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- Greece
Binding for ministries, municipalities, public entities and producers covered by circular-economy measures.
Obligations include:
Municipalities must implement enhanced separate collection and circular-waste systems.
Producers must comply with eco-design, recyclability, and extended-producer-responsibility rules.
Public bodies must adopt circular procurement criteria and report progress.
Exceptions:
Micro-enterprises may face proportionate obligations for product design or circularity reporting.
Certain waste streams regulated under EU-specific directives follow parallel rules that supersede general circular-economy provisions.
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What’s Required
Law 4939/2022 establishes Greece’s National Circular Economy Strategy, embedding circularity across production, consumption, waste management, and resource efficiency. It provides a coordinated governance, monitoring, and implementation system aligned with EU circular-economy policies.
Key requirements:
Development and implementation of a National Circular Economy Action Plan, covering materials, manufacturing, construction, food systems, textiles, plastics, and public procurement.
Promotion of eco-design, durability, repairability, and recycled content in products placed on the Greek market.
Strengthening of separate collection, waste-prevention measures, and high-value recycling streams.
Integration of circular economy principles into public procurement, infrastructure planning, and industrial policy.
Mandatory reporting and monitoring of circularity indicators by relevant ministries and agencies.
Creation of coordination bodies to oversee policy coherence and cross-ministerial execution.
Important Deadlines
Law effective in 2022.
Circular Economy Action Plan cycles typically span 2022–2025 and 2025–2030.
Public procurement circularity criteria will progressively be applied from 2023 onward.
Current Status
The law is active and forms the strategic framework guiding Greece’s circular-economy shift. Implementation is supported by EU Recovery and Resilience Facility funding. Monitoring bodies have been established, and circular procurement pilots are underway.
Penalties
Fines for municipalities failing to implement separate collection or meet recycling targets.
Sanctions for producers that violate eco-design or EPR obligations.
Administrative penalties for public bodies not meeting reporting or procurement requirements.
Examples of Known Violations
Initial audits reveal persistent gaps in municipal separate-collection systems.
EPR schemes reporting non-compliant producers in packaging, WEEE, and other streams.
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