Unanimous and categorically the KEDE Board of Directors expressed its vertical opposition to PD 194/2025 for the demarcation of settlements of less than 2,000 inhabitants at today’s meeting.

“This is a legislation that is looking back, neither in the present nor in the future,” KEDE President Lazaros Kirizoglou underlined and added:

“Without taking into account the reality it creates problems, because suddenly a plot will become a field. Of the first paper estimates made by the Municipalities, it is found that up to 80% of these settlements are left out of bounds, properties in a plan since the 1980s, with or without a building, after the approval of the ICC -EPS will be put out as non -buildable and buildable. The immediate consequence is to hurt small and medium -sized ownership and benefit the large owners or large heads, who can proceed with private planning under the current institutional framework. All of the above reinforces the reasons that lead to abandonment and withering by the Greek region, which municipalities are so effortlessly trying to keep alive. “.

Mr Kyrizoglou pointed out that clearly every municipality can appeal to the Presidential Decree and of which the KEDE will intervene in favor of the members who will appeal, while heralding the struggle.

“The message is clear: We require changes in the PD – not as a denial of regulation, but as a requirement of justice, developmental logic and constitutional consistency,” the KEDE president noted.

What does the KEDE Board ask for

In particular, the KEDE Board of Directors unanimously asks:

Immediate freezing of the Presidential Decree.

KEDE’s immediate meeting with the Ministry of Environment and Energy and the Council of State to find a applicable solution.

Local Town Plans (ICTs), Special Urban Plans (EPS) and scholars, who are in constant consultation with local municipal councils, have the real ability to determine the boundaries of the settlements, without the horizontal and inelastic limitations of the presidential decree, but by the Presidential Decree, but on the basis