The first page of the
Greek Government Gazette A 133/07.08.2019 with the Law 4622/2019 for the Executive State
The first page of the Greek Government Gazette Α 236/28.11.2020 including the Presidential Decree No. 98, with which the Presidency of the Government was established
Ιn Greece and abroad, the Law 4622/2019, subtitled "Executive State: organisation, operation and transparency of the Government, government bodies and central public administration", is also referred to as the "Executive State" Law.[1][4]
Description
Presidency of the Government
The Executive State is a centralised governance system,[5][6] characterised by the establishment of "the Presidency of the Government", an autonomous public service with approximately 440 personnel (340 permanent and 100 nonpermanent positions), whose formation cost was declared by the government to be 184,800
euros in 2020.[α][8] The Presidency of the Government is controlled by the
Prime Minister and consists of a group of Secretariats:[9][10][11]
General Secretariat of the Prime Minister
General Secretariat of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
General Secretariat for Coordination
Special Secretariat for an Integrated Information System of Monitoring and Evaluating Governmental Action
General Secretariat of Communication and Information
With the Presidential Decree No. 19 published at the Greek Government Gazette Α 54/14-3-2022 in March 2022, the Special Secretariat for an I.I.S. of Monitoring and Evaluating Governmental Action was discontinued and the Special Secretariat of Foresight replaced it.[12]
ERT, AMNA, EYP
Most notably, with the Law 4622/2019 the
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), the
Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) and the
National Intelligence Service (EYP) were passed under direct control of the Presidency of the Government, whose head is the Prime Minister. More specifically, the General Secretariat of Communication and Information was given the supervision of the ERT and AMNA[13] and the National Intelligence Service came under the sole control of the Presidency of the Government.[9]
National Transparency Authority
The Law 4622/2019 also included the establishment of an Independent Authority named the "National Transparency Authority", which incorporated five formerly separate auditing departments and an anti-corruption body, with the aim of tackling corruption and ensuring transparency and accountability throughout public life.[14]
Inter-ministerial personnel
With the Law's article 104, provision was made for a group of inter-ministerial employees specialising in
Public Policy Analysis, Legislative affairs, and
Digital Policy Analysis.[15]
Notes
^This sum differs from the Presidency of the Government budget; for example, in 2021 the PoG budget was 31,251,000 euros[7]