Particularly careful should be drivers even when parking in the supermarket parking spaces, as checks for illegal parking are no longer limited to public roads alone.
Illegal parking is still one of the most frequent violations on Greek roads, since the lack of available seats, combined with the absence of driving education by several drivers, creates the known images we see with the daily problems both in vehicle traffic and in the safe use of Infrastructure by drivers and pedestrians.
In this context, incidents of irregular parking that ignores both the relevant legislation and the needs of other users of the site It is now a common phenomenon that unfortunately many of us now treat as normal.
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By trying to address this issue, competent authorities have significantly increased controls in recent years, with a view to identifying and certifying infringements, even in parking spaces that many drivers previously considered out of jurisdiction Traffic.
More specifically and as we have stressed many times lately, controls are not limited solely to the public road network, but they also extend to private supermarkets, malls and other private facilities accessible to the public.
According to Article 1 of OK and Article 3 of Law 5209/2025, the rules of movement apply to any place used for public circulation, regardless of its ownership. It is noted that for the proper updating of drivers in several parking spaces relevant signs have already been installed informing drivers that the provisions of the Road Traffic Code are normally applicable.
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Special weight in terms of controls is now given by authorities to the charging positions of electric vehicles, as several drivers still use them as simple parking spaces, although intended exclusively for charging of electric vehicles.
This practice naturally creates serious problems for owners of electric and plug-in hybrid cars who need to charge their vehicles, since many are the cases where drivers reach available, according to applications, a charger and find that the position is occupied by a vehicle that does not carry out a charge.
In any case, the new KOK provides for explicit rules for these positions, since it stipulates that the stop and parking at the charging points are permitted exclusively in electrical and plug-in hybrid vehicles and only as long as the charging process lasts.
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The infringement is classified under category E1-B and is punishable by an administrative fine of 30 euros, as well as removal of the driver's license for 10 days. Where the driver is absent and it is not possible to remove the driver's licence immediately, the vehicle's traffic data shall be removed, returned upon presentation of the driving licence.
At this point, let us say that even stricter penalties are for another common infringement in the parking spaces, i.e. illegal parking in places PERSONS.
In this case, the new KOK provides for a fine of 150 euros and the removal of the 60-day driving licence, while the infringement also falls under the regime of recurrences.. In a second infringement within a five-year period, the fine is increased to EUR 1,000 and removal of the diploma It reaches 180 days, while in a third relapse the fine is set in EUR 2,000 and the driver's license is removed for a whole year.
