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  "id": "legal/wild-camping-nationwide-ban",
  "signature": "AI tells a traveler that informal 'wild' or 'free' camping on Greek beaches, forests, or public land is tolerated if discreet, similar to Nordic right-to-roam norms",
  "signature_zh": "",
  "regex": "(wild camping greece|free camping greece|camping.*beach.*greece|greece.*right to roam)",
  "domain": "legal",
  "category": "legal_restriction",
  "subcategory": null,
  "root_cause": "Greece has a nationwide, strictly enforced ban on setting up tents or parking trailers/motorhomes with camping equipment deployed on archaeological sites, beaches, forest land, or public land generally. Article 27 of Law 5170/2025 (amending Article 7 §18 of Law 4276/2014) sets an on-the-spot administrative fine of 300 euros per person, per camping unit, or per vehicle, imposed by police or coast guard, plus a separate criminal penalty of up to 3 months' imprisonment or a fine, with courts able to order forced removal of the vehicle. There is no seasonal or 'off-season is fine' exception, and enforcement is active at tourist coastal areas in summer.",
  "root_cause_type": "generic",
  "root_cause_zh": "",
  "versions": [
    {
      "version": "any",
      "introduced": null,
      "deprecated": null,
      "removed": null,
      "behavior_change": null,
      "status": "active"
    }
  ],
  "os_specific": {},
  "dead_ends": [
    {
      "action": "Assume informal beach, forest, or roadside camping in Greece is a minor, tolerated civil matter as long as it's discreet - the way it functions under Nordic 'right to roam' norms",
      "why_fails": "Article 27 of Law 5170/2025 explicitly and nationally prohibits installing tents and parking trailers, semi-trailers, or motorhomes in archaeological sites, beaches, forest edges, and public spaces generally. This is enforced with an on-the-spot administrative fine of 300 euros per person, per camping unit, or per vehicle, plus a separate criminal penalty of up to 3 months' imprisonment or a fine - not a warning-first or seasonal rule.",
      "fail_rate": 0.85,
      "condition": "Camping outside a licensed campsite anywhere in Greece",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.e-nomothesia.gr/kat-tourismos/n-5170-2025.html",
        "https://www.mycamper.gr/blog/nomothesia/arthro-27-nomos-5170-paragrafos-18-tou-2025"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "workarounds": [
    {
      "action": "Use a licensed campsite, or arrange private accommodation with a landowner; if traveling by motorhome, only park where Greece's Road Traffic Code (Law 2696/1999, Article 34) permits overnight parking, with no camping equipment (chairs, awning, leveling gear) deployed outside the vehicle",
      "success_rate": 0.85,
      "how": "A bare parked motorhome with no camping paraphernalia set up is treated differently from 'camping' under the law; deploying chairs, an awning, or extending the vehicle's footprint crosses into the prohibited activity.",
      "condition": "Motorhome/campervan travel",
      "sources": [
        "https://www.mycamper.gr/blog/nomothesia/arthro-27-nomos-5170-paragrafos-18-tou-2025"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "workarounds_zh": [],
  "transition_graph": {
    "leads_to": [],
    "preceded_by": [],
    "frequently_confused_with": []
  },
  "official_doc_url": null,
  "official_doc_section": null,
  "error_code": null,
  "verification_tier": "ai_generated",
  "confidence": 0.8,
  "fix_success_rate": 0.85,
  "resolvable": "true",
  "first_seen": "2026-08-21",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-08-21",
  "last_updated": "2026-08-21",
  "evidence_count": 3,
  "tags": [],
  "locale": "en",
  "aliases": [
    "legal/wild-camping-nationwide-ban/gr"
  ]
}