The Greek Civil Code has been drafted mostly as a result of the influence of the Pandectists school of legal thought. Its historical roots account for that trait. Therefore, the implementation of the Consumer Sales Directive poses similar challenges to the Greek legal system, as it does to other legal systems of the Germanic family. However, certain issues may be unique, such as the current legislation on commercial guarantees, the existing definition of the notion of consumer, the place which consumer law occupies in the legal system as a whole and the associated implications for the process of transposition of the Directive into the Greek legal system. Nevertheless, that which has not been very much discussed in the legal literature -and this contribution aspires to inform the international readership- is the overall attitude of the private law experts in Greece towards the revision of the Civil Code, on the one hand, and the harmonisation of European Private Law on the other.
European Review of Private Law