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The Greek authorities has submitted a sweeping revision of the Road Traffic Code (KOK) to Parliament, aiming to code the country’s persistently precocious complaint of roadworthy deaths.
The caller legislation, submitted connected Saturday, May 31, introduces a bid of tougher penalties and integer enforcement measures meant to curb unsafe driving behavior.
The astir cardinal alteration brought astir by the caller KOK is the instauration of the concept of recidivism. For the archetypal time, penalties for predominant oregon repeated violations volition not beryllium offset. They volition punished cumulatively. The logic is simple: a operator who commits a usurpation done negligence cannot beryllium treated the aforesaid arsenic idiosyncratic who insists connected violating the instrumentality systematically, endangering the lives of drivers and pedestrians with a postulation civilization and education.
The caller punishment model is based connected -tier punishment for postulation codification violations. “Strictness is not punishment, but a instrumentality for prevention,” the Transportation ministry stressed.
Each usurpation is recorded, and if repeated, the punishment increases importantly — not lone financially, but besides administratively: from licence revocation to transgression prosecution, depending connected the severity and consequences.
According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), 665 radical mislaid their lives successful postulation accidents successful 2024, portion Greece remains among the European Union countries with the highest rates of roadworthy fatalities. Data from the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) ranks Greece seventh crossed the bloc for traffic-related deaths.
See also: Deadly postulation accidents successful Greece scope alarming rate (KTG March 2025)
Below are the astir important revisions of the caller Traffic Code:
Digital Enforcement & Smart Penalties
One of the astir important changes is the instauration of automated integer enforcement, starting successful September 2025. As Alternate Transport Minister Kostas Kyranakis announced, postulation violations captured by surveillance cameras successful Attica volition beryllium issued and delivered electronically via gov.gr, the government’s authoritative integer portal.
Drivers recovered successful usurpation volition person their fines by mail, and depending connected the offense, whitethorn beryllium required to surrender their license, conveyance registration, oregon licence plates.
Hefty Fines for Mobile Phone Use
The revised codification cracks down connected mobile telephone usage portion driving with a three-tier punishment system:
First offense: €350 good and 30-day licence suspension
Second offense: €1,000 good and 180-day suspension
Third offense: €2,000 good and 1-year suspension
The escalating fines underscore the government’s volition to deter distracted driving, a large origin of accidents successful municipality areas.
Helmet Use: Riders and Passengers Alike
For the archetypal time, motorcycle passengers not wearing helmets volition besides look penalties. Previously, lone drivers were held responsible. Under the caller code, some the rider and immoderate non-compliant rider volition beryllium fined, reinforcing helmet usage crossed each two-wheeled transport.
Speed Limit Revisions: Slower successful Cities, Faster connected Highways
The updated Road Code introduces differentiated velocity limits aimed astatine improving information successful municipality zones portion allowing higher speeds connected highways:
30 km/h successful constrictive residential streets oregon adjacent schools
50 km/h connected superior metropolis roads with cardinal dividers
140 km/h connected highways, a projected increase, pending review, pursuing a reported diminution successful road fatalities
Heavy Penalties for Fatal Incidents Under the Influence
In cases involving fatal accidents, the revised instrumentality ties postulation violations much intimately with the transgression code. Drivers recovered liable for causing a decease portion nether the power of intoxicant oregon driving astatine excessive speeds could present look up to 10 years successful situation without parole.
Street Racing Crackdown
It is nary exaggeration to accidental that excessive speeding remains the astir wide “routine illegality” connected Greek roads. In 2024, implicit 338,000 violations were recorded, a fig that reflects the grade of the occupation but besides the inability to forestall it with the tools disposable to date.
The caller codification besides addresses amerciable thoroughfare racing, a increasing occupation peculiarly successful parts of Athens and different municipality centers. The fines escalate dramatically for repetition offenders:
- First offense: €2,000 good and 1-year licence suspension
- Second offense: €4,000 and 2-year suspension
- Third offense: €8,000 good and 4-year suspension
In the astir utmost cases – specified arsenic driving implicit 200 km/h – fines of 8,000 euros and the withdrawal of a licence for 4 years are provided. It is an simple defence against a improvement that kills silently but steadily.
Parking successful a ramp for disabled
You’re not conscionable antisocial – you’re dangerous
Illegal parking has go the eventual municipality mobility nightmare. Every year, implicit 1 cardinal calls are made, with 30-35% of them involving disabled spaces, crossings and corners.
It’s not conscionable a substance of legality – it’s a substance of dignity.
The caller KOK foresees precise dense penalties: a good of up to 2,000 euros and a licence suspension for 1 year, successful lawsuit of a repetition offense. The connection is clear: accessibility is non-negotiable.
When you parkland connected a ramp, you’re not conscionable breaking the law. You’re impeding idiosyncratic else’s life.
It should beryllium noted that again and again determination posts connected societal media by radical with disabilities who kick of blocked entree and that they called the constabulary that came adjacent an hr later, if astatine all.
The caller Traffic Code is expected to spell into effect arsenic of September 2025.
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