In this Legal Alert, following the first official announcement by the European Commission, we analyse the scope of the Omnibus package proposals.

PLMJ – Law Firm has increased the number of lawyers recommended by the US directory Best Lawyers to 46, in various areas of legal practice in Portugal.

On 4 March 2025, Ministerial Order 82/2025/1 was published in Diário da República (the Official Gazette), creating the special reimbursement scheme...

Eight laws were published in the Portuguese official gazette Diário da República on 23 and 24 June 2015, and these laws are part of Portuguese and international efforts to combat terrorism.

The Directive establishing minimum rules to be observed by Member States in the definition of environmental crime (the "Environmental Crime Directive") was published on 30 April 2024. It repeals Directive...

Presidential Decree 95/23 was published on 6 April and approves the new legal framework for electronic communication and processing of tax proceedings and tax enforcement actions.

Some facts and figures that set out the landscape of merger control, antitrust enforcement and competition litigation in Portugal in 2021.

On 16 September 2022, Law 17/2022 came into effect, thereby transposing the ECN+ Directive into Portuguese law (the "Revised Competition Act").

The implementation of a whistleblowing channel became mandatory as of 18 June 2022.

Law 60/2018 was published on 21 August 2018 and it introduces measures to promote equal pay for women and men for work that is the same or is of equal value.

In view of the need to standardise the occupations and positions held by employees in the organic structure of employers, the Catalogue of Occupations...

Decree no. 51/2017 of 9 October was approved as a result of the new challenges of Compulsory Social Security and seeks to adapt it to the current social situation.

In this Circular, the APD instructs public and private entities that process personal data to "scrupulously" comply with the rules contained in (i) the Law on the Protection of Personal Data...

Decree-Law 87/2026 of 15 April (DL 87/2026) came into force on 16 April. Among other regimes, it approved the amendments to Laws 78/2017 of 17 August and 65/2019 of 23 August.

Embora as regras e princípios aplicáveis à atividade de distribuição por grosso de dispositivos médicos se encontrassem já previstas Diretrizes Comunitárias n.º 94/C63/03 relativas às boas práticas de distribuição, a disciplina a que fica sujeita a distribuição por grosso destes dispositivos fica agora, com a publicação da presente Portaria, plasmada em legislação nacional, agilizando a aplicação destas normas aos referidos.

This new edition of the newsletter on Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Insurance Law in Angola for the 2nd quarter of 2022 brings together the most significant new developments in these areas.

In order to adapt it to the current state of the insurance market, the Insurance Mediation and Brokerage Law was now published.

In March 2024, the European Parliament and the Council adopted the European Media Freedom Act ("EMFA").

On 6 October 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that decision 2000/520/CE of the European Commission is invalid.

Decree-Law 89/2017 was published on 28 July and enacts Directive 2014/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 into Portuguese law.