Creative Commons

This dissertation was written as part of the MSC in Legal Studies (LLM) at the International Hellenic Unive rsity. In summary, the thesis at the beginning starts from explaining the reasons for which the Regulation was considered necessary to be adopted and it analyzes the practical significance and the importance of this legal regime. Following, the present th esis makes an attempt to approach the way that the Regulation was actually applied in practice in European Union in general, providing statistical data from several member states and more analytical in Greece. Regarding the Greek way of application, the pr esent thesis present also a comparison of the European payment order regime and the regime of the national payment order. Finally, there is a presentation of matters relating to enforcement procedure and some examples of the case - law of the ECJ but also o f a Greek Court regarding an appeal at the enforcement procedure.