Aligning Greece's Regulatory Governance With International Transformative Principles and Objectives: The Case of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The article examines the significance of integrating international regulatory principles, particularly those from the United Nations Resolution on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2015), into national legislative processes to enhance regulatory governance and law-making quality. Focusing on Greece as a case study, it analyzes how core principles of the 2030 Agenda—policy coherence, evidence-based policy, and inclusion—are incorporated into Greece’s institutional framework, legislative drafting, and Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), including a detailed review of a 2023 law on sustainable tourism development. The study highlights Greece’s efforts to align its legislation with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through coordinated government structures, strategic policy documents, and better regulation tools, while proposing further improvements for mainstreaming the SDGs more comprehensively in legislative content and impact assessments. This approach underscores the role of international soft-law instruments in fostering coherent, inclusive, and evidence-based national regulatory frameworks addressing complex, interconnected policy challenges.