Completion of an eight-day public consultation process on legislation on changes in EP formally paves the way for the introduction of the bill in parliament for discussion, processing and voting. existing information they state that it is a matter of the next 24 hours for the filing of this application and its immediate presentation at the meetings of the competent parliamentary committees.

According to the same information, the goal is for the national delegation to vote for him in the next two weeks and in any case before the state budget procedure, which will “open” at the plenary session on 13 December.

Theoretically, in the period from yesterday until filing in parliamentthe government will consider a total of 140 comments made during the public comment (the most important of which were made by ADAE, as well as members of the board of directors of the Association of Judges and Prosecutors) and possibly all proposals made the day before yesterday on this subject by the president of PASOK, in order to make changes to the original plan.

The path to the destruction of EYP files is also open – on the contrary, any proposals to reduce the three-year period for informing the controlled will not be accepted.

According with information from “K”The government is open to discuss changes on two main issues:

the first It’s about destroying files. The opinion was publicly expressed that the destruction of documents could be made more strict and carried out after a certain institutional procedure, during which a protocol would be drawn up in advance.

Secondly the question of what “national security” means and what should be included in this definition was discussed. There are two schools here, one is more modern and the other is traditional. The second insists on a conservative approach to national security when it comes to borders, foreign agents, the military, etc.

Another approach incorporates modern methods such as hybrid warfare, illegal software hacking, and general cyber security issues into “national security” issues. According to government sources, these two critical issues could be amended in relation to the draft in order for the final bill to gain – if possible – widespread acceptance.

The same sources categorically reject a possible change in the timing of informing the controlled person, which is currently projected in three years, and the opposition asks for this to be done immediately. The counterargument to the opposition’s argument is that an agent acting at home on behalf of foreign powers cannot have direct information about the reason for surveillance, since the role of the intelligence services themselves is reduced.