Data Protection Atlas

Greece

Tier 2 Comprehensive law Europe

Principal framework: GDPR + Law 4624/2019 (2019). Regulator: HDPA. Detailed employee-data and criminal-conviction provisions.

At a glance

Criminal offences
Yes — a dedicated offence carrying custody exists
Public-sector fines
Capped
Principal law
Νόμος 4624/2019 [Law 4624/2019 on the Personal Data Protection Authority and measures implementing the GDPR]
Regulator
Hellenic Data Protection Authority
Breach notification
72 hours to the supervisory authority (Art 33); undue-delay notice to individuals at high risk
Maximum penalty
Up to €20m or 4% of global annual turnover
DPO required
Public authorities; large-scale regular monitoring or special-category processing (Art 37)
Digital consent age
15
Extraterritorial reach
Yes — targeting or monitoring people in the EU (Art 3(2))
National implementing act
Law 4624/2019

Structure

Structural pattern
Not assessed
Sub-jurisdictions
None — no sub-national axis
ISO code
GR

A Pattern 4 jurisdiction has no sub-national layer to model. Devolution elsewhere in the legal system does not imply it here — check each Act rather than reasoning from the country.

Transfers and adequacy

EU member
Yes
EEA member
Yes
Holds EU adequacy
Yes

EU/EEA member — intra-EEA transfers need no adequacy decision.

Instruments

No instrument profiled yet.

Also applies here

Directly applicable as EU law, without national transposition. The national act supplements it rather than replacing it.

Sources

Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.