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The purpose of this research is to examine the regulatory framework of gas distribution operators in Greece. For this purpose to be achieved, the presentation of a) the organization of the Greek gas market organization, b) the evolution of the EU legislation in respect to the regulatory framework of gas distribution operators that has influenced the respective Greek regulatory framework and, c) the evolution of Greek gas distribution operators and of the legislation that guided this evolution. The methodology adopted to investigate all above issues, is the systematic literature review of secondary qualitative sources regarding the regulatory framework of gas distribution operators both on an EU and Greek level. The results showed that Directive 2009/73/EC and Law. 4001/2011, as well as the subsequent Law. 4336/2015 and Law.4602/2019, clearly contributed to the acceleration and deepening of the liberalization of the Greek gas market, by assisting the unbundling of the gas distribution sector.