The Recovery and Resilience Plan is the “most ambitious program the European Union has ever conceived of planning and implementing,” Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis said on Thursday, expressing satisfaction with the progress in its implementation and the loans envisioned under RepowerEU.

The minister was speaking at a conference organized by the Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) in Athens on the implementation of the plan in Greece.

Regarding the green transition, Skylakakis revealed that a draft bill for freeing up space on the electricity grid and the installation of batteries will be unveiled soon, as well as a framework for cuts in energy supplied to the network by renewables.

Skylakakis said the prospects of establishing environmental equivalents are being examined, stressing that this will be a reform to be presented in the coming months that will facilitate the implementation of investments.

He noted that the time of the implementation of investments has an economic dimension and efficiency is a key concept in the reforms that must be carried out in Greece and the EU, as delays were the biggest problem of the European economy in general.

The minister stressed that Greece has completed the reforms included in the Recovery and Resilience program and is now proceeding with new ones while stressing that the hardest part of the program was still to come.

He said this involved the implementation of the investments that had been planned and several other issues, such as delays due to legal action.