While the acquisition of real estate in Greece requires the one-time payment of tax for the acquisition of such property, whether due to a sale and purchase agreement, or due to an agreement on donation, or due to a deed of acknowledgment of inheritance, the right to real estate (right in rem) gives rise to taxation on this property. Rights in...

Recent Regulation (EU) 2018/3021 addresses unjustified online sales discrimination based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market. It applies to all traders2, including online marketplaces, operating within the Union, in connection to transactions relating to the sales of goods or the provision of services within the Union. In particular, some customers are not able...

History of the Regulation of Games of Chance in Greece Games of chance, in which the participants wager a stake with valuables or money is not an activity that appeared in recent times. They were very common in ancient societies. Historians situate their origin in the third millennium BC in the Far East and Egypt. Such games were common in ancient...

The constitutional context and the right to data protection The Greek Constitution, adopted in 1975 quite after the fall of military dictatorship, recognized explicitly the rights of privacy (Article 9) and secrecy of communications (Article 19). Article 9 guarantees both the asylum of home and inviolability of private and family life. Both theorists and the jurisprudence regarded Article 9 in combination...

The main piece of legislation in Greece on Consumer Protection is the Law 2251/1994, which in large part implements European Union rules into the Greek legal order on a wide area of issues; general terms of contracts, regulations for liability of producers for defective products, unfair commercial practices, class actions to name a few. Nevertheless, the Law 2251/1994 is not...