GREECE Law and Practice Contributed by: Dimitris Babiniotis, Danae Papadatou and Emmanouil Mavrantonakis, Zepos & Yannopoulos
precedence over all other legislative frameworks, fol - lowed by international treaties (bilateral and multilat - eral), and lastly the domestic framework of the GrCCP. EU Law The main EU regulations that regulate enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters within the EU are: • Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (“Brussels I Recast”), replacing Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 – Articles 36–60 (Articles 32–58 of Regulation (EC) 44/2001) are of interest; • Regulation (EC) No 805/2004 creating a European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims; • Regulation (EC) No 861/2007 establishing a Euro - pean Small Claims Procedure – Articles 20–23 are of interest; • Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006 creating a European order for payment procedure; • Regulation (EU) No 655/2014 establishing a Euro - pean Account Preservation Order procedure to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters; • Regulation (EU) 2015/848 on insolvency pro - ceedings (recast), replacing Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 – Articles 19–33 (formerly Articles 16–26) are of interest; • Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 on jurisdiction, appli - cable law, recognition, and enforcement of deci - sions and acceptance and enforcement of authen - tic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession – Articles 39–61 are of interest; • Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 on jurisdiction, recognition, and enforcement of decisions in matri - monial matters and matters of parental responsibil - ity, and on international child abduction, replacing Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 – Articles 30–75 (Articles 21–52 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003) are of interest; • Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition, and enforcement of decisions and co-operation in matters relating to maintenance obligations – Articles 16–38 are of interest; and
• Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1103 implementing enhanced co-operation in the area of jurisdic - tion, applicable law, recognition, and enforcement of decisions in matters of matrimonial property regimes, and Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1104 implementing enhanced co-operation in the area of jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition, and enforcement of decisions in matters of the property consequences of registered partnerships. For the enforcement of judgments issued in other EU member states under the above-mentioned instru- ments, no declaration of enforceability (“exequatur”) is required. Multilateral Treaties Greece has acceded to a series of multilateral inter - national conventions, which have either exclusively focused on – or included within them – the issues of recognition and enforcement. Two Lugano Conventions The first category includes the two Lugano Conven - tions on jurisdiction, recognition, and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. • The first Lugano Convention was signed on 16 September 1988, ratified in Greece by Law 2460/1997, and came into force on 1 September 1997. It linked the EU member states with those of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). Articles 25–51 are the relevant articles. • The second was signed on 30 October 2007, rati - fied by the EU on 18 May 2009, and came into force for all its member states on 1 January 2010. Norway has applied the new convention since 1 January 2010, Switzerland since 1 January 2011, and Iceland since 1 March 2011. Articles 32–58 are the relevant articles. Article 69, paragraph 6 of the new convention provided for the abolition of the first Lugano Convention. Thus, after the expansion of the EU, the new convention now pertains to the relationships of EU member states with three coun - tries: Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland. Hague Conference on Private International Law This second category includes the following instru - ments:
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