Greece’s Council of State (CoS), the country’s highest administrative court, this week shot down a ministerial decision, dating to 2011, which essentially watered down a strict anti-smoking law that even under the optimum conditions is spottily enforced. enforced.
The high court overturned the decision, which had excluded nightclubs “with music” exceeding 300 square meters in space, as the decision states, and casinos from the 2010 anti-smoking law.
What raised eyebrows in Athens, however, was an almost immediately issued new ministerial decree, by the current government, with roughly the same loopholes as the 2010 law.
As a result, a new motion to overturn the latest ministerial decision was filed with the CoS.
