The civil non-profit society Nomos+Physis specializes in the fields of law, institutions and policy for environmental protection and sustainable development. Its mission is to contribute to the development of environmental law (in Greece, as well as in its neighbouring countries) and to raise public awareness regarding the legal and institutional aspects of environmental protection and sustainable development.



Within this framework:

- It undertakes national and E. Community projects in various sectors of environmental law and sustainable development, often in collaboration with governmental and academic institutions, and environmental non - governmental organizations;

- It works in the field of development cooperation, especially as regards transfer of institutional know-how and, in this context, it is officially enrolled in the Non-Governmental Organizations Register of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

- It undertakes the elaboration of draft Presidential Decrees and Ministerial Decisions necessary for the harmonization to the Community environmental law; it also undertakes the preparation of draft legal acts concerning the management bodies and plans of protected areas;

- It undertakes to assess the application of national and Community environmental legislation, as well as the compliance of Greece with international environmental conventions;

- It elaborates policy papers on environmental practices and on the use economic instruments both in the public and the private sector;

- It organizes conferences and seminars on environmental law issues with the aim to sensitize the scientific community and the civil society involved in environmental matters;

- Ιt organizes training seminars for the justice and the administration on the interpretation and implementation of national, E. Community and international environmental law;

- It publishes the Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development Law Quarterly "Nomos+Physis" as well as the "Environmental Law Series", a collection of studies on current environmental protection and sustainable development issues.