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Stergios Pitsiorlas
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund
We have engaged ourselves in a national effort to strengthen the
function of the country’s institutions as well as the legal certainty to each
citizen and potential investor, convinced that we can develop a strong legal
framework of rules, focusing on constitutional values and the development
of the country.
In this context, any effort made to collect the key encoding rules and
to generate provisions’ systematization and recording guides, relevant to
sensitive and complex issues, should be welcomed.
This particular editorial initiative of Nomiki Bibliothiki constitutes a reliable and updated
source of information on the operational framework of the Greek legal system, covering a wide
range of issues concerning individuals and foreign entrepreneurs, and will certainly become an
important tool for many organizational structures. We welcome this initiative, which we consider
a systematic attempt to display the Greek institutional framework and we hope that this actually
extrovert scientific effort will develop and consolidate a sense of security for the existence and
development of our country’s institutions.
Notwithstandingour wish tomaintain a legal culture of achievements, todaywemust highlight
the gaps and pathologies of a legal system, which had failed to meet the aforementioned
objectives. In this context, any effort made, related to the collection of the key rules on the
codification and the creation of systematization guides, along with the recording devices related
to such sensitive and complex issues, should serve as a guiding beacon for our state initiatives
as well as for the state structures that, in the future, will shape a different image for Greece,
internationally.
We acknowledge the existing problems. The issues that we owe to process now are, firstly,
the operation of institutions and the legal certainty. Through the same courts’ decisions and
the findings of the independent authorities, the lack of coding on key issues of law sectors is
evident, throughout the previous years, mainly on the dominant and most important corpus of
rules, which concern, on one hand, the development processes of the country and, on the other
hand, shape the country’s attitude on core issues of bureaucracy, corruption, accountability and
protection of our goods.