State funding of sports entities from the taxation of betting
Joint Ministerial Decision 2150/27.1.2026 (Official Government Gazette Β΄ 527/3.2.2026) Establishment of the framework, terms, conditions, and allocation criteria for the state funding provided for in Article 116 (1A) of Law 5219/2025 (A’ 130) to eligible sports teams and the Special Committees referred to in Article 53 of Law 2725/1999 (A’ 121), as well as to the supervised private-law legal entities and public-law legal entities under the General Secretariat of Sports to which the sports facilities belong, used by the national teams of all recognized sports federations for their training Article 1 Subject - Purpose Article 2 Definitions Article 3 Documentation for the registration of sports public limited liability companies and professional athletes' departments with the special Registry of the General Secretariat of Sports Article 4 State funding requirements and criteria Article 5 Distributed amount - Special Organizing Committees Article 6 Distributed amount - private and public legal entities supervised by the General Secretariat of Sports Article 7 Distributed amount - professional sports Article 8 Distributed amount - amateur sports - national teams Article 9 Payment procedure of the state funding Article 10 Documentation for the payment of the state funding Article 11 Overpayments - retroactivity and offsetting of payments Article 12 Remaining provisions
