IP/N/1/GRC/9  
IP/N/1/GRC/C/4  
IP/N/1/GRC /E/3  
 
12 July 2023  
(23-4700)  Page: 1/3 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
GREECE : INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, RELATED RIGHTS AND CULTURAL ISSUES  
(LAW 2121/1993)  
Notifying Member  GREECE  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Intellectual property, related rights and cultural issues (Law 2121/1993)  
Subject matter  Copyright and related rights ; Enforcement  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2023/IP/GRC/23_10777_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[  ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[X] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/GRC/C/1  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
Amendment of Art. 66E of Law 2121/1993  
 
The provision of Art. 66E of Law 2121/1993 (Greek Copyright Act) ha s been revised twice during 
the last two years. This notification concerns the latest amendment -providing for the current version 
of the provision - which had been established under the Law 4821/2021 (Official Government Gazette 
(FEK) 134/Α/31.07.2021) by t he means of which paragraph 10A concerning live blocking of sport 
and cultural events was amended. More precisely, it is provided that , following the filing of an 
application from the right holder and provided that:  
 
a) a large–scale violation of protected  copyright and related rights on the internet is imminent in 
relation to events of either national or global viewing which are going to be transmitted 
simultaneously with their occurrence,  
 
b) the violation will take place, indicatively through certain uni form resource locators (URLs), IP 
addresses or domain names which support the unauthorized subscription connection by any means, 
and, in particular, by the use of passwords or of a decoder and  
 
c) there is an urgent case for preventing an immediate, seriou s and imminent danger or an 
irreparable damage to the public interest or to the right holder,  
 IP/N/1/GRC/9 • IP/N/1/GRC/C/4 • IP/N/1/GRC/E/3  
 
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  EDPPI  (the Committee for the Notification of Copyright and Related Rights Infringements on the 
Internet) may order the blocking of access to the specified uniform resource locators (URLs), IP 
addresses or domain names for a period of at least 15 days that is in  practice extended up to six 
months for IP addresses and nine months for domain names.  
 
This application must be submitted to the Committee fifteen (15) days at the latest before the 
scheduled transmission of the event or, in the case where the application  includes more events, 
15 days at the latest before the first in -time scheduled transmission.  
 
If substantiated, EDPPI orders the blocking of access.  
 
In this case, the time –limit for compliance cannot be less than six (6) hours and no longer than 
twelve ( 12) hours from the dispatching of the said Decision.  
 
Within the above -mentioned deadline, Internet Access Providers shall send statements of compliance 
to EDPPI and to the respective Alert Authority of the Hellenic Telecommunications & Posts 
Commission.  
 
This order may impose the blocking of access to domain names of second level even if the access to 
content is allowed by domain names of third or other level.  
 
In addition, it shall be issued and communicated twenty –four (24) hours at the latest before t he 
(first) transmission of the event(s).  
 
In the case where the Decision issued under the procedure No. 3 is circumvented, as well as in the 
case of recurrence of the infringement of the content referred to in the said Decision by any technical 
means, the offended right holder may submit additional evidence to EDPPI without paying a new fee 
as a review fee.  
 
If substantiated, EDPI issues a supplementary order.  
 
EDPPI's  blocking orders (under the procedure No. 3) are extended beyond the URLs, IP addresses 
or domain names which are explicitly mentioned into their operative part to any other such means 
to which the illegal transmission may be transferred following the issu ance of the said orders.  
 
Consequently, in the case where the illegal transmission is transferred (by any technical means) to 
a new URL, IP address or domain name (or more than one), right holders may submit to the relevant 
department of the Hellenic Telec ommunications and Post Commission (EETT), notifying 
simultaneously EDPPI, any supplementary evidence regarding the infringement of EDPPI's prior 
Decision(s) or the recurrence of the infringement, without any time -limit in relation to such a 
submission whic h may take place even during the transmission and without paying a new fee as a 
review fee.  
 
If the alleged infringement of EDPPI's prior Decision(s) or the recurrence of the infringement of the 
rights or of the content referred to in the said Decision - by any technical means - is anticipated, the 
relevant department of EETT sends (by e -mail) immediately an order to ISPs requiring them to block 
the access to the additional URLs, IP addresses or domain names.  
 
EDPPI is also simultaneously respectively noti fied. 
 
This order is effective until the issuance of the relevant supplementary decision of EDPPI, which is 
issued within a month.  
 
ISPs with more than fifty thousand (50,000) subscribers are obliged to block the access to the 
content within the time -limit set out by the EETT's notification and which cannot be longer than 
thirty (30) minutes from the dispatching of the EETT's order.  
 
EDPPI, following and in accordance with the respective EETT recommendation, and taking into 
consideration especially the su pplementary evidence submitted by the right holder and the said 
order, issues a supplementary act, based on its prior Decision(s).  IP/N/1/GRC/9 • IP/N/1/GRC/C/4 • IP/N/1/GRC/E/3  
 
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  Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  
Entry into force  31 July 2021  
Other date   Adoption: 31 July 2021  
 
Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  26 June 2023  
Other information  This provision concerns copyright and related rights enforcement on the 
Internet by providing several procedures both initial and supplementary - in 
the case where a decision already issued had been violated under the aim of 
promptly tackling online piracy of creative content - since the offended right 
holders  may ask either for the removal or for the blocking of access to illegal 
content.  
 
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Hellenic Copyright Organization  
 
 
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