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The applicable legislation establishing a national screening mechanism for foreign direct investments (FDI) and implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/452 in Greece is Law 5202/2025, which was adopted on 22 May 2025 (Greek FDI Law).
Pensions Ombudsman provides more detail of its new operating practices in blog
United Kingdom | Publication | June 2024
In a blog post published on June 18, 2024, the Ombudsman has set out more about upcoming changes that will require future complainants to exhaust a scheme's formal internal dispute resolution process before bringing their case to the Ombudsman.
We reported earlier this month on the Ombudsman’s review of its operating method, which was published on May 21, 2024. In the first of a planned series of blogs fleshing out aspects of the review the Ombudsman, Dominic Harris, explains how the Ombudsman service will aiming to reduce its backlog of cases.
Generally, the Ombudsman will not investigate complaints until the scheme’s IDRP process has been exhausted. However, that requirement was relaxed in 2018 when the Pensions Advisory Service moved its (informal) dispute resolution function to the Ombudsman. Although it may not have been common knowledge, individual complainants could choose to use the informal resolution service, which could include engagement before, or during, the scheme’s own IDRP process. In future, in the interests of efficiency, the Ombudsman’s informal early resolution process will no longer be available, with complainants being required to exhaust their scheme’s IDRP first.
The plan is to move from piloting some aspects of this change to full implementation by the Autumn of this year.
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