Abstention until December 12, the notaries decided.

As they state in their announcement, among other things, “we decided to abstain because, while we had agreed on everything, three days ago a notice was published for an electronic international competition, which is financed by the Ministry of Digital Governance and whose main project is the NPDD Hellenic Land Registry, which is supervised by the aforementioned ministry, which overturns everything we had agreed on.”

The announcement

“The Deputy Minister of Digital Governance, with his relevant announcement, presented his own version of our decision to abstain. In his announcement he lists what he asks of us as digital reform and what he doesn’t ask of us, concluding with his exhortation to us to say specifically and transparently what exactly we disagree on.

We, the Notaries, inform you that what the Deputy Minister is asking us for as a so-called digital reform, is already being done to the greatest extent, and for what still remains to be done, we have long agreed to be done.

For what – as the Deputy Minister mentions in his relevant announcement – he does not ask us for, we would also like to inform you that these are not provided for by the current legislation and the Greek legal system, not even in the European notary and therefore he could not provide us with them. ask even if he wanted to.

We, the Notaries, decided to abstain because while we had agreed on everything, three days ago a notice was published for an electronic international tender, which is financed by the Ministry of Digital Governance and has as its main project the NPDD GREEK LAND LAND, which is supervised by the aforementioned Ministry, which overturns everything we had agreed upon.

And this is because the physical object of the work of the announcement foresees what the Deputy Minister allegedly does not ask us and which are otherwise not provided for by Greek legislation nor are they even applicable in any European country. While the subject of the relevant announcement concerns us as users, we were never informed about it.

Likewise, the competent Ministry of Justice was never informed.

It goes without saying that we are obliged to live in the digital age. We are the first to digitize notarial services at our own expense. In the E.U. where digitization of notarial documents exists or is discussed, this is done by the notary author of the document, as is the electronic storage of the digital notarial document.

We request the reform of the terms of the notice that describes the drawing up of electronic contracts, through a platform foreign to the notary, in pre-selected forms and boxes, reminding once again that each contract has its own particularities and meets separate needs.

We request the implementation of what we have jointly agreed upon. After all, all this will be implemented – as Mr. Deputy Minister says – only we.”