Needless paperwork to be abolished

As part of the government's stated commitment to crack down on needless and time-consuming bureaucracy, the Digital Governance Ministry plans to gradually abolish the endless number of certificates required in the transactions between citizens and both the private and public sectors with the introduction of the relevant legislation in the coming months. 

Currently, any transaction with municipal authorities and the private sector requires an endless list of certificates, including birth, marital status, place of residence and so on.

Tellingly, in the last four years, through Gov.gr and the Citizen Service Centers (KEP), more than 8.6 million family status certificates and more than 2 million birth certificates have been issued, not even counting those issued by the municipalities themselves. The reality is that the rapid digitization of recent years was necessary, but...