Three bills in one filed on parliament V Ministry of the Environment, even adding new pre-election services. Legalization of illegal settlements in Provalynthos and Ampeloupolis in Mati“photographic” possibility of exempting investments from the obligation for a certain number of parking spaces, new deviations from urban planning legislation in Greek and an ambiguous setting, through which it is possible unilateral change of horizontal ownership if there are abuses in relation to common areas or property of another owner without the consent of other owners.

The bill introduced last Wednesday combined three texts: the draft law on renaming the Energy Regulatory Authority into the Waste, Energy and Water Regulatory Authority, the bill “Modernization of legislation on the use and production of electricity from renewable sources by integrating EU directives 2018/2001 and 2019 /944” and the recent multiple bill “Special Provisions for Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection”.

In fact, 18 more articles have been added to the multi-draft law, although more are expected. Among them:

• The settlements of squatters in Provalinthos and Ampeloupolis in Mati are excluded from the forest legislation. Two settlements were not legalized during the preparation of a special town-planning plan, which caused protests (and appeals to the Council of Ministers) from associations of their residents. According to the explanatory note, “the long-standing problem of disputes about subordination to forest legislation has been resolved by law.”

Discussion of the bill with 263 articles began yesterday in the Committee on Production and Trade of the Parliament.

• The “photographic” regulation removes the obligation to create a certain number of parking spaces in buildings if they are located within a radius of 500 meters from a train, tram or metro station. The regulation is applied within the framework of general urban planning, as well as in special urban planning regulations that are adopted in the interests of specific investments (special urban planning plans, spatial development plans for state or private real estate).

• In the case of a horizontal property that has been illegally increased in height or width, occupying a common or joint area (for example, in the common areas of an apartment building) or a horizontal property of another owner (for example, an adjacent apartment), this illegal can be legalized without the consent of the victim owner – owners. This possibility is valid only if illegality exists on the part of the construction of the building. In the same way, the owners of horizontal property, which are subject to such a distinction, have the right to jointly execute a notarial deed to unilaterally change the deed of registration of horizontal property in order to combine or mutually distribute the area. in question without affecting the existing total joint ownership of the site and the sharing of common costs.

• With another series of amendments to specific legislation that has been made for investments in Elliniko allowing the creation of pavement car parks, approval of traffic studies is being transferred to the Ministry of Infrastructure (from the region) and others.

Discussion of the bill yesterday began in the Committee on Production and Trade of the Parliament.