involved in consultations linked to the different permits, decisions and opinions.

That information shall be easily accessible to all relevant project promoters, in particular through electronic or physical information portals.

4. In order to facilitate successful notification, Member States may require the designated authority to establish, upon request by the project promoter, a detailed application outline comprising the following information customised for the individual project:

the individual stages of the procedure and applicable time-limits or, if there are no such time-limits, indicative time-limits;

the material scope and the level of detail of the information to be submitted by the project promoter;

a list of permits, decisions and opinions to be obtained by the project promoter during the permit-granting procedure, in accordance with Union and national law;

the details of the authorities and stakeholders to be involved in connection with the respective obligations, including during the formal phase of the public consultation.

5. The detailed application outline shall remain valid during the permit-granting procedure. Any amendment to the detailed application outline shall be duly justified.

6. The designated authority may provide the project promoter, on request, with the information supplementing the elements referred to in paragraph 4.

7. When the project promoter has submitted the complete project application file, the authorising decision shall be adopted within the time-limit referred to in Article 5(1).

8. Authorities involved in the permit-granting procedure shall notify the designated authority that the required permits, decisions, opinions, or the authorising decision, have been issued.

DIRECTIVE (EU) 2021/1187 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 7 July 2021 on streamlining measures for advancing the realisation of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) ANNEX