*5.4. The Establishment of a Modern Legal Framework*

In view of the aforementioned parameters, and in the light of the CJEU case law, the current EU laws (GDPR, Directive 2016/680) and the opinions and guidelines of the national Independent Data Protection Authority) and pursuant to Law 3917/2011 (regarding the use of surveillance systems with sound and picture recording in public places), innovative legislation on the use of monitoring technologies in public places has been recently established in Greece, via the Presidential Decree 75/2020<sup>51</sup> (hereinafter PD). The PD 75/2020 does not provide for a general monitoring policy or a specific policy for environmental purposes, it only provides rules for the use of such technologies for crime prevention and repression and for traffic management. However, these provisions despite not aiming at the special regulation of the use of monitoring technologies for environmental purposes, contain, inter alia, rules applying on environmental crime prevention and repression. Therefore, even though the scope of the new legislation may be limited, it is important that these provisions, reflect all current European and national trends and needs regarding the exploitation of remote sensing technologies. Therefore, the analysis of these new specific rules can be the axis for the establishment of an integrated monitoring national legal framework for environmental purposes.

In this point, it must be noted that PD 75/2020 is a very recent law and therefore no related national case law has been produced yet, so its present analysis is only theoretical and cannot be based to any case law interpretation.
