The Ministry of Environment and Energy is opening a public consultation on the newSpecial Spatial Framework for Industry and the Supply Chain, which will run until July 10, 2026.
The ministry invites the public to share their views by submitting comments via the public comment section at the relevant link. The necessary information and related documents are available at the link above.
According to the ministry, the new Special Spatial Framework for Industry and the Supply Chain provides the country with a modern spatial plan for productive reconstruction, adapted to the needs of the new era.
The previous framework was approved in 2008, during a completely different international, economic, and industrial context. Today, Greece and Europe are facing new challenges: energy security, critical raw materials, supply chain disruptions, sustainable development, technological transformation, and the need for greater productive and strategic resilience.
Within this new environment, industry and the supply chain are no longer viewed in isolation, but as critical infrastructure for the country’s economic resilience, competitiveness, strategic autonomy, and national security.
The new National Strategic Plan revises the 2008 framework to adapt it to the new economic, production, and spatial conditions. Its main objective is the gradual transition from scattered and unregulated development to more organized forms of industrial and logistics spatial planning, with clearer rules, better environmental compatibility, and modern production infrastructure.
What Changes with the New National Spatial Plan
For the first time, the supply chain is organically integrated.
The new framework treats industry and the supply chain as a single production system.
Production, storage, transportation, logistics, freight centers, ports, and distribution chains are now interlinked elements of the modern economy. Spatial planning concerns not only the individual siting of facilities, but the overall organization of production and distribution chains.
Priority on organized spatial planning
A central focus of the new National Spatial Plan is the gradual transition from a model of scattered, unplanned development to more organized forms of development.
The new framework prioritizes:
- in organized industrial parks,
- in business parks,
- in areas with established land uses,
- and in organized forms of spatial development.
Objective
The objective is:
- better organization of productive activity,
- the reduction of land-use conflicts,
- environmental remediation,
- and the creation of clearer spatial rules.
Industry, sustainable development, and strategic resilience
The new ECP incorporates the new European strategy for:
- sustainable industrial development,
- critical raw materials,
- security of supply,
- energy security,
- and Europe’s strategic autonomy.
Industry and the supply chain are now treated as critical infrastructure for economic and geo-economic resilience.
Environmental sustainability and productive growth are not treated as conflicting goals, but as parallel prerequisites for creating modern, organized, and environmentally compatible productive infrastructure.
Focus on metropolitan areas
For Attica and Thessaloniki, where a large part of the country’s industrial and logistics activity is already concentrated, the new NSRF places particular emphasis on:
- limiting the uncontrolled spread of activities,
- organized siting,
- the modernization of existing infrastructure,
- and the consolidation of existing clusters of activities.
Environmental protection and spatial compatibility
A key principle of the new ECP is that the organized spatial planning of industry and the supply chain enhances environmental protection and reduces land-use conflicts.
The new framework is accompanied by a Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment and incorporates conditions, restrictions, and guidelines for environmental protection and management.
It does not amend the existing protection regimes for Natura 2000 sites and other protected areas. The protection provisions remain fully in force.
At the same time, clear exclusion zones and siting requirements are established for specific categories of protected areas.
The new ECP in a nutshell
- For the first time, it organically integrates the supply chain into spatial planning.
- It prioritizes the organized siting of industry and logistics.
- It limits scattered, unplanned development.
- It links industrial policy with sustainable development and productive resilience.
- It incorporates new European priorities regarding critical raw materials and strategic autonomy.
- It creates a clearer and more modern framework for the spatial organization of production.
*See the 13 Q&As in the “Supporting Materials” column on the right.