Stamatis Drakakakis, head of Antitrust & Competition, will participate at the panel discussion “Key Antitrust Developments from the Practitioners’ Perspective” at the 8th International Competition Law & Policy Conference.The conference, organised by NOMIKI BIBLIOTHIKI on 17-18 October, will welcome industry experts and academics from Greece and abroad, to consider key issues in EU antitrust laws and enforcement.For more information: bit.ly/3Np72MV ...

Key legislative developments on e-delivery documents and real-time tracking of goods’ shipment are outlined in this issue. These have been introduced by virtue of Ministerial Decisions A. 1122/2024 and A.1123/2024 published recently, the former setting the general framework, timeline and phases of implementation and the latter setting the content, format and technical specifications of transmissions of the e-delivery documents and digital monitoring of goods through the IAPR’s myDATA platform.Click here for the GR version – Πατήστε εδώ για το ελληνικό κείμενοKey points of Decision A. 1122/2024Businesses subject to Greek Accounting Standards’ provisions are under the obligation to issue digitally documents for the delivery or receipt of goods and transmit relevant data to myDATA digital pla...

The Lex Mundi Bank Finance and Regulation Practice Group meeting that we hosted at our offices last week, brought together lawyers from around the world to discuss key jurisdictional and pan-European developments and share valuable insights. We were honored to welcome Christos Gortsos, Professor of Public Economic Law of the National Kapodistrian University and President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute and Vassiliki Lazarakou, Chair of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission and member of the IOSCO and ESMA Management Board.Professor Gortsos provided an in-depth overview of the legal aspects of the forthcoming Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the euro area covering issues ranging from the type of digital currency (wholesale vs retail) and the DLT technology us...

Earlier this year, the Hellenic Parliament enacted Law 5094/2024, which paved the way for the introduction of non-State universities in the Greek education market and established a framework intended to address the peculiarities pertinent to their organisation and operation. Joint Ministerial Decisions no. 7363/2024 and 7341/2024, most recently published in Government Gazette 5460/B/01.10.2024, are the latest, long-awaited, concrete step towards the licensing of non-State universities.What’s new?Joint Ministerial Decision no. 7363/2024 sets forth the procedural details in relation to the guarantees required for the installation and operation permits. Besides the guarantee amounts, which had already been quantified in Law 5094/2024, it specifies eligible issuing institutions, the guarantees...