Professional secrecy, Notaries' Code, Law 2830/2000 Articles 1, 8, 13
Establishes absolute professional secrecy and a permanent duty to preserve notarial acts.
Notaries
Compliance for notary offices
Digitising the Transfer and Mortgage Registers ended paper record-keeping, and created the sector's biggest digital exposure.
Legislation
Your obligations
Mandatory electronic Transfer & Mortgage Registers, Decision ΠΡ 1187/2427324/2024
Since May 2024, record-keeping is exclusively electronic (Hellenic Cadastre), paper registers were abolished.
e-notariat, myPROPERTY and the digital Will Registry, Law 5221/2025 Articles 119–122
Every notary now handles sensitive cryptographic tokens and digital transfer-tax declarations.
Anti-money laundering, Law 4557/2018
Notaries are "obliged entities" with a 5-year record-keeping duty for KYC.
The Hellenic DPA received 1,414 complaints in 2023 alone, and fines have escalated every year since, digital documentation is no longer optional for any profession handling sensitive personal or property data.
The Fix
How ArvaSafe covers this
- Automated backup of digital notarial acts, registers, and locally stored declarations
- 10-year retention by default, extendable by agreement for records of a permanent nature
- Immutable storage (Object Lock), protects sensitive digital files against accidental deletion or ransomware
- EU-only storage, encrypted before upload
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