Publication of the Second Addendum to the 2nd Compliance Report of 4th Evaluation Round

The Second Addendum to the Second Compliance Report assesses the measures taken by the authorities of Greece to implement the recommendations issued in the Fourth Round Evaluation Report on Greece which covers “Corruption prevention in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors”. The Evaluation Report was adopted at GRECO’s 68th Plenary Meeting (19 June 2015) and made public on 22 October 2015, following authorisation by Greece.

Between 2017 and 2022 three compliance reports were adopted by GRECO, as follows: the Compliance Report was adopted at GRECO’s 77 th Plenary Meeting (23 June 2017), the Second Compliance Report was adopted at GRECO’s 85th Plenary meeting (24 September 2020), and the Addendum to the Second Compliance Report was adopted at GRECO’s 90th Plenary meeting (25 March 2022). The three reports were made public on 16 November 2020, 1 March 2018, and 1 June 2022, respectively, following authorisation by Greece.

As required by GRECO’s Rules of Procedure, the authorities of Greece submitted a Situation Report on further measures taken to implement the outstanding recommendations. This report was received on 7 April 2023 and served, together with additional information, as a basis for this Second Addendum to the Second Compliance Report.

It is recalled that GRECO, in its Evaluation Report, addressed 19 recommendations to Greece. In the Addendum to the Second Compliance Report, GRECO concluded that recommendations ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xv, xviii and xix, had been implemented satisfactorily or dealt with in a satisfactory manner, recommendations i, xi, xvi and xvii had been partly implemented and recommendations xii, xiii and xiv had not been implemented.