Legal Environment in GREECE

  1. Intellectual Property Protection
    2. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) annually surveys 25 European countries. Their findings illustrated that software piracy costs in Europe in 1994 amounted to L4.2 billion.(11) This is an increase of 22% over the previous year's figures. Software piracy continues to be a major problem within Greece as the rate of pirated software in use across the region is running at an average of 80%, well above the European average of 58.6%. The table below illustrates where Greece stands in the software piracy league:(2)

    THE SOFTWARE PIRACY LEAGUE

                      
    Piracy Rate %             Loss to Makers in $M
    


    Turkey               97                                  158.7
    


    Russia               94                                  540.6
    


    Poland               91                                  201.0
    


    Hungary              85                                  101.5
    


    Czech Rep.         83                                  107.6
    


    Greece            80                           79.2
    


    Italy                    58                                   404.4
    


    France                57                                   771.5
    


    Germany            50                                   1,874.7
  2. Greece vs. The European Court of Justice

    3. The European court ruled that Greece has failed to comply with a Council directive on telecommunications. By failing to bring into force within the alloted period of time the Directive 92/44/EEC which illustrates open network provision to be leased lined, the Hellenic Republic failed to fulfil its obligation. As a result Greece was ordered to pay a fine.(28)


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