The response of the Minister of Employment, Mr. Kostis Hatzidakis, to the complaint made by POMIDA at its 38th Congress about virtual work suspensions that are announced long after the period that they allegedly concern, with the aim of reducing residential rents, but also to collect the foreseen compensations from the State. In fact, in these cases, the right to abatement is announced to the lessor at a time when, as a rule, the deadline for submitting a COVID declaration has expired, as a result of which the right to collect the legal compensation is lost, while the tenant unilaterally and arbitrarily withholds the abatement from the next rents. 

The bill with emergency regulations to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, emergency fiscal and tax regulations and other provisions was submitted to Parliament. According to the new regulation for rents for the months of January and February 2021, a new ministerial decision will follow which will determine which business leases of businesses closed by state order will be subject to a 100% rent reduction for these months, and which business leases of victims, but also of workers’ housing will remain at 40%. Its most important tax provisions are the following:

From 1^th February 2021 the Electronic Building/Detached Property Identity ceases its optional – pilot function and is in force as mandatory. However, according to a transitional provision in the relevant ministerial decision, the engineers’ certificates with the date of the autopsy up to 31.1.2021 can be used for the transfer of real estate until their expiration without the obligation to register Building/Apartment Identity information property. 

POMIDA’s request to extend the start date of the full implementation of the electronic building identity is partially accepted. Both from the recent communication of the President of POMIDA with the political leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as from the report of the authoritative portal Ecopress.gr it follows that the normal application of the Electronic Building Identity will start from April 1, 2021, instead of February 1, 2021 that was originally planned, after listening to the proposals of the bodies of engineers, notaries and POMIDA.