A Greek bill tabled in Parliament on 31 October 2026 includes five planning articles. One of them amends the rule on merging adjoining flats or buildings. The bill is mainly about the electricity market and is not yet law.
The Ministry of Environment and Energy tabled the bill, which has 90 articles, on 31 October, the Hellenic Parliament’s bill page shows. It went to the Standing Committee on Production and Trade, which had not started work on it. Parliament notes that the posted text is not final, as spelling and syntax corrections are pending.
The planning chapter is articles 77 to 81. Article 80 amends paragraph 5 of article 220 of the Spatial Planning–Urban Planning Code (Law 5306/2026). The regulatory impact analysis says the aim is to clarify the conditions for the functional merging of adjoining divided properties.
Under the Code as published, article 220 already allows functional merging with the consent of at least 67% of the owners concerned, if structural adequacy is ensured. How the tabled text changes these conditions could not be confirmed from the published documents.
Article 79 makes a long list of corrections to the Code. The impact analysis lists the provisions corrected, including articles 22 (special urban plans), 251 (building terms outside town plans), 315 (building permits and small-scale works approvals) and 383 (categories of unauthorised constructions), among others. It does not set out the wording of each change.
Article 81 deals with 168 huts in the Evros Delta, 108 of them registered. Article 77 relocates the flood-hit settlement of Metamorfosi in Karditsa, with 324 residents and about 180 properties. Article 78 sets a site for a care home for older people.
What it means for buyers
Until Parliament votes and the law is published in the Government Gazette, the rules in force are those of the Code. Merging two flats, or buying flats already joined, depends on the article 220 conditions and the building’s permits, which a licensed engineer checks. Small works and the illegal-works categories may also change in the final text. Buyers should confirm how this applies to them with a Greek lawyer or accountant.
What happens next
The bill goes through committee and then to a plenary vote. Changes can still be made. This follows the consultation draft we covered in our report on the draft bill.
