Request to EDPPI

A. If a copyright or related right is infringed (the infringement has already occurred and is ongoing) on the internet, the right holder may submit to the Committee an application either in person or electronically for removal of the infringement (procedure of paragraph 4 of Article 66E of Law 2121/1993)

The procedure for submitting a request to the Committee is as follows:

STEP 1. PAYMENT OF FEE

The examination fee amounts to:

€300, if the application includes 1 domain name
€500, if the application includes 2 to 5 domain names
€700, if the application includes 6 to 10 domain names
€1,000, if the application includes 11 to 50 domain names
€1,000, if the application concerns blocking access to internet protocol addresses (IP addresses) used for transmitting content by continuous data streaming.

Each such application cannot concern more than fifty (50) internet protocol addresses

The above prices do not include VAT.

The examination fee is deposited at the National Bank (SWIFT(BIC) code ETHNGRAA), crediting OPI's account with IBAN GR8101101510000015129605323. A copy of the deposit receipt with the applicant's full details is submitted together with the application to the Committee. The fee constitutes a formal prerequisite for initiating the procedure and therefore is not refunded in any case, including the case of the filing the case.

The fee must be paid before submitting the application to the Committee.

STEP 2. FILL IN THEINFRINGEMENT DETAILS

You must accurately fill-in and at your responsibility the details of the alleged infringement, that is, all fields included in the REQUEST.XLSX file, regardless of whether your application concerns an infringement taking place through domain names or internet protocol addresses (IP addresses) used for transmitting content by continuous data streaming (live-streaming).

Here you will find the above file, which you must download to your local disk and complete.

This file must be submitted mandatorily together with your application (see STEP 3) to the Committee.

STEP 3. COMPLETION OF APPLICATION

Once you have completed the above steps, you must download the relevant application/pre-formatted form to your local disk, and after completing it, send it to OPI electronically to email edppi@edppi.gr.

Electronic submission of the application and all accompanying files and documents is recommended.

STEP 3. COMPLETION OF APPLICATION

Electronic submission of the application and all accompanying files and documents is recommended.

B. If a copyright or related right, or the right of the organizer of sports events is infringed on the internet, and provided that:

it is probable that large-scale infringement is imminent on the internet for events of national or international broadcasting that are to be transmitted simultaneously with their occurrence, or for audiovisual works that are to be transmitted, presented or made available to the public, where and when it chooses,
it is probable that the infringement will occur indicatively through specific resource locators (URLs) or internet protocol addresses (IP addresses) or domain names that support unauthorized access by any means, including access through the use of codes or decoders, and
there is an urgent case of preventing immediate, serious and imminent danger or irreparable damage to the public interest and/or to the rightsholder,

the right holder may submit to the Committee an application electronically (at edppi@edppi.gr) requesting the issuance of a decision for access blocking (procedure of paragraph 10A of Article 66E of Law 2121/1993).

The procedure for submitting the request under paragraph 10A to the Committee is as follows:

STEP 1. PAYMENT OF EXAMINATION FEE

The examination fee amounts to:

€400, if the application includes 1 domain name or 1 internet protocol address (IP address) or 1 uniform resource locator (URL)
€700, if the application includes 2 to 5 URLs or domain names or IP addresses
€1,200, if the application includes 6 to 10 URLs or domain names or IP addresses
€1,500, if the application includes 11 to 50 URLs or domain names or IP addresses
€1,500, if the application concerns blocking access to IP addresses used for transmitting content by continuous data streaming (live-streaming)

Please note that each such application cannot concern more than 50 URLs or domain names or IP addresses cumulatively.

€7,000 in the case where the blocking of access for a maximum duration of 12 months is requested

The above prices do not include VAT.

The examination fee is deposited at the National Bank (SWIFT(BIC) code ETHNGRAA), crediting OPI's account with IBAN GR8101101510000015129605323. A copy of the deposit receipt with the applicant's full details is submitted together with the application to the Committee and its accompanying files and documents. The fee constitutes a formal prerequisite for initiating the procedure, and therefore is not refunded in any case, including the case of the filing of the case.

Therefore, the fee must be paid before submitting the application to the Committee.

STEP 2. FILL IN THE INFRINGEMENT DETAILS

You must fill-in accurately and at your responsibility, the details of the alleged infringement, that is, all fields included in the request.xlsx file, regardless of whether your application concerns an infringement taking place through domain names or internet protocol addresses (IP addresses) or possible uniform resource locators (URLs).

Here you will find the above file, which you must download to your local disk and complete.

This file must be submitted mandatorily together with your application (see STEP 3) to the Committee.

STEP 3. COMPLETING THE APPLICATION

Once you have completed the above steps, you can download the application/specially pre-formatted form to your local disk, and after filling it in, send it to OPI electronically at email edppi@edppi.gr.

Deadline for submitting the application of paragraph 10A of Article 66E of Law 2121/1993

ATTENTION: In this specific case, the rightsholder’s application is submitted to the Committee at the latest 15 working days before the scheduled transmission of the event or the scheduled transmission or presentation or on-demand provision to the public of the specific audiovisual work.

In the case where the application includes more than one event falling within the framework of the same organization or possible multiple organizations, the application shall be submitted at the latest 15 working days before the scheduled transmission of the first chronologically mentioned event of national or international broadcasting in the application.

In the case of audiovisual works, the rightsholder’s application is submitted 15 working days before the scheduled time of transmission or presentation to the public of each specific work.

In the case of an application concerning the on-demand provision of an audiovisual work, the Committee's decision is issued 15 working days after the submission of the rights holder's application.

Submission of Supplementary Elements to EETT

In case of submission by the right holder to the competent monitoring service of EETT with notification to the Committee of supplementary elements regarding the transfer of illegal activity or the infringement of the Committee's decision or the repetition of the infringement, according to item (d) of subparagraph 2 of paragraph 10A of Article 66E of Law 2121/1993, these must be accompanied by the latter excel file, that needs to include the new/additional IP addresses and/or domain names for which the issuing of an order by EETT is requested.

Submission of application to the Committee for maintaining the validity of EETT's order

If the rightholders wish to maintain the validity of EETT's order, they must submit a new application to the Committee within five working days from the issuance of EETT's order and after having paid the examination fee (€300).

In this case, their application is accompanied by the completed form of elements included in EETT's order that are included in the file diatirisi entolis_10A.xlsx..