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Portugal - Profils du pays

Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, Seventh Revision [2005].
Date of text: 02 April 1976

Politiques

Law No. 99/2019 on the National Programme for Territorial Planning Policy.
Date of text: 05 September 2019
Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 107/2019 approving the Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality 2050.
Date of text: 13 June 2019
Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 130/2019 approving the Action Programme for the Adaptation to Climate Change (P-3AC).
Date of text: 06 June 2019
Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 55/2018 approving the National Strategy for the Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity 2030 (ENCNB 2030).
Date of text: 05 April 2018
National Action Plan for the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products.
Date of text: 2018
Strategic Framework on Climate Policy.
Date of text: 30 July 2015
National Strategy on Forestry.
Date of text: 11 December 2014
Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 78/2014 approving the New National Policy to Combat Desertification (PANCD).
Date of text: 11 December 2014
Continental Rural Development Programme for 2014-2020.
Date of text: 2014
Regional Rural Development Programme - Madeira 2014-2020.
Date of text: 2014

Législation

Développement agricole et rural

Basic Law No. 86/95 on Agrarian Development.
Date of original text: 01 September 1995 (12 August 2015)
Decree-Law No. 335/99 establishing the legal regime for agricultural cooperatives.
Date of text: 20 August 1999
Decree-Law No. 64/2018 establishing the Statute of Family Farming.
Date of text: 07 August 2018
Decree-Law No. 200/2015 establishing the integrated territorial investment instrument on the sea area.
Date of text: 16 September 2015
Decree-Law No. 162/2015 establishing the agricultural insurance system (SSA).
Date of text: 14 August 2015
Decree-Law No. 159/2014 regulating the European structural Funds and investment (FEEI) for the period 2014-2020.
Date of text: 27 October 2014
Decree-Law No. 137/2014 establishing the Governance Model of the European structural Funds and investment (FEEI) for the period 2014 -2020.
Date of text: 12 September 2014

Changement climatique

Decree-Law No. 38/2013 regulating the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading from 2013 onwards.
Date of text: 15 March 2013
Order No. 65/2014 approving the Regulation of crop insurance and compensation claims, integrated in the Protection System Fund to combat climate change.
Date of text: 12 March 2014
Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 46/2016 approving the National Strategy for Air Quality (ENAR 2020).
Date of text: 26 August 2016
Resolution No. 59/2005 on the National Plan for Climate Change (PNAC).
Date of text: 08 March 2005
Government Resolution No. 119/2004 on Climate Change National Programme.
Date of text: 31 July 2004
Regional Regulatory Decree No. 32/2020/M approving the Regional Directorate for the Environment and Climate Change.
Date of text: 28 April 2020
Regional Decree No. 5/2020/M approving the structure of the Regional Secretariat for Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change (SRAAC).
Date of text: 13 December 2019

Plantes cultivées

Decree-Law No. 42/2017 regulating the production, control, certification and marketing of seed of agricultural and horticultural species.
Date of text: 06 April 2017
Law No. 26/2013 regulating distribution, selling and application of pesticide products for professional use.
Date of text: 11 April 2013
Decree-Law No. 318-91 regulating the production, control and certification of seeds of agricultural and horticultural species intended for marketing.
Date of text: 23 August 1991
Decree-Law No. 213/90 establishing the legal regime governing breeders' rights in new plant varieties.
Date of text: 28 June 1990
Decree-Law No. 154/2005 ruling on national phytosanitary system.
Date of original text: 06 September 2005 (11 June 2018)
Decree-Law No. 82/2017 establishing the legal regime for fruit plants and creates the National Register of Fruit Varieties, transposing EU Commission Implementing Directives No. 2014/96, No. 2014/97 and No. 2014/98.
Date of text: 18 July 2017
Decree-Law No. 176/2015 regulating vine planting.
Date of text: 25 August 2015

Gestion des risques de catastrophe

Presidential Decree No. 14-A/2020 declaring the State of Emergency, based on a situation of public disaster.
Date of text: 18 March 2020
Law No. 7/2020 establishing exceptional and temporary response regimes to the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, and makes the 1st amendment to Decree-Law No. 10-I/2020 of 26 March, and the 4th amendment to Law No. 27/2007 of 30 July.
Date of text: 10 April 2020
Law No. 44/86 establishing the state of siege and state of emergency regime.
Date of text: 30 September 1986
Ministerial Decision No. 3547-A/2020 regulating the declaration of a state of emergency, ensuring the functioning of supply chains for goods and essential public services, as well as the operating conditions under which they must operate.
Date of text: 22 March 2020
Order No. 199/2015 establishing the implementation of support 6.2.2, 'Restoring potential productivity', inserted in action 6.2 'Prevention and restoration of potential productivity', of measure 6 'Risk management and restoration of potential productivity of the Mainland Rural Development Programme (PDR 2020).
Date of text: 06 July 2015
Order No. 199/2015 establishing the regime for the application of the “Technical Assistance” measure of the Rural Development Programme of the Mainland.
Date of text: 14 April 2015
Order No. 37/2020 amending Order No. 108/2015 on the regime for the application of the “Technical Assistance” measure of the Rural Development Programme of the Mainland.
Date of text: 04 February 2020

Environnement

Environment Basic Law No. 19/2014.
Date of text: 14 April 2014
Decree-Law No. 151-B/2013 establishing the legal regime of environmental impact assessment.
Date of original text: 31 October 2013 (11 December 2017)
Decree-law No. 147/2008 regulating environmental damages’ liability.
Date of text: 29 July 2008
Decree-Law No. 178/2006 on waste management.
Date of text: 05 September 2006
Law No. 19/2006 ruling on access to information on environment issues.
Date of text: 12 June 2006
Decree-Law 78/2004 on the prevention and control of air pollutants emissions.
Date of text: 03 April 2004
Decree-Law No. 192/2000 on prevention and control of the pollution caused by certain activities.
Date of text: 21 August 2000

Pêche

Decree-Law No. 112/2017 establishing the legal framework for planning and sustainable management of aquatic resources in inland waters.
Date of text: 06 September 2017
Decree-Law No. 383/98 amending Decree-Law No. 278/87 establishing offences for fisheries and mariculture illegal activity.
Date of text: 27 November 1998
Decree-Law No. 278/87 establishing the legal framework governing fishing and mariculture activities in Portuguese territorial waters.
Date of original text: 07 July 1987 (11 March 2019)
Act No. 2.097 on inland fisheries (1959).
Date of text: 06 June 1959
Decree-Law No. 20-B/2020 establishing an extraordinary and temporary support, through salary compensation, to fisherfolks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date of text: 06 May 2020
Decree-Law No. 15/2020 creating a credit line with subsidized interest addressed to operators in the fishing sector.
Date of text: 15 April 2020
Decree-Law No. 35/2019 establishing the sanction regime applied to the commercial maritime fishing activity.
Date of text: 11 March 2019

Alimentation et nutrition

Decree-Law No. 157/2017 establishing characteristics to be met by rice of the species Oryza sativa L. and broken rice destined for human final consumer.
Date of text: 28 December 2017
Decree-Law No. 152/2017 amending the water quality regime for human consumption, transposing Directives No. 2013/51/EURATOM and No. 2015/1787.
Date of text: 07 December 2017
Decree-Law No. 62/2017 establishing the regime applicable to the composition, labelling and marketing of milk, dairy products and products derived from milk, transposing the EU Directive No. 2015/2203.
Date of text: 09 June 2017
Decree-Law No. 175/2015 establishing potato quality standards for human consumption.
Date of text: 25 August 2015
Decree-Law No. 190/2014 establishing the competent entities entitled for issuing certificates of origin for wine oenological sector.
Date of text: 30 December 2014
Decree-Law No. 77/2013 allowing the use of spirit originated from wine in interrupting the fermentation of must destined to wine making of «Porto» and liqueur wine «Moscatel do Douro».
Date of text: 05 June 2013
Decree-Law No. 42/2013 establishing the regime applicable to all contracts for raw cow milk commercialisation.
Date of text: 22 March 2013

Forêts

Decree-Law No. 31/2020 approving the information regime for timber logging, thinning or uprooting trees and the traceability of the wood material.
Date of text: 30 June 2020
Law No. 56/2018 creating the independent technical observatory for assessing, monitoring and evaluating forest and rural fires occurring in the national territory.
Date of text: 20 August 2018
Decree-Law No. 12/2018 approving the Statute of the Agency for the Integrated Management of Rural Fire (AGIF).
Date of text: 16 February 2018
Decree-Law No. 66/2017 establishing the legal regime for the recognition of forest management entities (EGF).
Date of original text: 12 June 2017 (19 December 2017)
Decree-Law No. 64/2017 defining a special and extraordinary regime for the installation and operation of new biomass valorisation centres.
Date of original text: 12 June 2017 (22 August 2019)
Decree-Law No. 8/2017 establishing the legal regime applicable to forest sapper and their teams in the Portuguese mainland defining related public support.
Date of text: 09 January 2017
Decree-Law No. 181/2015 establishing the legal regime for pine resin collection and circulation within the territory of the continent.
Date of text: 28 August 2015

Terre et sols

Law No. 75/2017 establishing the regime on uncultivated lands and other community productive lands.
Date of text: 17 August 2017
Law No. 31/2014 establishing the general basis for public policies on soils, land use and urbanism.
Date of text: 30 May 2014
Decree-Law No. 29/2020 creating the support programme for simple rural land consolidation, called “Parcelling to Order”.
Date of text: 29 June 2020
Law No. 78/2017 creating a simplified cadastral information system.
Date of text: 17 August 2017
Decree-Law No. 80/2015 approving the revision of the Legal Framework for Territorial Management Instruments, approved by Decree-Law No. 380/99.
Date of text: 14 May 2015
Decree-Law No. 276/2009 establishing the regime for the use of sewage sludge in agricultural soils, in order to avoid harmful effects for human beings, water, soil, plants and animals, promoting its correct use, transposing for the National legal order the Council Directive No. 86/278/EEC.
Date of text: 02 October 2009
Decree-Law No. 64/2004 establishing the guidelines for the implementation of the Plan for Rural Development(RURIS).
Date of text: 22 March 2004

Elevage

Decree-Law No. 64/2000 approving EC Council Directive No. 98/58 of 20 July on animal protection.
Date of text: 22 April 2000
Decree-Law No. 113/2019 implementing as a national legislation the Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2009 on the killing of animals reared or kept for the production of food, wool, fur or other products and the killing of animals for depopulation or related operations.
Date of text: 19 August 2019
Decree-Law No. 1/2019 amending Decree-Law No. 113/2013 implementing EU Directive No. 2010/63 on animal protection for scientific purposes.
Date of text: 10 January 2019
Law No. 8/2017 establishing the legal status of animals.
Date of text: 03 March 2017
Decree-Law No. 85/2015 establishing the legal regime applicable to farmers' local markets.
Date of text: 21 May 2015
Decree-Law No. 81/2014 regulating the financial implementation of the Programme for Veterinary Measures.
Date of text: 15 May 2014
Decree-Law No. 113/2013 implementing EU Directive No. 2010/63 on animal protection for scientific purposes.
Date of text: 07 August 2013

Mer

Law No. 17/2014 establishing the Policy on the National Maritime Areas Planning and Management.
Date of text: 10 April 2014
Law No. 34/2006 delimitating marine areas under national jurisdiction.
Date of text: 28 July 2006
Decree-Law No. 63/2017 implementing EU Parliament Directive 2014/90 on maritime equipment to improve safety at sea.
Date of text: 09 June 2017
Decree-Law No. 16/2016 creating the Fund for the Sea Management.
Date of text: 09 March 2016
Decree-Law No. 38/2015 implementing Law No. 17/2014 establishing the Policy on the National Maritime Areas Planning and Management.
Date of text: 12 March 2015
Decree-Law No. 170-C/2014 amending Council Directive 96/98/EC on marine equipment.
Date of text: 07 November 2014
Decree-Law No. 149/2014 approving the Regulation of Vessels Used for Maritime Tourist Activity.
Date of text: 10 October 2014

Eau

Decree-Law No. 76/2016 approving the National Water Plan (NAP).
Date of text: 09 November 2016
Decree-Law No. 93/2015 creating the multi-municipal system of water supply and sanitation for the Northern Portugal.
Date of text: 29 May 2015
Decree-Law No. 194/2009 establishing the legal regime of municipal services for the public water supply, wastewater sanitation and urban waste management.
Date of text: 05 March 2014
Law No. 54/2005 on the legal regime of water domain.
Date of text: 15 November 2005
Water Act No. 58/2005.
Date of text: 29 December 2005
Decree-Law No. 119/2019 establishing the legal regime for producing water to be reused, obtained from wastewater treatment.
Date of text: 21 August 2019
Decree-Law No. 93/2019 creating the Multi-municipal water supply and sanitation system in the Algarve Region, assigning the related exploitation and management concession to Águas do Algarve, S.A, under a public and exclusive service regime.
Date of text: 15 July 2019

Espèces sauvages et écosystèmes

Decree-Law No. 202/2004 regulating Hunting Act No. 173/99.
Date of text: 18 August 2004
Decree-Law No. 140/99 on biodiversity protection.
Date of text: 24 April 1999
Decree-Law No. 274-A/88 regulating Hunting Act No. 30/86.
Date of text: 03 August 1988
Decree-Law No. 142/2008 establishing the legal regime for the preservation of Wildlife and Biodiversity.
Date of text: 24 July 2008
Law No. 86/2019 on the promotion and development of Ecotourism.
Date of text: 03 September 2019
Decree-Law No. 116/2019 establishing the protected areas co-management model.
Date of text: 21 August 2019
Decree-Law No. 92/2019 implementing in the national legislation the EU Regulation No. 1143/2014, on the control, detention, introduction into nature and repopulation of exotic species of flora and fauna.
Date of text: 10 July 2019

Accords Internationaux

Resolution of the Assembly of the Republic No. 100/2018 approving the Additional Protocol to the Treaty between the Republic of Portugal and the Republic of Cape Verde in the Field of Joint Supervision of Maritime Zones under Sovereignty or Jurisdiction of the Republic of Cape Verde, signed in Lisbon on 17 December 2014.
Date of text: 10 April 2018
Agreement between Portugal and Ivory Coast in the sector of tourism.
Date of text: 22 June 2016
Agreement between Portugal and Morocco in the sector of tourism.
Date of text: 20 April 2015
Mémorandum d'entente entre le Gouvernement de la République algérienne démocratique et populaire et le Gouvernement de la République portugaise dans le domaine de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'environnement, signé e Alger, le 10 mars 2015.
Date of text: 10 March 2015
Protocole de coopération entre le Gouvernement de la République algérienne démocratique et populaire et le Gouvernement de la République portugaise dans les domaines du contrôle Economique, de la répression des fraudes et de la protection du consommateur, signé à Alger, le 10 mars 2015.
Date of text: 10 March 2015
Protocole ok de coopération entre le Gouvernement de la République algérienne démocratique et populaire et le Gouvernement de la République portugaise dans les domaines du contrôle Economique, de la répression des fraudes et de la protection du consommateur, signé à Alger, le 10 mars 2015.
Date of text: 10 March 2015
Cooperation Agreement on Fisheries between the Republic of Portugal and the Republic of Mozambique.
Date of text: 26 March 2014