The German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) has „launched a rocket,“ said Robert Habeck at the handover of the first climate protection contracts on Tuesday. He said that from the start of the bidding process in March through the application phase to the issuing of the funding decisions, the BMWK took just seven months. This meant that his department had achieved the necessary pace for the transformation of the medium-sized industrial companies for which the funding was intended.