Kallikratis plan

Kallikratis programme
Hellenic Republic
New Architecture of Self-governing Entities and Deconcentrated Administration – Kallikratis programme
Citation	Article 1.006, Kallikratis programme, Act No. 3852/2010 of 8 June 2010 (in Greek)
Territorial extent	Greece
Enacted by	Hellenic Parliament
Date signed	4 June 2010
Signed by	President Karolos Papoulias Prime minister George Papandreou
Legislative history
Bill	3852/2010
Introduced by	Government of Greece
Status: In force

The Kallikratis Programme (Greek: Πρόγραμμα Καλλικράτης) is the common name of Greek law 3852/2010, a major administrative reform in Greece. It brought upon the second major reform of the country's administrative divisions after the 1997 Kapodistrias reform.

Named after ancient Greek architect Callicrates, the programme was presented by the socialist Papandreou cabinet and was adopted by the Hellenic Parliament in May 2010. The programme's implementation started with the November 2010 local elections and was completed by January 2011.

1994 reforms under the socialist Papandreou government turned the largely dysfunctional prefectures into Prefectural Self-Government entities (PSGs) with prefects and prefectural councils both being popularly elected. In return, the thirteen Administrative regions of Greece, which had already been created in 1987, but in the absence of a working budget remained unable to fulfill even their limited responsibilities, now assumed the prefectures' competences in regard to tax collection, European structural funding and treasury.

Part of the subsequent Kapodistrias plan, Law 2539/1997 sharply reduced the number of municipalities and communities from 5.823 to 1.033, after the increasing urbanization had left small communities literally dying out. With a median of just 4,661.5 inhabitants, a large number of small municipalities and rural communities however remained independent. This included 88 communities with a population of less than 1000, down to Gramos with just 28 inhabitants.

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