In line with Law 2121/93 and its founding Law 1013/71, HMGS possesses “Copyright, related rights and cultural affairs” and Ownership and property rights of its geographic material. HMGS concedes license of the above materiel for commercial purposes, only after the signing of a related contract with the interested parties. The contractual amount is determined on the basis of the length of the area, the amount of the information drawn and the number of copies.

Article 13 of the Legislative Decree 1013/1971 (Government Gazette 201 A’), is replaced by the provisions of Article 11 of the Law 3257/2004 (Government Gazette143/A/29.7.2004) on “Arrangements of issues related to Armed Forces personnel and other provisions” as follows:

• According to the above Law as “geographic (geo) material” is defined any geodetic, astronomical, geophysical, geomagnetic, aerial-photographic, topographic, cartographical, hydrographical, aeronautical, satellite and any other materiel or element in analog or digital form, that is produced and can be used for the production of maps and ground diagrams as well as naval and aeronautical maps in analog or digital form.
• The geo- materiel that is produced by the Hellenic Military Geographical Service is under exclusive copyright of the Hellenic Armed Forces and their disposal to third parties is subject to copyright provisions.
• The production and editing of national maps (in analog or digital form) of any range, by the State, public entities, private law natural and legal persons, through the use of HMGS geo-material is allowed only following approval of the Hellenic Army General Staff. For such use, intellectual property rights are due by the private law natural and legal persons.
• Whoever is granted permission to produce/edit maps is obliged to comply with the Hellenic Army instructions related to the disclosure or not of the confidential nature of the maps, their content and composition in general. This permission is noted and stamped upon the copies of the maps.
• The private law natural and legal persons are allowed to perform aerial photography air flights by their own means for geo-material production purposes, only following HNDGS approval and obligatory participation of an HMGS control officer on board and to the follow on related data processing. Issues related to the control of the above works and the compensation payments that are due by the interested parties are settled by the Joint Ministerial Order of the Ministers of National Defence, Finance, Transport and Communications.
• State, public entities, private law natural and legal persons are allowed to produce, dispose and handle geo-materiel through the use of less than one meter high resolution cartography derivatives, satellite images or other materiel produced from whatever source, only following HMGS control of the confidential nature or not of the subject materiel.