Ana Bruno & Associados, Sociedade de Advogados, RL

On April 22nd, 2025, AIMA (Agency for Integration Migration and Asylum) announced through digital media that the rules for accepting applications for the granting and renewal of residence permits will become stricter.

On March 26, 2025, the Plenary Session of the Tax Litigation Division of the Supreme Administrative Court (STA) issued a ruling with decisive implications for the urban rehabilitation sector and for taxpayers who have applied the reduced 6% VAT rate to their construction contracts, under item 2.23 of List I of the VAT Code.

The regime that was approved after the revocation of the NHR, known as RIFICI or NHR 2.0, determines that taxpayers who hold qualified jobs and are members of corporate bodies in entities that carry out activities deemed as relevant to the national economy, duly recognized by AICEP, E. P. E., or by IAPMEI, I. P., may benefit from this regime.

The Whistleblower Protection Directive was transposed into the Portuguese legal system by the Law 93/2021 published on December 2021.

With the emergence of the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic that globally affected all countries, it was necessary and urgent to promote measures and norms that could respond to the constraints and difficulties that immediately began to arise in most sectors of activity in the country, as well as in all public and private services. Unable to secure their services with the usual diligence.

On January 1st, 2022, with the aim of improving work-life balance and increasing the country's economic competitiveness performance, an amendment to the Labor Law of the United Arab Emirates came into force to grant one more afternoon off, Friday afternoon, the day of the weekly great prayer in Muslim countries.

PORTUGAL - THE RIGHT TO SUFFRAGE VS THE RIGHT TO HEALTH PROTECTION In the context of the pandemic of the disease COVID-19, determines the Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 5-A/2022, that measures are changed for those who are subject to compulsory confinement on the 30th of January 2022. Exceptionally and exclusively for the exercise of their right to vote, these citizens may attend the elections for the National Assembly. It should be noted that compliance with all other applicable health and public health rules will continue to be required.

On April 29th, 2021, the Presidential Decree No. 107/21 was published in the Official Journal of the Republic of Angola, which aims to strengthen the relations of this State with the Government of the United Arab Emirates.

The Portuguese Government presented “The Green Paper on the Future of Work” on March 31, 2021, putting it under discussion since then.

Angola begins the Judicial year with several reforms in law and justice. A new criminal and procedural code, a new legal diploma aimed at fighting corruption and impunity.  This reform seeks to answer the lack of criminal justice, prevention and repression of crimes of a political and economic nature.

A system of incentives for higher education institutions to cooperate with the Public Administration and enterprises and to support the diversification of the training and learning offer.Higher education institutions have the right and duty to participate in connecting activities with society, disseminating and developing more and better methods of transfer and socio-economic valorisation of scientific knowledge, diversification and specialization of the education offer.

Two years ago the Berlin Government approved a five-year freeze on housing rents in an attempt to curb property speculation.  Now the German Constitutional Court has contested this law, considering the capital's government incompetent to legislate on this matter.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) owns most of the infrastructure that holds the world's tallest concentrated solar power tower, the world's largest solar park, capable of converting the sun's rays into about 1000 Megawatts per hour, which will correspond to 320,000 homes.   This strategy needs investment, but this is the path Dubai is building for a future towards decarbonization.

Dubai has been, over the past few years, orienting its policies in order to welcome and attract companies trading virtual assets, namely crypto assets.