The Spata–Artemida Municipal Council has convened an urgent meeting, by circular, for today, Wednesday 16 September, with a single item on the agenda: the indoor sports hall at the ‘Mazareco’ site.
According to the invitation (Ref. No. 73785/15 September 2026) signed by the Chairman of the Municipal Council, Dionysios I. Fragos, the Council is called upon to approve the temporary suspension, with effect from 7 September 2026, of the free grant of use of the Spata Municipal Indoor Sports Hall to the Athens Olympic Sports Centre ‘Spyros Louis’ (OAKA).
The remaining term of the initial one-year concession is not forfeited: according to the wording of the invitation to tender, it is retained and carried over following the completion and authorisation of the project ‘Completion of the Sports Centre at the Mazareko site’.
The council is also called upon to accept, ‘with an express reservation regarding the wording’, Decision No. 32 of 10 September 2026 of the OAKA Board of Directors. The reservation relates to the exact wording of the organisation’s decision, which the Municipality does not accept as it stands.
The meeting will be held by correspondence, starting at 10.30 am and ending at 12.30 pm; municipal councillors are to cast their votes by email, text message or telephone. The urgency of the matter, as stated in the invitation, stems from the need for the immediate institutional finalisation of the agreement between the Municipality and OAKA regarding the temporary suspension of the concession.
It should be noted that the concession was announced at the end of September 2025 as a ‘strategic partnership’ between the Ministry of Sport, the Municipality of Spata–Artemida and the OAKA. The newly built indoor venue was granted free of charge for one year, to meet the training and competition needs of the handball and hockey federations whilst upgrading works were carried out at the Olympic Stadium. The OAKA undertook the restoration, licensing and refurbishment of the interior, with emergency funding of 620,000 euros from the Ministry of Sport, whilst the municipality was carrying out infrastructure works worth €1.86 million.
The same item also appears on the agenda of the Municipal Committee meeting on Friday 18 September: item 15 calls for the replacement of the Municipality’s representative and their deputy on the Joint Monitoring Committee for the programme agreement with the Region of Attica concerning the ‘Completion of the Sports Centre at the Mazareko site’.
Source: Municipality of Spata–Artemida, notice of the 20th urgent Municipal Council meeting (Ref. No. 73785/15 September 2026) and notice of the 30th meeting of the Municipal Committee (Ref. No. 73144/14 September 2026).
