Greece
EU-level rules also apply — Law 4961/2022 on emerging technologies requires public-sector algorithmic impact assessments, AI registers and employer transparency. Law 5321/2026 implements Regulation 2024/1689, amends Law 4961/2022 and designates the data-protection authority as principal market-surveillance authority and EETT as notifying authority.
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Greece
Early: one or two positionscivil lawupdated 2026-09-04verified 2026-09-04
EU-level rules also apply — see the European Union record →
As of 4 September 2026 Greece regulates AI horizontally through Law 4961/2022 on emerging technologies and Law 5321/2026 implementing the EU AI Act, but has no rule, bar guidance or reported court decision specific to lawyers' or judges' use of AI. The Athens Bar relays CCBE material and justice-sector AI deployments are reported only in general terms.
As of 2026-09-04, Greece has 1 binding rule, official guidance in 1 category, 0 proposals and 0 positions set only by case law across the 20 categories in the map. Binding rules cover horizontal AI statute. In 16 categories we found nothing; in 2 the position is not yet determined.
How to read this page
- Binding rule Binding rule means a rule in force from a court, statute, regulator or equivalent authority.
- Official guidance Official guidance means an official non-binding position from a judiciary, regulator, bar or public body.
- Proposed / consultation Proposed / consultation means a public bill, draft rule or consultation that is not yet in force.
- Set by case law Set by case law means no rule was found, but courts have set the position in decisions.
- Nothing found Nothing found means the category was checked and no rule, guidance, proposal or case-law position was found.
- Not yet determined Not yet determined means research did not establish a reliable position yet.
The rules, category by category
Hellenic Data Protection Authority Opinion 8/2026, on a public authority's AI complaint-triage system, required explicit human approval before acting on AI outputs; Opinion 9/2026 addressed the authority's AI Act role. Neither is legal-sector specific and the official texts were not opened.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026; Greek legal commentary discusses only the United States Mata v Avianca case.
No judicial guidance on judges' use of AI found as of 4 September 2026; the CEPEJ guidelines are the only applicable reference.
No national rule; EU AI Act Annex III point 8 applies. Law 4961/2022 requires algorithmic impact assessments and registers for public-sector AI, which would cover court systems, but it does not address adjudication expressly.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No Greek bar guidance; the Athens Bar's AI page sits under its CCBE activities and relays CCBE material. A direct fetch of the bar page returned 404.
The Lawyers' Code and Code of Conduct, in the consolidated October 2025 edition, contain no AI-specific competence rule.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No rule, guidance or reported case found as of 4 September 2026.
No Greek bar guidance on generative AI found as of 4 September 2026; the Athens Bar relays CCBE documents and runs seminars.
No Greek court decision on hallucinated citations found as of 4 September 2026.
No mandatory AI training found as of 4 September 2026.
No legal-sector vendor guidance found; Law 4961/2022 public-sector AI procurement duties apply to courts as public bodies.
The OECD reported in June 2025 that Greek justice-sector AI is used for document processing, case-law search, speech-to-text and translation, but no policy document governing court AI was located and the digital-justice reforms could not be checked.
Not researched because the research budget was exhausted.
Official documents recorded for Greece (1)
- Law 5321/2026: measures for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and amendment of Law 4961/2022
Parliament (GR) · revised 2026-07-20 · verified 2026-09-04
Court incidents on the record in Greece
- Yichang District Court (Hubei)2026-07-21 Warning
Cite this page
SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Greece" (updated 2026-09-04, verified 2026-09-04), https://safelegalai.com/regulation/country/gr (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
SafeLegalAI is a research publication by Cognesio LLP, not a law firm. Nothing here is legal advice, and no lawyer–client relationship arises from reading it. Rules change; always check the official document linked on each record and take advice on your own situation. Researched and drafted with AI assistance; verified against primary sources and edited by Cognesio LLP. The linked official documents are the record — our summaries are not the law and are not legal advice.