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.

P.OM.I.D.A sent a letter of support to the Ministry of Education and Culture for the preparation of a pioneering program which will include as its axis the creation of a special support and financing mechanism for renovation and rescue of private preserved buildings within the framework of the Country Recovery Fund, but also the undertaking of special care for those old buildings that deserve to be saved and renovated as preserved. Read the letter…

The Ministry of Finance announced that the complete suspension of rent payment by businesses that were closed by government order during the first fortnight of January is being extended for the month of February 2021, and that from next Monday, January 18, the payment of 50% of the loss from the November rent reduction will begin to be paid to the accounts of the beneficiary property owners.

Online survey on the readiness and ability of building owners to renovate! Having a better understanding of what property owners are willing to, and can actually do when it comes to renovating their homes and properties to make them more energy efficient, green and sustainable is vital to shaping policy both at the EU and at national and local level, in an acceptable, accessible and effective way.

Posting schedule of the reformed forest maps for all regions of the country, which starts on January 15, 2021 and will end on February 26, 2021announced by Ministry of Environment and Energy. At the same time, instructions are given for the cooperation of the forestry services with the “Hellenic Land Registry” body, so that the visa as well as the decision to post the forest map are notified electronically, immediately within the day of their issuance to the “Hellenic Land Registry” body, and to the Administration of Forestry Works & Infrastructure.

The Ministry of Environment and Energy announced the postponement by 14 days of the application submission process for the “SAVE-AUTONOMO” program in the Regions of Eastern Macedonia – Thrace, Western Macedonia, Central Macedonia and Thessaly and the country’s apartment buildings, in order to evaluate the operational issues of the program brought to the attention of the Ministry by the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), as well as to deal with the difficulties of the emergency restrictive measures for the coronavirus pandemic. In particular:

​The Hellenic Land Registry has issued the following announcement, which concerns the extension of the posting of cadastral data in areas of the P.E. Thessaloniki and Ilia until December 30, 2020. Read the announcement…

*SOLIDARITY CONTRIBUTION:The exemption from the solidarity contribution and rental income for 2020 was announced by the Minister of Finance Mr. Christos Staikouras strong>. More in the related news.