Council of State

The Plenary Session of the Council of State (CoS) has ruled key provisions of the New Building Regulation unconstitutional, effectively “freezing” a significant segment of the construction market that was planned for the future, particularly in the northern and southern suburbs of Attica.

Last summer, freelance professionals took a first step toward challenging the Greek state over the new presumed income system by filing appeals with the Dispute Resolution Directorate (DED), citing constitutional objections to the procedure. However, these appeals were inevitably rejected, as DED is not empowered to assess the constitutionality of laws.

According to the plenary session of the Council of State, the work of the unilateral composition of the Appeals Committees of the General Secretariat for Immigration Policy cannot be assigned to judicial officials.

In a prestigious ceremony, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, former caretaker Prime Minister, ex-Deputy Prime Minister, and former President of the Council of State, will be honored as an Honorary Doctor of the Faculty of Law at the University of Athens.

Justice Minister Georgios Florides addressed the legislative initiatives set to be implemented by 2025 during the celebration of the Day of Justice (Dionysios Areopagitis) at the Old Parliament building. Concurrently, a group of lawyers staged a protest against the shortcomings of the ‘new’ judicial charter outside the venue.

The Administrative Court of Appeal of Piraeus has issued the country's first final decision for revoking a building permit that made use of the height bonus in the new Building Regulation, without referring to the Council of State.

The Council of State has ruled as legal the draft Presidential Decree merging two existing housing regulations: one that sets the criteria for demarcation and building conditions in settlements outside the urban plan before 1923, and another that governs building conditions and restrictions for settlements with up to 2,000 inhabitants across the country.

The members of Türkiye's highest administrative court, the Council of State, have reelected the incumbent president, Zeki Yiğit, for a new four-year term with 62 votes.

Yiğit, whose term of office that began in May 2020 was due to expire, competed against three other candidates in the elections held on April 24.

Thirteen collective requests for the annulment of the presidential decree concerning urban planning in the 2018 fire-affected regions of Eastern Attica, such as Mati, Rafina and Marathonas are being deliberated by the Council of State. 

The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou attended on Monday the opening of the "Judicial Renaissance" seminar at the University of Athens, which is co-organized by the Council of State, the School of Law of the University of Athens, and the National Judicial College of the USA.