Areas of Expertise

Design is comprised of two distinct classes of spatial plans:

• At Spatial Planning, planning is purely characterized by strategy and indicative content – Strategic Planning.
• At Town Planning, planning has a regulatory character – Regulatory Design.

At the same time, the field of environmental law requires environmental assessment by organizing a classifying framework for activities. Environmental impact studies accompany the choices of design and any environmental interventions.

The issue of building in our country was and is a field of state policy application which, based on the institutional regulatory framework, is linked to our culture, our socio-economic conditions, our way of life and expression. Building permition is not just an administrative act. It is the permission to intervene in the environment, which has been for many years a cultural testimony about the conditions and the perception of a society and its influences in the time it is issued.

Strategic public and private investments are governed by a specific framework that establishes rules for design-incentives-rapid licensing.

The legal framework also promotes a centralized authorization-licensing-monitoring process with a view to legal certainty for investors and acceleration of the procedures for issuing administrative acts.

Changes in recent years have established a system of rules which is based on electronic procedures and databases, thus codifying competition procedures and setting deadlines for decision-making bodies.

ν.4412/2016 – Explanatory Report

ν.4413/2016 – Explanatory Report

ν.4782/2021