Greece ratified the European Social Charter on 06/06/1984 and the Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter on 18/06/1998.

It ratified the Revised Social Charter on 18 March 2016, accepting 96 of the 98 paragraphs. 

It accepted the Additional Protocol providing for a system of collective complaints on 18/06/1998, but has not yet made a declaration enabling national NGOs to submit collective complaints.
 

The Charter in domestic law

Under Article 28(1) of the Constitution: “International conventions as of the time they are sanctioned by statute and become operative according to their respective conditions, shall be an integral part of domestic Greek law and shall prevail over any contrary provision of the law. The rules of international law and of international conventions shall be applicable to aliens only under the condition of reciprocity.”


Country factsheets

The country factsheets include detailed information on the findings of the European Committee of Social Rights when monitoring the application of the Charter at national level, as well as examples of progress in the implementation of the rights protected by the Charter.

Greece factsheet


Latest Ad hoc report by Greece

 

See previous reports in respect of Greece


Latest conclusions of the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR)

See all conclusions in respect of Greece (HUDOC)


Latest findings of the European Committee of Social Rights

Findings 2019 of the European Committee of Social Rights on the follow-up to decisions on the merits in collective complaints in respect of Greece.


Table of accepted and non-accepted provisions by Greece

Grey = Accepted provisions

1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 3.1
3.2 3.3 3.4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5 6.1 6.2 6.3
6.4 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 8.1
8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 9 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 11.1 11.2
11.3 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 14.1 14.2 15.1
15.2 15.3 16 17.1 17.2 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 19.1 19.2 19.3
19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 19.9 19.10 19.11 19.12 20 21 22
23 24 25 26.1 26.2 27.1 27.2 27.3 28 29 30 31.1
31.2 31.3  

 

Meetings and reports on non-accepted provisions


Collective complaints procedure

Greece accepted the Additional Protocol providing for a system of collective complaints on 18/06/1998, but has not yet made a declaration enabling national NGOs to submit collective complaints.

Back No. 115/2015 European Federation of Employees in Public Services (EUROFEDOP) v. Greece

The complaint was registered on 12 March 2015 and relates to Articles 1§2 (prohibition of forced labour) and 18§4 (the right of nationals to leave the country) of the 1961 Social Charter. The complainant organisation, the European Federation of Employees in Public Services (EUROFEDOP), alleges that regulations concerning the length of compulsory service imposed on Medical Officer-Doctors of the Armed Forces in Greece, pursuant to the Greek Law No 3257/2004, violate the above mentioned provisions of the 1961 Charter.

 Case Document no. 1, Complaint registered on 12 March 2015

Case Document no. 2, Observations by the Government on admissibility 

 Case Document no. 3, Submissions of the Government on the merits

 Case Document no. 4, Response from EUROFEDOP to the Government's submissions on the merits 

The European Committee of Social Rights declared the complaint admissible on 9 September 2015.

The European Committee of Social Rights adopted its decision on the merits on 13 September 2017.

In its decision on the merits, the Committee concluded :

  • by 13 votes to 1, that there is no violation of Article 1§2 of the 1961 Charter;
  • unanimously, that there no violation of Article 18§4 of the 1961 Charter.

 Decision on admissibility of Complaint 115/2015

 Decision on the merits of Complaint No. 115/2015

 Resolution CM/ResChS(2017)10 of the Committee of Ministers on 13 December 2017


Previous national reports by Greece

European Social Charter (revised)

1961 European Social Charter