More than 3,000 allegations for arbitrariness and illegalities in beaches of the country, they were already in the Ministry of Finance before July is doing well.
Although the picture compared to last year’s period was slightly improved, 2,667 anonymous and branded complaints were already submitted in June, which were added to about 300 that had reached the Treasury in May. More than half of the complaints submitted have already been checked and imposed the projected penalties which in some cases exceed EUR 60,000.
The obstruction of public free access At sea, the seashore and the beach seizes fines from 2,000 euros to 60,000 euroswhile The obstruction of the audit project of any body, 10,000 euros. A fine of EUR 1,000 falls to fail to post the plate with the concession details.
Until now the checks – autopsies are made by conventional means, that is, by steps with … tapes and with the concessions per hand, to determine whether the terms are met. However, heading to August, drones will also be recruited for beach supervision and aerial photography either preventive or after complaints.
According to competent sources, the Mycoast application, which is running “by the Ministry of Digital Governance, has become a valuable” tool “for both audit services and citizens. In any case, the high rates of offenses of last summer, as well as extreme cases of arbitrariness, are not repeated so far.
On the one hand, the “bitter” fines and direct controls and on the other the better tendering process have improved the situation as a whole.
The details of the RPE shows that 10,565 concessions were made, of which 982 this year. Of the total complaints, most (1,568) relate to arbitrary beach coverage, while another 441 are related to the obstruction of free access.
Of particular interest is the geographical distribution of the June complaints, when people began to flood the beaches.
The beaches of East Attica and Halkidiki were found in the first places of the violations.
The “map” of violations shows:
- Aitoloakarnania: 33
- East Attica: 396, of which 106 in the Saronic Gulf region
- Andros: 10
- Argolida: 17
- Arcadia: 4
- Achaia: 51
- Boeotia: 1
- West Attica: 9
- Evros: 16
- Euboea: 72
- Zakynthos: 50
- Ilia: 12
- Heraklion Crete: 45
- Thassos: 84
- Thesprotia: 17
- Thessaloniki: 65
- Thira: 21
- Ikaria: 10
- Ioannina: 5
- Kavala: 64
- Kalymnos: 35
- Karpathos: 7
- Kastoria: 3
- Kea-Kythnos: 7
- Corfu: 79
- Cephalonia: 17
- Corinth: 101 of which 52 in the area of Kiato
- Kos: 24
- Laconia: 9
- Larissa: 25
- Lasithi: 15
- Lesvos: 13
- Lefkada: 37
- Lemnos: 8
- Magnesia: 189
- Messinia: 62
- Milos: 13
- Mykonos: 33
- Naxos: 20
- Argosaronic islands: 59
- South Attica: 29
- Xanthi: 3
- Paros: 35
- Piraeus: 4
- Pieria: 39
- Preveza: 133
- Rethymnon: 16
- Rodopi: 9
- Rhodes: 164
- Samos: 12
- Sporades: 28
- Syros: 12
- Tinos: 15
- Fthiotida: 6
- Fokida: 7
Padlocks and fines
Regarding the application of penalties, in the event of a seaside and beach, without a concession or concession contract, the Real Estate Agency shall issue an act of immediate removal.
This act is ordered to remove within 48 hours of the mobile elements placed on the seaside and the beach, regardless of the time at which the arbitrary occupation was made. In the event of illegal construction of projects on the seashore or the beach, these projects are demolished.
In addition, in the event of an economic activity on a seashore or beach that has been occupied without a concession contract (eg beach bar), the Real Estate Service or the relevant Municipality, together with the act of immediate removal, issues a sealing and interruption order of the business in the area occupied and within 24 hours. Speech, as well as the ban on entry into the sealed space, at least in Greek and English.
At the level of fines:
- Arbitrary project construction or configuration on a seashore or beach, implies a fine of four times the exchange, which is multiplied by the number of years and up to five years, since the arbitrary construction has been erected or the arbitrary configuration and exclusion of the offender by each procedure. The fine is imposed beyond the urban fines imposed by the competent authorities.
- Arbitrary occupation of a seashore or beach without a concession contract, lures a fine of four times the exchange that would correspond to the occupied area and exclusion of the offender from any seashore and beach concession procedure for five years after the imposition of the sanction. In the event of a second infringement, if the occupation has been made by operating a beautiful operation, its operation is suspended for ten days, its cash machine is sealed by AADE decision and the offender is excluded from any seashore and beach concession procedure for ten years after the imposition of the sanction.
- Occupation of a seashore or beach in excess of the concession contract, a fine of four times the exchange, as it appears on the basis of the mathematical formula, for the extent not covered by a valid concession contract. If exceeding more than 30% of the grade granted, in the event of a second infringement, the offender is excluded from each seashore and beach concession procedure for five years after the sanction is imposed. In the event of a third exceeding rate of more than 30%, the offender is excluded from any seashore and beach concession process for ten years after the imposition of the sanction, the operation of the business is suspended for ten days and the business cash machine is sealed by a decision of the AADE.