Significant changes include the draft law of interior ministry to reform disciplinary law in Public, filed today (23.7.2025) to Parliament.
The bill, entitled “Reformation of Disciplinary Law of Public Sector Employees, Establishment of a Hellenic Center for Experts of Administrative Reforms and other provisions” is introduced for treatment to the relevant Parliamentary Committee on Thursday, July 24th.
In his announcement the interior ministry It notes that the arrangements of Part A, as stated in the explanatory memorandum, attempts to deal with chronic delays presented in the context of the disciplinary procedure in the public sector.
In pending 2,300 disciplinary cases
Statistics by December 31 2024 indicate that about 2,300 disciplinary cases pending in 100 Primary Disciplinary councils. In many cases, it takes even 5 years or more to complete the processes.
The main reason for delays is the way in which primary disciplinary councils are set up. Presidents are judges or prosecutors, whose participation in disciplinary bodies is not a key and primary, but parallel duty.
Another issue is the time -consuming bureaucratic steps of the disciplinary procedure as it is now. Emphasis is placed on the need to update the provisions of disciplinary law in order to respond to modern data.
Incentives for Evros and shifts
The second part of the bill introduces arrangements that respond to the need to address the country’s extroversion lack of extroversion in the areas of administrative reform and human resources management of the public sector, with the provision of expertise in the European Union and Extraordinary Countries and Extraordinations and Extraordination Cooperation and building of our country’s strategic relations with other countries, organizations and bodies, with the creation of a legal person private law (NPID) with this purpose and mission.
Following the Prime Minister’s announcements to reinforce his Evros, The bill provides motivation For employees who will serve in the county – except for the Municipality of Alexandroupolis – with an increased rate of organic positions in order to boost their stay there, while enabling emergency mobility cycles, with the aim of immediate needs. As well, there are also specific time frames and transfers, which aim to ensure the constant presence and commitment of employees in the area.
It also establishes the possibility of transferring employees serving with posting to bodies of the general government of the public sector of para) of Article 14 (1) of Law 4270/2014 to the same reception bodies, where they are already working (except for the staff serving in the political offices of party or parliamentarians). Operation of services.
What Thodoris Lebanese said
The Minister of the Interior, Thodoris Lebanese, On the occasion of the submission of this bill, he stated: “The reform of disciplinary law for civil servants is a key bill with the aim of faster awarding disciplinary justice and the ultimate goal of properly functioning public administration and more public administration and more public administration.
To date, disciplinary councils have been operating with long response times, which in many cases have reached even six years, resulting in disciplinary cases that have been “stunning” for years to be a hindrance to the performance and productivity of the human resources that staff and public services.
The acceleration of the disciplinary procedure is also very important for employees, who should not be confronted with disciplinary procedures, but also for the services where they serve. “
What Vivi Charalambogianni said
For its part, the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Vivi Charalambogiannis, He said: “The acceleration and simplification of the process of awarding disciplinary justice, as well as the matching penalties with social reality, constitute the core of the Ministry of Interior’s legislative initiative.
For the first time, the establishment of a new disciplinary council, consisting of 60 officials of the State Legal Council, full and exclusively employed, to modernize the process with the use of high technology, rigorous deadlines, but also enhancement of transparency and accountability.
We are working steadily to rationalize administrative procedures, with a view to providing quality services to the citizen. “
Read HERE the draft law of the Ministry of the Interior as submitted to Parliament