The benefits arising from the codification of insurance legislation were analyzed by the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Adonis Georgiades and the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security, Panos Tsakloglouspeaking at an event held today, Wednesday, November 22.

As Mr. Georgiadis said, the work of codification has more than 10,000 pages, is divided into 11 books per thematic section and includes 191 laws, 69 Royal and Presidential Decrees and 255 ministerial decisions. According to the Minister of Labour, the codification of insurance legislation is a useful tool for the proper planning of future policies.

At the same time, Mr. Georgiadis noted that the next project will be the uniform regulation of benefits. “It is necessary to do it not only for reasons of social justice, but also for purely practical reasons, in order to reach in about three years from today the point where every citizen will know his insurance rights, but also his obligations and everything will be done without any delay” he said characteristically.

Concluding his presentation, the Minister of Labor stated that he was satisfied with the speed of awarding them pending pensions.

For his part, Mr. Tsakloglou underlined that the codification brings order to the labyrinthine insurance legislation and focused on the benefits arising from it.

“An important benefit is the unification of the scattered provisions in a systematic text, which is expected to lead to the fight against the complexity and fragmentation of the law and will have as a final result the reduction of bureaucratic burdens and, above all, the simplification of administrative procedures” emphasized the Deputy Minister of Labor and added that the codification of insurance legislation is a useful tool for citizens, businesses, lawyers, accountants, social security workers, but also for many other professionals.

Also, as he noted, the work of codification increases transparency and trust in public services and indirectly helps to fight the phenomena of corruption and mismanagement, “which are observed where there is polynomialism and mismanagement”.

As part of the event, three discussion panels were held.

The first panel, on the topic of “the codification of legislation as a tool of public policy”, was attended by Stelios Koutnatzis, secretary general of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, assistant professor of Public Law, Nikos Milapidis, secretary general of Social Insurance, lawyer, George Stavropoulos , ex-minister, chairman of the Central Codification Committee, adv. vice president of the CoE and Grigoris Michaelopoulos, lawyer, managing partner of “Michailopoulos and Associates”.

In the second panel, on the topic of “codification of insurance legislation: From theory to practice”, Alexandros Varveris, administrator of e-EFKA, Dimitrios Bourlos, lawyer of “Bourlos-Koutava & Associates”, Georgios Koutsoukos, lawyer of “Mihailopoulos” and Associates” and Konstantinos Gravias, tax accountant, taxheaven.

Finally, in the third panel, on “international trends of social security systems”, Tasos Giannitsis, ex-minister and emeritus professor of EKPA, Miltiadis Nektarios, emeritus professor of insurance science of PAPEI, Patrina Paparrigopoulou, ex-minister and professor of Law at the Greek National Academy of Sciences and Panos Tsakloglou, Deputy Minister of Labor and professor at the OPA.

The event was presented by the journalist, Stella Gantona.