The plenary meeting of the Presidents of the country’s Bar Associations proposes to stop the abstention of lawyers from criminal trials but to continue for banks and funds.
The plenary meeting of the Presidents of the Bar Associations proposes to stop abstaining from criminal trials, stressing, however, that it continues to express its opposition to the new criminal code.
At the same time, it raises a number of financial issues and demands. Regarding non-state universities, she states that the previous dialogue was superficial and expresses her concern about the viability of law schools,
The announcement in detail
“The Plenary of the Presidents of the Bar Associations of Greece, which met today 1.3.2024, in Athens, issued the following announcement:
The implementation of these provisions will create inexorable results, which will soon find themselves facing the Greek society.
The Plenary, taking into account the fact of the passing of the relevant bill at the time of the implementation of its provisions, decided:
– To propose to the Bar Associations of the Country the suspension of the abstention of their members from criminal trials.
– To organize events at the headquarters of each Bar Association, in which all professional bodies and the local community will be invited to participate, in order to highlight the problems that are going to emerge from the implementation of the new provisions.
The suspension of the abstention does not mean the suspension of the claimant fight of the legal body, which is focused henceforth on the following claims:
FINANCIAL REQUESTS:
The Plenary demands the satisfaction of its standing requests and in particular:
1. The abolition of the presumptive calculation of taxable income
2. The reinstatement of mandatory representation in contracts
3. The increase in the exemption limit from the VAT regime for
incomes up to 25,000 euros
4. The reduction of judicial VAT
5. The complete abolition of the pretense fee
6. The revaluation of the reference amount of the promissory notes
Advance collection
7. The abolition of the unemployment contribution of 120 euros in favor of OAED
8. The increase in the fees of the State’s salaried lawyers
9. The granting of insurance capacity to lawyers and their families, with the payment of the previous year’s health contributions and the re-regulation of insurance debts on a sustainable basis.
CLAIMS MANAGEMENT COMPANIES:
The Plenary adheres to its decision from 23.2.2024 to refrain from issuing Payment Orders and enforcement actions against Banks and Receivables Management Companies (Funds) until 31.3.2024.
JUDICIAL MAP:
The Plenary adheres to its decision of 23.2.2024
NON-STATE UNIVERSITIES:
The Plenary after taking into account the recommendation of the President (attached) and the decision of 27.2.2024 of the Coordinating Committee, considered that the dialogue that preceded the filing of the draft law, was of a superficial and communicative nature, without the substantial participation of the involved bodies so that to listen to all opinions and to consider the consequences in terms of the operation of public universities, especially those in critical areas of the country. The Plenary was never asked to take a position on the issue until two days before the hearing of the bodies in the Parliament and was heard for only five minutes during it, a fact which it condemns unequivocally.
The Plenary considers that such major reforms for higher education, which for years have been regulated in the light of the current Article 16 of the Constitution, cannot be introduced by legislative invocation of Union law or with the logic, “we can’t wait any longer”.
Any reform or not should be done in the context of the Constitutional Review.
The Plenary expresses its particular concern and strong reflection on the viability of the Law School of Komotini, in a particularly sensitive national region, but also of all other University Schools in the border and critical regions, in view of the operation of the new legal entities that are going to be established based on the provisions of the proposed bill.
After all, he had expressed the same concern during the period when the establishment of a fourth Law School in Patras was being planned, concerns that were then shared by the ruling party today, as the official opposition.
The Plenary will take a position on the issue of the constitutionality or otherwise of the provisions of the draft law and will take a position on the substance of the issue on the operation or not of non-state HEIs at its next meeting.”
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