NO you cannot take DUTY FREE goods in to another EEC country, But you can take DUTY PAYED GOODS,

wizard

Thanks for the reply, I thought that was the case but I found this on the BAA Gatwick site:

Greece Travel Guide - Duty Free
The following goods may be imported into Greece by visitors without incurring customs duty by:
(a) Passengers arriving from within the EU:
800 cigarettes or 200 cigars or 400 cigarillos or 1kg of tobacco; 10l of alcoholic beverage or 90l of wine and 110l of beer; there is no limit for perfume.

Perhaps I'm reading this incorrectly!

I think what that means is that those are the limits you are supposedly allowed to take into Greece without the Greek customs imposing their own (extra) duty on them. Not that you can take them out of another EU country without paying duty on them at the point of purchase.

Actually, I thought it was illegal to impose any limits on the quantities of goods you are allowed to take between EU countries if you've already paid duty when you bought them and they are for your own personal use. Our own UK customs authorities were in trouble with the EU not so long ago for trying to limit what we could bring back. I wonder whether this information on the Gatwick site is a bit out of date?

So I assume, for instance, that when you buy spirits at Thessaloniki on your return trip you are paying duty on them, they are not duty free goods.

lets try and clear this one as simple as possible.

When traveling between EEC countries you cannot purchase Tax Free Goods, only Tax Payed.

although the EEC regulations state you can purchase and transport as much tax payed goods as you wish between member states for your own use, many of them have Guideline limits. a good example is that you can only bring 3200 cigarettes back to the uk as this is all that HM customs considder is for personal use if you bring more then you must prove they are for your own use or have them confiscated

wizard

Wizard,

Since January this year the emphasis seems to have changed from us having to prove that items we are bringing in from other EU states are for our own use. The wording now suggests that it is more up to Customs to prove that they are for commercial purposes. I noticed when I flew back into Manchester earlier this year that the signs there no longer quote the guideline limits and that "personal use" now includes gifts, rather than just your own consumption.

It's a subtle change and one which Customs don't appear to have gone out of their way to publicize, but the full rules can be read here

In answer to jceep's question, yes the goods that you purchase for your return journey will have had Greek tax applied to them.

Elaine