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On 28 June 2006, Act no. 3471/2006 was adopted for the protection of personal data and privacy in electronic communications. It implements, with significant delay, Directive 2002/58/EC and amends Act no. 2472/1997 for the protection of personal data. The new law includes provisions for the security and confidentiality of communications, as well as for the processing of personal data, including traffic and location data. It should be mentioned that even before this implementation, the Greek legal framework contained mechanisms to guard against the unlawful processing of electronic communications’...

On 11 April 2006, a draft law on the concentration and licensing of media enterprises was presented by the government and could be voted on by Parliament before the end of May. The new text aims to abolish the existing restrictions on ownership of media companies, as well as to reorganize the licensing rules for radio and television stations. A new concept that dominates the rules concerning audiovisual enterprises ownership is the concentration of control in the media market; for the assessment of such a concentration one must take account of the provisions of the existing law on competition and...

On 17 January 2006, the Greek Parliament adopted a new law (L. 3431/2006) incorporating the EU electronic communications legal framework. This new Law provides for the formation of a new Consultative Body, the Commission of Communication Policies, and clearly defines the tasks and responsibilities of the telecommunications authorities according to their specific remit: the Ministry of Transport and Communications shall be responsible for national policy in its sector, shall define the content of the Universal Service and shall set the procedures for the selection of the Universal Service provider;...

On 14 April 2005, the European Court of Justice confirmed Greece had failed to implement, before the prescribed deadline, the electronic communications liberalisation Directive 2002/77/EC. The Commission has now sent a formal request to the Greek authorities with a view to obtaining information about the Hellenic republic's compliance with the Court ruling. All Member States have implemented the electronic communications liberalisation Directive with the exception of Greece. As a result, competition in the fixed voice telephony market has stagnated and broadband services are not readily available...

On 1 November 2005, the Ethniko Symvoulio Radiotileorasis (the National Council of Radio and Television- ESR) imposed the sanction of definitive suspension of operations, which is the most severe sanction provided for by law, on “Best Radio”, an Athens radio station. The audiovisual regulatory authority found that the language used by a journalist of this music station was vulgar and improper with regard to the audience of this programme (mainly young people) especially in light of the fact it was broadcast at noon, and also taking into account regulations imposing quality prescriptions for such...