Law 2830/2000

Code of Notaries.
With the latest changes from Law 5023/2023
 Copying, republishing, transmitting, retransmitting, reproducing, uploading, reuploading, distributing, publishing,
selling, renting, translating, modifying or adapting this content, which is the intellectual property of Big Data Analysis
Center, is prohibited without written permission.

MINISTRY LAW NO. 2830 GAZETTE A'96/16.3.2000

Code of Notaries.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE GREEK REPUBLIC

We issue the following law passed by Parliament:

Article one

Sanctioned as a Code, in accordance with article 76 par. 6 of the Constitution and article 16 par. 15 of
Law 2298/95, the following draft law, which has been drawn up by a law-making committee established
by 75119/1995, 35442/1996 , 176637/1998 and 165079/1999 decisions of the Minister of Justice.

CODE OF CONDUCTORS

FIRST PART
ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION OF TICKET OFFICES
CHAPTER ONE
ORGANIZATIONAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Duties of notaries.

1.The Notary Public is an unpaid civil servant with duties:

a. To draw up and keep documents that are components or evidence of legal acts and declarations of the
interested parties when the drawing up of these documents is mandatory according to the law or when the
interested parties wish to give them the status of a public document.

b. To issue transcripts or copies of the documents of subsection a`, as well as copies of the documents
attached and referred to them.

c. To consider private documents to obtain a certain date. For this visa, a relevant notarial deed is drawn
up.

d. To certify the authenticity of the signature placed in front of him on every document related to the
concluded deed.

e. To perform any other act assigned to him by law. He may also act in any other act related to the
exercise of his work.

2. The notary can translate into Greek at his own responsibility documents drawn up in a foreign
language which are presented to him and are useful for the preparation of one of the mentioned acts,
considering them for the realization of the translation and for their accuracy.
 Article 2
Headquarters of Notaries.

1.At the seat of each magistrate's court, at least one position of notary public is recommended by
presidential decree.

2. If the seat of the magistrate's court is changed, the seat of the Notary does not change, but any existing
position of Notary remains from now on at the seat of the abolished magistrate's court. From the
implementation of the provisions of p.d. 110/2012 (A' 193) the existing positions of the Notaries at the
headquarters or in the regions of the merged Magistrates' Courts, the headquarters and the local
jurisdiction are not affected.

Note.: as amended by par.1 of article 5 of Law 3258/2004 (A΄ 144) and article 11 par.1 of Law
3472/2006, Gazette A 135/4.7.2006 amended again by par.1 of art. 40 Law 4111/2013, Gazette A
18/25.1.2013 (corrected error. Gazette A 33/7.2.2013). Effective from 05.12.2103.

3. If there are two or more notary posts at the seat of the magistrate's court, another municipality or
community of the same magistrate's district can be designated as the seat of one or more of these
positions, only if this serves the interests of the parties involved.

The seat so designated may further be transferred to another municipality or community of the same
magistrate's district or to the seat of the magistrate's court.

4. The change of seat of a notary in accordance with the previous paragraph is made by a presidential
decree issued following a proposal by the Minister of Justice, after an opinion of the plenary session of
the relevant court of first instance, which is decided after an opinion of the relevant Notarial Association.
The transfer of a notary public to the new seat, due to the change of the seat, is made by a decision of the
Minister of Justice, which is issued after the opinion of the competent service council of the Ministry of
Justice and after the request of the notaries concerned.

Article 3
Replacement

1. The notary public who is absent or prevented from performing his duties shall be replaced by another
notary public of the same seat, designated by the president of the Council or the judge presiding over the
court of first instance, with or without the indication of the person requesting the replacement. In the
absence of another notary at the seat of the magistrate's court, the deputy is another notary of the same or
another magistrate's district of the same court of first instance, defined according to the above, and in
their absence, the justice of the peace of the seat.

2. In the absence of a notary public, his duties are performed by persons referred to in paragraph 1 and
designated by the same procedure. In this case, the president of the Council or the judge who heads the
court of first instance is charged ex officio.

3. A justice of the peace acting as a notary public has the obligations and rights of a notary public.

4.The notary's deputy can receive up to half of the royalties, in which case he gives the rest to the deputy.

Note:as amended by par. 1 of article 30 of Law 4509/2017

 5.In case of temporary suspension of the notary due to a disciplinary penalty, the president of the
Council or the judge presiding over the court of first instance shall appoint ex officio a deputy of the
notary who has been temporarily suspended only for the following acts:

a) the issuance of copies of contracts and documents that are in the file of the notary that has been
terminated or in the file of another notary that he owns,

b) the execution by the testator, at his request, of a secret or idiosyncratic will, as well as the publication
of any type of will that is in the file of the notary who has ceased to exist or in a file that he owns,

c) the receipt by the beneficiary of a letter of deposit of the Fund of Deposits and Loans which is in the
file of the notary who has ceased to exist or in a file held by him and

d) the execution of the relevant acts, in the event that, based on the records of the notary who has
terminated contracts, the continuation of auctions is required, the drawing up of a ranking list and
invitation of lenders, the issuance of a summary of the valuation report, the distribution of the auction, the
issuance of inventories and each another act, which from the law or from the contracts that exist in the
file of the notary that has been terminated, it follows that it can only be done before this notary

In all the above cases the notary's rights belong entirely to the deputy.

Article 4
Jurisdiction by location.

1. The notary performs his duties throughout the district of the magistrate's court in which he is
appointed, as each time the district of the magistrate's court is defined, without prejudice to any more
specific provisions that govern the conduct of a forced or voluntary auction, in accordance with the
provisions of the current legislation.

As amended by art. 209 of Law 4512/2018 with effect on 01/17/2018.

2. As an exception to what is defined in the previous paragraphs, the notaries who are appointed in the
municipalities that are judicially subordinate to the regions of the following Magistrates' Courts: a)
Athens, b) Piraeus, c) Nice, d) Kallithea, e) Nea Ionia, f) Peristeri, g) Chalandrio, h) Amarousiou, i)
Salamina, j) Acharnon, k) Kropias, l) Elefsinos, m) Megaron, n) Marathon, o) Lavrio, except the island of
Kea, p) Neo Liosion and q) Agia Paraskevi they have the right to exercise their duties also in the other
regions of the above magistrates' courts, but only if they are asked to sign the notarial acts at the home,
shop or office of one of the franchisees or their representatives or at the hospital, if they are hospitalized,
or reservation, if they are reserved, or at the store of a bank or other financial institution or organization,
as well as when they cooperate with another notary public or are assigned to conduct an auction.

Note.: as amended by par.1 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

3. The notary has the right but also the obligation to maintain a single office in the seat where he is
appointed. Violation of this obligation constitutes a disciplinary offence.
Note.: as amended by par.1 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

Article 5
Obligations of the notary public.

1. The notary must refrain from drawing up a deed that is against the law or morals.

2. The notary performs his duties conscientiously and impartially. When drawing up notarial acts, he
must explain to the authorized agents the obligations they undertake and the rights they have from the
acts drawn up and verify that they are aware of the results of these acts.

Article 6
Warranty - Sample signature.

1.The appointed notary, before assuming his duties, must deposit a financial guarantee in the Legal Fund
and the Notary Insurance Fund in accordance with the relevant provisions.

2.The notary public, after being sworn in, must give a sample of his signature to the secretary of the
court of first instance and the public prosecutor's office, as well as to the Notarial Association of his
region.

Article 7
Obstacles.

1. The notary is prevented from drawing up deeds in the following cases:

a) When he acts as a legal representative himself or represents the legal representative or the legal
representative is his spouse or a relative of his by blood or blood relationship up to the third degree or his
step-child, subject to any other special provision. In the case of legal entities, the mentioned obstacles
apply to their representatives regardless of whether they act in person or by proxy.

b) When the deed provides a direct benefit to him or to any of the persons mentioned in the above
paragraph a.

2. In the cases of the previous paragraph, the obstructed notary is replaced as defined in article 3.

CHAPTER TWO
THE CONTRACTOR'S DOCUMENT
Article 8
Details of notarized document.

1. The notarial document must include:

a) The day, month, year and place of his signature.

b) The name and address of the notary public.

c) The full name, the name of the father and the mother, the profession, the place, the year of birth and
the residence of each of the authorized agents, representatives, witnesses and interpreters who cooperate.
For married women whose marriage took place before Law 1329/1983, the first and last name of the
husband is added.

d) The details of the document proving the identity of the franchisees.

2. The identity of the franchisees or their representatives or the representatives of the legal entities and
other persons, who cooperate, is proven by documents defined by law and in case of their absence, it is
confirmed by two witnesses, whose identity is proven by one of the documents those for which no
consanguinity barrier applies. In the event of a change or lack of identity information, except for the
name, the information is entered as stated by the franchisee.

Note.: as amended by par.2 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

3. In the case of franchisees with a representative, the identity details of paragraph 2 are written as they
are in the power of attorney document and can be completed, except for the name, with a statement from
the representative. The legalization of those appearing as representatives of franchisees, where this is
required, is proven by the documents prescribed by law.

4.The legalization documents referred to in the above paragraph are written in the notarial document and
attached to it, if they are not in the notary's file.

5. In legal transactions of legal entities, the registered office, name and type are indicated in the notarial
document, as they arise from their constitutive or amending deed.

6. The names of natural persons or names of legal persons, place names or other necessary information,
mentioned in a foreign language, must be written with elements of the Greek alphabet in the Greek
language and then in the foreign language with Latin elements.

Article 9
Partnership of a second notary or two witnesses.

1.The participation of a second notary public or two witnesses when reading and signing notarial
documents is mandatory only in case of inability to sign for any reason by someone present. The notary
can in any case require the cooperation of witnesses.

2. In the event of a partnership of notaries, they must not be spouses or relatives in accordance with the
provisions of article 7, subsection a`. The co-operating notary must also be competent locally, unless a
notary serves at the seat of the magistrate's court, in which case the co-operating notary is a notary based
in the district of that court of first instance.

In the case of partnership of a notary public, he is entitled to up to half of the rights.

3. The witnesses must know the Greek language, be over 18 years of age and be able to sign. Also, there
should not be any obstacle for them from what is mentioned in article 7 paragraph a regarding the notary
or notaries or any of the authorized agents.

Those who have dependent work from the notary or notaries are excluded as witnesses.
 4. Failure to comply with the above provisions renders the document invalid.

5. Provisions of the Civil Code that regulate differently those related to the Partnership of a second
notary or witnesses, as well as their obstacles, remain in force.

Article 10
Interpreters.

1.If any of the franchisees or their representatives does not, at the judgment of the notary, know the Greek
language, an interpreter is hired to generally translate their statements from the foreign language to Greek
and vice versa, as well as the content of the contract from Greek to foreign language. The interpreter
swears before the notary, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, that
he will perform his duties faithfully.

In the case of a language that is very little known, an interpreter of the interpreter can be hired according
to the above.

As amended by art. 20 of Law 5023/2023 with effect on 02/17/2023.

2. If one of the franchisees or their representatives is deaf or a person with a severe speech disability, but
can read and write, statements, questions and any comments are made:

a) in writing to the deaf person, who chooses to respond either orally or in writing, according to the most
convenient way of communication for him,

b) orally to the person with a severe speech disability, who responds in writing.

In these cases, the written questions and answers are attached to the contract, and before it is signed, the
contract is read by the deaf person and relevant reference is made to it.

As amended by art. 20 of Law 5023/2023 with effect on 02/17/2023.

3.If the deaf person or the person with a severe speech disability does not know how to read or write or is
unable to sign for any reason, a person who can communicate with him is hired as his interpreter.

As amended by art. 20 of Law 5023/2023 with effect on 02/17/2023.

4.According to the above, the interpreters subscribe to the relevant contract.

As amended by art. 20 of Law 5023/2023 with effect on 02/17/2023.

5.Failure to comply with the above provisions renders the document invalid.

As amended by art. 20 of Law 5023/2023 with effect on 02/17/2023.

 Article 11
Method of drawing up notarial documents.

1.The notarial document is written legibly in Greek with any graphic medium and indelible writing
material in continuity, without empty spaces, inscriptions, breaks and hyphens or the use of interstices.
Any blank spaces are filled with a line. The numbers that indicate a critical date, as well as essential
elements of the document, are also written in cursive.

2.Every erasure or erasure of one or more words or numbers is made with a relevant reference, either
following the deleted or erased words or numbers or with a reference to the margin, without erasing the
words or numbers and in both cases their number is noted and underlined .

3.Any other alteration or addition shall be made by reference in the margin or at the end of the
document, after the space reserved for signatures.

4. Before signing, the document is read to the persons who appear and agree and is signed by them and
the notary public. A report on this is made at the end. The signatures of the mentioned persons and the
notary public are placed on each sheet, below the references, as well as at the end of the document. In the
event that one of the participants declares that he is unable to sign, a relevant reference is made at the end
of the contract.

5. Whenever the space on each sheet or under the references is not sufficient for the signatures of all
persons who appear and agree, these persons designate two of them, who will sign and a relevant
reference is made at the end of the contract.

6. The original, copies and transcripts of the contracts are stamped with the notary's seal on each of his
signatures.

7. The provision of article 42 of Legislative Decree 3026/1954, as it stands, does not apply to legal
actions for the contracting party who has the status of a judicial or prosecutorial officer of any rank, the
main staff of the Legal Council of the State, a notary public or a mortgagee.

Article 12
Obligations for the custody of notarial documents.

1.The notary must keep the originals of the contracts he draws up together with the documents attached
to them.

2.In case of confiscation of an original document or a document attached to it, acting in accordance with
the applicable provisions of the Code of Criminal or Civil Procedure, the notary in whose hands the
seizure took place issues a copy, which is certified by him and by the person who notified the seizure.
The copy takes the place of the original and is kept by the notary until the original is returned to him.

Article 13
Issuance of copies.

1. The notary provides copies of the contracts or other documents in his possession to the authorized
agents, general or special successors, to any third party if the notarial document was registered in public
books or published by competent authorities or in the Government Gazette.
In any other case, a third party, who has a legal interest, can receive the above documents upon the order
of the public prosecutor.

Note.: as amended par.1 art.59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

2.A copy of a public will is not granted before its publication.

3.By a joint decision of the Ministers of Justice and Finance, following the opinion of the Coordinating
Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece, the fees collected by the notary for the copies he issues
for the use of public authorities, as well as the method of payment, are determined.

Article 14
Index of notarial documents.

The notary public keeps a book (index) in which all the drawn up documents are registered immediately
after their signature with a serial number. The serial number is also noted on the original of the
corresponding document. The date of signature of the deed, the name and occupation of the authorized
persons, the object of the deed and the amounts of fees and rights are also indicated on it.

In the last column of each entry, those appearing sign if the deed was signed at the notary's office.

This book is numbered by pages and is considered by the justice of the peace.

Article 15
Obligation to submit statistical tables.

The notary is obliged to submit within the first quarter of each year to the Ministry of Justice a statistical
table, which contains by type and number the acts he drew up in the previous year.

Article 16
Books kept by the notary public.

The books kept by notaries, apart from the index of article 14, are determined by a presidential decree,
which specifies their type and manner of keeping. Until the issuance of this presidential decree, the
written provisions shall apply.

Relevant: par.8 of article 4 of Law 3919/2011, Official Gazette A 32/2/2011

Article 17
Determination of positions of notaries

The following procedure is followed for the establishment, increase or decrease of notary posts:

1. On the first fortnight of March of every fourth year, the Minister of Justice addresses a question to the
prosecutors of appeals to be decided by a committee, which is composed of the president of appeals or his
legal deputy, two appellants and two notaries and with the secretary of the court of appeals, for the
number of notary public positions in each justice of the peace district of their jurisdiction.
2. If a Notarial Association is based at the seat of the court of appeal, the committee of paragraph 1
includes the president of the Association and a notary appointed by the board of directors of the
competent Notarial Association, otherwise both notaries are appointed by the board of directors of the
competent Notarial Association.

3. The appeals prosecutor also participates in the committee without a vote.

4. For the formulation of the proposal of the appeals prosecutor and the decision of the committee of
paragraph 1 of this article, proposals of the competent prosecutors of the district of the court of appeal,
the competent Notarial Associations, the Coordinating Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece,
statistical and annual tables of of the National Statistical Office of Greece for the increase or decrease in
the population of each judicial district, the comparative tables of the States of the European Union for the
number of notaries in which the institution applies, the urban or touristic development of each judicial
district, the volume of transactions , the building activity and whatever is considered appropriate for the
depiction of the real situation that affects positively or negatively the establishment, increase or decrease
of the number of notary posts.

5. Within one month of receiving the question, the appeals prosecutor forwards the relevant file, with his
written recommendation, to the president of the committee, who designates one of the appellants as
rapporteur. Within one month of the appointment of the rapporteur, the committee convenes, which
decides with a fully reasoned decision on the establishment of a notary public position or the increase or
decrease of the number of these positions in the justice of the peace region of its jurisdiction.

6. The decision of the previous paragraph is submitted to the Minister of Justice, who, within one month
of receiving it, may disagree. If the above deadline elapses, the decision becomes mandatory.

7. If the Minister of Justice disagrees with the decision of the committee, the relevant file is submitted by
the appeals prosecutor within fifteen days to the prosecutor of the Supreme Court, who assigns a deputy
prosecutor of the Supreme Court to introduce the disagreement by formulating his own proposal to rule
committee, chaired by the vice-president of the Supreme Court and attended by two areopagites
appointed by the President of the Supreme Court, the president of the Notarial Association of Athens -
Piraeus - Aegean and Dodecanese and the president of the corresponding Notarial Association in the
region in which the above dispute arose or the their legal deputies and as secretary, the secretary of the
Supreme Court. In the event that the dispute concerns the Notarial Association of Athens - Piraeus -
Aegean and Dodecanese, the president of the Notarial Association of Thessaloniki participates in the
committee.

The decision of this committee is binding on the Minister of Justice.

8. The Minister of Justice has the right to increase or decrease the positions contained in the decisions of
the committees of paragraphs 1 and 7 of this article, up to a percentage of twenty-five percent (25%).

9. In islands with a population of over a thousand inhabitants, a notary public is recommended. In the
event of a reduction in the number of notaries in a justice of the peace district, the already serving
notaries are retained as supernumeraries until they leave in any way or retire.

10. For the establishment, increase or decrease of notary posts, a presidential decree is issued according
to the above upon a proposal by the Minister of Justice.
11. The remuneration of the members of the committees of paragraphs 1 and 7 of this article is
determined by a joint decision of the Ministers of Justice and Finance and is charged to the special
account of article 30 of Law 4507/1966.

Relevant: par.2 art. 12 Law 2993/2002, Official Gazette A 58/26.3.2002

Relevant: PD 5/2002

- PD 6/2002

- PD 7/2002

- PD 256/2005

- PD 165 Official Gazette A 173/16.8.2006

Article 18
Filling vacancies

Notary public vacancies are filled by competition and by transfer. Twenty percent (20%) of the positions
of each justice of the peace district, which exist on January 1st of each year, are covered by transfer and
the remaining percentage by competition. During the first implementation of the provision of the previous
paragraph, fifty percent (50%) of the positions will be filled by transfer. In calculating the percentage of
twenty percent (20%), as long as the remainder is from zero point six (0.6) and above, it is considered as
a whole unit and below that is omitted. If there are only two vacancies, one is filled by transfer and the
other by competition. If there is only one vacancy, it is filled by competition. During the first application
of the provision of the previous paragraph, the unique position will be filled by permutation. Any
positions that remain vacant for any reason are filled the following year in accordance with the provisions
of this article.

As amended by art. 11 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

CHAPTER THREE
PERSONAL STATUS OF NOTARY
Article 19
General qualifications for appointment

1. A notary public is appointed, after following the legal selection process, who has Greek citizenship or
the citizenship of another European Union member state, as well as a degree in law from a law school of
a local University or a degree in law from a law school in a foreign University recognized as equivalent.

2.Greeks by gender who do not have the citizenship of a member state of the European Union can be
appointed notaries, in accordance with the cases provided for by special laws, as long as they possess the
qualifications of the previous paragraph."

Note.: as amended by article 6 par.5 of Law 4038/2012, Official Gazette A 14/2.2.2012.

Article 20
 Special qualifications for appointment.

1.A notary is appointed, after following the legal selection process, who is or has been for two years a
lawyer or a judicial officer of any branch and rank or an unpaid mortgagee or one who is or was a notary
and has resigned.

Note.: as amended by par.4 art. 32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

2.In case of service of the minor in several capacities, the two years required according to the previous
paragraph are calculated cumulatively.

Article 21
Age of appointee
As amended by art. 54 of Law 4745/2020 with effect on 06/11/2020.

1. Anyone who has completed the twenty-eighth (28th) year and has not exceeded the forty-fifth (45th)
year of age is appointed a notary public. Exceptionally, a notary may be appointed, after success in a
competition, to another notary position, regardless of age.

As amended by art. 54 of Law 4745/2020 with effect on 06/11/2020.

2. For the application of paragraph 1, the actual day of birth is taken into account, as evidenced by a
notarial act, which has been drawn up no later than ninety (90) days from the day of birth. If a notarial
deed was not drawn up, according to the above, the day of birth is considered to be December 31 of the
year of birth.

As amended by art. 54 of Law 4745/2020 with effect on 06/11/2020.

3. The year of birth, in the absence of a registry act according to the above, is proven for males from the
register of males and for females from the general register of citizens.

As amended by art. 54 of Law 4745/2020 with effect on 06/11/2020.

4. In case of multiple entries in the registers, the first one prevails.

As amended by art. 54 of Law 4745/2020 with effect on 06/11/2020.

5.Judicial decisions or administrative acts correcting age or registration are not taken into account.

As amended by art. 54 of Law 4745/2020 with effect on 06/11/2020.

Article 22
Special provisions for judicial officers and lawyers.
 1. Judicial officials cannot be appointed notaries of the district of the first instance court they serve at
the time of their departure from the judicial service, before five years have passed from it, except for the
district of the first instance courts of Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki.

2. The acceptance by the lawyer or the unpaid mortgagee of his appointment as a notary automatically
entails the removal of his capacity as a notary from his oath as a notary.

3.A notary public, who has resigned or whose appointment has been cancelled, is re-appointed a lawyer
in the Association where he was a member before his appointment as a notary public, notwithstanding the
relevant provisions of the Code "On lawyers", if the resignation or cancellation takes place within the
period of eight (8) years from his appointment as a notary public.

Article 23
obstacles to appointment.

No notary is appointed:

1. ``Whoever has not fulfilled his military obligations or has not been released from them legally or who
has been irrevocably convicted of desertion or insubordination with a prison sentence of at least six
months.

2. ``Whoever is not registered in the registers of men and, in the case of women, in the general registers
of citizens.

3. Whoever, due to an irrevocable conviction, has been deprived of his political rights, for as long as this
deprivation lasts.

4. ``Whoever has been irrevocably convicted of a felony.

5. ``Whoever has been irrevocably convicted of a misdemeanor with a prison term for the acts of theft
(articles 372 and 373 of the Civil Code), fraud (article 386 of the Civil Code), embezzlement of common
or in the service (articles 375 and 258 of the Civil Code .), extortion (Article 385 of the Criminal Code),
forgery (Article 216 of the Criminal Code), forgery of certificates (Article 217 of the Criminal Code),
forgery and misuse of official documents (Article 218 of the Criminal Code), false certification and
forgery (Article 242 of the Criminal Code), perjury and false testimony (Articles 224 and 225 of the
Criminal Code), deception in perjury (Article 228 of the Criminal Code), perjury (Article 390 of the
Criminal Code), disloyalty of a lawyer (Article 233 of the Civil Code), disloyalty in relation to the service
(Article 256 of the Civil Code), bribery (Articles 235, 236 and 237 of the Civil Code), oppression (Article
244 of the Civil Code), obtaining a false certificate (article 220 P.C.), embezzlement of a document
(article 222 P.C.), breach of official confidentiality (article 252 P.C.), breach of duty (article 259 P.C.),
offense against morals (articles 336 to 353 BC), violation of drug legislation (Law 1729/1987, as
applicable from time to time), smuggling (Law 1165/1918, as applicable), usury (Article 404 of the Civil
Code), on intermediaries (Law 5227/1931), as well as money laundering (Law 2331/1996 as applicable
from time to time).

6. ``Whoever is in judicial support.

7. ``Anyone who has been terminated by a final court decision from the position of public servant or
employee of a legal entity under public law, judicial officer, mortgagee and notary due to a criminal
conviction.

8. ``Anyone who has been finally dismissed by decision of a competent council for disciplinary reasons
from the position of a civil servant or an employee of a legal entity under public law, judicial officer,
mortgagee and notary public.

9. ``Whoever suffers from a disease that renders him incapable of performing the duties of a notary
public, as long as the disease is certified by the competent health committee for civil servants.

Article 24
Critical time of qualifications and obstacles.

1.The candidate must, on the day of the start of the competition, as defined by the announcement and on
the day of his appointment, meet the qualifications of articles 19, 20 and 22 hereof, while the obstacles of
article 23 must not be present in his person at the same points in time.

2.In particular, the candidate must have the legal age of article 21 at the time of the start of the
competition defined in the previous paragraph.

Article 25
Introductory competition for notary candidates

1. Vacancies for notaries are filled through a pan-Hellenic competition, which is announced by a
decision of the Minister of Justice issued within the first four months of each year and published in the
Government Gazette. The competition is held at the offices of the Courts of Appeal of Athens and
Thessaloniki.

2.The announcement defines the total number of positions to be filled in each justice of the peace district
of the Courts of Appeal of the country, based on the vacancies that exist on April 1 of the year of the
ministerial decision, the start time of the competition, the distribution of the appellate districts in the
examination centers of par. 1, and any other issue related to the competition.

As amended by art. 12 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

3.Each contestant may run for only one seat in the magistrate's court district of their preference.

Note.: as par.3REMOVEDwith article 50 par.1 Law 4356/2015, Official Gazette A 181/24.12.2015.

4. For the conduct of the competition, the following committees are established by decision of the
Minister of Justice:

a) a five-member central commission based in the Ministry of Justice, which consists of: one (1)
areopagite as president, one (1) president of appeals of the civil and criminal courts, one (1) prosecutor of
appeals, who are appointed with their deputies by the Head of the services of the court where they serve,
one (1) professor of the Law Department of the Law School of the University of Athens appointed by the
Minister of Justice with his deputy and the president of the Notarial Association of Athens, Piraeus,
Aegean and Dodecanese, who appoints an Athens notary public as his deputy. This committee is
responsible for selecting the subjects in the subjects to be examined which are common to all candidates
and for their secure transmission to the examination centers in a way that will ensure the integrity of the
procedures.

b) a three-member organizational committee at the headquarters of the Athens and Thessaloniki Courts of
Appeal, which consists of one (1) president of appeals of the civil and criminal courts, one (1) appeals
prosecutor and one (1) notary public with their deputies. This committee is responsible for conducting the
competition, checking the supporting documents of the candidates and excluding a candidate from the
competition with its reasoned decision, if he does not meet the prescribed conditions, and

c)"Grading teams in the Central Service of the Ministry of Justice, each of which consists of two (2)
presidents of appeals of the civil and criminal courts and one (1) notary and for the grading of foreign
language papers by university foreign language teachers or T .E.I. or secondary education, which are
responsible for grading the candidates' written essays." The notaries are appointed with their deputies by
the Coordinating Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece.

Note.: as amended by par.2 art.59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

5.The formation and operation of the committees and grading - regrading groups of paragraph 4, their
secretarial support and every relevant detail will be determined by the issuance of the ministerial decision
provided for in paragraph 10 of this article.

6. Candidates compete in:

a) Civil Law, b) Commercial Law, c) Civil Procedure, d) Code of Notaries, e) Special laws of Tenancy
and vertical ownership, the General Building Regulation, Forestry Code, Taxation of the transfer of real
estate for any reason and stamp duties, the laws for the establishment and purpose of the Land and
Mapping Organization of Greece, for the land registration process, for the creation of the National Land
Registry and for the operation of the National Land Registry (the system organized by law 2664) and for
contracts on movables or claims subject to publicity and for security contracts (law 2884). The topics are
taken from the material related to the duties of the notary and the examination of the courses is done with
a synthetic presentation of a practical topic and questions of a theoretical nature. Candidates are
optionally examined in one or two of the foreign languages English, French, German. All course exams
are written only.

7.Candidates' written essays are graded by three (3) raters. The scoring scale of the written essays is set
from 0 to 20. The average of the three (3) raters for each course constitutes the candidate's grade in the
course, as long as the deviation from the highest to the lowest score is not greater than three (3) units. If
this deviation is greater, the paper is re-evaluated by the members of the central examination committee.
The final grade of the paper in the case of its re-grading is the average resulting from the grade of the
original graders and the re-graders, after subtracting the highest and the lowest grade.

The total grade of each candidate results from the sum of the grades of the five (5) courses, which is
increased by as many units as correspond to the product of the grade achieved by the candidate in each
foreign language by a factor of 0.10.

Note.: as amended by par.3 art.59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

The foreign language grade is taken into account for the calculation of the overall score according to the
above, as long as it is equal to or greater than ten (10). "Successful are those who received a grade greater
than or equal to ten (10) units in each course. The above submit a preference application for their
appointment to vacant notary posts regardless of justice of the peace district and are appointed in order of
priority depending on their score.

Note.: as amended by article 50 par.2 Law 4356/2015, Official Gazette A 181/24.12.2015.

Candidates have the right to be informed of the written tests within twenty days of the announcement of
the results.

Note.: as amended by par.3 art.59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

Relevant: decision No. 825/2010 STE.

8. In the event of a tie for the same notary seat, a lottery is held.

Note:as amended by article 50 par.3 of Law 4356/2015, Official Gazette A 181/24.12.2015.

9. The successful candidates who are invited to be appointed must, within a deadline of thirty (30) days
from the service of the relevant invitation, declare that they accept their appointment at the Magistrate's
Court in which they were successful and present within the same period the supporting documents
necessary for their appointment . If the above deadline elapses, it is considered that they renounced their
appointment.

10. By decision of the Minister of Justice, the matters related to the announcement of the competition,
the required supporting documents and the time of their submission, the way of checking the
qualifications of the candidates and in general every necessary detail for the smooth and unalterable
conduct of the competition and the drawing up of the tables are regulated successful and appointees.

11.By joint decision of the Ministers of Finance and Justice, the following are determined:

a) the manner and amount of the remuneration of the members of the central five-member committee,

b) the remuneration of the members of the other committees and grading - regrading teams,

c) the examination fees paid in advance by the candidates to the competent Organizing Committee to
cover part of the costs of the competition.

Article 26
Appointment of notaries.

1.The notary public is appointed by a decision of the Minister of Justice, which is published in the
Government Gazette.

2.The appointment decision is notified within thirty (30) days of its publication by means of a letter
from the Minister of Justice, which is served on the appointee in accordance with the provisions of the
Code of Civil Procedure.
 3.This document also specifies a reasonable deadline, which cannot exceed thirty (30) days, for the
appointee to be sworn in and to take office. In case of failure to specify this period, it is considered that
there is a period of thirty (30) days.

4.If the deadline of paragraph 2 elapses, the decision on the appointment is deemed to have been served
on the thirtieth day from its publication and the thirty (30) day period for the appointment of the
appointee to be sworn in and assume the duties begins from that day.

5.The assumption of the duties of the notary is confirmed by an appearance report, drawn up before the
secretary of the relevant court of first instance, who sends a copy of the appearance report to the relevant
Notarial Association without culpable delay.

Article 27
Swearing in - Revocation of appointment.

1.The appointment is completed by taking the oath.

2.The oath of notaries is given in a public meeting of the competent multi-member court of first
instance, but it can also be given before any other court, designated by the Minister of Justice.

3. The decision on the appointment is revoked if the appointee did not accept it, either expressly or
implicitly, because the deadline specified in the previous article for the swearing-in and assumption of
duties was missed due to his fault.

4.An appointment made in violation of the provisions of this Code shall be revoked no later than two
years from its publication, unless the notary public caused or assisted the illegal appointment, in which
case the revocation is without time limit.

5. The one whose appointment was revoked, according to the previous paragraph, bears for the time he
performed his duties the responsibilities of the notary public and his acts are valid.

6. A notary public whose appointment has been canceled during the last five years for reasons related to
the responsibility of the public service and there is no impediment to his appointment according to article
23 is reappointed as a supernumerary to the position he has been appointed to or to the position he holds
by occupying, in order of success, a position to be vacated or created at the same headquarters.

Note.: as par. 6 was added by article 11 par. 2 of Law 3472/2006, Official Gazette A 135/4.7.2006.

Article 28
Transfer of notary public.

1.In order to cover the percentage of vacancies of notaries by transfer, in accordance with article 18
hereof, the interested parties shall submit a relevant application to the Ministry of Justice, under penalty
of non-acceptance, in the month of January of each year, in which the specific vacancy is brought which
they wish to understand. It is not allowed to transfer a notary public within the same justice of the peace
district. Excluded from this are the notaries, who are based in the seats of justice of the peace districts, in
which the abolition of justice of the peace took place in accordance with p.d. 110/2012 (A' 193), which
can be transferred from one seat to another of the same magistrate's district, provided that the two (2)
seats have different territorial jurisdiction.
As amended by art. 13 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

2. The five-member service council of the Court of Appeal in whose district the position to be filled is
located decides on transfer requests, in the month of March, following a question from the Minister of
Justice submitted by the end of February each year. In the above council, which is the one provided for
civil and criminal courts and prosecutors in article 23 of the Code of Judicial Officers, as replaced by par.
5 of article 9 of Law 2993/2002, they participate instead of the employees of the civil and criminal courts
and Prosecutor's Offices two notaries, who are appointed with their deputies, in accordance with article
60 par. 3 of the "Code of Notaries. In order to make a transfer decision, the following are taken into
account in order:

a) antiquity,

b) serious health reasons,

c) the marital status of the applicant and

d) degrees.

The transfer is mandatory for the applicant and is carried out by decision of the Minister of Justice.

Note.: as amended by article 9 of Law 3060/2002, Official Gazette A 242/11.10.2002.

3. The transferee must compulsorily move to his new position within thirty (30) days from the
notification of the decision on his transfer. Abstaining from his duties in the new position, after the
expiration of this period, entails the penalty of permanent termination.

4.It is permitted upon application by the interested parties, submitted in the first fortnight of January of
each year to the Ministry of Justice, mutual transfer of notaries of independent justice of the peace
district, provided that the mutually transferred notaries will have a term of office as notaries of at least
five (5) years and will not have exceeds fifty-fifth (55) years of age.

As an exception to the above, it is permitted, at any time and regardless of other conditions, for the
mutual transfer of notaries who have their headquarters in towns with a population of up to five thousand
(5,000) inhabitants and are located outside the seat of the court of first instance, upon application by both
interested parties who submitted to the Minister of Justice by month, January of each year.

Note.: as amended by par. 7a and 7a of article 4 of Law 3919/2011, Official Gazette A 32/2.3.2011

5.A notary who has been transferred in any way is not entitled to submit a new application before three
years have passed from the date of his previous transfer. This prohibition does not apply to those who
have been transferred before the entry into force of this provision.

Note.: as par. 5 was added by article 11 par. 4 of Law 3472/2006, Official Gazette A 135/4.7.2006.

Article 29
Regular and educational leaves.
 1. Every notary public is entitled to take a normal leave of absence of two months, continuous or partial,
and one more month, if there is a reasonable cause, every year.

2. The regular leave is granted by the President of the Council or by the judge presiding over the court
of first instance, following an application by the notary, in which he determines the day of its
commencement and indicates his deputy.

3. A deputy is not appointed if the regular leave is granted once or in parts from August 1 to 31. By
decision of the Minister of Justice, following the opinion of the board of directors of the relevant Notarial
Association, a number of notaries is determined at a rate of at least 15% of those who serve at the
headquarters of each magistrate's court, who will compulsorily remain at their headquarters in the month
of August.

``Where fewer than five (5) notaries serve, at least one must remain at his seat during the same month.
The notary submits a copy of the license to the relevant Notarial Association, and may, with his
declaration, appoint a deputy from among those who do not use their normal license. In the event that he
does not appoint a deputy himself and it is necessary to appoint a deputy, this shall be appointed by the
relevant Notarial Association.

4. The pregnant notary public is entitled, upon her application, to refrain from performing her duties
from the beginning of the eighth month of pregnancy. For this purpose, a license is granted by the
Minister of Justice, which is extended for two months after the birth at the request of the woman
concerned.

5. By decision of the Minister of Justice, following the opinion of the board of directors of the
competent Notarial Association, a training permit of up to two years is granted to a notary who wishes to
pursue postgraduate studies.

6. ``Anyone who has received an educational permit has an obligation to provide the Association with
evidence of progress at the end of each educational year, otherwise the permit will be terminated.

7. ``Whoever received an educational permit is entitled to receive the amount of the distribution from
the state contracts that will be paid to him after presenting a certificate of incomplete attendance.

8.During any type of leave, the notary public is not prevented from performing his duties.

Article 30
Sick leaves.

1. Notaries who are sick or in need of recovery are granted sick leave by the Minister of Justice, based
on the opinion of the first instance Health Committee for public employees.

Sick leave, when granted continuously, cannot exceed twenty-four (24) months.

2.The competent president of the council or the judge presiding over the court of first instance
designates the deputy, in accordance with what is defined in paragraph 2 of the previous article.

Article 31
Public holiday.
 1. The notary who has been deprived of his personal freedom, following a will or a court decision, acts
automatically in a state of holiday.

If the reason for which the holiday was imposed disappears, the notary automatically returns to active
duty.

2.A notary public who has been finally impeached for a crime leading to the deprivation of his political
rights or a notary public against whom there is pending disciplinary action for an offense leading to the
penalty of permanent suspension may be put on holiday. The holiday is made by decision of the Minister
of Justice, after a decision of the three-member disciplinary board, which is taken after a question of the
Minister of Justice, and it starts and stops from the day after the notification of the corresponding
decision.

No decision is required and the notary automatically returns to active service if an irrevocable
exculpatory decision or an irrevocable exculpatory will or a final exculpatory disciplinary decision is
issued.

For this self-righteous return of the notary public to active service, a deed of verification is drawn up by
the Minister of Justice.

3. The notary on whom the holiday penalty has been imposed has an obligation to refrain from
performing his duties. For as long as the state of holiday lasts, his deputy, for the acts of article 3
paragraph 5 of this Code, is appointed ex officio by the president of the council or the judge who heads
the court of first instance. Breach of this obligation is a disciplinary offence.

Article 32
Notary public suspension.

1.Except in the case of the imposition of the disciplinary penalty of permanent suspension, in
accordance with the provisions of the disciplinary law, due to a serious disciplinary offense, the notary is
suspended, if he has been irrevocably convicted of a felony or a prison sentence for a misdemeanor from
those mentioned in article 23 paragraph 5 hereof.

2.Regarding the suspension of the previous paragraph, the court competent to impose the disciplinary
penalty of definitive suspension shall decide. The initiation of the relevant procedure before the court of
the previous subsection is mandatory and belongs to the Minister of Justice.

3.After the initiation of the procedure for the suspension of the notary public, the president of the court
appoints one of the members of the court as rapporteur, who gathers the necessary data to certify the
reason for which the notary public is suspended and has the possibility to examine witnesses and to order
an expert opinion. The rapporteur invites the accused to provide explanations and draws up a conclusion
and submits to the president of the court a detailed report, which also contains his opinion on the essence
of the matter.

4. The president of the court sets a hearing, in which the summoned notary is summoned, with a
summons containing the reason for his admission for suspension, as well as the facts constituting this
reason, in detail. The summons is served, in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, at least fifteen days before the scheduled hearing. The discussion takes place in a public
session, during which the accused may also be present with a lawyer.
 5. The court proceeds with a more general assessment of the lack of service and behavior of the notary
public who is called for Suspension. The decision of the court, which is published in its public session, is
served on the person entered for suspension and a copy of it is submitted to the Ministry of Justice. The
suspension of the notary takes place the day after the irrevocable decision is served on him, and a related
declaratory decision of the Minister of Justice is issued, which is published in the Government Gazette.
The provision of article 94 paragraph 2 hereof is also applicable in this case.

Article 33
Withdrawal due to age limit.

1.The notary must compulsorily retire from the service upon reaching the age of seventieth, which is
proven in accordance with what is defined in article 21.

2. For the application of the previous paragraph, December 31 of the year of the notary's retirement is
considered in any case as the day on which this limit is completed.

Note.: as amended by par. 2 art. 14 of Law 3090/2002, Gazette A 329/24.12.2002 and by article 79 par. 1
of Law 3659/2008, Gazette A 77/7.5.2008. ATTENTION: Effective from 8/6/2008.

3.Anyone who leaves after reaching the age limit, according to the above, automatically ceases to
exercise his duties. For the automatic withdrawal, a declaratory decision of the Minister of Justice is
issued, which is published in the Government Gazette.

Article 34
Withdrawal due to illness.

1. If the notary becomes incapable due to illness or infirmity of body or mind to fulfill his duties, before
reaching the age limit according to the previous article, and this incapacity has lasted or will last more
than one year, he is compulsorily removed from the service .

2. The incapacity is established by the competent secondary Health Committee, in accordance with the
provisions of the Civil Servants Code, which is decided upon referral by the Minister of Justice, which
can be caused by a request from the notary or the relevant Notarial Association.

Regarding the compulsory retirement due to illness, referred to in the previous paragraphs, the court of
appeals decides irrevocably, in accordance with article 32 hereof. The Minister of Justice challenges the
relevant decision within fifteen days from the submission of the decision of the competent court to the
Ministry. ``After thirty days from the publication of the decision, the notary, to whom it concerns, is
considered to have been dismissed, even if he has not yet been notified of the relevant document.

Article 35
Resignation.

1.The notary has the right to resign by submitting a written application to the Ministry of Justice, which
is mandatorily accepted by a decision of the Minister of Justice, published in the Government Gazette
within two months at the latest from its submission. ``After thirty (30) days from the publication of the
decision, the notary, to whom it concerns, is considered to have lost his capacity and if he has not yet
been notified of the relevant document.
 2. If an impracticable three-month period elapses from the submission of the written resignation referred
to in paragraph 1, the notary who submitted the resignation ceases to exercise his duties and is deemed to
have been notified of the acceptance of his resignation as soon as the last day of the quarter has passed.

3.The resignation is revoked if the relevant written request is submitted to the Ministry of Justice before
the publication of the decision to accept the resignation or before a three-month period has passed since
the submission of the resignation, if the act of acceptance has not been published.

Exceptionally, a notary public who has resigned may be reappointed, upon his application, as long as a
year has not passed since his resignation was accepted and at the time of submitting the reappointment
application there is at least one vacancy in the district of the Magistrate's Court where he served.

Note.: as amended by par.4 article 12 of Law 2993/2002, Official Gazette A 58/26.3.2002.

4. The acceptance of the resignation submitted by the accused after the institution of disciplinary action
is not accepted by the Minister, unless the accused has established a pension right.

Article 36
Tax law.

1.Notaries prosecute misdemeanors before the competent appeals court, in accordance with paragraph 7
of article 111 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and for misdemeanors before the three-member
misdemeanor court, in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 112 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

2. The provisions of article 322 of the Code of Criminal Procedure are applied accordingly.

Relevant: article 10 par.1 Law 3904/2010, Official Gazette A 218/23.12.2010

Article 37
Incongruously.

1.The works of the notary public are incompatible with undertaking service in the State, local self-
government organizations, legal entities under public law, public enterprises or public benefit
organizations in any legal form and whether the latter operate, as well as with the exercise of any other
professional activity or service.

2. Exceptionally, the following are not incompatible with the notary's work: a) the teaching of legal or
similar courses in higher and higher schools and in the services of the State, in the services of legal
entities under public law and legal entities under private law, b) participation in boards and committees of
institutions, associations, organizations or legal entities under public law and c) the assignment of any
administrative tasks, either alongside its main projects or exclusively.

3.The notary who is declared a candidate for prefect, mayor or community president is suspended from
performing notarial duties. In the event of his election, the suspension lasts as long as he has one of the
qualities of the previous paragraph. The same applies in the event of the appointment of a notary public
as regional governor, deputy mayor or his election as municipal council president. The suspension does
not apply to candidates and to those who will be elected members of a municipal or community council.
4.A notary, who has resigned in order to participate as a candidate in parliamentary elections, if he is not
elected or is dismissed after his election by decision of the Electoral Court, or if he is elected and his
parliamentary term expires, he is reappointed, following his application to the same justice of the peace
district. If his position has been filled in the meantime, the re-appointment takes place in a supernumerary
permanent position which is automatically abolished when the re-appointed person leaves. In the case of
re-appointment, the re-appointed notary shall be given his personal file.

Note.: as amended by par. 6, article 32 of Law 2915/2001, Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

Article 38
Liability of notaries.

1. The right of the State, legal entities under public and private law, insurance funds and organizations
and any third party to impose taxes, stamp duties and third-party rights on the notaries for the documents
drawn up is time-barred after ten (10) years from the end of the year in which the deed was drawn up,
excluding income tax.

2. The notary is not responsible for the amount of values, prices and amounts of money declared by the
authorized agents for the items related to his contract.

Article 39
Training of notaries.

1. Following a decision of the relevant Notarial Association, it is possible to organize, by region and
preferably at the Association's headquarters, seminars for the continuous training of notaries in matters of
domestic and international law, as well as notarial practice professional training and ethics. Notaries
successful in the competition must also attend seminars for at least one semester on the subjects of the
previous paragraph. By decision of the board of directors of the relevant Notarial Associations, the place
of implementation and every detail of the operation of the seminars of the previous sections is
determined. The costs of organizing and running the seminars are borne by the special account of article
30 of Law 4507/1966.

2. The lecturers in the seminars can be university professors, judges, lawyers, notaries public.

Article 40
Rights of notaries.

1. The notary public is entitled to a fixed fee for each deed he prepares and for each service he provides,
if it is related to his competence or is required by law, as well as for the issuance of copies and
summaries. In addition to this fee, and for operations whose object is valued in money, he is entitled to
receive a proportional fee, calculated on the basis of the total value declared in the contract or the greater
value determined by the competent authority temporarily or definitively.

The proportional remuneration must be defined by the joint ministerial decision issued in accordance
with the following subsection in successively decreasing percentages, in a manner inversely proportional
to the escalating increase of the value, expressed or valued in money, on which they are calculated.

Note.: as amended by par.1 of article 4 of Law 3919/2011, Official Gazette A 32/2.3.2011.

Fees and royalties collected by the notary legally when drawing up the contract are never refunded.

These fees are determined at least every three years by joint decisions of the Ministers of National
Economy, Justice and Finance, following the opinion of the Coordinating Committee of Notarial
Associations of Greece.

Similar decisions define the method of collecting notary fees for the difference that may arise between
the value declared for the subject of the legal transaction and the higher value finally determined by the
competent authority.

By a joint decision of the Ministers of Finance and Justice, Transparency and Human Rights issued after
the opinion of the Coordinating Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece, an amount of value of the
object of transaction is determined above which the proportional fee for drawing up contracts does not
constitute the mandatory but the maximum permissible fee, provided the possibility of signing freely,
with a written agreement between the notary and the one giving the order to draw up a contract, a lower
fee. In the absence of an agreement, the maximum allowable fee constitutes the statutory fee. The
provisions of the two previous paragraphs do not apply to contracts drawn up based on the provisions of
articles 115, 117 and 118 of the Code of Notaries.

Note.: as amended by par. 2 of article 4 of Law 3919/2011, Official Gazette A 32/2.3.2011

2. Special laws or decrees or decisions that define reduced rights of notaries are kept in force after the
publication of the Code, but they can be revised or repealed within a year of the publication, following a
proposal of the Coordinating Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece to the competent Ministers.

Special laws, presidential decrees or ministerial decisions that reduce the rights of the notary do not apply
unless they are signed by the Minister of Justice.

3. The notary public is entitled to receive half of the legal fee for the contract or deed drawn up on the
instructions of the legal agents, but which was not signed through the fault of any of them. The person
responsible for the payment is the one who gave the order for their drawing. These rights cannot in any
case exceed one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) drachmas. This amount can be increased or
decreased by decision of the Minister of Justice.

4. The notary has the right, until full payment of the applicable fees and royalties owed, to seize the
documents of the franchisees in his hands.

5.A contract for the transfer of real estate drawn up at a foreign notary public or a Greek consul cannot
be transcribed unless the copy to be transcribed is accompanied by a note from the Notary Society, in
whose district the property is located, from which it can be seen that the notarial fees from the contract to
be transcribed have been paid in his club.

Note.: as amended by par. 4, article 59 of Law 3160/2003, Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

Article 41
Inspection of notaries - ``Control of government contracts
1.a) The inspection of notaries is carried out by the competent local prosecutors of the first instance, in
accordance with the applicable provisions on the inspection of courts and judicial officials, in conjunction
with the provisions of this article.

b) The regular inspection is done once a year and the extraordinary inspection at any time.

c) The inspection takes place only at the notary's office.

d) Public wills while the testator is alive are not subject to inspection.

2. The board of directors of each Notary Society, by resolution, may designate members or officers of the
Society to act as audits of the notaries in their district to ascertain compliance with the provisions of this
Code relating to government contracts and any other law relating thereto. with the validity and legality of
all notarial acts.

Note.: as amended by par. 5 art. 59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

SECOND PART
CHAPTER ONE
DISCIPLINARY LAW OF CONDUCTORS
Article 42
`Disciplinary offense concept.

1. Any culpable and imputable act or behavior in general of the notary, which is contrary to the
provisions of this Code or which is incompatible with his function, constitutes a disciplinary offense and
is punished in accordance with the provisions herein.

2. The obligations of notaries are determined by the general and special provisions that refer to the
exercise of their functions, the organization and operation of notaries and in general their official status.

3. The circular instructions or orders given to notaries in accordance with the law, as well as those
concerning matters of organization, operation of notaries and notaries' official status create obligations
for them.

Article 43
Disciplinary offences.

Disciplinary offenses of the notary are:

1. a) Violation of the obligations and prohibitions provided for by law and by other regulatory provisions
or circular orders and related to the official status of the notary public.

b) Violation of the rules imposed by the law and other regulatory provisions for the exercise of its
function and related official actions.

c) Violation of the rules that provide for the organization, headquarters and operation of notaries.
d) Any culpable behavior, incompatible with his status, which obviously damages his prestige or affects
the prestige of the body.

e) Violation of the rules of notarial ethics and the legal directives of public authorities, the Coordinating
Committee of the Notarial Associations of Greece, as well as the relevant Notarial Associations.

2. Trade union activity is never a disciplinary offence.

Article 44
Disciplinary penalties.

Disciplinary penalties are:

a) The written reprimand.

b) A fine of twenty thousand drachmas to three hundred thousand drachmas. This amount can be
increased or decreased by decision of the Minister of Justice.

c) Temporary suspension of fifteen days to four months.

d) The definitive cessation.

Article 45
Imposing a permanent stop.

The disciplinary penalty of permanent suspension is imposed only in particularly serious cases of
disciplinary offences, which, from the circumstances of their commission and the established degree of
culpability of the prosecuted notary public, testify to a lack of awareness of his basic obligations.
Indicatively, this penalty is imposed in cases of: a) committing offences, which are obstacles to
appointment according to article 23 hereof, b) deliberate and repeated delay in rendering the rights from
state contracts to the relevant Association or the authorized notary, c) existence number in the index
without a corresponding and continuous entry of a deed, d) failure to immediately complete the name of
the last bidder in the auction report and e) unjustified abstention from the execution of his duties, beyond
the six-month period.

Article 46
Disciplinary offense by follow-up.

For the disciplinary offense committed by the same notary with several acts that differ in time, a penalty
is imposed, for the measurement of which the totality of the several acts that make up the offense is taken
into account.

Article 47
Prohibition of second prosecution.

No one is prosecuted a second time for the same disciplinary offence.

Article 48
 Determination and measurement of penalty.

1. Once a disciplinary offense is established and charged, the penalty imposed and its measurement
within the limits set by law are determined:

a) From the seriousness of the offense and the consequences it had, as well as from its impact on the
flawless performance of the notary's work and the reputation of the body.

b) From the intensity of the intent or the degree of negligence of the defendant.

c) From the circumstances in which the offense was committed and generally from the prevailing
conditions.

d) From the experience of the prosecuted notary public.

2. An offense of a minor nature, due to the negligence of the person being prosecuted, may, at the
discretion of the disciplinary board, go unpunished after an assessment of the circumstances under which
it was committed, but special mention is made of this in the decision.

Article 49
Total penalty.

1. In case of confluence of several concurrent disciplinary offences, after determining the appropriate
penalty for each of the concurring offences, a Total penalty is imposed, which consists of the heaviest of
those identified and increased according to the judgment of the disciplinary board up to its maximum
limit , if applicable.

2. Several sentences of related disciplinary offences, which have been tried separately, are merged
during the trial of the last one into one sentence. The heaviest of the individual penalties is taken as a
basis, which is increased according to what is defined in paragraph 1. Any assessment of any of the
individual penalties is deducted from the Total penalty.

Article 50
Relapse.

1.If a fine or temporary suspension was imposed on a notary public, the commission of another
disciplinary offense by him, before the cancellation of this penalty in accordance with article 88
paragraph 4 hereof, constitutes a Recidivism.

2. In case of Recidivism, the disciplinary board can either increase the new disciplinary penalty imposed
up to its maximum limit, if the case arises, or, if it considers the commission of the newer offense to be
particularly aggravating, decide that a heavier disciplinary penalty should be imposed up to the final
suspension, which will be decided by the competent court.

Article 51
Duration of disciplinary authority.
 1. Disciplinary authority over the notary arises from the completion of the appointment and ceases upon
his departure from the service, in whatever way this is done.

2. The performance of an illegal act by a notary before his appointment, which is related to the
conditions of his appointment or his participation in the tender, constitutes a disciplinary offense
punishable in accordance with the provisions of this Code. The limitation period starts from the
appointment.

Article 52
Special topics.

1. The lifting of the criminal penalty of the act in any way or the transfer of the consequences of the
criminal conviction do not abolish the disciplinary penalty of the act as long as there is no express
mention of it in the relevant decree.

2. For an offense that has been judged final by the competent disciplinary councils, no new disciplinary
action is allowed and the one brought is placed on file.

3. If a case related to the disciplinary action of a notary public is pending in the criminal courts, the
disciplinary action may be stayed until a final decision of the criminal court is issued. This decision may
be revoked.

Article 53
Elimination of guilt.

1. Disciplinary offenses of notaries are time-barred after five years from their commission.

2. The period of limitation is suspended with the notification of the disciplinary action, but the time of
this suspension cannot exceed two years until the final decision on the disciplinary action.

3. The statute of limitations for a disciplinary offense is interrupted if another disciplinary offense is
committed, which aims to conceal the first one or to thwart the initiation of disciplinary proceedings
because of it.

4. A disciplinary offense that is simultaneously a criminal offense is not time-barred before the time for
the criminal offense has expired. The statute of limitations for the disciplinary offense is suspended for
the entire period from the initiation of the criminal prosecution until the issuance of an irrevocable court
decision or decree.

Article 54
Termination of disciplinary liability.

1. The notary, who left the service in any way, is not subject to disciplinary action. The disciplinary
proceedings, which began before his departure with the notification of the disciplinary action, continue,
except in the case of death, until a final decision is issued.

2. The sentencing decision issued according to the above procedure remains unexecuted, but it is served
on the person who is punished and placed in his personal file.
 Article 55
Change of legislative status.

1.If the act of the notary public, which constitutes a disciplinary offense, is characterized as unpunished
by a subsequent law, then the execution of the disciplinary penalty imposed, as well as its official
consequences, ceases.

2.If the newer law imposes a milder disciplinary penalty, the liability of the notary who is subject to
disciplinary action is determined by the more favorable provisions of this law.

CHAPTER TWO
DISCIPLINARY JURISDICTION
Article 56
Bodies exercising disciplinary jurisdiction.

1. Disciplinary jurisdiction over notaries is exercised by courts and disciplinary boards.

2.The courts exercising disciplinary jurisdiction are the five-judge courts of appeal.

3. The Boards exercising disciplinary jurisdiction are:

a) The three-member disciplinary councils at the seat of each court of first instance and

b) The five-member disciplinary councils at the headquarters of each appeal court.

Article 57
Jurisdictions of courts.

1.The five-member appeals courts are responsible for imposing the penalty of permanent suspension on
notaries serving in their district.

2. The courts referred to in the previous paragraph have as their task the judgment of serious
disciplinary offenses and only after their referral by the disciplinary councils. If the court finally judges
the notary guilty of the disciplinary offense worthy of punishment, but with a penalty lower than the
definitive suspension, it imposes the appropriate penalty according to its judgment, without being bound
by the decision of the disciplinary board regarding the referral.

Article 58
Powers of disciplinary councils.

1. The three-member disciplinary boards are responsible for judging, in the first instance, the
disciplinary offenses of the notaries serving in their district, as well as for the imposition of all
disciplinary penalties, except for definitive suspension. In the event of a transfer of a notary public to a
position located in the district of another court of first instance before the issuance of a final decision in
the first instance for the disciplinary action that has already been brought, the competent disciplinary
council continues to have jurisdiction over the adjudication of this disciplinary case.
 2.The five-member disciplinary councils are responsible in the second instance for judging appeals
against the decisions of the three-member disciplinary councils of the district court of appeals, which are
mentioned in the previous paragraph.

Article 59
Composition of disciplinary courts.

The five-member appeals courts for the exercise of disciplinary jurisdiction against notaries are
composed according to the relevant provisions of the Organization of Courts and the Code of Criminal
Procedure.

Article 60
Composition of disciplinary boards.

1. The three-member disciplinary board consists of the chairman of the board or the judge who heads
the first instance court, a first instance judge and a notary public or their deputies.

2. The five-member disciplinary board consists of the chairman of appeals as chairman, two appellants
and two notaries or their deputies.

3. Notaries are appointed for a three-year term with their deputies by the board of directors of the
relevant Notarial Association from those who have at least ten years of service. The duty of secretary is
performed by an employee of the registry of the relevant court.

Article 61
Barriers to participation.

1. They do not participate in the competent disciplinary council or in the court for adjudicating a certain
disciplinary case.

a) Those against whom the disciplinary offense is directed.

b) Relatives by direct blood line without limitation or by side up to the fourth degree or by consanguinity
up to the second degree, as well as the spouse of the person prosecuted or the person accused of the
crime.

c) The one who initiated the investigation of the disciplinary case.

d) Those examined as witnesses in the case.

e) The judges who participated in the criminal trial for this act.

f) Those who are connected by special friendship or who are in sharp opposition to the accused or who
have a special connection with the case being judged, because of which it is possible to doubt their
impartiality.

2. Those who participated in a council, which judges in the first instance, are prevented from
participating in the appeal trial.
 3. It is not permitted to exclude so many members that it is not possible to form the council from the
rest.

4. The judicial official or the notary in whose person there is a case of disqualification for the reasons
mentioned in the previous paragraphs, is subject to the obligations arising from article 23 of the Code of
Criminal Procedure, applied accordingly.

CHAPTER THREE
PROCEDURAL DISCIPLINARY LAW
Article 62
Autonomy of disciplinary proceedings.

1.The disciplinary proceedings are self-contained and independent from any other.

2.Criminal proceedings do not suspend disciplinary proceedings. The disciplinary board may, however,
in view of the circumstances of the case under consideration, order the suspension until the end of the
criminal trial.

3. The acquittal or conviction decision of a criminal court, as well as the exculpatory will, does not
prevent the disciplinary council from undertaking the disciplinary proceedings entitled to take into
account the relevant criminal case file.

Article 63
Prosecution of disciplinary offences.

1. Disciplinary offenses are prosecuted ex officio by the competent prosecutor.

2. The Minister of Justice may order the competent public prosecutor to initiate disciplinary proceedings
against a notary public for a specific act or omission.

3. The three-member disciplinary councils are assigned to try a case only when disciplinary proceedings
are brought against a certain notary public. The five-member disciplinary councils take on cases against
the decisions of the three-member disciplinary council only when an appeal is brought by the prosecutor
of the first instance, the relevant Notarial Association and the notary who was punished. Disciplinary
courts take over a case only when the three-member or five-member disciplinary councils refer the case
to them.

Article 64
Disciplinary process.

The Pretrial and Main Proceedings before the disciplinary boards are secret. The Preliminary Trial before
the disciplinary courts is secret, while the Main Trial and the publication of the decision is public.

During the proceedings before the disciplinary councils, representation with a lawyer is allowed.

The disciplinary process at all stages is conducted free of charge and no costs are awarded.

Article 65
 Relevance and association.

1.Several Disciplinary offenses committed by the same notary public are dealt with during the same
Disciplinary procedure. In this case, the disciplinary body that hears the most serious disciplinary offense
is also responsible for the rest.

2. In case of participation of several notaries in the same disciplinary offence, the disciplinary trial is
conducted for all of them before the disciplinary council that has been appointed first and is responsible
for one of them.

Article 66
Reports - Performance.

1. For the performance of any act during the disciplinary procedure, a report is drawn up in accordance
with articles 148-153 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

2. The service and communication of the documents of the disciplinary procedure is done in accordance
with the provisions of articles 155-163 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Article 67
Disciplinary action.

1.As soon as the competent public prosecutor becomes aware, either directly through personal perception
or from information that reaches him directly, or after a report or notification by the board of directors of
the relevant Notarial Association or another authority, regarding the performance by a notary of a deed,
which appears as a disciplinary offense, he has the obligation to initiate disciplinary action, if the
incidents that have come to his knowledge can support it.

2. The case is placed on file if the evidence that reaches the prosecutor, as well as those collected by
him, do not suggest the commission of a disciplinary offense or cannot result in a disciplinary sanction
due to the elimination of the culpability or termination of the disciplinary responsibility.

3.In very slight offences, which would clearly warrant only a reprimand, the prosecution is left to the
discretion of the person exercising it, who takes into account the general conduct of the notary public in
the service.

Article 68
Preliminary examination.

1.The locally competent prosecutor of first instance courts to establish the commission of a disciplinary
offense has the right to conduct a preliminary examination either himself or through another judicial
officer of his district.

2.The Minister of Justice has the above right through the competent prosecutor.

3.During the stage of the preliminary examination, the necessary witness statements are taken, persons
or the public authority are asked for information related to the case under investigation and the notary
involved is invited, after having previously been informed of the details of the file filed against him, to
give written explanations for the act he is alleged to have committed.

4.If the first instance prosecutor is convinced from the gathered evidence that no disciplinary offense
was committed by the called notary, he draws up a reasoned opinion and places the file on file.

Article 69
Initiation of disciplinary proceedings.

1. Disciplinary proceedings begin with the initiation of disciplinary proceedings.

2. The disciplinary action must contain:

a) The name and official details of the person being prosecuted.

b) Full and precise identification of the acts that constitute the disciplinary offense attributed to him

c) Description of the incidents related to these acts, the conditions under which they occurred, as well as
the relevant provisions that provide for the violations.

3. The disciplinary action is addressed to the competent three-member disciplinary council and is
accompanied by the disciplinary file that was formed and the evidence that exists.

4. Withdrawal of disciplinary action that has already been taken is not allowed.

Article 70
Termination of disciplinary proceedings.

Disciplinary proceedings are terminated with the issuance of a final decision by a disciplinary board or
court on the disciplinary proceedings.

Article 71
Designation of rapporteur.

1.The president of the disciplinary board appoints one of the participating judges as rapporteur. The deed
appointing the rapporteur together with a copy of the disciplinary action is notified by service to the
accused.

2. In the case of obstruction of the rapporteur, the president replaces him with another member of the
council at each stop of the Pretrial.

3.The accused has the right to request, within three days after the deed appointing a rapporteur is
notified to him, the exclusion of the latter, citing the reasons for exclusion. Regarding the application for
exemption, the disciplinary board decides, in the composition of which the judge, whose exemption was
requested, does not participate. In the event that the application is accepted, the rapporteur judge is
replaced by his deputy who is also designated as rapporteur.

4. The accused may only request the exception of the rapporteur once.
 Article 72
Call to Apology.

1.The rapporteur, after receiving knowledge of the case file, calls the accused to an apology for the
offense attributed to him

2.A reasonable deadline for an apology is set in the summons, which cannot be less than five days. The
deadline can be extended at the request of the prisoner up to three times the time limit.

Article 73
Apology.

1. Before apologizing, the accused has the right to be informed of the case file that has been created, as
well as to request copies of the documents found in the case file.

2.The apology is submitted in writing to the rapporteur and a relevant operational report is drawn up for
this purpose or sent by registered mail.

In his statement, the accused may propose witnesses, request his cross-examination with others, mention
the existence of critical documents or other elements that are in any public authority and with which the
disciplinary file must be completed.

4.The accused person's apology is accompanied by every element that he has at his disposal and with
which it is reinforced. The detainee may request a reasonable period of not less than fifteen (15) days for
the additional submission of information that is not in his possession.

Article 74
Appointment of investigator.

If, after the defendant's apology, the evidence in the case file is deemed by the rapporteur and the
president to be sufficient for the case to be brought before the disciplinary board, the actions set out in
article 80 hereof shall be carried out. However, in the event that these elements are deemed insufficient,
the president orders the rapporteur to conduct an investigation.

Article 75
Conduct an interrogation.

1.The purpose of the inquiry is to collect all available evidence and to investigate all factual data on
which the judgment of the disciplinary board may depend.

2. Mainly evidential means are:

a) The witnesses. b) The prisoner's confession. c) The autopsy. d) The expertise. e) The documents.

3.A report is drawn up for every investigative act that can be mentioned in the evidence of the previous
paragraph with items a to d.
 4.The subject of an investigative act may not constitute official or professional secrecy, unless the
competent authority or the competent professional body consents to its announcement.

5. The investigating rapporteur performs the investigative acts at his headquarters in person. In the event
of an investigative act being carried out outside the investigator's seat and if he does not deem his
movement necessary, he may order its execution by a judicial officer serving in the district in which the
investigative act will be carried out.

6. The duty of secretary is performed by the judicial officer appointed by the person who performs the
investigative act.

Article 76
Examination of witnesses and prisoner.

1.The witnesses are examined under oath at their place of residence or stay according to the formula
provided by articles 218 and 220 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Those defined in article 221 from
items a to c of the Code of Criminal Procedure are examined without an oath.

2. The non-appearance or refusal to testify of the witness without reasonable cause is punished
according to the provisions of article 169 of the Criminal Code for disloyalty. Reasonable cause is
considered to be the status of a spouse and the relationship of the witness with the accused in a direct line
without limitation or up to the fourth degree laterally.

3.The examination of more than five witnesses, proposed by the inmate, is at the discretion of the
investigator. For the rest, the provisions of articles 213 to 217 and 223 to 227 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure apply accordingly to the examination of witnesses.

4. During the interrogation, it is mandatory to be called for examination by the interrogator and the
prisoner. His examination is conducted without taking an oath. The non-appearance or refusal of the
person summoned for examination does not hinder the progress of the interrogation.

5.Before the examination, the detainee has the right to be informed of the documents of the interrogation
and during its duration he can exercise the rights defined in article 73 hereof.

Article 77
Autopsy - Expert opinion.

1. The autopsy is performed either by the investigator or, at his proposal, by the entire disciplinary
board, to immediately establish the actual circumstances of the disciplinary offense or other related
elements.

2. The examination of public or private documents filed with a public authority is done in the office
where they are kept.

3. Experts are designated public civil servants or military or scientists or technicians from the table
referred to in article 185 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. When an expert opinion is conducted, the
fees of the experts are cleared by the president of the disciplinary board and paid by the State, in
accordance with the provisions "On public accounting".
 4. The relevant provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure apply accordingly to autopsy and expert
opinion.

Article 78
Search documents.

1.The investigator may request from any public authority the provision of information or the sending of
certificates or attestations for objects falling under its jurisdiction or copies of documents found in it.

2.``Documents in the possession of a private individual may be requested from the investigator and must
be returned to him at the end of the disciplinary trial. The investigator is obliged to grant the private
person a receipt of the documents and a copy of them free of charge.

3.Refusal to hand over documents to provide information is punishable under the provisions of Article
169 of the Criminal Code.

Article 79
Beyond interrogation.

After the end of the investigation, the investigator within one month submits the file to the chairman of
the council together with his conclusion on all the legal and factual part of the case.

Article 80
Determination of jurisdiction - Summons of defendant.

1. The chairman of the council, after receiving the file after the end of the investigation or if he
considers that the investigation is not necessary, designates by an act of the hearing for the discussion of
the case before the disciplinary board, which is notified with proof to all its members. This hearing
cannot be less than fifteen (15) days and more than thirty (30) days from the notification.

2.The act of the previous paragraph is also communicated to the defendant with a summons at least ten
(10) days before the hearing so that he can come and take cognizance of the case file and appear during
the discussion. A report is drawn up that the inmate became aware of the case file.

3. The progress of the disciplinary proceedings is not hindered if the accused does not come to take
cognizance of the case before the meeting of the disciplinary board.

4. The president of the council ex officio or at the request of the inmate may call witnesses before the
council.

Article 81
Disciplinary board meeting.

1. With the start of the meeting, the legal composition of the council and the presence of the person
invited are confirmed.
 2. If it turns out that the invitations of the members of the council, as well as the summons of the
accused, were not done properly or on time, or that the accused did not come due to an insurmountable
obstacle, a new trial is set and it is ordered to be announced to everyone.

3.The council can adjourn the meeting once to a new trial, even if the conditions of the previous
paragraph are not met, due to the non-appearance of the inmate or witness whose appearance is deemed
necessary by the council.

The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure apply to witnesses.

4.The accused may request the exclusion of up to two members, at most, of the disciplinary board,
stating the reasons for exclusion. On this request, which is submitted in writing, before the start of the
meeting, the council decides, without the participation of the member whose exception was requested,
with a reasoned decision, which is recorded in the minutes.

The members whose exclusion was decided by the council are replaced by their deputies.

5. The prosecuting attorney is entitled to attend the hearing either in person or with another prosecutor
and shall leave after the hearing is over and before the conference begins.

6.If there is no question of adjourning the meeting in accordance with the above, the council proceeds in
the presence of the accused, in the discussion of the case, during which the rapporteur reads the
disciplinary action and the conclusion of the investigation that may have been carried out.

The president calls for an examination of the witnesses and then gives the floor to the defendant to orally
develop his apology and answer the questions that the council will ask him.

The absence of the defendant does not prevent the progress of the discussion of the case.

7.The accused is entitled to simultaneously submit a memorandum to complete his apology or for any
other matter of the disciplinary procedure.

Article 82
Debate Management - Practice Disciplinary offenses during debate

1.The chairman of the council directs the discussion, gives the floor to the prosecutor, the rapporteur and
the defendant, addresses questions and gives permission to the members of the council to ask questions.

2. Minutes are drawn up by the secretary for the meeting of the disciplinary council, which are clearly
written and signed by him and by the president. The record briefly contains the statements of the
witnesses and the defendant, as well as a report on any relevant event that occurred during the meeting.
The chairman may order the verbatim recording of material parts of the statements or statements made
during the meeting, possibly allowing them to be dictated.

Article 83
Preliminary decision.
The council evaluates the evidence at its discretion and if it deems it insufficient, it can by its decision
order more evidence. In this case, the decision is notified by service to the defendant and after the end of
what is ordered therein, the Main Procedure is repeated, in accordance with what is defined in article 80
hereof.

Article 84
Final decision.

1. To issue the final decision, the council deliberates and votes with the secretary also present.

If more than two opinions are formed on an issue, those who voted in favor of the most unfavorable
opinion for the defendant or in favor of the heaviest penalty accede to the immediately more favorable
one. The result of the vote on each of the issues raised is certified by the minutes of the conference,
which are signed by all those present.

2. The final decision must contain the composition of the board, the defendant's name, mention of his
appearance or his appropriate summons, a summary of the charge, as well as the defendant's apology,
submitted together with the essential claims, the reasons and the ruling. The decision must be based on
proven facts and not on mere suspicion, and must be reasoned both for the finding of guilt and for the
imposition or measurement of punishment.

3. The draft decision is signed by the members of the council and the original by the president and the
secretary and entered in the decision book of the council. The date of signature of the decision by the
president is taken as the time of issuance of the decision.

Article 85
Communication of decisions.

1. The final decision is delivered to the inmate under the care of the secretary within a period of thirty
days from its issuance.

2. The mentioned decision is also notified to the relevant Notarial Association and to those who have the
right of appeal.

CHAPTER FOUR
INDIVIDUAL MEASURES
Article 86
Appeal.

1. Final decisions of the disciplinary board issued at first instance on the merits are subject to appeal.

2. The right to appeal against a conviction or acquittal decision of the three-member disciplinary board
belongs to the Minister of Justice and the prosecutor who brought the disciplinary action.

3. The notary who has been disciplinary prosecuted has the right to appeal against the conviction.

4. The appeal is filed by the notary public who was disciplinary sentenced, within one month of the
service of the appealed decision on him, as well as the Minister of Justice and the prosecutor who brought
the prosecution, within one month of the notification of the decision to them, however, no more than two
months from the issuance of the decision. The deadline is suspended in case of force majeure and for as
long as it lasts and from August 1 to 31 of each year.

5. The appeal is filed with the secretary of the council that issued the contested decision, after a relevant
report has been drawn up. Those who, according to paragraph 2, have the right of appeal, can also
exercise it with a document addressed to the mentioned secretary, while the Minister of Justice can also
with an order to the competent prosecutor.

The arrested person can also exercise his appeal by submitting it to a post office by registered letter.

6. By filing an appeal, the case is transferred to the competent council, which, if the appellant is only the
defendant, cannot make his position worse.

7. The deadline for filing an appeal and its filing suspends the execution of the decision.

8. Regarding the procedure before the second-level disciplinary councils, the rights of the accused, the
issuance and service of the decision to him apply according to what is defined above, in the case of first-
level councils. In the appeal trial, the defendant is not called to the Apology again.

9. Decisions issued on appeal are not subject to any legal remedy, except for the resumption of the
disciplinary proceedings.

Article 87
Repetition of disciplinary proceedings.

For each irrevocable decision of the disciplinary board, the repetition of the disciplinary trial is requested:

1. If after the issuance of a conviction or acquittal decision, new unknown facts were revealed or the facts
that were taken into account for the issuance of a conviction or acquittal decision were overturned by an
irrevocable court decision.

2. The repetition of the disciplinary trial is requested in the case of a conviction by the convicted notary
and in the case of an acquittal by the Minister of Justice.

3. The convicted person makes the application by submitting a petition to the secretary of the council that
issued the decision and a relevant report is drawn up.

The request is also made by the Minister of Justice with a document addressed to the mentioned secretary
or by an order to the competent prosecutor.

4. The change in the official status of the one who was prosecuted does not affect the competence of the
above council for the repetition of the trial.

5. During the retrial, the procedure set out in articles 80 to 84 shall be followed. The decision shall be
issued following an application by the prosecuted notary public with attached the conviction issued
against him or by the Minister of Justice who shows a corresponding acquittal or the one deemed as
unreasonably lenient.
6. In any case, the request to repeat the procedure is addressed and heard by the second-level disciplinary
board.

CHAPTER FIVE
CONSEQUENCES OF DECISIONS
Article 88
Decisions Subject to Execution.

1. Disciplinary decisions are executed when they become irrevocable.

2. The president of the disciplinary board forwards a copy of the decision, issued by the board to the
Ministry of Justice, to the prosecutor who brought disciplinary proceedings to supervise the Execution of
the disciplinary penalty imposed on the Notarial Association, to which the accused notary belongs.
Irrevocable decisions are entered in the personal file of the notary public.

The case files are kept in the file of the council that issued the relevant decision.

3.In each Notary Association, a book is kept, approved by the president of the Notary Association, in
which the Disciplinary penalties imposed on the notaries of the district of the association are noted. In
this alphabetical book the decisions of each case are recorded and the copies of the decisions mentioned
in the previous paragraph are placed in the file of each notary public.

For the disciplinary decisions issued before the entry into force of this Code, the Notarial Associations
are obliged to request from the Ministry of Justice or the competent prosecutors of the first courts and
appeals to grant them copies of these decisions free of charge for the entry of the penalties in the above
book and the placement them in the individual file of the notary that they concern.

4. After one year from the publication of this Code, the competent prosecutor of the disciplinary
procedure may request from the association a copy of the disciplinary status of the suspended notary
public. The sent copy of the disciplinary report does not indicate the penalty of reprimand after five years
from the irrevocable decision, fine after ten years and temporary suspension after fifteen years.

Article 89
Execution of sentences.

1.Irrevocable disciplinary decisions are executed under the supervision of the competent prosecutor.

2.The punishment of reprimand is carried out by serving the person punished with the irrevocable
decision imposed on him by the disciplinary board.

3. The penalty of the fine is executed by the competent Notarial Association by direct payment or
withholding of the amount from the distribution of government contracts. The amounts due from this
cause are a resource of the Health branch of the Notaries Insurance Fund.

The fine is also collected in the case of the notary's departure, except in the case of death, in which case
the debt is considered to have been repaid.
 4. The penalty of temporary suspension begins the day after the irrevocable decision is served on the
person who was punished. Service must be made within 30 days of the issuance of the decision.

From the beginning to the end of this sentence, the notary is not allowed to perform his duties. For this
period of time, the chairman of the council or the judge presiding over the Court of First Instance
appoints his deputy, only for the cases referred to in paragraph 5 of article 3 hereof. The deputy is entitled
to collect the entire royalties.

Article 90
Limitation of disciplinary penalties.

The penalties recorded with the irrevocable disciplinary decisions and not executed are subject to a
statute of limitations, which starts from the date of issuance of the relevant decision and is three years for
the reprimand, five years for the fine and seven years for the temporary suspension.

CHAPTER SIX
PROCEDURE BEFORE DISCIPLINARY COURTS
Article 91
Decision to refer.

1.If the disciplinary council judges the notary prosecuted before it to be guilty of the disciplinary offense
and punishable by the penalty of permanent suspension, it issues a reasoned decision to refer the case to
the competent court.

2. This decision is notified to the inmate and is immediately forwarded together with the case file to the
president of the above court.

3.No legal remedy, ordinary or extraordinary, is allowed against the decision to refer.

Article 92
Pretrial.

1.The president of the court to which the referral decision is made designates one of its members as
rapporteur. The act of the proposer is notified by service to the defendant.

2.During the Pre-Trial, there is no need to repeat what is defined in articles 72 to 79, and for the rest,
what is defined in articles 74 and 80 hereof apply accordingly.

Article 93
Main Process.

1. Those related to the court session are governed by the relevant organic provisions.

For the rest, what is defined in articles 80 and 85 hereof shall apply accordingly.

2. During the discussion in front of the court, the arrested person can also be present with a lawyer.

Article 94
 Remedies.

1. The disciplinary proceedings before the court may be repeated under the terms of article 87.

2. The disciplinary decisions of the appeals courts are subject to appeal before the criminal division of
the Supreme Court under the terms and procedure of the relevant provisions of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, which are applied accordingly.

3. Without prejudice to the above, the disciplinary decisions of the courts are not subject to any legal
remedy, regular or extraordinary.

Article 95
Implementation.

1. The court decision that imposes the penalty of definitive suspension is forwarded to the Minister of
Justice for the issuance of the relevant decision.

2. If the court imposed a lighter sentence or declared the accused innocent, the provisions of articles 88
to 90 of this Code shall apply and be acted upon.

3. If the indicted person was declared innocent or was punished with a lighter sentence after a retrial, the
court decision is forwarded to the Minister of Justice to issue the decision to restore the person
prosecuted, in accordance with what is defined in paragraph 4 of this article.

4. The notary public who is reinstated by annulment or imposition of a lighter penalty occupies the
existing vacancy or, in case of lack of a position, remains temporarily in excess by performing his duties
and occupies the first vacant position.

THIRD PART
CHAPTER ONE
COLLECTIVE INSTRUMENTS OF NOTARIES
Article 96
Primary Collective Bodies.

Primary collective bodies of notaries are the Notarial Associations and secondary the Coordinating
Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece (S.E.S.S.E.).

CHAPTER TWO
SECURITY ASSOCIATIONS - GENERAL ASSEMBLY - ADMINISTRATIVE BOARDS
Article 97
Headquarters of Notarial Associations

Note.: as amended by par. 6, article 59 of Law 3160/2003, Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

1.Notarial Associations, of which the notaries of their region are mandatory members, are those that have
been established and operate when the Notarial Code (Law 2830/2000) came into force, i.e. the Notarial
Associations of Courts of Appeal: a) Athens - Piraeus - Aegean and Dodecanese , b) Thessaloniki, c)
Thrace, d) Ioannina, e) Corfu, f) Crete, g) Larisa, h) Nafplion and i) Patras.
2.At the request of two-thirds (2/3) of the total number of notaries in the district of a Court of Appeal,
new Notarial Associations may be established with the seat of the Court of Appeal.

Article 98
Administrative and financial independence
As amended by par. 1 of art. 99 of Law 4485/2017 with effect on 04/08/2017.

1.The Notarial Associations are legal entities of public law, association form and are under the
supervision of the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights.

As added by par. 1 of art. 99 of Law 4485/2017 with effect on 04/08/2017.

2.Notarial Associations are not financed by the state budget. They have their own property, financial,
administrative and managerial autonomy and autonomy and are governed by elected Boards of Directors.

As added by par. 1 of art. 99 of Law 4485/2017 with effect on 04/08/2017.

3.The management and utilization of their property, the supervision and control of the financial and
management actions of the associations belongs exclusively to the Boards of Directors and their General
Assemblies.

As added by par. 1 of art. 99 of Law 4485/2017 with effect on 04/08/2017.

4.The Notarial Associations can establish legal entities with a corporate or non-corporate form for the
management of electronic systems and applications necessary for the processing of their professional
needs and utilization of their property.

As added by par. 1 of art. 99 of Law 4485/2017 with effect on 04/08/2017.

Article 98a

Contracts of Notarial Associations with third parties, which concern the creation or purchase or
acquisition of a license or the maintenance or technical or operational support of electronic systems,
software, platform or portal of electronic applications and related services and which are used for the
professional needs of of their members, to carry out or facilitate their professional duties or actions, are
governed by private law

Note:as art. 98a was added with par. 2 of art. 99 of n. 4485/2017

Article 99
Purpose of Notarial Associations.

The purpose of the Notarial Associations is the promotion and strengthening of the notarial institution,
the care for the scientific and professional elevation of notaries, the diligence and promotion of issues
concerning notaries, the supervision of the good conduct of their service, professional and scientific
cooperation with notarial associations of other states, the care in favor of sick or infirm working or non-
working notaries, the employees of the association and the members of the families of these persons, as
well as the material and moral support of the association of retired notaries within the financial
possibilities of the associations notaries.

Article 100
Notary Society Resources

Resources of each Notary Society are:

a) The annual subscription of its members, as determined each time by a decision of the board of
directors.

b) The rights collected according to Articles 115, 117 and 118 hereof.

c) The rights for the issuance by the archives of copies of all kinds of contracts and documents in general,
which are found in it and since the archives is not a separate public or other service as mentioned in
particular in the relevant chapter of this Code for the archives.

d) Extraordinary contributions, donations and sponsorships.

e) The rights to issue copies of contracts and all kinds of deeds for the use of the State.

f) The rights provided for in paragraph 5 of Article 40 hereof and

g) Any other income arising from any other cause by decision of the board of directors.

Note.: as amended by par. 7 art. 59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

Article 101
Association Housing.

Each Notarial Association shall ensure that it obtains a privately owned building for the installation of its
services and the services of the archives as specifically defined in the chapter "About archives".

Article 102
Association Representation - Withdrawal of funds.

1. The Notaries Association is represented before the courts and the authorities by the chairman of the
board of directors, and in case of his disability by the vice-chairman and in the case of his disability by
another member of the board of directors, who is designated by his act.

2. The withdrawal from the bank of deposited funds of the Notary Association is done by its treasurer
following a decision of the board of directors, which determines the amount to be withdrawn.

Article 103
Notarial Association Administration.
 1.Each Notary Society is governed by a board of directors.

2.The board of directors of each Notarial Association consists of the president and four regular members
when the number of members of the Association is up to one hundred, six when the number of members
is from one hundred one to three hundred, eight when the number of members is from three hundred one
up to eight hundred and twelve, when the number of members is greater than eight hundred. If the
position of the president remains vacant for any reason or if he does not accept his election, elections are
held within forty days to elect a new president of the board of directors. The election is valid for the
remainder of the previous president's term. Nominations are submitted within a period of fifteen (15)
days after the position becomes vacant. For the rest, the provisions on seniority of the Notarial
Associations apply accordingly.

Until the election of a new president, the duties of president of the board of directors of the Association
shall be exercised by the vice-president and, in his absence, by the majority advisor. If for any reason the
position of a director elected as an individual candidate becomes vacant or if all the directors elected by a
combination do not accept the election or all regular members of the board of directors resign so that
there are not enough remaining members of the combination to fill the vacancies taken over by the
combination, elections are held to elect new directors to fill only the vacant positions for the remainder of
the board's term.

3.The service of the board members is provided without remuneration. However, if the members of the
board of directors also include notaries who have their headquarters in a place that is more than 100
kilometers or 10 nautical miles from the headquarters of the Association, these members are entitled to
receive travel and accommodation expenses, which are defined by decision of the board of directors of
the association concerned.

Also, by decision of the board of directors, the amount to be paid per month to the president of the club
for performance expenses is defined.

Note.: as amended by par. 8 art. 59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

4. The board of directors of each association meets at the seat of any justice of the peace district of the
relevant appeals court whenever convened by its president, but at least once a month except in the month
of August or when requested by 1/4 of the members of the board of directors.

5. The board of directors has a quorum when its members present are more than those absent.

6. The obstructed president is replaced by the obstructed vice-chairman, the first advisor in preference
crosses of the majority combination.

7.The decisions of the board of directors are taken by a majority of the members present.

In the event of a tie, the president's vote prevails.

Article 104
Election of members of the Board of Directors

1. The members of the boards of directors of the Notarial Associations are selected by elections, which
are held every three years on the last Sunday of May simultaneously throughout the territory. The number
of councilors to be elected is determined by a decision of the board of directors of the Notarial
Association sixty (60) days before the elections.

2.In the Notaries Association of the Courts of Appeal of Athens, Piraeus, Aegean and Dodecanese,
voting is extended to the next working day.

In this case, the safekeeping of the voters and other electoral materials is ensured by the members of the
electoral committee.

Article 105
General Assembly of members.

1. The members of the Notarial Associations meet in a regular General Assembly on the last Sunday of
January of each year to take a decision on the balance sheet of the financial year that ended and on the
budget of the following year, as well as on any other matter expressly mentioned in the daily agenda.
arrangement.

2. The board of directors or its chairman can call the general assembly as often as it deems necessary.
The convening of an extraordinary general meeting is mandatory and as often as 1/10 of the members of
the Association request it in writing for certain issues. At every meeting of Notarial Associations, in order
to have a quorum, at least 1/6 of the registered members of the Association must be present. If the
quorum is not present, the assembly is repeated on the following Sunday, at which time it meets and
decides regardless of the number of attendees.

Article 106
Discount for members of the Board of Directors.

1.From the office of the member of the board of directors, the following shall automatically be removed:

a) Notary public who lost his status for any reason.

b) A notary who was disciplined during his term of office as president or advisor with a penalty of at least
one month of suspension.

2. In the cases of the previous paragraph, the Minister of Justice issues, either at home or after a report
from the Notaries Association, a certificate of deduction.

Article 107
Responsibilities of the Board of Directors.

1.The board of directors, in order to fulfill the purposes of the Association, may:

a) To organize in his region, for the members of the Association, special lectures or series of short
courses (seminars) on topics related to the exercise of the function of the notary public.

b) To elicit opinions from the competent bodies on controversial issues and to provide relevant
instructions to the members of the Association.
c) To provide opinions on draft legislation concerning notaries and their operation.

d) To supervise the appropriate and dignified exercise of the function by the members of the Association,
to whom he can address recommendations and observations.

e) To oversee, for the Association's representation, the development of bilateral cooperative relations
with other notarial associations or associations or bodies of other states for the promotion and
advancement of notarial law.

f) To undertake the resolution of disputes between the members of the Association, to examine, ex officio
or following a document or oral report or announcement by a public authority, the conduct of the notary,
to determine whether or not in the specific case it is contrary to notarial ethics and the text legislation, to
address observations to the notary public or to deprive him of one to six distributions from government
contracts or to refer the case to the body responsible for the exercise of disciplinary proceedings.

Any observations from the board of directors are placed in the relevant individual file of the notary
public.

Note.: as amended by par. 9 art. 59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

g) To exercise control with the members themselves, the employees of the association or notaries for the
exact observance of the obligations of the members for the state contracts and to determine the operating
time of the notaries within the framework of the ministerial decisions and

h) To submit to the Ministry of Justice or another Ministry, after prior notification to the Coordinating
Committee, proposals for laws, decrees, decisions to regulate matters related to notaries and their
operation.

Article 108
Antiquities of Notarial Associations.

1. With a presidential decree, issued at the proposal of the Minister of Justice, the qualifications and
number of candidate members, the deadline for submitting nominations, the procedure for conducting the
elections, the start and end time of the voting are defined in relation to the nomination of the members of
the board of directors , the insult to the prestige of the elections, the way of appointing the members of
the administration, the composition and composition of the electoral committees and the voters, the
preparation and publication of the list of candidates, the form and content of the ballots, the shape of the
envelopes, the drawing up minutes, announcing the winners, repeating the voting, submitting and
adjudicating objections, publishing the results of the elections and setting up the boards of directors in a
body. as well as any other necessary details.

2. Until the decree of the previous paragraph is issued, the procedure and all matters related to the
seniority in the Notarial Associations are regulated by the presidential decree in force.

Article 109
Secondary collective body of notaries.
 1. The secondary collective body of notaries is the Coordinating Committee of Notarial Associations of
Greece (S.E.S.S.E.), which is formed by the respective presidents of the Notarial Associations of the
State.

2. President of S.E.S.S.E. is the current president of the Notarial Association of the Court of Appeal of
Athens, Piraeus, Aegean and Dodecanese (S.S.E.A.P.A.D.) or his legal deputy. The vice-president is the
president of the Thessaloniki Notarial Association or his legal deputy and the treasurer alternates every
year the presidents of the other Notarial Associations or their legal deputies in order based on the number
of members of each Association. Duty of Secretary of S.E.S.S.E. performed by the general secretary of
the Notarial Association at the headquarters of which the committee meets.

3.The president of the Notarial Association as a member of S.E.S.S.E. obstructed is replaced by the vice-
president of the relevant Notarial Association.

4. S.E.S.S.E. meets regularly during the months of January, June and October, and exceptionally
whenever called by its president or if requested by at least five of its members, with a written request to
the president, containing the topics to be discussed.

The place of the meeting is determined each time by a decision of the S.E.S.S.E.. The participants in the
S.E.S.S.E. except for the president whose district is meeting, they are entitled to receive compensation
borne by the Notarial Association to which every president who participates in the meeting of the
S.E.S.S.E. belongs. The compensation includes travel, return and overnight expenses up to two days.

S.E.S.S.E. it is in a quorum if those present are more than those absent and decides by majority vote,
except in matters concerning government contracts, in which case a unanimous vote is required.

In the event of a tie, the president's vote prevails.

Article 110
Purpose - Competence of Coordinating Committee.

1. The purpose of the Coordinating Committee is:

a) the coordination of the activity of the Notarial Associations of the country,

b) the representation of the notarial body in the country, in the International Union of Latin Notaries, in
the Council of Notaries of the European Union, in international organizations and commissions of
notariality, in international conferences and in organizations of legal science in general,

c) the study of notarial problems and the recommendation of measures for its upgrade,

d) the convergence and organization of pan-Hellenic conferences of notaries,

e) the communication and development of cooperation with judicial officials, academics and
representatives of associations of other professions,

o) the competent proposal of draft laws, decrees, decisions and studies to deal with immediate or long-
term problems,
g) the care and suggestion of measures for the improvement of the Legal Pension Fund and the Notary
Insurance Fund,

h) the formulation of an opinion on issues related to state contracts and notarial practice.

2. The task of the coordination committee is the obligation to draw up within two years from the
publication of this law, within the framework of this Code, rules of notarial ethics, which, after their
ratification by the Minister of Justice, bind all notaries in the country.

Relevant: par.3 article 12 Law 2993/2002, Official Gazette A 58/26.3.2002

Article 111
Coordinating Committee Headquarters - Operating expenses.

The headquarters of the Coordination Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece is Athens and its
office is the offices of the Notarial Association of the Courts of Appeal of Athens, Piraeus, Aegean and
Dodecanese. The operating expenses of S.E.S.S.E. is borne by her and is divided according to the number
of members of each Association. Until the recruitment of staff for the service of S.E.S.S.E. after a
decision of the Board of Directors of S.S.E.A.P.A.D., its staff can be used. The documents of S.E.S.S.E.
signed by its president and sealed with its seal.

Article 112
Conferences of notaries.

1. The Coordinating Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece organizes a Panhellenic Conference

of Notaries every two years.

2. The place, the time of the Conference and the topics to be discussed at it are defined by a decision of
the S.E.S.S.E.

3. For the designation of the location of the Conference, nominations are submitted by the Notary
Societies to S.E.S.S.E. within two months of the end of the previous conference. If there is no nomination
of a Notarial Association for the convergence of the conference in its region, it is held in Athens.

4. The S.S.S.E. decides on the organization of the conference, its revenues, expenses and details.

5. The responsibility for implementing the decisions of S.E.S.S.E. for the conference is the Notary
Society in whose district it will be convened.

6. All the country's notaries are invited to the conference with invitations stating the time and place of
the conference and the topics to be discussed. By decision of S.E.S.S.E. representatives of the
International Union of Notaries and representatives of Notarial Associations and Organizations of other
countries may also be invited to the conference.

7. The competence of the conference includes the general study and expression of opinions and
observations on the legislation concerning notaries and the exercise of their duties. The relevant findings
are submitted to the competent state bodies.
 8.During the meetings of the conference, those defined for the meetings of the General Assemblies of
the Notarial Associations apply analogously.

FOURTH PART
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - RECORDS - MILITARY CONTRACTORS - FINAL
PROVISIONS
CHAPTER ONE
STATE BANKING AND CAR CONTRACTS DISTRIBUTION OF RIGHTS FROM THESE
CONTRACTS
Article 113
Proportional rights of notaries - Distribution of rights.

The proportional rights of the Notary from the drawing up of contracts referred to in Articles 115, 117
and 118 hereof are attributed to the relevant Notary Association or the notary authorized by the
Association and are distributed in accordance with the provisions of Articles 116, 117, 118 and 120
hereof.

Article 114
Allocation of government contracts.

1. In each magistrate's court district, in which more than one notary public is based, orders or plans for
the drawing up of contracts, deeds or reports, in which persons referred to in article 115 are authorized,
are sent to the cities where the Notarial Association is based to its president, otherwise to the authorized
notary designated by the relevant Notarial Association.

2. The president of the association or the authorized notary, to whom the above orders or plans are sent,
distributes them without delay and in order to the notaries based in this justice of the peace district and
orders them to draw up the relevant contracts, deeds or reports.

3. In the case of contracts, acts or reports of article 115, drawn up in the region of the magistrates' courts
referred to in paragraph 3 of article 4 hereof, the above orders or plans are sent to the president of the
Notarial Association of the Courts of Appeal of Athens, Piraeus, Aegean and Dodecanese, the who
distributes them without delay in order to the notaries of the districts of these magistrates' courts and
orders them to draw up the relevant contracts, deeds or reports.

4. A notary who receives the order of the first paragraph directly from the persons referred to in article
115 or from persons who will contract with them, must immediately forward it, together with the relevant
documents, to the president of the Notarial Association or the authorized notary to act those defined in
paragraphs 2 and 3 of this article. Violation of this provision constitutes a disciplinary offense and is
punishable by a fine of at least twenty thousand (20,000) drachmas.

5. Regarding auctions that are expedited based on the K.E.D.E. the president of the relevant Notarial
Association or the authorized notary distributes them in order among all the notaries of his justice of the
peace district and orders them to process them. The regions of the magistrates' courts referred to in
paragraph 1 of article 4 hereof are considered as a single region for the application of the provisions of
this paragraph.
In a justice of the peace district where more than ten notaries serve, the board of directors of the relevant
Association, upon application by the interested parties, may, by its decision, exempt those over sixty
years of age from conducting the above auctions.

Irrespective of the number of notaries who serve, pregnant women and those with a serious health issue
certified by a certificate from a state hospital are exempt.

Article 115
Identify government contracts.

The provision of the preceding article covers the contracts, deeds or reports in which one of the parties
contracting, co-signing, consenting or acquiring rights is:

1.a.) The State, Municipalities and Communities, Unions and Associations of Municipalities and
Communities, second-level Local Government Organizations (L.O.G.) (County Self-Government), Public
Associations, Legal Entities under Public Law between of which Associations, Lawyers, Medical, Dental,
Pharmacists, Notaries, the Chambers, Technical, Geotechnical, Economic, Commercial, Industrial,
Maritime, the Union of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Union of Professional and Industrial
Chambers of Greece, Public Institutions, among which the Higher Educational Institutions, Hospitals,
Nurseries, Kindergartens, Orphanages, Nursing Homes, State Theaters, Museums, the Insurance Funds of
main and auxiliary insurance, the Port Funds, the Piraeus Port Organization (O.L.P.) or Organizations of
other Ports of the Country, the Unemployment, Aid and War Victims Funds, the Deposits and Loans
Fund, the Pavement Fund, the Political Parties represented in the Parliament, the Athens Stock Exchange.

b) State or Public Organizations and Organizations or Enterprises of Common Interest.

c) State, Public or Municipal enterprises or enterprises that have been granted by said legal entities,
including the Public Electricity Company (D.E.H.), the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization
(T.E.), the Olympic Aviation (OA).

d) Beneficial Institutions of the Civil Code or Law 2039/1939 that came under the State and are financed
or subsidized by it.

e) The State Banks of Greece, Agricultural Bank and the Hellenic Bank of Industrial Development.

f) Banking and other Joint Stock Companies in which the State or the above Legal Entities own all or the
majority of the shares of the corporate capital or have a state privilege or state grant. National Bank and
Emporiki Bank are excluded, which are subject to the provisions of article 117 hereof, unless they grant
loans on behalf of the Workers' Housing Organization.

g) State Legal Entities that have been definitively characterized by law or the courts as Private Law Legal
Entities, which are financed or subsidized by any of the above legal entities such as the Hellenic
Transport Organization (OSE), the Autonomous Raisin Organization (ASO).

h) Subsidiaries of the State and Legal Entities of subsections a' to g' of this paragraph, which are directly
or indirectly controlled by them, as well as subsidiaries of the subsidiary companies.
I) Compulsory Cooperatives or Associations of Public or Private Law Cooperatives, as well as any kind
of Cooperatives or Associations of Cooperatives such as Construction Cooperatives, Agricultural
Cooperatives.

1) Mount Agios Oros, the Holy Temples, the Holy Monasteries and the institutions of Mount Agios Oros.

k) Ecclesiastical Legal Entities of Public or Private Law of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Christ of
Greece, such as the Church of Greece as a whole, the Archdiocese, the Holy Metropolises, the Holy
Temples, the Holy Monasteries, the Archdiocese of Crete, the Holy Metropolises of Crete, the Apostolic
Ministry of the Church of Greece, Church Institutions, the administration and management of church
property, as well as Legal Entities or Communities of any known religion or denomination.

l) Decentralized or independent Public Services, such as the Directorate of State Lotteries, the National
Printing Office, the Libraries of A.E.I., the National Film Archive, the Postal Savings Bank, the Hellenic
Atomic Energy Commission, the Legal Council of the State, the Pedagogical Institute, the Local Radio
Commission, the National Broadcasting Council.

m) Socialized Enterprises in the form of Public or Private Legal Entity.

n) Private Enterprises when persons referred to in this article participate in the contributing capital with a
participation rate of fifty percent (50%) or more.

2.a) Public Law Legal Entities governed in principle by the rules of private law including:

aa) Of a business nature (Public Enterprises), such as the Hellenic Post Office (EL.T A.), the Hellenic
Railway Organization (OSE), the Athens-Piraeus Electric Buses (H.L.P.A.P.), the Fund of Insurance,
Credit, Exports (K.A.P.E.), the Athens-Piraeus Electric Railways (H.S.A.P.), the Urban Transport
Company (E.A.S.), the Public Town Planning Company , Settlement and Housing, the State Real Estate
Company (K.E.D.), the Water Supply and Sewerage Company of Protevousa (E.Y D.A.P.), Water and
Sewerage Organizations, the National Medicines Organization, the State Pharmacy, the Hellenic State
Company for Technical Works (EKETE), the Public Enterprise for the Construction of Nursing Units
(D.EP.AN. NO.M.), the Commercial Intervention Organization (EM. P .O.), the Airlight Company.

bb) Of an institutional nature which have a simple production activity, such as the Institute of Geological
and Mining Research (I.G.M.E.), the Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium Manufacturing
Enterprises and Handicrafts (E.O.M.M.E.X. ).

cc) Of a corporate nature which have the purpose of regulating a certain professional activity, such as the
Organization for Healthcare Improvements (O.E.B.).

b) Public companies or subsidiary public companies with corporate form under commercial law in which
the State or OTA is a mandatory shareholder or partner. or Special Purpose Legal Entities of any
category, such as Hellenic Television (ET), New Hellenic Television (NET), Hellenic Radio (ERA), the
Enterprise Reconstruction Organization (OAE).

c) Public Legal Entities fully governed by private law (mixed economy enterprises).

d) Services that operate on a concession basis such as K.T.E.L..

e) Private companies or joint ventures in the establishment or transformation or modification or merger of
which one of the persons referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this participated and continues to
participate.

3. The provisions herein include those other public sector bodies that fall under the provision of article
14 paragraph 1 of Law 2190/1994 (Government Gazette 28 A) and are not included in the above cases.

4. The foreign states.

5. The same provision covers acts that follow the report of a forced, voluntary or judicial auction,
among which the summary of a validating report, the act of delivery of a thing and the payment of an
auction, if the expediter or applicant or continues the auction or as it is by the persons referred to in the
previous paragraphs, as well as the acts concerning the liquidation of businesses in accordance with the
applicable law, if the liquidator or a company under liquidation or the buyer is one of the persons
mentioned in the previous paragraphs.

6. The above does not apply to contracts, acts or reports for which only fixed fees are collected.

Article 116
Allocation of pro rata rights from government contracts

From the proportional rights of the notary which derive from the drafting of contracts, deeds or reports of
the persons referred to in article 115, the notary who drafts them withholds a percentage of fifteen percent
(15%) and returns the remaining amount to the fund of the relevant Association or to the authorized
notary, in order to be distributed according to article 120.

As amended by art. 15 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

Article 117
Contracts of banks and troubled companies - Protests.

1.For contracts of local or foreign Banks that operate or are entered into in Greece, except for those
referred to in article 115, the notary who draws them up deposits eighty percent (80%) of the proportional
rights to the treasury of the relevant Notary Association or to the authorized notary, for these to be
distributed in accordance with Article 120, and retains the remaining twenty percent (20%).

The same obligation rests with the notary public for contracts in which the parties are subsidiaries of the
Banks of the first paragraph or companies during the establishment, modification, conversion or merger
of which the above Banks or subsidiary companies of the aforementioned Banks participate.

As amended by art. 16 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

2.Paragraph 1 also applies to the acts concerning the liquidation of problematic companies in accordance
with the applicable law, if the liquidator or the company under liquidation or the buyer is a person from
those mentioned in the same paragraph.

As amended by art. 16 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

3.Par. 1 also applies to the acts that follow the process of compulsory, voluntary or judicial auction, such
as the summary of the certification report, the act of delivery of a thing and the payment of an auction,
whether urgent or requesting or continuing or as a person from those mentioned in the previous
paragraphs.

In the case of the previous paragraph, the notary of the proportional rights has the obligation to deposit
seventy-five percent (75%) to the Fund of the relevant Notary Association or to the authorized notary and
retains the remaining twenty-five percent (25%). For the rest, the second paragraph of par. 1 applies.

As amended by art. 16 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

4.The following applies to the rights from protest letters drawn up by the notary every month, regardless
of the Bank from which they originate:

a. in the first one hundred (100) protests he keeps seventy-five percent (75%) of the rights for himself and
assigns the remaining twenty-five percent (25%) to the treasury of the relevant Notary Association or to
the authorized notary,

b. in the next hundred (100), he keeps fifty percent (50%) of the rights for himself and assigns the
remaining fifty percent (50%) to the fund of the relevant Notary Association or to the authorized notary,

c. for protests from two hundred and one (201) and above he keeps twenty-five percent (25%) for himself
and from the rest he assigns seventy-five percent (75%) to the Association.

As amended by art. 16 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

5.The total fee withheld by the notary from the drawing up of the contracts of paras. 1, 2 and 3 cannot
exceed per year, for those notaries whose headquarters are in the regions of the magistrates' courts under
the Courts of First Instance of Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, twice of the amount of the maximum
pension granted annually to notaries by the Legal Fund and for notaries serving in the regions of the other
magistrates' courts of the country, the equivalent of the annual income of the above pension.

Amounts corresponding to the percentage withheld by the notary from the drawing up of the contracts of
paras. 1, 2 and 3 must be attributed to the fund of the relevant Notary Association or the authorized
notary, in the event that they exceed the limits of the previous paragraph, in order for them to be
distributed as well in accordance with Article 120.

As amended by art. 16 of Law 4995/2022 with effect on 11/18/2022.

Article 118
Distribution of proportional rights from cars - motorcycles.

For preliminary or final contracts for the transfer of cars or motorcycles of any kind, in which persons
referred to in articles 115 and 117 are not parties, the notary retains 70% and the remaining 30% is
assigned to the relevant Notarial Association or to the district magistrate appointed for the drawing up of
state contracts notary public, in order for it to be distributed in accordance with what is defined in article
120 hereof.
 Article 119
Filing of proportional rights.

1.The notary who draws up contracts under articles 115, 117 and 118 must file with the relevant Notary
Association or the notary authorized by the regional magistrate the proportional rights of these contracts
within the first ten days of the month following the signing of the contract. After the expiry of the above
deadline, the notary becomes overdue and owes overdue interest.

Note.: as amended by par.7 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

2. The overdue sums due to the above reason, with interest on late payment, are collected by the relevant
Notary Association or the authorized notary from the obliged notary in accordance with the provisions of
the K.E.D.E.

Title for the certification and collection of these claims is the decision of the Board of Directors of the
relevant Notarial Association, which is fully justified and precisely determines the amount to be collected
from arrears and interest during the time period to which they correspond, according to the audit reports
of the competent bodies of the Association. For performance and Execution, locally competent bailiffs
appointed by the Association's Board of Directors are used.

Note.: as amended by par.8 art. 32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

3. Violation of the provisions of paragraph 1 hereof is a disciplinary offense punishable by at least a fine.

4. The withholding by the notary of rights from the contracts of articles 115, 117 and 118 hereof beyond
the period of three months from the drawing up of the contracts is punished according to the provisions
on embezzlement of the Criminal Code (article 375).

5. With regard to the rights and default interest, the relevant Notarial Association or the notary authorized
by the judicial district is considered the debtor's general agent for the collection of the above-mentioned
notary's rights and is authorized to bring an action against the debtor for their collection.

Article 120
Preemption from proportional rights.

From the amounts collected by the Association or the authorized notary, in accordance with the
provisions of articles 116, 117 and 118:

1. Excluded:

a) The amount necessary per month to cover the needs of the Notarial Association, as determined by a
decision of its board of directors and which cannot exceed on an annual basis the amount of the
association's budget approved by the State.

b) A percentage of up to five percent (5%) in favor of the special account established by Article 30 of
Law 4507/1966 at the Bank of Greece with the title "Account for the distribution of rights derived from
government contracts. The exact percentage of the previous section is defined each time by a decision of
the Minister of Justice after the opinion of the Coordinating Committee of the Notarial Associations of
Greece.
Note.: as amended by par. 10 art. 59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

2. To notaries who are based in a city with a population of less than five thousand inhabitants and whose
annual income is less than eight hundred thousand (800,000) drachmas, the difference of the annual
income is paid from the special account for strengthening their income once a year up to the amount of
eight hundred thousand (800,000) drachmas. Funds may be allocated from the same account to notaries
who have their headquarters in cities of border regions regardless of population, as long as these incomes
do not exceed ninety thousand (90,000) drachmas per month. The funds are allocated by decision of the
Minister of Justice after an opinion of Coordinating Committee of the Notarial Associations of Greece. In
order for the Coordinating Committee of Notarial Associations of Greece to form an opinion, it is entitled
to receive information on the movement of this account from the Bank of Greece and the number of
beneficiary notaries from the Ministry of Justice.

The same account covers, following a decision of the Coordinating Committee, the costs for the operation
of the training seminars, for the publication of magazines, books or forms of notarial interest, for the
organization of pan-Hellenic and international conferences concerning notarial law, as well as the costs of
creating , operation and maintenance of a specialized bank of legal information for notaries and electronic
correspondence services of notaries in any way.

Note.: as amended by par.9 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

3. A percentage in favor of the special account is not withheld if there is a balance left in the Bank of
Greece account that is twice the amount paid the previous year to the beneficiaries and is sufficient to
cover the beneficiaries.

Note:as amended by par. 10 art. 59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

4. The amount remaining after the deductions is distributed equally by the concerned Notarial
Association or the authorized notary among the beneficiaries of this justice of the peace district referred
to in article 121.

Note.: as amended by par. 10 art. 59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

5. The employees of the Notarial Association of Appeal Courts of Athens, Piraeus, Aegean and
Dodecanese continue to be paid from 1.1.1997 the allowance provided for by the provision of article 23
par. 3 of Law 1868/1989. This allowance is defined as of 1.1.1997 at fifteen thirty percent and from
1.1.2000 at ten thirty percent of each employee's salary as provided for each time by the current salary
schedule. The sums of money paid as a personal difference are set off in this allowance. Pending trials on
this subject, for which no final judgment has been issued, are abolished

Note.: as par.5 was added with par.10 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

Article 121
Dividend beneficiaries.

1. Dividend beneficiaries are:

a) The active notaries, who are based in this justice of the peace district. The regions of the magistrates'
courts referred to in paragraph 3 of article 4 hereof for the implementation of the provisions of this
paragraph are considered as a single region.

Note.: as amended by par.11 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

b) Notaries who leave the service for twelve years from their departure and as long as they receive a
pension from the Legal Fund and do not occupy another salaried public service or do not practice another
profession for which they are insured with any main or auxiliary insurance body.

A retired notary public who has not completed at least twenty years of actual notary service is not entitled
to a dividend. This provision applies to notaries who will retire after the entry into force of this. Retired
notaries, who have completed and will complete their eighty-second (82nd) year of age, receive the above
dividend for life.

c) The surviving spouse of a notary, who passed away regardless of his years of service, as well as his
minor or adult children up to the age of 25, as long as they are studying in higher or higher education
institutions or adult children, but unable to work due to illness. The above are entitled to receive a
dividend for twelve years from the death of the notary public.

In this case, if the beneficiary parties are more than one, the dividend is distributed proportionally.

d) The outgoing employees of the relevant Notarial Associations, as long as they have completed at least
twenty-five years of fruitful service and for a period of two years from their exit.

2.In the event of the death of a retired notary, who receives a dividend, the surviving spouse and minor
or adult children up to the age of 25 who are studying in higher or higher education institutions or adult
children who are unable to work due to illness and if the conditions of subsection c are met of the
previous paragraph, are entitled to a dividend until the completion of the period of time for which the
deceased was entitled. The provision of the previous paragraph does not occupy the fourth paragraph of
case b` of paragraph 1 of this article.

3. The time recognized by the Notary Insurance Fund as insurance time shall be considered as actual
service of a notary for the application of the provisions of this article.

4. Inability to work due to illness for the application of the provisions of this article is confirmed by a
decision of the competent health committee, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the legislation
of the Legal Fund.

5.The non-exercise of another profession and the non-insurance for this reason with a main or auxiliary
insurance body for the implementation of the provisions herein is confirmed: a) by a responsible
declaration of article 8 of Law 1599/1986 of the interested party, b) by a certified copy of the income tax
return submitted by the interested party to the relevant Notarial Association. The Association may request
any other additional information it deems necessary.

Article 122
Duplicates of payment of royalties.
The notary who draws up contracts, acts or reports referred to in articles 115, 117 and 118 must attach to
them the duplicate of the payment of the fees to the relevant Notary Association or to the authorized
notary.

Article 123
Inalienable and inalienable rights.

The notarial rights, referred to in articles 115, 117 and 118: a) are not assigned, except in cases of
repayment of housing loans by the Postal Savings Bank, the Deposit and Loan Fund or by any Bank and
b) are not confiscated, except: aa ) due to debt to the relevant Notarial Association or the authorized
notary, from arrears from rights of articles 115, 117 and 118 hereof and bb) due to spousal maintenance,
ascendants or descendents, up to 1/4 of the entire amount.

Article 124
License rights.

A notary who is on regular or sick or educational leave and with the conditions mentioned in article 29 is
entitled during his absence to receive the dividend from the distribution, according to article 120 of this
Code.

Article 125
Exclusion and suspension of dividend payment.

1. Does not receive a dividend:

a) ``Whoever has been disciplinary punished with the penalty of permanent or temporary suspension or
has been put on holiday for as long as the absence or holiday from his duties lasted due to the penalty.

b) ``Whoever absents himself for more than ten days without a legal reason from the exercise of his
duties and for as long as the absence lasted.

c) ``Anyone who delays paying the Notarial Association or the authorized notary the rights he has
collected from contracts under articles 115, 117 and 118 and until they are fully paid. The determination
of cases b' and c' of this paragraph is made by the board of directors of the Notarial Association, which
also imposes the suspension of the payment of the dividend.

2.The dividend is suspended when the beneficiary is irrevocably convicted of a felony.

CHAPTER TWO
ARCHIVES - ARCHIVES
Article 126
Establishment and project of archives.

1.In every city where ten or more notaries are based, a registry office may be established, by decision of
the Minister of Justice, after the consent of the relevant Notarial Association.

2.The registry office is under the relevant Notarial Association.

 3.The task of the registry office is to keep the files of the notaries that are delivered to it.

4. Copies of the contracts and documents kept in the archives are granted to anyone who has a legal
interest, in any case upon the order of the public prosecutor. These copies are issued by the archivist or
the authorized employee of the Association.

5. A secret or idiosyncratic will, which is kept in the registry office, is attributed only to the testator,
after his application and after the previous drawing up of a deed of revocable will drawn up before a
notary, a copy of which is attached to the deed of deposit of the will.

In addition, on the act of depositing the will, a relevant report is drawn up, signed by the testator and the
archivist or authorized employee of the Association.

6. The wills that are in the files of notaries and kept in the archives are published by the archivist or the
authorized employee of the Association in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Code, which are
applied accordingly.

7.In the event that, on the basis of the contracts kept at the registry office, the continuation of the
auction, the issuance of a summary of the certification report, is required, the competent district attorney
of the city where the registry office is located appoints a locally competent notary, as the temporary
holder of the relevant contracts and documents that are on file , who performs the relevant operations.

Article 127
Archives Resources.

1. Resources of the archive are the rights from issuing copies of contracts and documents kept in it.
Since the income from the resources of the previous paragraph is not sufficient for the operation of the
archives, the remaining amount for its operating expenses, which include the salaries of the staff, shall be
borne by the relevant Notarial Association.

2. For fees and rights for issuing copies and publishing wills, the registry office or the authorized
employee of the Association collects the same fees and rights that the notary collects respectively.

Article 128
Records of retiring notaries.

1. The file of a notary who has left in any way or died is handed over to the archives of the Notarial
Association. In cities where a registry office does not operate or operates and it is not sufficient at the
discretion of the board of directors of the relevant Notarial Association to house other records of notaries,
the following applies:".

The order of appointment is determined by the order of success in the relevant competition. The same
obligation to receive a file also applies to the notary who occupies a vacant position by being transferred
from another justice of the peace district.

Note.: as amended by par.12 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

In the event that the position of a notary public who has left or died is abolished, his file, by decision of
the competent prosecutor following the opinion of the board of directors of the relevant Notary
Association, is definitively handed over to one of the notaries serving in that city or if in that city there is
no another notary public serves, then it is handed over to a notary based in that judicial district and in the
absence of that, the file is handed over to a notary of a neighboring judicial district designated by the
board of directors of the relevant Notarial Association. Until the appointment of a definitive archivist, the
competent public prosecutor appoints one of the notaries serving in this justice of the peace district as a
temporary archivist, who has the responsibility of keeping and operating the archive.

2. The above also applies to other notary records held by the notary who left or died. In these cases, the
public prosecutor may distribute, with a reasoned order, the files of the previous paragraph to several
notaries who may serve in the same headquarters.

3. The notary who leaves the service or anyone else who owns a file is obliged to deliver it in
accordance with what was mentioned in the previous paragraphs.

Whoever refuses, despite being invited, to hand over a file that he has no right to possess, is punished by
imprisonment, if he does not have the status of a public servant, he is also prosecuted according to the
relevant provisions of the Criminal Code.

4. In the event that the spouse or child of a notary who has left the service "is appointed or" is appointed
in this justice of the peace district as a notary public, the appointee is entitled to request the delivery of
the spouse's or parent's record to him from the person who owns it, with the condition to deliver to him a
file that he owns in turn, the children are entitled to the file and among them the oldest and if there are no
children, the spouse.

Note.: as amended by par.13 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

5. The definitive or temporary archivist performs the acts referred to in paragraph 7 of article 126
hereof.

Article 129
Delivery of notary public file.

1.For the temporary or final delivery of a notary's file, a delivery and receipt protocol is drawn up in
four copies, signed by the person delivering and the person receiving the file, who also receive a copy of
the delivery - receipt protocol.

2.The person who delivers the file has the obligation, without culpable delay, to submit a copy of the
delivery-receipt protocol to the president of the council or the judge in charge of the first instance court
and the competent first instance prosecutor.

Article 130
Destruction of notary public records.

1.From the contracts and from other documents attached to the contracts of notaries or found in the files
of notaries kept in a registry office or in a notary may be destroyed:

a) protests that have been drawn up five years ago,

b) attached supporting documents, regarding auctions that are pending or have been acted upon ten years
ago, in the case of real estate, and five years ago, in the case of mobiles, excluding the inventories.

Note.: as amended by par. 12 art. 59 Law 3160/2003, Official Gazette A 165/30.6.2003.

"b) attached supporting documents, regarding auctions that are pending or have been acted upon ten years
ago, in the case of real estate, and five years ago, in the case of movables, excluding the inventories."

c) car transfer contracts for any reason that were drawn up twenty years ago,

d) all kinds of certificates, attestations and responsible declarations, as well as draft contracts drawn up
by lawyers and attached to contracts signed ten years ago.

2.The destruction of the above contracts, documents and supporting documents is done by the
competent archivist or notary for the file held either by the staff or by another notary, in the presence of a
notary designated by the board of directors of the relevant Notary Association. For the destruction, a deed
is drawn up by the notary present, which is signed by the archivist or authorized employee of the relevant
Notarial Association or the notary in possession of the file. In this act, the numbers of the deeds and
contracts, as entered in the notary's index, to be destroyed or the numbers of the deeds and contracts
attached to the documents to be destroyed and the date of these deeds or contracts are recorded. A copy
of the deed of destruction of contracts or documents is submitted by the drafting notary, within fifteen
days from the day of drafting this deed, to the competent prosecutor and the president of the council or
the judge presiding over the Court of First Instance and the relevant Notarial Association.

3.Notarial deeds, supporting documents attached to them and other documents that have been drawn up
for fifty years or more, may be delivered by the archivist or notary public who owns them to local
prefectural historical archives of the state, which have been or want to be established, for safekeeping and
research.

4. For the same purpose, some of the documents of the individual cases of paragraph 1 of this article,
which are exempt from destruction, may be delivered to the services of the previous paragraph by an
archivist or notaries.

5. For the delivery and receipt of the files referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 of this article, a delivery and
receipt protocol is drawn up, signed by the archivist or the notary in possession of the file, the
representative of the above service and by the notary appointed by the board of directors of the relevant
Notarial Association, it is submitted to the competent prosecutor, the president of the council or the judge
presiding over the court of first instance and to the relevant Notarial Association.

Article 131
File microphotography.

1.By presidential decrees, issued at the proposal of the Minister of Justice, following a request from the
relevant Notarial Association, records kept in archives or at a notary can be maintained with the
microphotographic system or with other means of modern technology.

2.The organization and operation of archives is regulated by presidential decrees, issued at the proposal
of the Minister of Justice. Until the issuance of the newest presidential decrees, the current provisions are
applied.
 Article 132
Notarial Association Loans.

Notarial Associations may contract simple or mortgage loans for the acquisition or expansion of premises
for their offices or for the archives or for reconstruction on privately owned property or for the restoration
of privately owned buildings.

Article 133
Transfer of files to the new headquarters.

In the event of a transfer of a notary public serving in another magistrate's court of this court of first
instance and if the position he served is abolished, the notary public may transfer his file and the files of
another notary public he held to his new seat, after a decision of the competent prosecutor of first instance
courts and an opinion of the relevant Notarial Association.

CHAPTER THREE
MILITARY NOTARY NOTES
Article 134
Special military notaries Responsibilities - Obligations.

1.In time of war, Special Military Notaries are appointed to formations, complexes and units of the
armed forces located outside the borders of the state. The notaries of the previous paragraph have the
authority and obligation to draw up general or special powers of attorney for the interested parties.

2.In the same way, Special military notaries are appointed in the military formations located outside the
borders of the state in Execution of international agreements.

Article 135
Appointment and Replacement.

1. The appointment is made by daily order of the relevant commander and as military notaries are
designated notaries who serve under his orders and, in the event of a shortage, judicial officers of the
judiciary of the armed forces or other officers, preferably those who have a degree in law.

2. By the same or another order of the same commander, the officer who will replace the obstructed or
absent military notary is also designated.

Article 136
Replacement.

Whoever appoints a military notary and his deputy may at any time replace them with other notaries or
officers serving under his orders.

Article 137
Notice of Appointment or Replacement.
In the cases of articles 134-136, the appointment or replacement of a notary public must, without delay,
be reported hierarchically to the chief of the General Staff of National Defense, the military justice
department and the Minister of Justice.

Article 138
`Extension of powers.

Military notaries draw up the acts provided for by article 134 of those who belong to military formations,
civil servants and private individuals who legally follow the formation, as well as military personnel
regardless of the unit to which they organically belong.

Article 139
Invalidity of deeds.

A notarial deed made by a military notary within the borders of the Greek state is invalid.

Article 140
Drafting of deeds.

The provisions of this Code also apply to military notaries and are supplemented as follows:

a) A copy of the agenda appointing him is attached to the first deed drawn up by each notary public or
deputy.

b) In case the Partnership of a second notary or two witnesses is required, the second notary is the deputy
military notary, and the witnesses are literate persons serving in the armed forces.

c) The deed also mentions the daily orders by which the acting notary or the deputy and the one who
cooperates were appointed, the formations of the armed forces to which they were appointed and to
which the legal agents and witnesses belong, as well as the place of birth them and their residence as
citizens.

d) The copies of the notarial documents are authenticated with the signature of the notary or his substitute
and with the seal of the formation to which he was appointed and in case of lack of such a seal, a special
reference is made before the authentication by signature.

e) The register of transactions is numbered and initialed on each sheet by the relevant administrator. The
numbering and initialing, as well as the number of sheets, is confirmed by acts of the same commander
on the last sheet.

Article 141
Duty of military notary public.

A military notary who refuses or unjustifiably postpones the drawing up of a deed allowed to him by
article 134, is punished by the competent military court with imprisonment for up to one year, while if he
violates any of the provisions of article 140 through negligence or deafness, he is punished according to
the military regulations.
 Article 142
Exemption from duties.

The military notary public is relieved of his duties:

a) Outside the borders of the state by daily order of the relevant commander, who also designates the
military notary to whom the originals of the acts and the documents of the notary who has been relieved
of his duties will be delivered.

b) Ex officio, when every formation in which there is a notary provided for in chapter three of this Code
returns to the interior.

Article 143
Delivery of index and files.

The relevant commander, as soon as the formation he commands returns to the interior, must order that
the indexes of the contracts and the files of all the other military notaries be handed over to one of the
military notaries, with a delivery-receipt protocol. The military notary who receives the contract indexes
and files of the previous paragraph must deliver them, as well as his own file, to the competent
department of the Ministry of Justice, with a receipt submitted to the General Staff of National Defense.

Article 144
Delivery of files to the archives

The Ministry of Justice delivers the files of the former military notaries to the archives of the Notarial
Association of the Court of Appeal of Athens, Piraeus, Aegean and Dodecanese, which issues copies of
the original deeds it received and the documents attached to them.

Article 145
Imperfection of original acts.

The originals of acts of military notaries and their copies are drawn up incompletely.

Article 146
`Extension of powers of military notaries

By decision of the Ministry of National Defense, the formations, complexes and units of the armed forces
where it is possible to appoint military notaries are determined, as well as any other necessary detail for
the implementation of this part.

CHAPTER FOUR
FINAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Article 147
Void and voidable notarial acts.
Notarial deeds invalid or voidable, according to the Notary Code that prevailed, are considered valid from
the publication hereof, unless a final court decision has been issued.

Article 148
Filling of positions of notaries Transitional provision

Procedure for the filling of notary public positions that has been initiated until the entry into force of this
Code, continues until its completion, based on the previous provisions.

Article 149
Disciplinary offenses - Transitional provision

1.Disciplinary offenses committed before the entry into force of this Code, if no irrevocable decision has
been issued, are governed by the provisions hereof and the related trials are transferred to the disciplinary
councils or courts specified by this Code.

2. Disciplinary offenses committed before its entry into force are also subject to the statute of limitations
of this Code.

Article 150
Criminal liability of a notary public.

1. The exercise of notarial powers in any way, the professional provision of notarial advice by non-
notaries or retired notaries for a fee and cooperation with notaries of these persons, with participation in
the fees, are illegal acts, which are prosecuted ex officio and punishable by imprisonment at least three
months.

2. A notary public who leaves the service in any way and does not hand over his notarial seal to the
relevant notary association or does not remove from his place of business the sign showing his old status
shall be punished with imprisonment of up to one year.

The same obligations apply to the heirs of the deceased notary public.

Article 151
Professional housing - Protection.

Notaries for the lease of their offices are subject to the currently applicable provisions for the protection
of professional premises.

Article 152
Staff positions of Notarial Associations.

The positions of the staff of the Notarial Associations of the country are determined by presidential
decrees following the proposal of the relevant Notarial Associations, which are issued within a period of
two years from the publication of this. Until then, article 175 of Law 1333/1973 applies.

Note.: as amended by par.14 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001.

 Article 153
Establishment of notary public companies.

Two or more notaries of the same justice of the peace district may, in the exercise of their functions, set
up a civil law company. The terms and conditions for the establishment and operation of the company in
question are defined by presidential decree.

Article 154
Abolition of the positions of notaries of regional magistrates' courts of Attica

1. From the entry into force of this law, notary positions are abolished from the districts of the
magistrates' courts. 1) Amarousiou three, 2) Acharnon fifteen, 3) Eleusis fourteen, of which one of the
Villians, 4) Lavrion five, of which four of the Lavrion and one of the Kalyvians, 5) Marathon four, of
which three of the Kapandritius and one of Stamata, 6) Megaron nine, 7) Nea Ionia three, 8) Peristeri
four, 9) Chalandrio four and 10) Piraeus one.

2.Notaries who serve in the regions of the magistrates' courts of the previous paragraph have the right to
declare with their application to the Ministry of Justice within a period of one (1) month from the entry
into force of this law, that they wish to be transferred to the region of the Athens Magistrates' Court in the
first nine cases and Kallithea in the tenth.

3. Among the applicants, the most senior notaries on appointment are transferred until the number of
abolished positions is filled. Transferees are placed in temporary staff positions as supernumeraries and
precede the filling of vacancies created by the departure of their colleagues, or the creation of new ones,
up to the rate of 10% of the vacancies or new positions for each year.

4. If a smaller number of applications are submitted than the positions being abolished, the junior
appointees in order of appointment remain as supernumeraries in the same magistrates' district from
which they come and fill the vacancies in order of seniority, until they retire or in any way leave their
service .

Relevant: par.15 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001

Article 155
Provisions maintained in force.

1.Any provision that contradicts this Code or regulates matters provided for by it is repealed

2. They remain in force:

a) the provisions of the Civil Code,

b) the provisions of Law 5325/1932 "on bills of exchange and promissory notes", of Law 5960/1932 "on
cheques",

c) the provisions of p.d. 284/1993 "on the formation of notarial companies" until the issuance of the
presidential decree of article 153 hereof,
d) the tax provisions.

Article two

1. Notaries who serve in the districts of the magistrates' courts of paragraph 3 of article 4 of the Code
sanctioned by article one of this law have the right to request with their application submitted to the
Ministry of Justice, within one month from the entry into force of this law, the their transfer to that
district from the rno above magistrates' courts, in which they demonstrably exercised their duties before
31. 12.1999.

Relevant: par.16 art.32 Law 2915/2001 Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001

2. Transferred notaries are placed in temporary permanent positions as supernumeraries and precede the
filling of vacancies created by the departure of notaries or the creation of new ones, up to a rate of 10% of
the vacant or new positions for each year.

3. For the proof that a notary public of the first paragraph of this article is demonstrably exercising his
duties in a different justice of the peace district than the one in which he has been appointed, the
committee of paragraph 3 of this article shall take into consideration: his statement before 31.12.1999 to
the Athens Notary Association or in the relevant D.O.Y., that has as its professional residence the other
region, the drawing up of more than half of the notarial acts of the last three years, as these acts appear
from the kept official books or the texts of the notarial acts , in another region. If the notary has exercised
his duties in more than one region, the transfer is made, at the applicant's choice, to the region in which
the largest number of notarial deeds have been drawn up or to the one in which he has declared as his
professional residence.

4.By decision of the Minister of Justice, a three-member committee is set up in which an appellant
participates as chairman, appointed with his deputy by the three-member board of directors of the Athens
Court of Appeal, a representative of the Athens Notarial Association, appointed with his deputy by the
board of directors of the Association and the head of the Directorate responsible for notaries of the
Central Service of the Ministry of Justice. The committee, with its reasoned decision, decides on the
applications within two months of its formation.

Relevant: par.15 art.32 Law 2915/2001, Official Gazette A 109/29.5.2001

5. Notaries who are transferred and fall under the cases of paragraph 3 of article 4 of the Code transfer
their personal file to the justice of the peace district to which they are transferred.

Article three
`Start of force.

The validity of this article begins after two months have passed since its publication in the Government
Gazette, except for the provision of article 147 of this article, the validity of which begins from its
publication and the provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4 of article 4, the validity of which begins six months
after its publication.

We order the publication of this in the Government Gazette and its execution as the Law of the State.

Athens, March 16, 2000

THE PRESIDENT OF DEMOCRACY

KONSTANTINOS STEPHANOPOULOS

THE MINISTERS

OF NATIONAL DEFENSE FINANCIAL

AP.- ATH. TSOCHATZOPOULOS G. PAPANTONIOU

OF HEALTH AND WELFARE JUSTICE

L. PAPADIMAS E. YIANNOPOULOS

The Great Seal of the State was considered and affixed.

Athens, March 16, 2000

THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE E. YIANNOPOULOS