GREECE Law and Practice Contributed by: Dimitris Babiniotis, Danae Papadatou and Emmanouil Mavrantonakis, Zepos & Yannopoulos
4220/1961 (see 4.1 Legal Issues Concerning Enforcement of Arbitral Awards ); • the 1965 Convention on the Settlement of Invest - ment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States (the “ICSID Convention”), entered into force on 14 October 1966 and ratified in Greece by Compulsory Law 680/1968 – Articles 53–55 are the relevant articles; and • the UNCITRAL Model Law of 30 May 1997 on Cross-Border Insolvency, adopted into Greek law by Law 3858/2010 (Adaptation of Greek Law to the 1997 UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency) and other provisions – Articles 15–24 are the relevant articles. Bilateral Agreements To date, Greece has ratified the following bilateral judi - cial assistance agreements in civil matters, which are currently in force: • Greek–Albanian Agreement of 17 May 1993 (Arti - cles 23–30); • Greek–Armenian Agreement of 21 November 2000 (Articles 17–23); • Greek–Bulgarian Agreement of 10 April 1976 (Arti - cles 27–33); • Greek–German Agreement of 4 November 1961; • Greek–Georgian Agreement of 10 May 1999 (Arti - cles 21–29); • Greek–Yugoslav Agreement of 18 June 1959; • Greek–Chinese Agreement of 17 October 1994 (Articles 20–27); • Greek–Cypriot Agreement of 5 March 1984 (Arti - cles 21–28); • Greek–Lebanese Agreement of 5 April 1975 (Arti - cles 3–11); • Greek–Hungarian Agreement of 8 October 1979 (Articles 24–31); • Greek–Ukrainian Agreement of 2 July 2002 (Articles 20–25); • Greek–Polish Agreement of 24 October 1979 (Arti - cles 21–31); • Greek–Romanian Agreement of 19 October 1972 (Articles 21–28); • Greek–Soviet Agreement of 21 May 1981 (Articles 23–34); • Greek–Syrian Agreement of 2 June 1981 (Articles 21–29);
• the Convention of 2 October 1973 on the Recogni - tion and Enforcement of Decisions relating to Main - tenance Obligations, ratified by Law 3171/2003 and in force in Greece since 1 February 2004 – relevant articles are Articles 19–33; • the Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Inter - country Adoption, ratified by Law 3765/2009 and in force in Greece since 1 January 2010 – relevant articles are Articles 23–27 and Article 2, paragraph 6, which records the conditions for recognising foreign adoptions; • the Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-Operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children, rati - fied by Law 4020/2011 and in force in Greece since 1 June 2012 – relevant articles are Articles 23–28; • the Convention of 30 June 2005 on Choice of Court Agreements, signed by the EU on 1 April 2009 and in force since 1 October 2015 – relevant articles are Articles 8–15; • the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults – relevant articles are Articles 22–27; • the Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, signed by the EU on 6 April 2011 and in force since 1 August 2014 – relevant articles are Articles 19–35; and • the 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, adopted by the Council of the EU on 12 July 2022 (except for Denmark) and in force in Greece since 1 September 2023. United Nations This third category includes the following conventions and model laws: • the Geneva Convention of 19 May 1956 on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), ratified by Law 559/1977 – the relevant article is Article 31, which prevails over Regulation 44/2001; • the 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the “New York Convention”), ratified by Legislative Decree
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