Law 3937 of 2011 published in Gazette 60A/31-3-2011 (only texts) has the following general objectives as specified in Article 1:
1. The purpose of regulation is sustainable management and effective conservation of biodiversity as a valuable, irreplaceable and of great importance national capital.
2. Maintaining biodiversity requires planning and management processes, in which ensure broad consultation phase, so as to exploit the best scientific knowledge and available expertise.

Download here the lists of areas in two files (pin1 and pin2) applied the above law.


Article 9 defines the completeness and limitations of use as follows:
1. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, in the areas of Natura 2000, the following restrictions:
a) No facility particularly disturbing and dangerous industrial installations falling under Directive 96/82/EC (L 10).
b) The installation of industrial plants of high nuisance as defined in the Annex to the Joint Ministerial Decision of Ministers of Development, Environment, Planning and Public Works 13727/724/2003 (FEK 1087 B).
c) Fishing with trawl nets, dredges, shore seines and similar nets and static nets over coral reef habitats and asvestofykikous beds.
d) The installation and operation of fish farming on seagrass meadows.
e) The placement of advertising signs, except those that inform the visitor about the region and promote the mild nature activities.
2. a) In areas outside the approved plans or outside city limits legally pre-existing settlements or outside the 1923 boundaries of settlements with a population of up to 2,000 residents within a SAC or EPZ, the minimum threshold integrity and fragmentation of land is fixed at 10,000 m, for all other matters, as in force of paragraph 1 of Article 1tou pd of 24-31.5.1985 (Gazette 270 W). Exceptionally well-considered and buildable notwithstanding, land area at least 4,000 m, which, upon publication of this, are even and buildable, in accordance with the relevant planning provisions.
b) The above specified minimum area of ​​land does not apply to the drilling of wells, construction of pumping facilities, warehouses and small agricultural ydatode xamenon and installation works escorts power plants from renewable energy sources in accordance with the provisions.
c) Specific provisions regulating existing space, which provide higher levels of integrity or limit the permitted uses of land, remain in force.
d) Until the detailed delimitation of areas of the network Natura 2000, requests for a building permit in golf texts zone extending two hundred (200) meters across the boundaries of those areas, such as boundaries shown on maps of scale 1: 100,000 of the Environmental Planning Directorate of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, examined after autopsy on the exact location of the land. The autopsy conducted by the Directorate General for Spatial and Environmental Policy concerned Decentralised Administration, which calculates the coordinates graphics, or by the relevant Management Agency, if established. If the land falls within an area of ​​the Natura 2000 network copy of the autopsy report sent in care of dienergisantos the Environmental Planning Directorate of the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change.
3. The agricultural and livestock activities are subject to restrictions, including mandatory already defined in Regulation 146/2010 (L 47) on a cross-compliance. Where necessary, apply additional provisions where the responsibility of the Minister for Rural Development and Food. The same applies to activities in the fisheries sector and where necessary apply additional provisions on the responsibility of the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Islands.
4. Forest within the areas of Article 19 of Law 1650/1986 can be available to natural and legal persons to establish shelters and mountain ski resorts, according to a procedure similar to that provided in Article 51 of the n 998/1979, and for the uses provided for in paragraph 5 of Article 46 of that Act, if the above permitted uses of the instruments for characterization and demarcation thereof under Article 21 of Law 1650/1986 and Article 8 hereof.
5. The first sentence of paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the joint ministerial decision of the Ministers of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization, Economy and Finance, Development, Environment, Planning and Public Works, Agriculture, Merchant Marine and Culture, 11.12.1998 (FEK 1289 B ) is amended as follows:

"In the SAC and the EPZ, other priority habitats and habitats of priority species, are allowed where appropriate, siting of projects and approve projects whose impacts have been assessed as very important to the study of environmental effects, only if, on the basis of sufficient evidence, evaluated as an overriding public interest, economic or social, there is no alternative and have made substantial for the case of compensatory measures to ensure the overall coherence of the network of protected areas Natura 2000. Within two months of the approval of projects and these projects, the Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change will inform the European Commission about the expected impacts and compensatory metrapou received. "


Also in Article 9, paragraph 3 provides the following:

Allowed the construction of any buildable land outside the project boundaries and outside settlements areas of the islands, referring to
from 17.05.2002 (Official Gazette 402 W), 10.24.2002 (Gazette 930 W) and 24.10.2002 (Gazette 931 D) presidential decrees, and in land whose slope, in accordance with the provisions of the above presidential decrees, prohibits the construction, under the following conditions
a) The average slope of the land does not exceed 40%.
b) The building is storey and not exceeding 150 m
c) The basement, which shows, not to exceed 30 m
d) The building height does not exceed 4.50 meters. The height is measured from natural ground level at any point of the contour of the building, so that the projection height of the building in no case exceed the amount permitted above.