Below, you will find the edition of the Competition Law and Policy Newsletter for the 3rd quarter of 2017, which compiles the most significant news in this area.

Three years have passed since the approval of the Portuguese medical cannabis law. In this period, many changes have taken place in this area, but the main one has probably been the fact that Portugal has started to build a medical cannabis market.

Foi há praticamente um ano que entrou em vigor o Decreto-lei 102/2017, de 23 de agosto, com o objetivo de simplificar e harmonizar as obrigações de informação ao consumidor, para além de introduzir alterações...

Following the approval of the Spectrum Strategic Plan ("SSP")[1], on 27 December 2022, ANACOM, the national regulatory authority (NRA) in Portugal for communications, approved...

Presidential Decree 271/25 of 29 December has recently been published, amending and republishing the General Regulation on Electronic Communications (Regulamento Geral das Comunicações Electrónicas - "RGCE").

The Angolan legal framework governing personal data protection has been in force since 2011, following the enactment of the Data Protection Law (Law No. 22/11 of 17 June - "LPDP") and the Electronic...

Law 15/2017 of 3 May (i) introduced a prohibition on the issuance of bearer securities, which is in force since 4 May of this year, and (ii) imposed the conversion of any bearer securities...

The Évora Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in Case no. 1842/19.9T8FAR.E1 on 13 January 2022. In this judgment, the court took a clear position in the debate on the ...

Em comentário anterior chamámos a atenção para o acórdão do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça de 14.12.2016, Proc. 1248/14.6YRLSB.S1 (LOPES DO REGO), que analisou o tema da competência dos tribunais arbitrais previstos na Lei n.º 62/2011, de 12 de dezembro, para apreciar a questão da invalidade da patente de um medicamento.

Decree-Law 36/2021, which amends Decree-Law 176/2006 of 30 August, was published on 19 May.

European Union Regulation 2019/1150, or the Platform-to-Business Regulation (also commonly known as the "P2B Regulation"), was the first piece of legislation...

The scarcity of major players in the technology sector and ongoing geopolitical tensions underscore the need for data access to ensure the competitiveness and security of the Union's economy.

Below you will find the edition of the Competition Law and Policy Newsletter for the 1st quarter of 2018, which compiles the most significant news in this area.

This new edition of the newsletter on Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Insurance Law in Angola for the 1st quarter of 2022 sets out the most significant new developments in these areas.

O regime de investimento estrangeiro na China sofreu no passado mês de Junho duas alterações significativas:

By decision of 19 January 2005, the European Commission imposed fines on several companies, including Elf Aquitaine SA and its subsidiary at the material time, Arkema SA (formerly Atofina SA), relating to a cartel on the market for monochloroacetic acid.

Brexit will lead to an immediate change in determining whether the Portuguese courts have jurisdiction when the defendant is domiciled in the UK.

After a public consultation phase initiated at the end of 2010, the Portuguese Competition Authority ("PCA") made available, at the end of July 2011, the final version of its "Guidelines on the Adoption of Remedies in the Control of Concentrations" ("Guidelines").

Funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), the Consolidate to Organise Programme (Programa Emparcelar para Ordenar) has now been extended to cover the whole of Portugal.

The publication of Decree-Law 49/2009 of 26 February brings with it the compulsory addition of biodiesel to the road diesel used in Portugal in the percentage, by volume, of 6% in 2009 and 10% in 2010.