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modernisation and enhancement of infrastructure
capacity secures new users and opens up new
markets, domestic and foreign, which are related
to tourism, industry and transport, with multiplier
effects on domestic employment and the econo-
my. By exploiting its geographical position,
resources, and assets, Greece can become a
major trans-shipment hub, as well as a high qual-
ity tourist destination, offering specialised servic-
es and organised tourist accommodation.
Therefore, it is imperative to ensure the organized
management of public real estate, combined with
a strategic plan that will lay down comprehensive
directions in regard to the objectives, uses and
form of the desired investments, specifying, at the
same time, the general specifications and a sta-
ble and comprehensible framework for potential
investors. Strategic planning should also include
the state’s rural and suburban real properties,
with the aim of creating economies of scale,
restructuring and streamlining agricultural pro-
duction, improving competitiveness, boosting
exports, and promoting the standardisation of pri-
mary sector products. In the context of strategic
planning, it is necessary to launch a systematic
procedure to ensure the legal and technical matu-
rity of public properties in order to enable their
sale in the market at the appropriate time, while
procedure-expediting provisions must be immedi-
ately introduced, albeit without undermining the
validity, legitimacy, efficiency, and safety of devel-
opment projects. Moreover, the protection of
social interest and the natural environment should
be ensured in any case, through control mecha-
nisms at all stages of the projects, from tendering
to full operation. Utilising public property and the
