Greece has a new Road Traffic Code (Κώδικας Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας, Law 5209/2025), fully in force since 13 September 2025, with much higher fines and licence suspensions for serious offences. A fine (κλήση) is written by the traffic police or recorded by a camera; camera fines are increasingly sent digitally through gov.gr. Parking tickets of a town are the municipality's own, paid to it by the dates printed on the ticket.
Some of the fines
- Speeding: up to 20 km/h over — €150; 20–30 km/h — €150 and a 20-day licence suspension; 30–50 km/h — €350 and 30 days; more than 50 km/h — €700 and 60 days.
- Mobile phone at the wheel — €350 and 30 days; much more when repeated.
- Red light — €700 and 60 days. Seatbelt — €350 for the driver, €150 for a passenger.
Check the amount on your own notice — it is the one that counts.
Three days to object
An objection goes to the police authority the officer belongs to, within 3 days of service — the same for camera fines. Enter the day you received the fine on this page and the site counts the last day. There is no discount for paying quickly: the old 50% reduction was abolished in 2018.
Hire cars and owners who were not driving
When the car's owner — a rental company, too — was not driving, the owner names the real driver by a solemn declaration at a police station within 7 days; otherwise the owner is treated as the offender. With a hire car, that is how the fine reaches you.
Paying, and if you do not
The fine is paid electronically with the payment code on the notice, within 8 months. After that it is certified again with a 20% surcharge and collected like a debt to the state — with interest, and in the end the seizure of money in Greek bank accounts. A lawyer for traffic fines can object for you in Greek — the 3 days leave little time, so act at once.
Prepared by Legal Help Tool. Last updated . General information, not legal advice.
