Maria
Lawyer · Corfu, Greece
- 436 cases handled · 1 in this service
- 9+ years in practice
- Speaks: English, German, Greek, Russian
- Law, National and Capodistrian University of Athens
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4.96(35 reviews)
Fines & Administrative Penalties in Greece
Fines and administrative penalties in Greece include traffic and parking tickets (κλήση), speed-camera fines, penalties from the tax office or a municipality and licence confiscations; most can be contested by an objection (ένσταση) and then an appeal (προσφυγή), increasingly through gov.gr. English-speaking lawyers in Greece read the notice, check the deadline and the grounds, file the objection and represent you.
About Fines & Administrative Penalties in Greece
Fines and administrative penalties in Greece reach foreigners in many forms: a traffic or parking ticket (κλήση) handed to the driver or sent to the car rental company, a speed-camera fine arriving months after the holiday, a penalty from the tax office (ΑΑΔΕ) for a late return or an unregistered lease, a municipal fine, or the confiscation of a driving licence or number plates. The ways to contest them are an objection (ένσταση) to the authority that issued the fine and an appeal (προσφυγή) to the administrative courts, today often filed through gov.gr. Some older lists and lawyer pages call this service “Dealing with Fines & Administrative Matters”. English-speaking lawyers in Greece handle the penalty from the first letter to the decision.
Who needs help
- Tourists and seasonal residents fined while driving a rental or a foreign-registered car, often notified later through the rental company or their home registration authority.
- Foreign property owners who receive tax or municipal penalties for returns, leases or local charges they did not know about, see property tax for foreign owners.
- Residents whose licence or plates were taken on the spot and who need them back.
- Anyone who disagrees with a fine and wants to know whether a challenge is worthwhile.
How it works in Greece
Each kind of penalty has its own route. Traffic fines come from the traffic police (Τροχαία) or the municipal police (Δημοτική Αστυνομία), and the Road Traffic Code (ΚΟΚ) was recently rewritten with stricter penalties and digital notification; an objection is filed with the issuing authority within the period printed on the notice, and a refusal can be appealed to the administrative court. Tax penalties from AADE follow the tax procedure: an administrative appeal to the tax dispute body first, then the administrative court, see income tax return. Municipal fines go through the municipality’s own objection committee. Payment within the period on the notice often ends the matter, in some cases at a reduced amount, but it also usually ends the right to object, so the choice is made early.
What to pay attention to
Deadlines are short and run from notification, which for a foreign driver may be the day the rental company forwarded the notice. A resident who keeps driving a car on foreign plates faces a separate and far more serious customs problem than an ordinary fine. Unpaid fines linked to a vehicle or a property resurface at the next transfer or tax clearance. Speeding and drink-driving cases can carry criminal as well as administrative consequences, see speeding and traffic fines and drink driving offences. Amounts, discounts and periods change and are not quoted here; a lawyer confirms the current ones. This page is general information, not legal advice.
What a lawyer does
Reads the notice and identifies the authority, the deadline and the legal basis, obtains the file or photographs where available, drafts and files the objection or the appeal, acting under a power of attorney if you are abroad, negotiates a payment arrangement where contesting makes no sense, and recovers a confiscated licence or plates when the law allows it.
Questions and answers
Can I object to a Greek fine from abroad?
Yes, through a lawyer with written authority; many objections can now be filed digitally.
I paid the reduced amount. Can I still contest it?
Usually not; payment is normally treated as acceptance. Ask before paying if you want to challenge the fine.
Will a Greek traffic fine follow me home?
Within the EU, vehicle owner data is exchanged and rental companies pass on fines; unpaid Greek fines also appear when you next deal with Greek authorities.
My licence was taken. How do I get it back?
It is held for the period set by the Code for that offence; the lawyer checks whether the confiscation was correct and arranges its return.
Is a tax penalty handled the same way as a traffic fine?
No. Tax penalties follow their own appeal procedure with different deadlines and bodies.
5 lawyers who provide Fines & Administrative Penalties in Greece
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Joanna
Lawyer · Thessaloniki, Greece
- 345 cases handled · 1 in this service
- 18+ years in practice
- Speaks: English, Greek, Italian, Spanish
- Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Universidad de Salamanca Spain- International Hellenic University- University of Cologne, Germany
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4.86(40 reviews)
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Despina
Lawyer · Athens, Greece
- 251 cases handled
- 18+ years in practice
- Speaks: English, German, Greek
- Law, Athens University of Law
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4.95(12 reviews)
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Anastasia
Lawyer · Thessaloniki, Greece
- 98 cases handled
- 8+ years in practice
- Speaks: French, English, Greek
- Law, Democritus University of Thrace
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5.00(4 reviews)
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Fotis
Lawyer · Mytilene, Greece
- 11 cases handled
- 6+ years in practice
- Speaks: English, Greek
- MSc in law and informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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