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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 80 /X

Constitution of a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the management of the process

EUROMINAS

A controversy is installed, with hints and even accusations from side-by-side, about the

how the XIV Government ended up deciding the EUROMINAS case by assigning a

high compensation to the company against the legislation in force and to the shiver of a vast

range of previous official opinions.

It is particularly perplexing to the alleged successive involvement in the process of

personalities, ora on one side-when invested in public functions-, ora on the side

contrary-when, terminated their governmental functions, passed to the

private activity-, necessarily taking positions and defending interests

contradictory to each other.

How perplexing are the doubts and interrogations that some of the responsible

government of the height is not inhibited to express.

If they are themselves, who studied on the inside and were responsibly

involved in the analysis of the process, the first ones not to understand the decision of

compensation, is all said as to the clarity and transparency that political decisions

endings assumed.

The matter is therefore grave and lacks an inconsible clarification, not just in the

legal-legal plan (where, finally, it appears that the judicial authorities have decided

initiate enquiries) but, above all, on the political level and responsibilities

politics .

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It is that insinuation and suspicion are mothers of injustice and discreditation.

And if it's right that no one is above the law, in the same way no act of the Government

or of the Administration is above the audit by the Assembly of the Republic.

On behalf of the citizens we represent and, also, in the safeguard of the good name and

of the honradez of all those who have acted correctly and with total lisura in this

process, it is imposed that Parliament takes up its own competences of

research.

The cabal and transparent clarification of the facts is decisive not only for the dissipation of

suspicions, as for the projection of an image of responsibility that must always

to norm the exercise of public office in organs of sovereignty.

In these terms,

Under the applicable legal and regimental provisions, the Assembly of the Republic

resolves:

1- The constitution of a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the acts of the

responsibility of the successive Constitutional Governments, their members, and the

other state bodies and public entities or by these participates, in scope

of the process that led to the implantation, laboration, closure and payment of

counterparts and compensation to the EUROMINAS company, with facilities in the

Peninsula of the Mitrena in Setúbal, together with the estuary of the Sado River.

2- The survey has the subject matter, in particular, the full clarification and the

appreciation of the acts allegedly practiced by former and current members of the

Government of the Nation, former and present Members to the Assembly of the Republic, well

how too many entities and related citizens as regards:

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a) To the assumptions, the circumstances and the fundamentals that determined the

payment to EUROMINAS from counterparts and indemniations by part,

in particular, of the then EDP-Electricity of Portugal and the State

Portuguese;

b) To the official positions taken mainly by the XII, XIII and XIV Governments

Constitutional as to the payment to EUROMINAS of such countermatches

and compensation as well as to the content of the positions assumed,

on that matter, by the Public Prosecutor's Office, while legitimate

representative of the interests of the State;

c) To the existence or not of damage to the State arising from the whole

context behind described.

Palace of Saint Benedict, November 10, 2005.

The Deputies,