Why is ot the Greeks feel obliged to think up such a load of impenetrable red tape. The current crop of idiotic rules and regulations being brought in because of "austerity" is only the latest example of red tape besetting the Greeks. It makes a lot of work for the civil servant bureaucracy but wasn't reducing the size of this bureaucracy, both to reduce the enormous cost and try and cut down on corruption, one of the Troika's requirements?
When I was staying in Kef recently the opinion of several small business owners was that the government was deliberately trying to make all the regulations, from EKA to the numbers of sun loungers and brollies, so complicate that mistakes were inevitable and big fines collected. Another form of taxation.
When I was in Katelios I was surprised by the police cars that patrolled the village every day (not a place famous for it's lager louts). On two occasions numbers of taverna owners were taken off to the police station in Argostoli and bailed at 500euro per person. On conviction the fines were likely to be c5-6000 per offence.
Left to themselves the SME could be instrumental in dragging Greece out of the mire it is in but I expect that is the last thing the Krauts want.