New environmental provisions introduced with Energy Law (Article by Dr Maria Ioannou,  Senior Associate  published in the Energy & Natural Resources Newsletter of the ILO on March 7, 2022) Law 4843/2021 was enacted in October 2021.(1) The new law contains mainly energy-related provisions – for example, on the transposition into national law of the EU...Read More

RAE decision on amendments to electricity grid codes (Article by Andriani Kantilieraki, Associate published in the Energy & Natural Resources Newsletter of the ILO on Feb 28, 2022) On 27 October 2021, the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) issued decision No. 807/2021(1) on the amendment of: the Greek Electricity Transmission System Operation (TSO) Code; and...Read More

Transposition of EU Energy Efficiency Directive in Greece (Article by Dr Maria Ioannou, Senior Associate and Sofia Getimi, Associate published in the Energy & Natural Resources Newsletter of the ILO on Feb 28, 2022) On 20 October 2021, Law No. 4843/2021 was published in the Official Gazette. Among other things, the law: transposed Directive (EU)...Read More

Αcknowledgement for Aleksandar Mladenovic by the World Bank Group Athens, February 2022 — Aleksandar Mladenovic our Attorney at Law in Serbia, (Mladenovic & Stankovic in cooperation with Rokas), has been acknowledged for his 10year contribution in preparing Doing Business Reports, edited and published under World Bank auspices. The World Bank Group is one of the...Read More

Energy News – 73rd Issue-Conditional permission of installation of solar PV plants on forested land EU and EnCOil&GasFramework to Decarbonise Gas Markets, Promote Hydrogen and Reduce Methane EmissionsInfrastructureEU: Proposal for a New Regulation on Guidelines for Trans–European Energy InfrastructureENTSO–E & EU DSO Proposal for the first Network Code on CybersecurityState AidGuidelines on State aid for...Read More

RAE decision on electricity supplier advertising practice On 9 September 2021, the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE) issued decision No. 675/2021, which rejected an electricity supplier’s application for the revision of and amendments to RAE letter No. O-87645/14 May 2021. The letter in question was addressed to all electricity suppliers in Greece and concerned certain...Read More

Important Greek projects of common European interest relating to hydrogen (Article by Andriani Kantilieraki,  Associate, published in the Energy & Natural Resources Newsletter of the ILO on Feb 21, 2022) On 6 September 2021, the Ministry of Environment and Energy issued a press release on the approval by the Ministers of Environment and Development of...Read More

New Greek state aid scheme for electricity RES production approved (Article by Mira Todorovic Symeonides, Partner and Konstantinos Ntallas, Associate, published in the Energy & Natural Resources Newsletter of the ILO on Feb 14, 2022) On 24 November 2021, under EU state aid rules, the European Commission (the Commission) gave the green light to a...Read More

Ανακοινώνουμε ότι εγκρίθηκε η ανανέωση για το 2022 των δύο Σεμιναρίων Επανεκπαίδευσης για τη Διανομή Ασφαλιστικών Προϊόντων, ΑΚΤΙΝΑ Ι και ΑΚΤΙΝΑ ΙΙ (ΠΕΕ 200/2/25.01.2022) Η Ρόκας Δικηγορική Εταιρία προσφέρει δύο καινοτόμα Σεμινάρια Επανεκπαίδευσης για τη δραστηριότητα διανομής (αντ)ασφαλιστικών προϊόντων με τη μορφή e-learning, σε συνεργασία με την εταιρία Compact A.E. η οποία εξειδικεύεται στην ηλεκτρονική...Read More

Country update – Serbia: Securities & Banking (Annual contribution by Aleksandar Mladenovic, Attorney at Law in Serbia (Mladenovic & Stankovic in cooperation with Rokas), published in Thomson Reuters, Regulatory Intelligence, Country update – Serbia: Securities & Banking, February 2022) Securities — regulators Securities Commission Primary regulator in the area of securities is the Securities Commission,...Read More