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Law No. 3149/2003 on the National Library of Greece, Public Libraries And Other Provisions

ELEMENTS OF THE STATUTE LAW 3149/2003 Official Gazette: Α 141 20030610 TITLE: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE, PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND OTHER PROVISIONS.

CHAPTER C GENERAL PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 12: SPECIAL MATTERS CONCERNING THE N.L.G. AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES

  1. a) The publishers or the authors, in case there’s no publisher, are obliged to deposit two copies of their work to the N.L.G. and to the Library of the Parliament. b) The deposition obligation concerns all audiovisual and electronic publications, as well as all electronic publications accessible via the Internet, in one copy. A decision of the Speaker of the Parliament or the Minister of National Education and Denomination regulates the procedures of the deposit and use of audiovisual and electronic publications at the Library of the Parliament and at N.L.G., respectively. c) In case of consecutive publications or reprints, the deposit refers to each separate publication or reprint, provided that it is enriched or revised. If there is a common and a luxury publication, the obligation of deposition in N.L.G and in the Library of the Parliament concerns one copy for both. d) The provisions referring to the previous cases apply accordingly for the deposit at a Public Library of material produced at the domicile of every Public Library or the domicile, or region of every Central Public Library. e) A decision of the Speaker of the Parliament or the Minister of National Education and Denomination, shall define all necessary details regarding the deposit of copies at the Library of the Parliament or at N.L.G and the Public Libraries, respectively.
  2. a) For every work that is published within the country, regardless of its form, an international identification number is assigned, which is provided solely by the N.L.G. For this purpose, the publisher fills a special document prior to the publication and deposits to the

N.L.G a copy of every work he creates, after the publication, in addition of what the is defined at the previous paragraphs. The deposition shall be performed a month prior the circulation the print and is proved under a formal document of the N.L.G., as is prescribed by its Organization. The register number must be indicated obligatory at the print. b) The publishers of periodicals of all forms as well as of newspapers are obliged to receive and write down in every issue or sheet they publish the international number, which is provided by the relevant service of N.L.G. Furthermore, they have to deposit a copy of the periodical or newspaper to the N.L.G and the Library of Parliament. The deposit has to be done within a month after the circulation of the print and is proved via a formal document of the N.L.G., as is specifically prescribed by its Organization.

  1. Failure to lodge copies in the N.L.G., in the Public Libraries or in the Library of the Parliament, as well as the omission of receiving the international register number from the relevant commission of the N.L.G. is subject to a fine collected by the relevant library, as stated at the Code for the Collection of Public Revenues. Any report of issuing of an illegal register number, constitutes an incriminatory case. The amount of the fine imposed and every necessary detail, are determined by a common resolution of the Ministers of Economy – Economics and National Education and Denomination.
  2. Any material that is not published yet may be lodged to the N.L.G. in order to enrich its corpus, provided that it has a proper physical form and is independent. The lodgment in

N.L.G is carried out by the author, translator, composer, adaptation specialist, scriptwriter, and in general by the responsible for the production of the material, and the deposit is proved via a formal document, as specifically prescribed by its Organization. The lodgment proves the time of lodgment of the specific material and has no relationship with the copyrights procedure. A copy of the material referred to this paragraph is administered only to the applicant, to the grantee of this right or to his heirs, on their own expenses.