The article provides a characterization of the main institutions of the General Part of the new Criminal Code of Greece, which came into force on July 1, 2019, and is significant for expanding the understanding of foreign law in order to improve Russian criminal legislation. It shows the place of the Criminal Code in the system of sources of Greek criminal law, draws attention to the significance of the Greek Constitution of 1975 for the field of criminal law, as well as other normative legal acts that form the so‑called special criminal legislation. The norms regarding the effect of criminal law over time and space, the “intermediate” law, criminal acts and their elements, the classification of criminal acts into crimes and misdemeanors, circumstances excluding the unlawfulness of an act, and conditions are analyzed. The goal of the research is to form an understanding of the content of the main institutions of the General Part of the Criminal Code of Greece. The main tasks of the research consist in conducting an analysis of the specified institutions and identifying the features of their regulation. In preparing the article, general scientific and specific scientific research methods were used (dialectical, historical, system‑structural, comparative‑legal, and legal analysis of the text). Conclusion: Greece’s legal system, developing within the framework of the Romano‑Germanic (continental) legal family, was influenced by various doctrines, leading criminal law schools, and foreign criminal codes, which is why it can be classified as a mixed legal subsystem of the Romano‑Germanic legal family. The author of the article introduces new information into the scientific discourse regarding Greece’s criminal legislation.
Natalya Krylova (Wed,) studied this question.