The electronic submission of applications for beneficiaries and providers for the Public Employment of Employment Service (DBA) books of the year 2025 begins tomorrow, Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at 11:00, at 11:00.

Applications of the beneficiaries and providers concerned will be submitted by August 19, 2025 at 23:59.

The purpose of the program is the intellectual development of the workforce and to support businesses in the field of book.

A total of 150,000 checks will be issued, worth 25 euros each, including VAT, with a budget of € 3,750,000.

The program will be implemented from 1 September 2025 to 31 December 2025.

With the check in the form of a unique electronic code number, beneficiaries and beneficiaries will be able to buy a 10% discount of any book they choose from bookstores and publishers of the Provider Registry.

Beneficiaries of the program are:

– Employees with a dependent employment relationship of private law at the expiry of the deadline for applications.

– Insured employees, due to a private employment relationship in E-EFKA in their professional category with contributions in favor of the DBA unemployment industry at any time from 01.01.2024 until the expiry of the deadline for applications.

– Unemployed registered in the DIBA digital register with a continuous period of unemployment at least three months at the expiry date of the application deadline, which have income of up to EUR 16,000, if they are unmarried, up to 24,000 euros, if they are married, increased by EUR 5,000 for each child, up to EUR 5,000 for each child, up to € 5,000.

Beneficiaries of the program are the spouses of the beneficiaries when they are indirectly insured members, as well as the children of the beneficiaries over 5 years of age, provided that they are indirectly insured members of the same parent or the other parent at the date of expiry date of applications.

As stated in a related announcement, the selection of beneficiaries is based on the scoring of specific criteria (disabled, single, number of children, income, first time participation in the program), in an objective and transparent manner through the integrated information system (IPS) of the DBA.

Applications of the beneficiaries concerned will be submitted exclusively, via Gov.gr, to: https://www.gov.gr/ipiresies/ergasia-kai-asphalise/apozemioseis-kai-parokhes/epitages-agoras-biblion.

The route is: Initial/Work and Insurance/Compensation and Book Purchases.

Beneficiaries for the application select “Link to the System by Certification by AADE”-“Entry to AADE” and enter the taxisnet and their AMKA codes.

Providers are the bookstores and publishing houses of any legal form, which have a legal license.

Providers will be automatically integrated into the Providers of the previous year, as long as they update their participation and supporting documents.

Applications of new stakeholders will be submitted exclusively electronically, through the single digital gate of the Greek State Gov.gr, to the email address: https://www.gov.gr/ipiresies/ergasia-kai-asphalise/apozemioseis-kai-parokhes/parokhoi-epitagon-agoras-biblion.

The route is: Initial/Work and Insurance/Compensation and Benefits/Book Booking Provisions.

It is noted that providers wishing to apply for many branches should have DBA codes.

For more information, interested parties can be informed by: https://www.dypa.gov.gr/deltia-bivlion.