Greece Results Report 2022-2024

Greece’s fifth action plan comprised 19 commitments covering digital transformation, open parliamentary data, whistleblowing protection, lobbyingLobbying transparency allows the public to ensure that there is diversity of participation and contribution to public decision-making. Technical specifications: Policies and actions affecting lobbying... regulationGovernment reformers are developing regulations that enshrine values of transparency, participation, and accountability in government practices. Technical specifications: Act of creating or reforming ..., open land administration data, and public administration reforms. Greece fully or substantially completed two-thirds of the commitments. This completionImplementers must follow through on their commitments for them to achieve impact. For each commitment, OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) evaluates the degree to which the activities outlin... More rate is similar to the previous action plan.

Five commitments achieved early results: reports of breaches of EU whistleblowing law are steadily increasing (CommitmentOGP commitments are promises for reform co-created by governments and civil society and submitted as part of an action plan. Commitments typically include a description of the problem, concrete action... 8), official statistical property transactions data is now available to the public (Commitment 11), and results from active participation in the Community of Practice on Greece’s National Interoperability Framework are noteworthy (Commitment 19). Furthermore, information on lobbying activities and public sector disciplinary board cases are now available to the public.

The five commitments identified as promising in the Action Plan Review had mixed early results. Three commitments achieved moderate or significant early results and two recorded no notable results. Reports on lobbying activities in 2022 and 2023, released later than promised, revealed a small number of registered lobbyists reporting their activities. 34 whistleblowing reports falling within the scope of the whistleblowing platform were made between August 2023 and the end of the action plan cycle. Two out of three land administration datasets were created and released publicly in open dataBy opening up data and making it sharable and reusable, governments can enable informed debate, better decision making, and the development of innovative new services. Technical specifications: Polici... format in April 2025, after the end of the implementation period.

Action plan implementation was affected by the 2023 double snap parliamentary elections, which led to changes of ministers, responsibilities and priorities, and delays in approvals to publish information.^[1]Some of the unfulfilled commitments are now due to be completed in 2025, including upgrading the parliament’s portal, digitising meteorological documents, and creating a central register of all public bodies. The policy areas which saw the most progress were whistleblower protection, open land administration data, public participation in digital transformation, and lobbying transparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More.

Participation and Co-Creation

The Ministry of Digital Governance oversees the OGP process in Greece. An ad hoc multi-stakeholder Focus Group with government, civil society members and non-governmental members co-created the action plan.^[2] However, there was no multi-stakeholder space to monitor the implementation of the 2022-2024 action plan. A formal meeting of some members of the former Focus Group in October 2024 to finalize progress reporting on the plan provided some implementation oversight.^[3] The OGP Point of Contact’s (POC) regular online progress reports indicate active networking with commitment leads during implementation.^[4]There was little public promotion of the action plan over its cycle. Only one 2024 news item was published on the opengovmonitor.gr website.

On 19 December 2022, as the action plan was being finalised, two civil society organizations (CSOs) participating in the OGP process and ten other CSOs sent a public letter to the Minister of Digital Governance expressing concerns about the process and substance of the action plan.^[5] Government officials and three civil society members have reported little to no interaction since then, which limited civil society engagement in monitoring implementation progress.^[6]

The implementation of Greece’s fifth action plan did not meet the minimum requirements for a space for dialogue and open implementation as per the OGP Participation and Co-Creation Standards as the Focus Group only met once during implementation (see Section III).^[7] Greece has been under procedural review since February 2021. In May 2024, the OGP Criteria & Standards Subcommittee decided that that Greece would remain under procedural review until confirmation was provided about compliance with minimum implementation requirements of the 2022-2024 action plan.^[8]

In March 2025, the Secretary General for Digital Governance, presenting at civil society’s third WeOpenGov forum,^[9]promised to create a legally mandated multi-stakeholder forum for the OGP process. This MSF would be created with civil society, using the Ministry of the Interior’s registered CSOs database (Commitment 14) and the resources from a National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET) project about open data and participation.^[10]

Implementation in Context

EU and OECD-related commitments, such as the whistleblower platform and the public participation work supporting digital transformation, had high completion rates, and implementation of Greece’s lobbying law meets the OECD’s lobbying standards.

Changes in ministerial roles, competent agencies, responsibilities, and new priorities following the 2023 parliamentary elections delayed the implementation timelines of several commitments. During the action plan cycle, civil society expressed concerns about the lack of government response to civil society’s 2022 public letter about the substance and process of the action plan. In January 2025, the city of Athens became a member of the OGP Local program.^[11]

Table 1. Commitments with Early Results