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🕘 Timeline

• September 2019: Ms. Lina Mendoni, Greek Minister of Culture and Sports, issued her decision to establish a legislative committee entrusted with the transposition of the CDSM directive.
  • Τhe President of the Law-making Committee is Prof. Dr. Irini A. Stamatoudi from the University of Nicosia (Cyprus).
  • The Committee is composed of 6 members. You can find a full list of all the stakeholders involved here (EL)
  • It should be mentioned that the Hellenic Copyright Organization issued a press release one day after the Minister's Decision was published. With this press release the HCO states that based on Article 69, Art.1 of Law 2121/1993, it is itself entrusted with law-making obligations regarding Copyright law and related topics in Greece. Thus, it considers that the establishment of this Law-making Committee constitutes a breach of HCO's tasks as provided by law.
• April 2020: The Hellenic Copyright Organization opened a public consultation as regards the transposition of the CDSM Directive. It's worth mentioning that members of the Hellenic Copyright Organisation serve as members of the Law-making Committee, as well.
• 15 May 2020: Deadline for submitting input.
  • See Homo Digitalis submission here.
• 19 June 2020: The Hellenic Copyright Organization has a meeting with Homo Digitalis to discuss Homo Digitalis' input.
• Projected time-line:
  • 30 June 2020: ****The Committee is scheduled to complete its tasks.
  • Until the end of September 2020 there are no available information as regards the completeness of the tasks of the Legislative Committee.
• 18 October - 1 November 2022: Public consultation after the release of the draft law.
• 22 November 2022: Implementation of the DSM directive passed in the Parliament, by means of changes to the copyright law.
• 24 November 2022: Law implementing the DSM Directive is published in Official Gazette and enters into force.

  • The publication in the Official Gazette:

    fek_a_218_2022.pdf

  • Law 2121/1993 on Copyright, Related Rights and Cultural Matters, updated after the implementation of the DSM Directive.

📑 National implementation overview

Greece implementation structure

🔎Key resources