Greek Report EUGENIA MATTHEOU Report Coordinator 1. Real Property Law – Introduction 1.1General Features and Short History • When were the main rules of your national real property law introduced? What have been the main reforms up to the present date? What are the relevant sources of the law as it stands now (civil code, special statutes, case law)? • Is real property regulation uniform for the whole country or are there special rules ap- plicable only in a certain region or to certain groups of the population? (if yes: what is the division of competencies?) • On which constitutional foundations and/or legal and political traditions (or philoso- phies) are these rules based? Have there been basic policy or regime changes affecting private property (e.g. privatisation policies) in the last decades? Were they inspired by another legal system? Have the European Convention on Human Rights and/or Euro- pean Community Law played a role? • Changes in the law up to July, 1st, 2004. Plans for future reforms of real property law in Greece. Origin 1. Main Features Property law as part of the Greek Civil Code descends from Byzantine and Roman law, as this has been interpreted by the so-called science of law of the Pandects. Meanwhile, it has been influenced by foreign codes, especially the German Civil Code. Finally, through the German Civil Code, some elements of ancient German law entered the Greek Civil Code, since the German Civil Code descends from Roman and ancient German law, as these were combined with the reception of Roman law in Germany (Rezeption: 15 th and 16 th centuries A.D.), and continued to evolve until 1900 (validity of the German Civil Code). The prevalence of this view has had great consequences for the evolution of the sci- ence of civil law in Greece. This is due to the fact that, at that time, the texts of the Justinian legislation were also a source of the civil law, which was in force in Ger-
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