The European Court of Justice yesterday heard two cases brought against Greece for violating EU legislation. One concerned an order for conveyor belts for the Public Power Corporation’s (PPC) plant in Megalopolis, Peloponnese, in 1999, which was placed without a public tender. Greek Foreign Ministry lawyers argued that the order was made by direct assignment because the order was urgent for environmental reasons and that when the Commission intervened two years later the project was already 80 percent complete. The second case concerns hundreds of millions of euros of state subsidies to Olympic Airways in the past, which the Commission deems illegal. The court’s attorney-general will deliver his arguments in the two cases on February 24 and 1 2005 respectively.