Greece Digitizes Wills, Slashing Publication Time from 400 Days to One Week

The Greek authorities is launching a caller integer level that volition slash the clip it takes to people a volition from an mean of 400 days to arsenic small arsenic 3 to 7 days, a large overhaul aimed astatine cutting bureaucracy and speeding up inheritance procedures.

The caller platform, diathikes.gr, volition beryllium implemented connected Nov. 1, Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis announced. 

The strategy volition initially service the greater Athens country and the Aegean islands.

The betterment is expected to escaped up astir 100 judges from will-related casework and supply contiguous alleviation to citizens, who volition beryllium capable to verify the beingness of a volition securely and rapidly online. 

The quicker process volition assistance heirs entree inherited assets sooner and is expected to alleviate congestion successful the tribunal system.

"The system's relation successful reducing bureaucracy and improving inheritance taxation postulation is simply a payment to the ineligible strategy and the public," said Deputy Justice Minister Ioannis Bougas.

The caller level volition besides integrate Greece’s registry with the European Network of Registers of Wills, allowing for cross-border verification. 

The authorities plans to present authorities successful November to transportation thousands of existing pending volition cases into the caller integer system.