Revista da EMERJ - V. 21 - N. 2 - Maio/Agosto - 2019

 R. EMERJ, Rio de Janeiro, v. 21, n. 2, p. 40-51, Maio-Agosto, 2019  47 be satisfied that there is an urgent need to avoid imminent danger (article 682 I Code of Civil Procedure). In case the conservatory measures are granted before proceedings on the merits have been lodged, the court can specify time within which proceedings should be commenced (article 693 Code of Civil Procedure). In case of an abusive application by a creditor, which may have led to a conservatory seizure of more debtor’s assets than needed to satisfy the claim, the debtor can ask the court to limit the conservatory seizure to specified assets (articles 702 III, 692 III, 951 II Code of Civil Procedure) 17 . Privileges of the State A hot issue is that which concerns the procedural privileges of the State. According to the law, the State and other legal persons of public law receive a special procedural treatment in various issues. Although this fact has been criticized by the theory of Greek Procedural Law and Greece has been condemned more than once by the European Court for Human Rights, the law has not been changed. The Plenary of Areios Pagos decided in two cases 18 that the specific procedural privileges that the Agricultural Bank of Greece had 19 , were violating the constitutional principle of equality (article 4 Constitution), since they were putting the Agricultural Bank’s creditors in disadvanta- geous position, compared with that of other banks’ creditors. Law Reforms of the last 20 years During the last 20 years there have been reforms of the law of enforcement, not all of which could be considered as needed or really efficient. However, some of them really were beneficent to the institution of enforcement of judgments. Law 2298/1995, “sealed” by the eminent jurist, late Emer. Presi- dent of Areios Pagos, Stefanos Matthias, had as principal aims, on the one 17 E. N. Moustaira, Greece, in : Enforcement of judgments (co-ordinator: W. Kennett), European Review of Private Law 1997, 321-428 (401-407). 18 Areios Pagos (Plenary) 24/2006, Elliniki Dikaiosyni 2007, 97 & Areios Pagos (Plenary) 25/2006, Elliniki Dikaiosyni 2007, 99. 19 Things have changed, since in 2013 the Agricultural Bank was absorbed by a private bank, Piraeus Bank.