Greece Winery Compliance Reporting Guide: Wine Declarations, myDATA, VAT & Intrastat (2026)

What compliance reports does a Greek winery need to manage?

Scope: national Greek winery reporting and related EU transaction reporting. This guide does not cover every local operating permit, food-safety requirement, employment obligation, PDO/PGI certification rule, customs scenario or destination-country rule. It is informational and is not legal or tax advice.

2026 Greek winery compliance calendar

This calendar is designed as an operational starting point. Whether a filing applies depends on the winery's activity, tax profile, goods movements and role in the wine supply chain.

The four stock reference dates and filing windows come from Ministerial Decision 272599/2025, published as FEK B 5457/13.10.2025 and identifiable in Diavgeia under ADA Ψ5Β54653ΠΓ-ΜΜΡ.^[1] Production and processing/trade filing rules are documented through the Ministry's wine declaration framework and current Mitos procedures.^[3][4]

1. Ministry wine declarations: production, processing / trade and stocks

Greece's Ministry of Rural Development and Food provides electronic services for wine production, processing/trade and stock declarations. gov.gr points wine operators to this digital filing route.^[5][6]

Wine stock declarations

For the annual stock declaration, Mitos says the declaration is prepared from warehouse records and verified against physical inventory. Where an obligated operator has multiple warehouses, the filing is handled per warehouse. A zero-stock declaration is still required when the operator has no stocks to report.^[2]

The rules contain exemptions, including private consumers and certain retailers. The current Mitos summary also describes a qualification for retailers that produce, warehouse, store or package wine above 20 hectolitres, so a business should not assume that being a retailer alone removes the filing obligation.^[2]

Wine production declarations

The wine production declaration applies to operators producing wine or must for commercial purposes within the scope of the national framework. The established filing window runs from October 1 through January 15. The framework also requires a zero-production declaration for obligated producers that produced nothing, subject to defined exemptions.^[3]

Processing and trade declarations

The processing/trade declaration covers relevant processing or marketing of grapes, grape juice, must and wine-sector products. The current Mitos procedure records January 10 of the following year as the filing deadline after a 2020 amendment.^[4]

2. AADE myDATA and digital goods movement

AADE's myDATA program is a separate tax-data layer from the Ministry's wine declarations. For software teams, this distinction matters: AADE publishes technical specifications for ERP connectivity and for digital goods movement, including current API documentation.^[7]

What changed in the digital goods movement timeline?

The most important correction to older 2026 guidance is the Phase B schedule. AADE Decision A.1094/2026 sets the following mandatory dates for businesses and transactions within scope:^[8]

• December 1, 2025: Phase 1 mandatory start.
• October 12, 2026: Phase B1 mandatory start for the additional movement stages covered by the decision.
• January 1, 2027: Phase B2 mandatory start for unified item coding under the Combined Nomenclature.

Any guide still stating that the second phase became mandatory on May 1, 2026 is outdated. AADE changed the schedule in 2026.^[8]

myDATA does not make wine-sector reporting disappear

myDATA, Ministry wine declarations and physical winery records serve different reporting purposes. A strong operating model keeps a consistent transaction and inventory trail, then maps the required data to each official system. That reduces duplicate entry without assuming that one government filing automatically satisfies another.

3. VAT and VIES: what myDATA prefill actually means

AADE states that VAT return fields can be prefilled from myDATA data and that the prefilled amounts can be modified by the taxable person.^[9] That is materially different from describing the return as a "zero-deviation" system where any difference is automatically rejected.

AADE's current guidance states that periodic VAT returns are due by the last working day of the month following the monthly or quarterly tax period, as applicable. VIES recapitulative statements for applicable intra-EU transactions are due by the 26th day of the following month.^[9]

4. Intrastat in Greece: 2026 thresholds and filing system

A Greek winery trading goods with other EU Member States can enter Intrastat scope based on ELSTAT's annual thresholds. For 2026, ELSTAT sets the thresholds at:^[10]

• EUR 250,000 for intra-EU imports / arrivals.
• EUR 90,000 for intra-EU exports / dispatches.

ELSTAT explains that the obligation can arise because the preceding year's total exceeds the new year's threshold or because the running total crosses the threshold during the current year. Distance sales to private consumers in other EU Member States can also matter for the dispatch threshold under ELSTAT's guidance.^[10]

Can Intrastat be integrated?

Yes, at a system level. ELSTAT's current Intrastat portal provides manual entry, file upload and an official Intrastat Web Service for organizations developing their own filing application.^[11] This guide intentionally does not label that service SOAP, REST or any other protocol because the live developer page could not be reliably retrieved during this verification pass. Integration teams should use ELSTAT's current technical documentation at implementation time.

5. Wine excise and EMCS

AADE's published excise rate table lists still wine and sparkling wine at EUR 0 per hectolitre of final product.^[12] That does not mean every alcohol product has a zero rate: intermediate products and ethyl alcohol categories can have nonzero rates. It also does not mean every excise-control or movement obligation disappears simply because the wine rate is zero.

AADE operates EMCS for electronic monitoring of movements of excise goods and documents the use of electronic administrative documents for movements within scope.^[13] A winery handling excise-suspension movements, imports, exports or non-wine alcohol categories should map the actual product and movement before deciding which EMCS or customs workflow applies.

Which Greek winery compliance systems have integration paths?

Documentation finding, not proof of nonexistence: for the Ministry wine declarations, the official sources reviewed for this guide describe portal-based filing. We did not identify a public API specifically for those forms. A private or government-only interface may exist without being publicly documented, so integrations should be confirmed directly with the competent authority before development.

The practical data model behind Greek winery reporting

The safest way to prepare for these filings is not to build a separate spreadsheet for every portal. Maintain a winery system of record that preserves the events each authority later asks you to summarize. At minimum, that usually means:

• lot, tank, barrel and packaged-goods inventory with dates and units;
• production quantities and transformation history;
• warehouse location and physical-count reconciliation;
• supplier and customer tax identifiers where legally required for the transaction;
• invoice and credit-note links to product movements;
• intra-EU dispatch and arrival data, including commodity classification when relevant;
• shipment and transport records that can support digital goods movement reporting; and
• an immutable or otherwise reviewable audit history showing who changed a record and when.

The goal is one operational truth that can be reconciled before data is submitted to the Ministry, AADE, ELSTAT or EMCS. Each filing still needs its own scope and validation rules.

Greek winery compliance checklist for 2026

1. Confirm which wine declarations apply. Map your role as producer, processor, trader, retailer and warehouse operator against Ministry guidance.
2. Reconcile stock by warehouse before each applicable stock reference date. Keep the book-to-physical count review with the supporting records.
3. Do not skip zero declarations. Where the wine-declaration rules require a filing, zero activity or stock can still require a submission.
4. Prepare for the October 12 digital goods movement change now. Phase B1 is scheduled to become mandatory on that date for scope covered by A.1094/2026.
5. Use AADE's current myDATA specification. Do not build from an old PDF or assume a historical API version remains current.
6. Monitor Intrastat threshold exposure monthly. A business can become liable during the year when its running intra-EU goods total crosses the applicable threshold.
7. Separate tax, wine-sector and statistical workflows. Reuse consistent source data, but do not assume one filing replaces another.
8. Verify edge cases before filing. Excise-suspension movements, intermediate products, exports and unusual transformations deserve a product-specific compliance check.

How Solera fits into Greek winery compliance

Solera is designed to keep winery operations, inventory and traceable records in one system so compliance work starts from what actually happened in the cellar and warehouse. Its current product capabilities include winery operational records, inventory, compliance-oriented reporting, exports and audit-history workflows. See the Solera winery software features overview for current product scope.

What we are not claiming: this page does not claim that Solera currently files directly to Greece's Ministry wine declaration portal, AADE, ELSTAT or EMCS. Greece-specific government connectors should only be represented as live when they have been implemented and verified. Until then, the value is a clean operational record and structured outputs that make official filing and reconciliation easier.

Official sources

1. Greek Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Ministerial Decision 272599/2025, ADA Ψ5Β54653ΠΓ-ΜΜΡ. Published in FEK B 5457/13.10.2025. Stock-declaration amendment and quarterly schedule.
2. National Registry of Administrative Procedures (Mitos), Wine Stock Declaration. Current administrative process, filing route, annual cycle, zero declaration, warehouse treatment and reform notice. Last modified June 26, 2026.
3. Mitos, Wine Production Declaration. Scope and administrative procedure under the national wine declaration framework.
4. Mitos, Wine Processing / Trade Declaration. Current processing/trade procedure and January 10 deadline.
5. Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Wine Production E-services. Official wine declaration service entry point.
6. gov.gr, Wine Production, Stock and Processing / Trade Declarations. Government service directory.
7. Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), myDATA Technical Specifications and Versions. Current ERP and Digital Goods Movement API documentation.
8. AADE Decision A.1094/2026. Digital goods movement implementation dates, including October 12, 2026 and January 1, 2027.
9. AADE, VAT - VIES Returns. VAT prefill treatment, VAT filing timing and VIES deadline.
10. Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), Intrastat Announcements. Official 2026 thresholds and threshold-trigger guidance.
11. ELSTAT, Intrastat Electronic Submission Portal. Current submission methods, active filing period and Intrastat Web Service entry point.
12. AADE, Excise Tax Rates. Official rate table for wine and other alcohol categories.
13. AADE, Excise Duty and EMCS. Official excise-system and EMCS information.
14. EUR-Lex, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2391. EU wine-sector reporting framework context.

Verification method: material legal, filing, deadline, threshold and technical claims were checked against current Greek government, AADE, ELSTAT and EU sources on August 5, 2026. Where the Ministry's administrative-process page and the newer legal amendment are not yet synchronized, both are disclosed above. Product capability statements were checked against Solera's current product materials. No unsupported claim of a Greece-specific Solera government connector is made.

Next review: November 2026, or sooner if the Ministry publishes implementation guidance for the October 31 quarterly stock declaration or AADE changes the October 12 digital goods movement rollout.