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HAVING EXAMINED THE CASE FILE THE COURT REASONED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW Regulation No 1/1958 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community established the full equality of the languages of the Member States; Article 1 of which stating that the official languages and the working languages of the institutions of the Community include Greek. Article 2 states that, “Documents which a Member State or a person subject to the jurisdiction of a Member State sends to institutions of the Community shall be drafted in the language of that State”. Article 3 states that, “Documents which an institution of the Community sends to a Member State or to a person subject to the jurisdiction of a...

According to a memo published by the Ministry, the proposed draft law would repeal the existing law on trade marks (Law 2239/1994) and seeks to improve and modernise trade marks legislation to make it more functional and effective. The new draft law would also transpose European Parliament and Council Directive 2004/48/EC of 29 April 2004 into Greek law. At the same time it would protect consumers and businesses from imitation products. The penalties on persons infringing the new law would be stricter and for the first time it would be possible to obtain immediate court orders (interim decrees and injunctions) without calling the infringing party to appear...

The Ministry of Regional Development & Competitiveness has put forward proposals to reform the pre-bankruptcy procedure called ‘rehabilitation’. The reform, contained in the proposal for a draft law which has already been made public, primarily relates to replacing the provisions of Chapter VI of Law 3588/2007 (Articles 99 to 106) of the Hellenic Bankruptcy Code. According to the explanatory memorandum accompanying the draft law, the key disadvantage of the conciliation procedure which applies at present is that the agreement which results from that...