Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector (Disclosure Regulation, ESG Regulation or SFDR), as well as Regulation (EU) 2020/852 on the facilitation of sustainable investment (Taxonomy Regulation), form part of Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, linking Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors to financing and investment activities. See below a brief...Read More

Τhe Directive on Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs ΙΙ) regulates a private, voluntary and collective pension scheme, which supplements the state pensions. In September 2015, the Commission presented the fundamental guidelines for a new private and individual pension product, which is the standard Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP). Four years later, on 14.8.2019, the...Read More

The Pissaridis’ Committee aims to provide a solution to the pensions’ fiery problem, by enhancing the credibility of the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs), so that the latter will be able to operate as insurance companies and be supervised on a unified European level. The Committee aims to take advantage of the popularity that...Read More

On December 9, 2019, Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability‐related disclosures in the financial services sector (“ESG Disclosure Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the EU. This Regulation was enacted as part of the European Commission’s Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth and it shall take effect on March 10, 2021. The purpose of...Read More

Ms Alkistis Christofilou, partner with Rokas Law Firm, had the honor to participate in the top conference in the fields of health sciences and health services research, with a remarkable impact on the country’s health policies, taking place online, on 7-10 December 2020. The focus of the 2020 Panhellenic Congress is on “Public Health &...Read More

Rokas Partners Mira Todorovic Symeonides and Dr. Charalampos (Harris) Synodinos have contributed, for a third consecutive year, to the Energy Investment Risk Assessment (EIRA) Report/Greece Chapter – a publication by the Energy Charter Secretariat . The main objective of the Energy Investment Risk Assessment (EIRA) is to evaluate legal risk in the energy sector and...Read More

In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, we [exceptionally] publish in our site newsbriefs in Greek concerning the established emergency measures by the Greek State in national level as well as a brief outlook of its impact on the insurance law perspective. A brief summary in English will follow.Read More

A global pharmaceutical company established in Greece for over half a century and Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH) for, among many, a medicinal product which was registered with the so-called “positive list” of prescription medicines, had applied for the removal of the specific drug from the “positive list”. The reason was that with the lapse of...Read More

Rokas Partners Mira Todorovic Symeonides and Dr. Charalampos (Harris) Synodinos have contributed, for a second consecutive year, to the Energy Investment Risk Assessment (EIRA) Report/Greece Chapter – a publication by the Energy Charter Secretariat. The main objective of the Energy Investment Risk Assessment (EIRA) is to evaluate legal risk in the energy sector and includes...Read More

The 2nd conference of the Serbian Energy Law Association (UPES), titled “Novelties in the Legal Framework and Effects of Energy Law Implementation”, was held on 4.12.2019 at the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Belgrade – Serbia, and Ms Mira Todorovic Symeonides – Rokas (Athens) Partner as well as Mr Vuk Stankovic – Rokas...Read More