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The State Budget For 2008

Original Language Title: Orçamento do Estado para 2008

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PROPOSED LAW NO. 162 /X

CHAPTER I

Approval of the Budget

Article 1.

Approval

1-It is approved by this Law the State Budget for the year 2008, constant

of the following maps:

a) Maps I to IX, with the budget of the central administration, including the

budgets of services and autonomous funds;

b) Maps X to XII, with the budget of social security;

c) Maps XIII and XIV, with the revenue and expenditure of the social action subsystems,

solidarity and family protection of the system of social protection of citizenship

and of the previdential system;

d) Map XV, with the Investment and Expenditure Programmes

of the Central Administration (PIDDAC);

e) Map XVI, with the expenditure corresponding to programmes;

f) Map XVII, with the multiannual contractual responsibilities of services

integrated and autonomous services and funds, grouped by ministries;

g) Map XVIII, with the transfers to the Autonomous Regions;

h) Map XIX, with the transfers to the municipalities;

i) Map XX, with the transfers to the freguesias;

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j) Map XXI, with the cessation tax revenues of integrated services, of the

services and autonomous funds and social security.

2-During the year 2008, the Government is allowed to collect the contributions and taxes

constants of the codes and too much tax legislation in place and in accordance with the

changes provided for in this Law.

CHAPTER II

Budgetary discipline

Article 2.

Use of budgetary allocations

1-Ficam captives 35% of the total appropriations allocated to the Military Programming Act.

2-Stay captive 7.5% of the expenditure allocated to Chapter 50 of the State Budget in

national funding.

3-Ficam captives 2.5% of the total operating appropriations of the budgets of the

services and bodies of the central administration, with the exception of those belonging to the

National Health Service and higher education, identified under the heading " other

current expenses-various-other-reserve ".

4-A deceit of the monies referred to in the preceding paragraphs can only be carried out by

exceptional reasons, being always subject to the permission of the Minister responsible for the

area of finance, which decides the amounts to be declines depending on the evolution of the

budget implementation.

5-A caption of the monies referred to in paragraph 1 a to 3 may be redistributed between services

integrated, between services and autonomous funds and between integrated services and services and

autonomous funds, within each ministry, upon dispatching of the respective

minister.

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6-A deceit of the monies referred to in paragraph 3, with respect to the budget of the

Assembly of the Republic, is the competence of the President of the Assembly of the Republic,

on a proposal from the board of directors, which indicates the headings and twelfth

covered in the descation and the reasons on which it is founded.

Article 3.

Alienation and burdening of real estate

1-A alienation and burdening of real estate owned by the State or public bodies

with legal personality, gifted or not of financial autonomy, which do not have

the nature, form and designation of company, foundation or public association, depends

of permission of the Minister responsible for the area of finance, which is fixed by

dispatch and in the terms of the following article, the allocation of the product of the disposal or the

oneration.

2-The disposals of the real estate referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be processed in the terms and

conditions defined in the law.

3-Real estate disposals and onerations are always onerous, having as a reference

value ascertained in evaluation promoted by the competent entity of the Ministry of

Finance and the Public Administration.

4-The provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall not apply:

a) To the real estate heritage of social security mentioned in paragraph 2 of the article

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b) On the divestment of real estate from the Stabilization Fund's portfolio of assets

Financial Security Financial (FEFSS), managed by the Institute of Management of

Capitalization Funds of Social Security, I. P. (IGFCSS, I. P.), whose revenue

is applied in the FEFSS.

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5-It is assigned to the municipalities of the location of the real estate, for reasons of public interest,

the right of preference in the disposals referred to in paragraph 1, carried out through hasta

public, being that right exercised by the price and too much conditions resulting from the

sale.

6-A disposals of real estate from the state and public bodies with personality

legal that do not have the nature, form and designation of company, foundation or

public association to the exclusively public capital companies, subsidiaries of the

SAGESTAMO-Gestora Society of Real Estate Social Participations, S. A., created

by Decree-Law No. 209/2000 of September 2, process by direct adjustment.

7-In the framework of relocation, resettlement or extinction operations, merger or

restructuring of services or public bodies referred to in paragraph 1 may be

authorized to divest by direct adjustment or the exchange of real estate belonging to the

private domain of the State which are found to be affections to the services or bodies to

to relocate, to reinstall or to extinguish, merge or restructure or to integrate the

their respective private heritage, in favour of the entities to whom, in the legally

devoted to the acquisition of real estate, comes to be awarded the acquisition of new

facilities.

8-A authorization provided for in the preceding paragraph appears in order set by the Minister

responsible for the area of finance and the minister of the respective tutelage that specifies the

conditions of the operation, specifically:

a) Identification of the entity to whom the new real estate is acquired;

b) Matrix, register and location identification of the situation of the real estate to be transactioned;

c) Transaction values of the real estate included in the transaction having by reference the

respective values of the evaluation promoted by the competent entity of the

Ministry of Finance and Public Administration;

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d) Conditions and time limits for the provision of the new facilities and facilities

that, being released by the occupier services, are divested to the entity to whom

are acquired the new premises;

e) Budget cabling information and support of the expenditure;

f) Fixing of the target of the recipe, in case of resulting from the operation a favourable balance

to the State or to the alienating body, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 4.

Article 4.

Allocation of the proceeds from the disposal and burdening of real estate

1-Without prejudice to the provisions of the following numbers, the product of the divestance and the

oneration of immovable property carried out pursuant to the previous article reverses until 25%

for the service or body to which it is affection or for the service or body

owner.

2-Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 6 (2) of Law No 61/2007 of September 10,

up to 75%, the product of the disposal and burdening of the state's heritage affection to the

internal administration may be intended for expenses with the construction and acquisition of

facilities and infrastructure and equipment for use of the forces and services of

security.

3-The product of the disposal and burdening of the state's heritage affection for business

foreigners may, until 75%, be earmarked for expenditure on rehabilitation, acquisition or

reconstruction of facilities intended for the Internal or External Services of the

Foreign Affairs.

4-In duly substantiated special cases, you can the minister responsible for the

area of finance set percentages higher than those set out in the figures

previous, provided that the product of the disposal and the burdening of the immovable property

the expenditure on the acquisition, rehabilitation or construction of premises of the respective

services and bodies.

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5-The product of the disposal and burdening of the state's heritage can, up to 100%, be

intended:

a) At the Ministry of National Defence, to the reinforcement of the capital of the Pension Fund

of the military of the Armed Forces, as well as the regularization of the

responsibilities of the Fund of Ancient Combatants to the General Box of

Retirees, I. P. (CGA, I. P.) and Social Security, at expenses with

construction and maintenance of infrastructure allocated to the Ministry of Defence

National and the procurement of equipment for modernization and operation

of the Armed Forces;

b) In the Ministry of Justice, the necessary expenditure on investments for the

construction or maintenance of infrastructure allocated to this ministry and to the

purchase of equipment for the modernization and operationality of justice;

c) In the Ministry of Health, the strengthening of capital of hospitals public entities

business and the necessary expenditure on investments earmarked for construction

or maintenance of infrastructure allocated to primary health care for

installation of the family health units.

6-In the Ministry of Economy and Innovation, the allocation to Tourism of Portugal, I. P.,

of the proceeds from the disposal of real estate data as a guarantee of financing

granted by this Institute or other title acquired in judgment for the

ressaration of unreimbursed credits, can be targeted, up to 100%, again

to the provision of financing for the construction and recovery of heritage

tourist.

7-The proceeds from the disposal of the state heritage affection to the Casa Pia de Lisboa, I. P.,

which comes to be dissuitable for the purposes that this aims to pursue revert, until

100%, for the same, intended for expenses with the construction or acquisition of

real estate to increase and diversify the responsiveness in reception by

part of this institution, in the terms to be defined by joint dispatch of the minister

responsible for the area of finance and the minister of the respective tutelage.

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8-The remnant of the allocation of the proceeds from the disposal and burdening of real estate to which if

refer to the previous figures constitute revenue of the State.

9-The provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall be without prejudice to:

a) The provisions of Article 109 (9) of Law No 62/2007 of September 10;

b) The application of the envisaged in the Portaria No 131/94 of March 4, with the wording

introduced by the Portaries n. ºs 598/96, of October 19, and 226/98, of 7 of

April.

Article 5.

Transfer of edified heritage

1-The Institute of Financial Management of Social Security, I. P. (IGFSS, I. P.), and the Institute

of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation, I. P. (IHRU, I. P.), can, without requiring any

counterpart and without a subjection to the formalities laid down in Article 3, according to

criteria to be established for the divestment of the rental housing stock

public, transfer to municipalities, municipal or capital companies

majority municipal, for private institutions of social solidarity or

for legal persons of administrative public utility, as long as they pursue purposes

assistecial and demonstrate ability to manage housing groupings or

neighborhoods to be transferred, the ownership of buildings or their fractions that constitute

housing groupings or neighborhoods, including the existing public use spaces,

equipment, washer and remaining infrastructure, as well as the rights and

obligations to these relative and to firecrackers in resolvable property.

2-A the transfer of the heritage referred to in the preceding paragraph is antecedents of agreements of

transfer and carry out by self-cession of goods, which constitutes a sufficient title of

proof for all legal effects, including those for registration.

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3-After transfer of the heritage, and in function of the conditions that come to be

established in the transfer agreements, the beneficiary entities may proceed to the

disposal of the fires to the respective residents, pursuant to the Decree-Law No. 141/88,

of April 22, with the amendments introduced by the Decree-Law No. 288/93, 20 of

August.

4-The renting of fires destined for housing becomes subject to the income regime

supported, pursuant to the Decree-Law No. 166/93 of May 7.

Article 6.

Budget transfers

Is the Government authorized to make budgetary changes and transfers

constants of the respective framework annexed to this Law, of which it is an integral part.

Article 7.

Reorganisation of services and transfers in the Public Administration

1-Stay suspended, until December 31, 2008, the public service reorganizations,

with the exception of those which are indispensable for compliance with the law, as well as

of those that result in decreased expense.

2-Stay the authorized Government, in the framework of service reorganizations and the application of the

special mobility scheme, to make budgetary changes, regardless

of involving different organic and functional classifications.

Article 8.

Expenditure in the framework of the budget for the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the

European Union

1-It is the Government authorized to transfer monies from the budgets of the services to the

Programme 29-"Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union",

regardless of whether they involve different organic and functional classifications.

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2-Transition to 2008, the appropriations of the 29 Programme budget-" Presidency

Portuguese of the Council of the European Union " not applied in 2007, staying the

Government authorized to enroll them in the 2008 schedule.

Article 9.

Budgetary changes in the framework of the National Strategic Reference Framework

1-It is the Government authorized to carry out the budgetary changes that are revealed

necessary for the implementation of the National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN),

regardless of involving different functional classifications, programs and

ministries.

2-In exceptional cases, budget changes may be authorised by the Government

with counterpart in allocations allocated to the QREN regardless of classification

functional, programs and ministries.

Article 10.

QREN Technical Assistance Management balances

The management balances of the previous year, relating to general recipes consigned to the co-

national funding associated with the axes Technical Assistance of Programs

Operational (PO) of the QREN funded by the ERDF, with incidence in the Mainland,

including OP Technical Assistance ERDF automatically transitions to budget

of the following year, by staying for this purpose the executor bodies exempted from the

Compliance with Article 25 of Law No. 91/2001 of August 29, amended by Law No.

48/2004, of August 24.

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Article 11.

Retention of amounts in transfers

1-The current and capital transfers from the State Budget to the bodies

autonomous of the central administration, for Autonomous Regions and for the authorities

places can be retained to satisfy debits, overdue and exigible, constituted the

in favour of the CGA, I. P., of the Directorate General for Social Protection to Employees and

Agents of the Public Administration (ADSE), of the National Health Service, of the

Social Security and the Directorate General of the Treasury and Finance, and still in relation to

contributions and taxes, as well as those resulting from non-use or use

undue of community funds.

2-A retention referred to in the preceding paragraph as regards the debit of the Regions

Autonomas, it cannot exceed 5% of the annual transfer amount.

3-The transfers referred to in paragraph 1, with respect to the débites of local authorities,

safeguarding the special scheme provided for in the Expropriations Code, can only be

retained in the terms provided for in Law No. 2/2007 of January 15.

4-When it is not tempestively provided to the Ministry of Finance and

Public Administration, by the competent bodies and for the reason that they are

imputable, the information typified in the budget framework law, as well as the

which comes to be annually defined in the decree-budget implementation law or other

applicable legal provision, transfers and refusals may be withheld

anticipations of twelfth, in the terms to be fixed in the decree-budget implementation law

and until the situation is properly sane.

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Article 12.

Financial supervisory authorities

The public institutes endowed with an independence status arising from their

integration into the areas of financial system supervision, as well as the funds that together

of them work, they are not subject to the standards regarding the transition and use of balances of

management, the captivations of monies and the duodecimal regime, constants of the legislation

budget and public accounting.

CHAPTER III

Public Administration

Article 13.

Suspension of detachments, requisitions and transfers

1-It is suspended, until December 31, 2008, the possibility of detachment, of

requisition and transfer of officials from the regional and municipal administration

for the direct and indirect administration of the State.

2-A suspension determined in the previous number remains with respect to mobility

provided for in the law that defines and regulates the new linking, career and regulatory regimes

compensation of workers performing public duties.

3-A suspension provided for in the preceding paragraphs shall not apply to the use of the

general mobility instruments for technical, operational or command posts of the

National Civil Protection Authority.

4-A The use referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be authorised by joint order of the

ministers responsible for the areas of internal administration, finance and the

public administration, preceding, when it is the case, authorization of the service of

origin.

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Article 14.

Tables and personnel maps

Until December 31, 2008, the changes of tables or maps of the

personnel, with the exception of those resulting from the law enforcement that defines and regulates the new

linkage, careers and compensation schemes of the workers who exercise

public functions, of those which are indispensable for compliance with the law or standard

regulatory that comes to fruition, or to the execution of judicial sentences, as well as

of those that result in decreased expense.

Article 15.

Careers and remunerative supplements

1-Stay suspended, until December 31, 2008, the reviews of careers and the regime and

amounts of the remunerative supplements, with the exception of those resulting from the

Enforcement of the law that defines and regulates the new linking, career and de-

compensation of employees performing public duties and the general update

of the remuneration and supplements, as well as those that are indispensable for the

compliance with law or for the execution of judicial sentences.

2-A update of remunerative supplements in violation of the provisions of the number

previous constitutes the leaders or maximum bodies for the management of services and bodies

of the direct and indirect administration of the State where that violation occurs in

civil, disciplinary and financial responsibilities provided for in the terms of the Decree-Law n.

14/2003, of January 30.

3-Knowledge of the practice of the irregularities referred to in the preceding paragraph shall constitute

tutelage organs, as well as the competent inspective services, in the duty of,

respectively, to institute or propose the establishment of the corresponding procedure.

4-A progression in careers, in the year 2008, operates under the rules laid down in the law

that defines and regulates the new regimes of linking, careers and remuneration of the

workers performing public duties, producing effects on January 1, 2008.

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Article 16.

Admissions of personnel in the civil service

1-Without prejudice to the provisions of the law in the freezing of admissions of personnel

for the remaining groups, careers and categories, including special bodies, are adopted

by December 31, 2008 the measured measures of the following numbers.

2-They lack the favourable opinion of the minister responsible for the area of finance and the

Public Administration:

a) The dispatch concerning admission of staff for admission to the various categories

of the permanent cadres of the Armed Forces, provided for in Article 195 (2)

of the Status of Military Military of the Armed Forces, approved by the Decree-Law n.

236/99, of June 25, with the amendments made by Law No. 25/2000, of

August 23, and by the Decrees-Leis paragraphs 197-A/2003, of August 30, 70/2005,

of March 17, 166/2005, of September 23, and 330/2007, of October 9;

b) The decisions regarding the admission of militarized or equated personnel and with

police and security duties or equated.

3-The opinions referred to in the preceding paragraph and decisions for admission of personnel shall

have present the provisions of the Resolution of the Council of Ministers No. 38/2006, 18 of

April.

Article 17.

Maintenance of enrollment in the General Box of Retirees, I. P.

The holders of senior office appointed under the Act No 2/2004 of January 15,

in the wording given by Law No. 51/2005 of August 30, or whose commission of service is

renewed under the same law, they maintain, until the cessation of these functions, enrollment in the

CGA, I. P., and the payment of quotas to this body on the basis of the duties exerted and

in the corresponding remuneration.

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Article 18.

Contributions to the General Box of Retirees, I. P.

1-The amount of the monthly contribution to the CGA, I. P., of the entities, public or

private, with administrative and financial autonomy, which, on December 31 of

2006, were not covered by the monthly contribution obligation to the CGA,

I. P., becomes 11% of the remuneration subject to the employee's quota discount

covered by the social protection scheme of the public function in pension

at your service, and may, to the effect, use the management balances of previous years

with dispensation from compliance with Article 25 of Law No 91/2001 of August 20,

amended by Law No. 48/2004 of August 24.

2-Maintains in 15% of the remuneration subject to the discount of quota the contribution of the

remaining entities, public or private, with administrative and financial autonomy,

in particular those due by:

a) Structures of administrative support to the organs of sovereignty and remaining organs

personalized autonomous constitutional or administrative autonomy and

financial not covered by the provisions of the preceding paragraph;

b) Services and bodies of the central, regional and local government of the State, with

administrative and financial autonomy;

c) Autonomous Regions, in respect of all services and bodies of the

unpersonalized public administration;

d) Local authorities, respective municipalized services, federations and associations

of municipalities and district assemblies;

e) Higher education, private or cooperative establishments, and not higher,

particular or cooperative;

f) Legal persons, regardless of their public nature, private or other.

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3-For entities with personnel with respect to which the CGA, I. P., is responsible

solely by the burden with survivor pensions, the contribution is equal to 3.75%

of the remuneration of the said personnel subject to quota discount.

4-The provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall prevail over any legal provisions, general

or specials, otherwise, with the exception of those establishing, in respect of

entities whose liabilities with pensions have been transferred to the CGA, I. P.,

an amount contribution equal to what it would compete for them to pay, as entities

employers, within the framework of the general social security scheme.

Article 19.

Flexible management at universities and polytechnic institutes

In 2008, until the entry into force of the bylaws to be adopted pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 1

of Article 172 of Law No. 62/2007 of September 10, and whenever, for greater efficiency

in the management of human and financial resources of universities and institutes

polytechnics, if justifying, the respective rectors or presidents, after appearing prior to the

competent bodies on the grounds of matter, may:

a) Reallocate faculty and non-docent staff between organic units,

b) Redistribute the budgetary resources between organic units.

CHAPTER IV

Local finance

Article 20.

Amounts of the participation of local authorities in state taxes

1-In 2008, the overall amount of the participation of municipalities in state taxes is

set at € 2406532953, being the amount to be allocated to each municipality what is listed

of the nineteenth map in attachment.

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2-A The expected participation in the preceding paragraph is distributed in accordance with the terms of paragraph 1 of the article

19. of Law No. 2/2007 of January 15 as follows:

a) A general grant set at € 1880879608 for the Equilibrium Fund

Financial (FEF);

b) A specific grant set at € 151493982 for the Social Fund

Municipal (FSM);

c) A 5% percent stake in the income tax of natural persons

(IRS) of taxable persons with a tax domicile in the respective circumscription

territorial, calculated in the terms of the paragraph c) of Article 19 (1) of the Law n.

2/2007, of January 15, set at € 374159363.

3-A The final allocation between funds guarantees the participation of 5% in the IRS of the municipality,

being the remaining amount of rematch between the ETF and the FSM, taking into account the proportion

between the percentages provided for in Law No. 2/2007 of January 15 for those

funds, from 25.3% and 2%, respectively.

4-In 2008, the amount of the Municipal Social Fund indicated in the b) of paragraph 2

is intended exclusively for the skills currently exercised by municipalities in the

field of education, to be distributed in accordance with the indicators identified in the

a) of Article 28 (1) of Law No 2/2007 of January 15.

5-In the year 2008, the overall amount of the Freguese-Financing Fund (FFF)

is set at € 198218007, being the amount to be allocated to each freguesia what is listed

of the XX map in attachment.

6-The amount referred to in the preceding paragraph includes a reinforcement of € 1418565 for the

freguesias, in such a way as to ensure that the amount of the participation of each freguesia in the

FFF is equal to or greater than that of 2007.

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7-For the purposes of the provisions of Article 29 (1) and (29), Article 32 (4), para. 2

of Article 57, and in Article 60 (2) of the Law No 2/2007 of January 15, the

clearance of the caption in these referred to is done taking into account the sum of the tax

municipal on real estate (IMI), from the municipal tax on onerous transmissions

of real estate tax (IMT), of the municipal vehicle tax (IMV), of the share of the product

of single circulation tax (IUC) that constitutes revenue from municipalities and the

municipal participation in the IRS.

Article 21.

Calculation of the variables of typology of urban areas of freguesias created

subsequent to the general census of the population of 1991

In 2008, for the purpose of calculating the participation of the freguesias created at a later date

to the general census of the population of 1991, and for which there is no

official classification, the classification adopted, within the framework of the typology of urban areas, is the

of the respective freguesias of origin.

Article 22.

Decentralization of competences for municipalities

1-During the year 2008, is the Government authorized to transfer to the municipalities the

appropriations entered in the budget of ministries relating to competences to

decentralise in the fields of education, social action and health, specifically the

relating to:

a) Non-lecturer staff of basic education;

b) Provision of meals and support for extending hours in education

preschoar;

c) Curricular enrichment activities in the 1-cycle of basic education;

d) Management of the school park in the 2. and 3. cycles of the basic education;

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e) School social action in the 2 and 3. cycles of basic education;

f) Support for the drafting of municipal social letters;

g) Social support for individuals or families in a situation of precariousness or

vulnerability;

h) Components of family support in preschool education in the public network of the

preschoon education establishments;

i) Activities of partner-educational animation in the public network of the establishments of

preschoon education;

j) Activities for the prevention of disease and health promotion.

2-During the year 2008, lies the Government authorized to legislate in the sense of

regulate the tax powers of municipalities, with respect to taxes to whose

revenue are entitled, under the terms set out in the Local Finance Act.

3-It is extended, until December 31, 2008, the time limit laid down in Article 4 (1) of the

Law No. 159/99 of September 14 for the transfer of competences to the

municipalities.

4-In the year 2008, for the purposes of the provisions of Law No. 159/99, of September 14, lies the

Government authorized to transfer to municipalities the monies required for the financial year

by these of the new skills transferred under paragraphs 1 a to 3.

5-It is entered in the budget of the general charges of the State a sum of € 22526536,

intended for:

a) Compensate the municipalities of the burden borne with school transport

of pupils enrolled in the 7, 8 and 9 years of schooling;

b) Compensate the municipalities with the charges borne with the transport of the

students of the 1-cycle determined by replanning of the school network.

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6-A The ratio of monies transferred under the previous paragraph is published by

joint office of the members of the Government responsible for the areas of the administration

location and finance.

Article 23.

Metropolitan areas and associations of municipalities

It is entered in the budget of the general charges of the State a sum of € 3000000, the

distribute in a directly proportional manner in accordance with the following criteria:

a) € 1500000 are allocated to the large metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto,

taking into account the number of associated municipalities in each entity and the

total participation of the associated municipalities in state taxes, intended

to prepare for its adaptation to metropolitan authorities;

b) € 1500000 are distributed by the associations of municipalities with area

corresponding to NUTS III or to the aggregation of NUTS III;

c) The distribution provided for in the preceding paragraph takes into account the principle of no

territorial duplication and is based on the following criteria:

i) Number of entities covered;

ii) Number of associated municipalities in each entity;

iii) Total participation of the associated municipalities in state taxes.

d) For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, in the cases of territorial duplication, the

municipality is only considered in the widest scope entity.

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Article 24.

Remuneration of the elected of the freguish joints

1-It is entered in the budget of the general charges of the State a sum in the amount of

€ 5000000 a distribute by the freguesies referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 27 of the Law No

169/99, of September 18, for the satisfaction of the remuneration and charges of the

presidents of the joints that have opted for the on-going regime, full-time

or in half-time, deducted from the amounts for the monthly compensation for

charges to which the same elected officials would be entitled if they had remained in a regime

of non-permanence.

2-A The ratio of money transferred to each freguesia under the previous number is

published by portaria of the member of the Government responsible for the area of the administration

location.

Article 25.

Financial aid and technical and financial cooperation

1-It is entered in the budget of the general charges of the State a sum of € 2500000, for

the purposes laid down in Article 8 (2) and (8) of Law No. 2/2007 of January 15,

as well as for the completion of ongoing projects, taking into account the period of

application of the respective funding programmes and the principles of equity and

balance in the territorial distribution.

2-The transfers of monies to local authorities, not provided for in the preceding paragraph,

are subject to prior permission from the members of the Government responsible for the areas of

local administration and finance.

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Article 26.

Retention of municipal funds

1-It is retained the percentage of 0.2% of the municipal funds of each municipality of the

continent, constituting a tenth of that retention's own revenue from the Directorate General

of the Local Authorities, under the terms of the ( c) of Article 6 (2) of the Decree

Regulation No 44/2007 of April 27.

2-A The remaining part is intended to cost the operation of the technical support offices,

provided for in Decree-Law No. 58/79 of March 29, being for the purpose entered in the

budget of the regional coordination and development commissions, of the areas

metropolitans or the associations of municipalities, depending on who they depend on

referred to offices.

3-In the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto, these are the beneficiary entities of the

amount mentioned in the previous number.

Article 27.

Municipal borrowing

They are excepted from the borrowing limits provided for in Law No. 2/2007, 15 of

January, the loans and depreciation earmarked for financing investments

within the framework of the Neighborhoods Qualification and Reinsertion Operations Initiative of Neighborhoods

Critics, which must be previously authorized by dispatching the member of the

Government responsible for the area of finance.

Article 28.

Amendment to Law No. 53-F/2006 of December 29

Article 32 of Law No 53-F/2006 of December 29 is replaced by the following:

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" Article 32.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-The provisions of this Article shall apply to commercial companies in the

which municipalities, associations of municipalities and metropolitan areas of

Lisbon and Porto detain, directly or indirectly, a participation

social. "

Article 29.

Amendment to Law No. 2/2007 of January 15

Article 36 of Law No 2/2007 of January 15 is replaced by the following:

" Article 36.

[...]

1-[...].

2-For the purpose of calculating the net borrowing limit and the limit of

borrowings, the concept of total net borrowing of each

municipality includes:

a) [...];

b) The net borrowing and lending of the entities that

integrate the local business sector and the entities to which the

n Article 32 (4) of the legal regime of the local business sector,

proportional to the participation of the municipality in its social capital, in

case of default of the equilibrium rules of forecasted accounts

in the legal regime of the local business sector.

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3-[...].

4-[...]. "

CHAPTER V

Social security

Article 30.

Suitability of the forms of social security funding to the modalities of

protection

The financing of the expenses arising from the guaranteed protection under the system of

social security takes place in accordance with the principles of diversification of the sources of

funding and the selective suitability set out in the law of social security bases.

Article 31.

Management balances of the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training, I. P.

1-The management balances of the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training, I. P., are

transferred to social security and constitute revenue of the respective budget.

2-The balances referred to in the preceding paragraph that result from revenue from the

implementation of programmes co-financed majority-funded by the European Social Fund

may be kept at the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training, I. P., by

dispatch of the ministers responsible for the areas of finance and labour and

of social solidarity.

Article 32.

Transfers to capitalization

1-Revert to the Social Security Financial Stabilization Fund (FEFSS) a

share up to two percentage points of the percentage value corresponding to the contributions

of the workers on an account of others.

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2-The annual balances of the previdential system, as well as the revenues resulting from the

inheritance disposal, are also transferred to the FEFSS.

Article 33.

Mobilization of assets and recovery of social security credits

Is the Government authorized, through the minister responsible for the areas of the work and the

social solidarity, with faculty of delegation, to proceed to the cancellation of claims held

by IGFSS, I. P., when they check to lack the same as justification or be

insufficiently documented or when their irrecoverability decorates from the

inexistence of the debtor's pawable assets.

Article 34.

Management of funds under capitalization scheme

The budgetary enrollment of financial flows arising from operations associated with the

management of the assets portfolio of funds under management of the IGFCSS, I. P., is carried out

in accordance with the following rules:

a) The revenues obtained in financial derivatives transactions are deducted from the

expenses arising from the same operations, the respective balance being always

entered into a revenue item;

b) The interest accrued received in the sales of representative debt values are

deducted from the interest accrued paid in the acquisition of the same genus of values,

being the respective balance always entered into a revenue item;

c) The provisions of the previous paragraphs shall not waiver the accounting record

individualized from all financial flows, albeit merely scriptural,

associated with the operations referred to therein.

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Article 35.

Disposal of credits

1-A Social security may exceptionally alienate the claims that it is holder

corresponding to the debts of contributions, contributions and interest in the scope of

economic and financial viabilization processes involving the taxpayer.

2-A disposals may be carried out by the nominal value or by the market value of the

credits.

3-A The disposal of credits by the market value follows one of the approved procedures

by the member of the competent Government.

4-A The disposal provided for in this Article shall not do so in favour:

a) Of the debtor taxpayer;

b) Of the members of the social bodies, when the debt is respect to the period of

exercise of your office;

c) From entities with an equitable heritage interest.

5-A jurisdiction conferred in accordance with paragraph 3 is susceptible to delegation by decision of the

organ that holds it, pursuant to the Code of Administrative Procedure.

Article 36.

Disclosure of lists of taxpayers

The dissemination of lists provided for in paragraph a) of Art. 64 (5) of the General Tax Act is

applicable to debtor taxpayers to social security.

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Article 37.

Transfers in the framework of the National Strategic Reference Framework

1-It is the Government authorized to undertake the transfer of appropriations from the functional heading

"Vocational training" for the functional heading "Administration" inscribed on the map

XI, "Social security expenditure by functional classification", to make face to

accruals of charges arising from the use of the approved line of credit for

make up for delays that come to check in the transfers from the Social Fund

European, specifically due to changes in the interest rate.

2-It is also the Government authorized to transfer appropriations up to the limit of € 2000000 of the

functional heading "Administration" for the functional heading "Vocational training"

inscribed on the map XI, "Social security expenditure by functional classification", case

do not come to use the approved line of credit.

3-The changes referred to in the previous figures depend on the permission of the ministers

responsible for the areas of finance and labour and social solidarity.

Article 38.

Fund of retirement certificates

During the year 2008, the Government can set up a capitalization fund, within the framework of the

regulation of the public capitalization regime provided for in Article 82 of the Law

n. 4/2007, of January 16.

Article 39.

Outsourcing of the National Institute for the Enjoy

of the Free Times, I. P.

Is the Government authorized to establish, by decree-law, the rules of transfer of the

budget allocated by this Act to the National Institute for the Enjoy of the

Leisure Leisure, I. P., for the foundation of private law of public utility that

succeed.

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Article 40.

Externalization of the Cooperative Antonio Institute of the Cooperative Sector, I. P.

Is the Government authorized to establish, by decree-law, the rules of transfer of the

budget allocated by this Law to the Antonio Sergio Institute of the Cooperative Sector,

I. P., for the entity that succeeding you.

Article 41.

Amendment to Decree-Law No 140-D/86 of June 14

Article 19 of the Decree-Law No 140-D/86 of June 14, amended by the Decrees-Laws

n. paragraphs 295/86, of September 19, and 102/89, of March 29, by the Laws No. 2/92, 9 of

March, 75/93, of December 20, 39-B/94, of December 27, 52-C/96, of 27 of

December, 87-B/98, of December 31, and by the Decree-Law No. 199/99 of June 8,

is replaced by the following:

" Article 19.

[...]

1-Of the budgeted contributions in the framework of the Previdential System, in the

continental territory, constitute own revenues:

a) From the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training, I. P., a

percentage of 4.7% earmarked for employment and training policy

professional;

b) From the Institute of Management of the European Social Fund, I. P., a

percentage of 0.03% earmarked for employment and training policy

professional;

c) From the Authority for the Conditions of Labour, a percentage of

0.20% intended for the improvement of working conditions and the policy of

hygiene, safety and health at work;

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d) From the National Agency for Qualifications, I. P., a percentage

of 0.06% earmarked for employment policy and vocational training;

e) From the Directorate-General for Employment and Labour Relations, a

percentage of 0.01% earmarked for employment and training policy

professional:

2-Constitutions own revenue of the Autonomous Regions of Madeira and of the

Azores, a percentage of 5% of the budgeted contributions in the

respective territories, within the framework of the Previdential System, intended for

employment policy and vocational training. "

CHAPTER VI

Direct taxes

Section I

Tax on the income of natural persons

Article 42.

Amendment to the Income Tax Code of Singular People

Articles 5, 9, 12, 31, 54, 68, 70, 71, 73, 79, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85

86, 87, 100, 102 and 127 of the Income Tax Code of Persons

Singular, abbreviated by the IRS Code, approved by the Decree-Law

n 442-A/88 of November 30, shall be replaced by the following:

" Article 5.

[...]

1-[...].

2-The fruits and economic advantages referred to in the preceding paragraph

understand, specifically:

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a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [...];

f) [...];

g) The interest or any accruals of pecuniary credit resulting from the

dilation of the respective salary or of mora on your payment,

are legal to be contractual, with the exception of interest due to the

State or other public servants for delay in settlement or mora

in the payment of any fees and the interest awarded in the scope of

an indemnity not subject to taxation in accordance with paragraph 1 of the

article 12 para.

h) [...];

i) [...];

j) [...];

l) [...];

m) [...];

n) [...];

o) [...];

p) [...];

q) [...];

r) [...].

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3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

10-The income referred to in point (s) q) of paragraph 2 are, for all the

effects, assimilated to interest.

Article 9.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) The compensation claims for the repair of non-patrimonial damage,

excepted those fixed by judicial or arbitral decision or resulting

of judicially approved agreement, of emerging damage no

proven and of cessation profits, considering in the latter

case as such only those that are intended to ressarct the benefits

liquids left to obtain as a result of the injury;

c) [...];

d) [...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

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Article 12.

[...]

1-The IRS does not focus, save as to the benefits provided for in the legal regime

of accidents in service and occupational diseases established by the

Decree-Law No. 503/99 of November 20 on compensation

due as a result of bodily injury, illness or death, paid or

assigned:

a) By The State, Autonomous Regions or Local Authorities, as well as

any of its services, establishments or bodies, yet

which personalised, including the public institutes and the funds

public; or,

b) Under insurance contract, court decision or agreement

homologated judicially.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-The IRS does not focus on:

a) The scholarships awarded to high-income sports practitioners

by the Olympic Committee of Portugal or by the Paralympic Committee of

Portugal, in the framework of the contract-preparedness programme for the

Olympic or Paralympic Games and the respective titular federation

of the status of sports public utility, under Article 30 para.

of Decree-Law No. 125/95 of May 31 in the wording that was

given by Decree-Law No 123/96 of August 10;

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b) Sports training grants, as such recognized by

dispatch from the Minister of Finance and the member of the Government who

tutor the sport, awarded by the respective holder federation of the

status of sports public utility to sports agents not

professionals, notably, practitioners, judges and arbitrators, up to the

maximum annual amount corresponding to five times the value of the

guaranteed minimum monthly retribution;

c) The prizes awarded to high-income sports practitioners,

as well as the respective coaches, by relevant classifications

obtained in high prestige and level sporting evidence

competitive, as such recognized by dispatching from the Minister of the

Finance and the member of the Government that tutorsthe sport,

notably Olympic and Paralympic Games, championships of the

world or championships of Europe, under the terms of the Decree-Law n.

125/95, of May 31, of the Portaria No 393/97 of June 17 and of the

Portaria No. 211/98 of April 3.

6-The IRS does not focus on the patrimonial increments coming from

free transmissions subject to stamp duty, nor on those if

find expressly provided for in a negative delimitation standard of

incidence of this tax.

Article 22.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

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5-When the taxable person shall exercise the option referred to in paragraph 3, it shall be, by that

fact, thanks to encompassing the totality of the income understood in the

n Article 71 (6) and in Article 72 (6)

6-[...].

7-[...].

Article 31.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-For the purposes of the provisions of paragraph 2, it applies to the services provided in the

scope of hotel activities and similar, catering and beverages, well

as to the amount of subsidies intended for exploitation, the coefficient of

0.20 there indicated.

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

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Article 53.

[...]

1-To gross income of category H of annual value equal to or less than €

6000 deduct, up to its competition, the totality of its quantitative by

each holder who has earned them.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-Gross income of category H is still deducted:

a) Trade union contributions, in the part where they do not constitute

counterpart of benefits on health, education, support for

third age, housing, insurance or social security and as long as not

exceed, in relation to each taxable person, 1% of gross income

of this category, being increased from 50%;

b) Mandatory contributions to social protection schemes and to

legal subsystems of health.

5-Gross income of category H of annual value above € 30000,

by holder, have a deduction equal to the amount referred to in paragraph 1, rebated, up to

to its competition, from 13% of the part that exceeds that annual value.

6-[...].

7-[...].

Article 54.

[...]

1-[...].

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2-When the share corresponding to the capital cannot be discriminated against, the

all income abating, for the purpose of determining the value

taxable, an importance equal to 85%.

3-[...].

4-[...].

Article 59.

[...]

1-[...].

2-Havendo de facto separation, each of the spouses may submit a

only statement of their own income and income from the

dependent on his or her post, but in this case the following is observed:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) Each of the spouses shall be entitled to the deduction referred to in point (s)

a) of Article 79 (1)

Article 68.

[...]

1-The tax rates are the constants of the following table:

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2-The quantitative of the taxable income, when more than € 4639, is

divided into two parts: one, equal to the limit of the largest of the scales that

on it couber, to which the rate of the column (B) corresponding to that applies

step; another, equal to the surplus, to which the rate of the column (A) applies

concerning the immediately upper echelon.

Collectable Income

(in euros)

Fees

(in percentages)

Normal

(A)

Average

(B)

Up to 4639 10.5 10.5000

From more than 4639 up to 7017 13 11.3472

From more than 7017 up to 17401 23.5 18.5994

From more than 17401 up to 40020 34 27.3037

From more than 40020 up to 58000 36.5 30.1545

From more than 58000 up to 62546 40 30.8701

Higher than 62546 to 42

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Article 70.

[...]

1-From the application of the fees set out in Article 68, it may not result, to

holders of predominantly originated income earners at work

dependent, the availability of a net tax return

lower than the annual value of the increased monthly minimum consideration of 20%,

nor does it result in any tax for the same income, the matter of which

collectable, after the application of the marital quotient, is equal to or less than

€ 1850.

2-[...].

Article 71.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [ Repealed ];

d) [...];

e) [ Repealed ];

f) [...];

g) [...].

3-[...]:

a) [...];

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b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) The income of dependent labour and the income of

professional activities specifically provided for in the list to which

refers to Article 151, albeit stemming from isolated acts, and in the

points d ), e) and g) of Article 3 (2), auwounded by non-residents

in Portuguese territory, with the exception of income from

of intermediation in the conclusion of any contracts;

f) Pensions being earned by non-residents in Portuguese territory.

4-[...]:

a) [...];

b) The income provided for in paragraph f) of Article 18 (1), with

exception of those covered by the e) of the previous number, paid or

placed at the disposal of non-residents in Portuguese territory;

c) [...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

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Article 73.

[...]

1-The undocumented expenses, carried out by taxable persons that

possess or should possess organized accounting, within the framework of the

exercise of business and professional activities, are taxed

autonomously, at the rate of 50%.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

Article 79.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) 40% of the value of the monthly minimum consideration, by each dependant who does not

be subject to this tax;

e) [...].

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2-[...].

3-A deduction of the point d) of paragraph 1 is high for double, in the case of dependents

which do not go beyond three years of age until December 31 of the year to which

respects the tax.

4-[ Previous Article No 3 ].

Article 82.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) Acquisition of other goods and services directly related to

health expenditure of the taxable person, his household, of the

your ancestry and collateral up to the 3 degree, as long as you duly

warranted through prescription, with the limit of € 62 or

2.5% of the importances referred to in points a) , b) and c) , if superior.

2-[...].

Article 84.

[...]

They are deductible to the collection 25% of the charges with homes and institutions of support to the

third age relative to taxable persons as well as charges with homes

and autonomous residences for persons with disabilities, their dependents,

bottom-up and collateral up to the 3 degree that they do not possess income

superior to the monthly minimum consideration, with the limit of 85% of the value of the

minimum monthly retribution.

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Article 85.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) Interest and amortization of debts contracted with the acquisition,

construction or property beneficiation for own housing and

permanent or leased duly proven to

permanent housing of the lessee, with the exception of

depreciation carried out by mobilization of the account balances

savings-housing, up to the limit of € 586;

b) Benefits due as a result of contracts concluded with

housing cooperatives or in the scope of the purchasing scheme in

group, for the acquisition of real estate for own housing and

permanent or leasing for permanent housing of the

tenant, duly substantiated, in the party respecting the

interest and amortization of the corresponding debts, up to the limit of

€ 586;

c) Importances, net of subsidies or official comholdings,

supported by way of income by the tenant of urban building or the

its autonomous fraction for purposes of permanent housing, when

referring to leasing contracts concluded to be covered in the

Regime of the Urban Tenure, approved by the Decree-Law

n 21-B/90, of October 15, or of the New Regime of

Urban Lease, passed by Law No. 6/2006, 27 of

February, or paid for title of rents by lease agreement

financial relating to real estate for own and permanent housing

carried out under this scheme, in the part that do not constitute

capital amortization, up to the limit of € 586.

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2-They are also deductible to the collection, provided that they are not likely to be

considered costs in category B, 30% of the expended importances

with the acquisition of new equipment for use of energies

renewables and equipment for the production of electrical energy and or

thermal (co-generation) by microturbines, with power up to 100 kW, which

consume natural gas, including complementary equipment

indispensable to its functioning, with the limit of € 777.

3-The deductions referred to in paragraph 1 are not cumulatively.

4-[...].

5-[...].

Article 86.

[...]

1-Are deductible to the collection 25% of the sums expended with premiums

of personal accident insurance and life insurance that guarantee

exclusively the risks of death, disability or retirement by old age, in this

last case as long as the benefit is guaranteed after the 55 years of age and

5 of the duration of the contract, relating to the taxable person or his / her

dependent, paid by the one or by third parties, provided that, in this case,

have been demonstrably taxed as income of the subject

passive, with the limit of € 62, dealing with unmarried taxable persons

or judicially separated from people and goods, or from € 124, treating themselves to

taxable persons married and not judicially separated from persons and property.

2-[...].

3-[...]:

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a) Dealing with unmarried or separate taxable persons

judicially of persons and goods, up to the limit of € 82;

b) Treating married and unseparated taxable persons

judicially of persons and goods, up to the limit of € 164;

c) For each dependent upon his or her post, the limits of the previous points are

high in € 41.

4-[...].

5-[...].

Article 87.

[...]

1-Are deductible to the collection by each taxable person with a disability a

importance corresponding to 3.5 times the minimum monthly consideration and by

each dependant with a disability, as well as by each rising with

disability that is in the conditions of the ( e) of Article 79 (1), a

importance equal to 1.5 times the monthly minimum consideration.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

Article 100.

[...]

1-[...]:

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Annual Salary Scales

(in euros)

Fees

(percentages)

Up to 4990 0

From 4990 up to 5893 2

From 5893 up to 69970 4

From 6990 up to 8883 6

From 8683 up to 10510 8

From 10510 up to 12146 10

From 12146 up to 13914 12

From 13914 up to 17441 15

From 17441 up to 22667 18

From 22667 up to 28698 21

From 28698 up to 39220 24

From 39220 up to 51807 27

From 51807 up to 86346 30

From 86346 up to 129546 33

From 129546 up to 215955 36

From 215955 up to 479523 38

Higher than 479523 to 40

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2-[...].

3-When, there is no possibility to determine the annual remuneration

estimated, be paid or placed at the disposal of income that exceeds

the limit of € 4990, the provisions of paragraph 1 shall apply.

4-[...].

Article 102.

[...]

1-[...].

2-A all payments per account is equal to 75% of the amount

calculated on the basis of the following formula:

C x RLB-R

RLT

where the siglas used have the following meaning:

C = collection of the penultimate year, net of the deductions referred to in para.

1 of Article 78, with the exception of the constant deduction of the ( h) ;

R = total of the arrests made in the penultimate year on the

income from category B;

RLB = positive net income of the penultimate year of category B;

RLT = total net income of the penultimate year.

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

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Article 127.

Communication of charges

1-Credit institutions, housing cooperatives, companies of

insurance and the managing companies of the funds and other schemes

supplementary referred to in Articles 14 and 21 of the Staff Regulations

Tax Benefits, must communicate to the Directorate General of Taxes, until

at the end of the month of February each year, in an official model statement,

relatively to the previous year and to each taxable person:

a) The interest and amortisation supported relating to debts incurred

with the acquisition, construction or beneficiation of real estate for

own and permanent housing or renting, with the exception of

depreciation carried out by mobilization of the account balances

savings-housing, which can be deducted from the collection;

b) The premiums paid relating to life insurance contracts that

guarantee exclusively the risks of death, disability or retirement

by old age, from personal accidents and, still, those covering

exclusively health risks, which can be abated to the

income or deducted from the collection;

c) The importances applied in pension funds and other schemes

supplementary social security provided for in Articles 14 and 21.

of the Status of Tax Benefits;

d) The importances paid to the beneficiaries with failure to comply with the

conditions laid down in Article 86 (1), as well as the title of

rescue, advances or refund of certificates in the conditions

provided for in Article 14 and Article 21 of the Status of Benefits

Fiscal.

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2-The entities referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall still deliver to the

taxable persons, up to January 20 of each year, document proving

of interest, life insurance premiums and other charges paid by those

in the previous year and may be abated to the income or deducted to the

collects.

3-Within the time limit referred to in the preceding paragraph, the entities receiving or

pay any other importances susceptible to abatement to the

income or deduction to the collection, must deliver to the taxable persons the

respective supporting document. "

Article 43.

Revocation of provisions of the IRS Code

1-Are repealed the points c) and e) of Article 71 (1) of the IRS Code, approved

by Decree-Law No. 442-A/88 of November 30.

2-Are, as yet, repealed articles 121 and 122 of the IRS Code, approved by the

Decree-Law No 442-A/88 of November 30, without prejudice to compliance with the

obligations in them provided for during the year 2008.

Article 44.

Special rules of production of effects of changes within the IRS

1-A amendment introduced by this Act to Article 127 of the IRS Code, approved

by Decree-Law No. 442-A/88 of November 30 applies to the obligations that

shall be complied with as of January 1, 2009.

2-A amendment introduced by this Act in Article 31 (5) of the IRS Code

applies to exercises of 2006 and following.

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Article 45.

Amendment to supplementary legislation within the IRS

Article 18 of the Decree-Law No. 42/91 of January 22, amended by the Decrees-Laws n. para.

263/92, of November 24, 95/94, of April 9, and 18/97, of January 21, by Law n.

87-B/98 of December 31 by the Decrees-Leis n. ºs 134/2001 of April 24,

194/2002, of September 25, 80/2003, of April 23, 160/2003, of July 19, and

211/2005, of December 7, and by the Law No. 53-A/2006 of December 29, which

regulates the IRS withholding formulae, is replaced by the following:

" Article 18.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-A The evidence referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be carried out until the end of the

deadline set for the delivery of the tax that should have been deducted

in the terms of the applicable legal standards.

4-The form referred to in paragraph 2, duly certified, has the

validity of one year, counted from the date of certification by the

competent authority of the State of residence of the beneficiary entity

of the income, and this shall immediately inform the entity that if

finds obliged to proceed to withholding the source of the verified changes

on the assumptions of which the total or partial dispensation is dependent on the

source.

5-Without prejudice to the provisions of the following number, when it is not carried out at

proof by the end of the deadline set for the delivery of the tax, lies the

tax substitute thank you to deliver the entirety of the tax that

should have been deducted under the law.

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6-Without prejudice to counterordinational liability, liability

established in the previous number can be sidelined whenever the substitute

tributary comprove with the document referred to in paragraph 2 of the present

article the verification of the assumptions for the total or partial dispensation of

retention.

7-The beneficiaries of the income, who check the conditions referred to in the

n. 1, you may request full or partial refund of the tax that you have

been withheld at the source, within two years counted from the term of the

year in which the operative event of the tax was found, upon

presentation of a model form approved by the Minister of

Finance and, where necessary, of other elements that allow to affer the

legitimacy of the refund. "

Article 46.

Legislative authorization within the IRS

Is the Government authorized to legislate, creating, in the IRS Code, for taxable persons

non-residents, with a residence in another member state of the European Union, a scheme

optional of equating to taxable persons resident in the Portuguese territory, in the sense

from;

a) Provide for non-resident taxable persons with residence in another State

member of the European Union, who earn at least 90% of their income

global in Portuguese territory, may opt for the riding of the subjects

resident liabilities;

b) To provide that, in such circumstances, the income with a foreign origin from the

non-resident taxable person shall be taken into account for purposes of determination

of the rate applicable to the income obtained in Portuguese territory;

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c) Extending the application of this option scheme to the household income of the

non-resident, when at least 90% percent of the household's entire income

family have their source in Portuguese territory.

Section II

Tax on the income of legal persons

Article 47.

Amendment to the Income Tax Code of Collective Persons

1-Articles 14, 40, 53, 75, 89, 90, 90, 112, 112, 112.-112, 112 and 113 of the

Tax Code on the Throughput of Collective Persons, abbreviated

designated by IRC Code, approved by the Decree-Law No. 442-B/88, 30 of

November, they shall be replaced by the following:

" Article 14.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-Are exempt the profits that a resident entity in Portuguese territory,

in the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Directive No 90 /435/CEE, of the

Council, of July 23, place at the disposal of resident entity

in another member state of the European Union that is in the same

conditions and which directly detains a stake in the capital of

first not less than 10% or with an acquisition value of not less than

€ 20000000 and provided that the latter has remained in its title, of

uninterrupted mode, for a year.

4-[...].

5-[...].

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6-A The exemption referred to in paragraph 3 and the provisions of paragraph 4 shall also apply

regarding the profits that a resident entity in territory

portuguese, under the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Directive n.

90 /435/CEE, of the Council of July 23, put at the disposal of a

stable establishment, located in another member state, of an entity

resident in a member state of the European Union that is in the same

conditions and that it detains, in whole or in part, through the

stable establishment a direct participation not less than 10% or

with an acquisition value of not less than € 20000000, provided that this

has remained in its title, uninterrupted, during a

year.

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

Article 40.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

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10-[...].

11-[...].

12-[...].

13-[...]

14-A Directorate-General for Taxes may authorise the condition to be

refers to point b) of paragraph 4 cease to arise, specifically, in case

of entities subject to business restructuring proceedings, upon

application, to be submitted by the end of the taxation period of the

occurrence of the changes, in which it is shown that differentiation

introduced is on the basis of objective criteria.

Article 42.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [...];

f) [...];

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g) The unduly documented charges;

h) [...];

i) [...];

j) [...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

Article 53.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-For the purposes of the provisions of paragraph 4, it applies to the services provided in the

scope of hotel activities and similar, catering and beverages, well

as to the amount of subsidies intended for exploitation, the coefficient of

0.20 there indicated.

7-[...]

8-[...].

9-[...].

10-[...].

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11-[...].

12-[...].

13-[...].

14-Whenever, from the application of the technical-scientific basis indicators to which

refers to paragraph 3, if it determines a higher taxable profit than it results

of the coefficients set out in paragraph 4, or if you check any changes

to the minimum amount of taxable profit provided in the final part of the same

number, with the exception of that which decorates the update of the value of the

minimum monthly consideration, may the taxable person, in the exercise of the

entry into force of those indicators or the amendment of the said

minimum amount, opt, within the time limit and in the terms set out in paragraph b) from the

n. 7, by the application of the general scheme for the determination of taxable profit,

yet the minimum period of stay has not elapsed in the

simplified regime.

15-[...].

16-The minimum amount of taxable profit provided for in the final part of paragraph 4,

does not apply:

a) In the commencement and cessation exercises;

b) To taxable persons who find themselves with processes within the

Code of Insolvency and Business Recovery, approved by the

Decree-Law No. 53/2004 of March 18, from the exercise of

establishment of that process and up to the exercise of its completion;

c) To taxable persons who have not earned income during the

respective period of taxation and have delivered the declaration of

cessation of activity referred to in Article 33 of the Code of the

VAT.

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Article 75.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...]:

a) [...];

b) That difference, when negative, is considered to be worth-worth,

being deductible only when the social parties have stayed

in the title of the taxable person during the three years immediately

prior to the date of the dissolution, and by the amount exceeding the

tax damages transmitted in the framework of the implementation of the scheme

special taxation of groups of companies and provided that the

entity liquidated is not resident in country, territory or region

with clearly more favorable tax regime that consents to list

approved by the porterie of the Minister of Finance.

3-[...].

4-[...].

Article 81.

[...]

1-The undocumented expenses are taxed autonomously, at the rate of

50%, without prejudice to its non-consideration as a cost under the terms of the

article 23 para.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

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5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

10-[...].

11-[...].

12-[...].

Article 89.

[...]

1-Where, in respect of the profits referred to in paragraphs 3, 6 and 8 of the article

14. There has been place the withholding at the source for not checking the requirement

temporal holding of the minimum participation in them, there may be

place at the return of the tax that has been withheld at the source to date on

that if complete the period of one year of uninterrupted detention of the

participation, by request of the beneficiary of the income,

directed at the competent departments of the Directorate General of Taxes, the

present within two years counted from that date, and shall be made

the evidence required in paragraph 4 or in paragraph 9 of the same article, as the case may be.

2-[...].

3-[...].

Article 90.

[...]

1-[...].

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2-There is no further obligation to carry out the withholding of IRC, in the

whole or in part, depending on the cases, when the taxable persons

benefit from exemption, total or partial, relative to income that would be

subject to this withholding tax, made that it is the proof, before the entity

paying, the exemption from which they take advantage, until the expiry of the term

established for the delivery of the tax that should have been deducted.

3-When the proof to which the preceding paragraph is not carried out, it shall be

the tax substitute obliged to deliver the entirety of the tax that

should have been deducted under the law.

4-A The responsibility set out in the preceding paragraph may be removed

whenever the tax substitute proves the verification of the

assumptions for the total or partial dispensation of retention.

Article 90-The

[...]

1-[...].

2-In the situations referred to in the preceding paragraph, as well as in the g) of paragraph 2

of Article 80, the recipients of the income shall make evidence before

the entity that is obliged to carry out the withholding, up to the

term of the deadline set for the delivery of the tax that should have been

deducted pursuant to the applicable legal standards:

a) [...];

b) [...].

3-The forms to which the preceding paragraph is referred, duly

certificates, are valid for a maximum period of:

a) [...];

b) [...].

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4-Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, when the entity

beneficiary of earnings is a central bank or an agency of

government-domiciled nature in country with which Portugal has

concluded convention to avoid double international taxation, the proof to

referred to paragraph 2 is made a single time, being dispensed to its

periodical renewal, owing to the beneficiary of the income

inform immediately the debtor or paying entity, of the changes

verified in the assumptions of which the total or partial dispensation is dependent on

retention at the source.

5-Without prejudice to the provisions of the following number, when it is not carried out at

proof by the end of the deadline set for the delivery of the tax, and,

well so, in the cases provided for in paragraphs 3 and following of Article 14, lies the

tax substitute thank you to deliver the entirety of the tax that

should have been deducted under the law.

6-Without prejudice to counterordinational liability, liability

established in the previous number can be sidelined whenever the substitute

tributary comprove with the document referred to in paragraph 2 of the present

article or in paragraphs 3 and following of Article 14, as the case may be, the

verification of the assumptions for the total or partial dispensation of retention.

7-The beneficiary entities of the income, which check the conditions

referred to in paragraph 1 of this article and in Article 14 (3) and following of Article 14,

when no proof has been made in the deadlines and conditions

established, may request the full or partial refund of the tax that

has been withheld at the source, within two years counted from the

term of the year in which the operative event of the tax is found, by

presentation of a model form approved by the Minister of

Finance and, where necessary, of other elements that allow to affer the

legitimacy of the refund.

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8-[ Previous Article No 6 ].

9-[ Previous Article No 7 ].

Article 109.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...]:

a) [...];

b) Obtaining income, benefit from definitive exemption, albeit the

same do not include the income of capital and provided that these

have been taxed by withholding the source at the definitive title;

c) [...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

Article 112.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

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3-[...].

4-[...].

5-In cases provided for in the preceding paragraph, the declaration shall be sent:

a) With respect to income derived from real estate, excepted the

gains resulting from its onerous transmission, to gains

mentioned in the point b) of Article 4 (3), and income

mentioned in paragraph 3) and in paragraph 8) of the c) of Article 4 (3),

until the last working day of the month of May of the year following that to which the

same respect or until the last working day of the 30-day period a

count of the date on which it has ceased to obtain the income;

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

10-[...].

Article 113.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

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4-In the case of cessation of activity, in accordance with Article 8 (5), the

statement on the exercise in which the same has occurred shall be

presented within the time limit referred to in Article 112 (3), applying

also such time limit for the submission or submission of the relative statement

to the exercise immediately preceding, when they have not yet elapsed

the deadlines mentioned in paragraphs 2 and 3.

5-[...].

6-[...]. "

2-A amendment introduced by this Act in Article 53 (6) of the IRC Code

applies in the determination of the taxable profit of the 2006 and following exercises.

Article 48.

Addition to the IRC Code

It is added to the IRC Code, approved by the Decree-Law No. 442-B/88, of 30 of

November, Article 128-A, with the following wording:

" Article 128.

Prior agreements on transfer pricing

1-taxable persons may apply for DGCI, for the purposes of the provisions of the

Article 58 of the IRC Code, the conclusion of an agreement that has by

object to establish, with a prior character, the method or methods

likely to ensure the determination of the terms and conditions that

would normally be agreed upon, accepted or practiced between entities

independent in commercial and financial operations, including the

intra-group services benefits and cost sharing arrangements,

carried out with entities with which they are in a situation of relations

special or in operations carried out between the head office and the establishments

stable.

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2-Where the taxable person intends to include in the framework of the agreement

operations with entities with which there are special resident relationships

in a country with which a convention was concluded for

eliminate double taxation, must request that the application, as referred to

previous number, be submitted to the respective competent authorities in the

frame of the friendly procedure to be established for the purpose.

3-The application is addressed to the Director-General of Taxes and shall:

a) Submit a proposal on the methods of determination of the

transfer prices duly substantiated and instructed with the

relevant documentation;

b) Identify the operations covered and the duration period;

c) Be subscribed by all the entities involved in the operations that

if it intends to include in the agreement;

d) Contain a statement of the taxable person on compliance with the

duty to collaborate with the tax administration in the provision of

information and the provision of the necessary documentation without which

may be opposed to any rule of professional or commercial secrecy.

4-The agreement reached between the DGCI and the competent authorities of others

countries, when it is the case, is reduced in writing and notified to the subject

passive and too many entities covered, for the purpose of manifesting, by

written, their acceptance.

5-The agreement is confidential and the information transmitted by the taxable person

in the negotiation process are protected by the duty of tax secrecy.

6-The elements contained in the agreement shall state in particular the method

or the accepted methods, the operations covered, the basic assumptions, the

conditions for review, revocation and extension and the term of duration,

that it cannot exceed three years.

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7-There are no changes in applicable legislation or significant variations

of the economic and operational circumstances and too much assumptions of

basis that substantiate the methods, the DGCI becomes bound to act in

compliance with the terms set out in the agreement.

8-taxable persons may not complain or interpose of the content

of the agreement.

9-The requirements and conditions for the formulation of the application, as well as

procedures, information and documentation linked to the celebration of the

agreements are regulated by the porterie of the Minister of Finance. "

Article 49.

Legislative authorization within the IRC

1-It is the Government authorized to establish a transitional regime for the clearance of the

taxable profit applicable to entities that should compulsorily enforce the Plan de

Accounts for Insurance Companies approved by the Standard Regulatory Standard n.

4/2007-R, of April 27, of the Insurance Institute of Portugal.

2-The sense and extent of the legislation to be approved by the Government under the number

previous are the following:

a) Establish that the fair value changes of financial instruments

classified as " financial assets or liabilities at fair value by way of the results "

compete for the formation of the taxable profit, save when they respect the parties

of capital that correspond to more than 5% of the social capital or the instruments of

equity capital that are not admitted to trading on market

regulated;

b) To provide that in cases where there is a fair-value coverage ratio, the

changes in fair value of cover instruments and covered elements

compete for the formation of the taxable profit corresponding to the financial year in

that they should be recognised accountaistically;

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c) Establish that the assets classified as " tangible fixed assets "," assets

intangibles "," investment properties ", or" non-current assets held for sale ",

as well as the parts of capital, with the exception of those covered by the

previous, they are considered, for tax purposes, elements of the immobilized asset;

d) Establish that the assets classified as " investment properties " or

" non-current assets held for sale " the tax regime for investments is applicable

financial;

e) Without prejudice to the provision of the above, the deduction shall, for the purposes of

tax, of the " impairments adjustments ", das" provisions for impairance " and other

variations in fair value, except if, and to the extent that, the same were already

deductible;

f) To establish that the multiannual economic projection charges referred to in paragraph 4

of Article 17 of the Regulatory Decree No. 2/90 of January 12, shall be

reparties, in equal parts, for a minimum period of three years yet

are recognized accounting in an inferior period;

g) Predicting that the charges with short-term benefits of employees whose

right has been obtained in the period of taxation prior to that of your payment,

including gratuities in the title of participation in the results are accepted

as costs for tax purposes in the financial year in which they are accounted for, since

that, in the latter case, the conditions laid down in paragraphs 2 a to 5 of the

article 24 of the IRC Code;

h) Establish that, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 23 (4) and Article 40,

both of the IRC Code, the charges with long term benefits and of

cessation of employment of employees only be accepted as tax cost in the

period of taxation in which they are placed at the disposal of the respective

beneficiaries;

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i) Establish that the proceeds or gains should always be considered by the

their respective gross, nominal or total value, and must be corrected, for purposes

fiscal, inter alia, the effects that arise from the respective accounting for the

present or current value of financial flows or uncertainty about the respective

collectibility;

j) Predicting that the patrimonial variations that result from the recognition or

disrecognition of assets or liabilities, or of changes in the respective

measurement, arising from the adoption for the first time of the normatives

accounting as referred to in paragraph 1 and which, pursuant to the IRC Code with the

adaptations provided for in this regime, are considered to be fiscally

relevant to compete, in equal parts, for the formation of taxable profit

corresponding to the exercise that starts in 2008 and the four exercises

subsequent;

l) Revoke Article 79 of the IRC Code, applying the following scheme

regarding assets whose most or less-valued unrealized are

included in the fund's portfolio for future allocations at the end of the period

immediately preceding the adoption of the new regime:

i) The most-valuable and unrealized-valuable assets of the assets that are

measured at fair value by way of gains and losses, compete for the

formation of the taxable profit of the period of the adoption of the new regime;

ii) The most-valuable and unrealized-valuable assets of the assets that are

measured at fair value or reprized value by way of capital

own, compete for the formation of the taxable profit of the period in which

if you carry out the disrecognition of the asset;

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iii) The acquisition value, for tax purposes, of the tangible fixed assets and

investment properties is what to match the balance sheet value in

final of the last period in which they were allocated to the portfolio of

investments to represent the technical provisions of life insurance with

participation in the results;

m) Dismissing the entities referred to in paragraph 1 of the obligation laid down in Article 1 (1)

14. of the Decree-Law No. 35/2005 of February 17.

CHAPTER VII

Indirect taxes

Section I

Value added tax

Article 50.

Amendment to the Value Added Tax Code

Articles 7, 9, 16, 22, 24, 27, 40, 56, 60, 74, 83, 83, 83, 83, 83 and 88 of the

Value Added Tax Code, abbreviately designated by Code of the

VAT, approved by the Decree-Law No. 394-B/84 of December 26, pass to

following wording:

" Article 7.

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

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7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

10-Whenever, at a time later than the transmission, acquisition

intra-community or import of motor vehicles, show due

tax on vehicles for their processing, change of cylinder or

of chassis, the tax is due and chargeable at the time when that occurs

transformation or alteration.

11-[...].

Article 9.

[...]:

1) [...];

2) [...];

3) [...];

4) [...];

5) [...];

6) [...];

7) [...];

8) [...];

9) [...];

10) [...];

11) [...];

12) [...];

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13) [...];

14) [...];

15) [...];

16) [...];

17) [...];

18) [...],

19) [...];

20) [...];

21) [...];

22) [...];

23) [...];

23-A) [...];

24) [...];

25) [...];

26) [...];

27) [...];

28) [...];

29) [...];

30) [...];

31) The operations subject to municipal tax on transmissions

onerous real estate;

32) [...];

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33) [...];

34) [...];

35) [...];

36) [...];

37) [...];

38) [...];

39) [...];

40) [...];

41) [...].

Article 16.

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[ Revoked ].

8-[...].

9-Where the elements necessary for the determination of the taxable value

are expressed in currency other than the national currency, the rates of

exchange to be used are the constants of the indicative tables released by the

European System of Central Banks (ESCB) or those of sale practiced

by any bank established on the national territory.

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10-[...].

Article 19.

1-[...].

2-Only confers right to deduction the tax mentioned in the following

documents, in the name and in the possession of the taxable person:

a) On past equivalent invoices and documents in legal form;

b) On the VAT payout receipt that is part of the statements of

import as well as in documents issued by electronic means

by the Directorate-General for Customs and Special Taxes on

o Consumption, in which it consents the number and date of the movement of

box.

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

Article 22.

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-If, past 12 months relative to the period in which the excess has started,

persist credit in favour of the taxpayer greater than € 250, this may request

your refund.

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6-Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the taxable person may

request the refund before the end of the 12-month period when if

check the cessation of activity or pass framing on the provisions of the

n. paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 28 (1) or in Article 61 (1),

provided that the value of the refund is equal to or greater than € 25, as well as

when the credit to your favour exceeds 25 times the monthly minimum consideration,

rounded up to the immediately lower hundred euros, this being

reduced value for half in the following situations:

a) [...];

b) [...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-The Minister of Finance may authorize the Directorate General of Taxes to

carry out reimbursements under conditions other than those established in the

previous figures, in relation to sectors of activity whose volume of

business is constituted essentially by operations provided for in the (

b) of Article 20 (1) or in respect of which the obligation of

settlement of the tax is the responsibility of the acquirer.

10-[...].

11-[...].

12-[...].

13-[...].

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Article 23.

1-When the taxable person, in the exercise of his or her activity, carries out

operations that confer right to deduction and operations that do not confer

that right, pursuant to Article 20, the deduction of tax borne in the

acquisition of goods and services that are used in the realization of both

types of operations is determined as follows:

a) Dealing with a good or service partially affection to the realization

of operations not arising from the exercise of an activity

economic as provided for in ( a) of Article 2 (1), the tax shall not

deductible as a result of this partial allocation is determined in the

terms of paragraph 2;

b) Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, dealing with a good

or service affection for the carrying out of operations arising from the financial year

of an economic activity provided for in ( a) of the Article 1 (1)

2., part of which shall not confer right to deduction, the tax is

deductible in the percentage corresponding to the annual amount of the

operations that give way to deduction.

2-Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph b) from the previous number, may the subject

liability to make the deduction according to the actual allocation of all or part of the

goods and services used, on the basis of objective criteria that allow

determine the degree of use of such goods and services in operations that

confers right to deduction and on operations that do not confer that right,

without prejudice to the Directorate-General for Taxes to come to impose conditions

special or to make a cessation of that procedure in the case of checking that

provoke or may cause significant distortions in taxation.

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3-[...].

4-A percentage deduction referred to in para. b) of paragraph 1 results from a

fraction that behaves, in the numerator, the annual amount, tax excluded,

of the transactions giving way to the deduction pursuant to Article 20 (1),

and, in the denominator, the annual amount, tax excluded, of all the

operations carried out by the taxable person arising from the exercise of a

economic activity provided for in ( a) of Article 2 (1), as well as

the untaxed grants that are not subsidies to the equipment.

5-[...].

6-A percentage deduction referred to in para. b) of paragraph 1, calculated

provisionally on the basis of the amount of the transactions carried out in the year

previous, as well as the deduction made pursuant to paragraph 2, calculated

provisionally on the basis of the objective criteria initially used

for application of the method of actual allocation, they are corrected according to

the definitive values referring to the year to which they report, originating in

corresponding regularization of the deductions made, which must appear

of the declaration of the last period of the year to which it relates.

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

Article 24.

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

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4-In the case of taxable persons who determine the right to deduction in the

the terms of Article 23 (2), the regularisation of deductions relating to the

goods referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 take place when the difference between the allocation

real of the good in the year of the beginning of its use and in each of the four or

nineteen subsequent calendar years, respectively, represent a

change in deductible VAT, for more or less, equal to or greater than €

250, the calculation method of which is provided for in the preceding paragraph, with

the due adaptations.

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-The regularizations provided for in paragraphs 3 and 4 shall not apply to the goods of the

immobilized asset of a unit value of less than € 2500, nor to those, in the

terms of the Regulatory Decree No. 2/90, of January 12, have a

period of useful life of less than five years.

8-[ Previous Article No 7 ].

Article 27.

1-Where to proceed to the liquidation of tax or interest

compensatory on the initiative of the services, without prejudice to the provisions of the

article 83, is the passive subject notified to carry out the respective

payment at the legally authorized collection places, at the time

referred to in the notification, and this may not be less than 30 days to be counted

of this notification.

2-In the case provided for in the preceding paragraph and the lack of payment on the deadline there

established, is extracted, by the Directorate General of Taxes, certision of

debt in the terms and for the purposes of the provisions of Article 88 of the Code of

Procedure and of the Tributal Process.

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3-[...].

4-[...].

5-The tax due in accordance with Article 7 (10) is paid,

simultaneously with the vehicle tax, together with the entities

competent for the respective collection.

6-The tax calculated in the terms of paragraphs 3 a to 5 is included, by the services

respective, with the corresponding budget classification, in the first

revenue guides that are processed, either for payment of the rights

of import, when due, or of the vehicle tax, either to

payment of the price of the snatching, sale or award, or for

payment of the costs, emoluments or other charges due, when

there is no price.

Article 39.

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) Other benefits of services whose value is less than € 10.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

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Article 40.

1-[...]:

a) Up to day 10 of the 2 th month following the one to which they respect the

operations, in the case of taxable persons with a turnover

equal to or greater than € 650000 in the previous calendar year;

b) By day 15 of the 2. month following the quarter of the calendar year to which

respect the operations, in the case of taxable persons with a volume

business of less than € 650000 in the previous calendar year.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 3, the change of periodicity only if

checks at the initiative of the Directorate General of Taxes, which, for the purpose,

notifies the taxable person of the date from which the said change of

periodicity produces effects.

9-[...].

Article 56.

1-[...].

2-They cannot benefit from the exemption scheme:

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a) In the 12 months following that of cessation, the taxable persons who,

being framed in a taxation regime at the date of cessation of

activity, reseton that or other activity;

b) In the year following that of the cessation, the taxable persons who reseton

that or other activity and that, if they had not declared the cessation,

would be framed, by virtue of the point a) of Article 58 (2), in the

normal regime.

Article 60.

1-Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 53 (2), the retailers who are

natural persons, do not possess nor are required to possess

accounting organized for IRS purposes and have not had in the calendar year

previous a volume of purchases higher than € 50000, to ascertain the tax

due to the state apply a coefficient of 25% to the value of tax

supported in the acquisitions of goods intended for sales without transformation.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

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Article 74.

The notifications referred to in Article 27 (1), in Article 34 (4), para.

8 of Article 40, Article 58 (4), Article 85 and Article 88 (4),

as well as the decisions referred to in Article 53 (3) and paragraph 4 of the

article 60, are carried out pursuant to the Code of Procedure and

Tax Process.

Article 83.

1-If the periodic declaration provided for in Article 40 is not submitted, the

Directorate-General for Taxes proceeds to the officious liquidation of the tax,

on the basis of the elements that it possesses.

2-The tax settled under the terms of the preceding paragraph shall be paid in the

legally authorized collection sites, at the time mentioned in the

notification, made by registered letter with notice of receipt, which

may not be less than 90 days counted since its submission.

3-In the lack of payment within the period referred to in the preceding paragraph, it is extracted

by the Directorate-General for Taxes certificate of debt, in the terms and for

effects of the provisions of Article 88 of the Code of Procedure and of

Tax Process.

4-[...].

5-Whether the tax ascertained under the terms of paragraph 1 or constant of certif

debt referred to in paragraph 3 has been paid for, the respective importance is

taking into account in the payment of the liquidations provided for in points a) and b)

of the previous number.

6-[...].

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Article 88.

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-A The Directorate General of Taxes does not carry out any liquidation, yet

which additional, when its quantitative is less than € 25, and the

same limit to be observed in the extraction of the expected debt certificates

in Article 26 (5), Article 27 (2) and paragraphs 3 and 6 of Article 83 (83)

6-[...]. "

Article 51.

Amendment to List I appends to the VAT Code

Appropriations 1.1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.5, 1.4.8, 2.17, 2.20, 2.20 and 2.21 of List I append to the Code of

VAT, approved by the Decree-Law No. 394-B/84 of December 26, pass to

following wording:

" 1.1.4-Food and similar dry pastes, excluding the masses

stuffed.

1.4.1-Leite in nature, concentrated, sterilized, evaporated, pasteurized,

ultra-teurized, condensate, fermented, in blocks, powder or

granulated and cream.

1.4.5-Iogurts, including pasteurized yogurts.

1.4.8-Bebids and lacteed desserts.

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2.13-Spectacles, evidence and sports manifestations, practice of

physical and sports activities and other public amusements.

Excepted:

a) [...];

b) [...];

2.17-The endeavor of immovable property in which they are the owners of the work authorities

places, urban rehabilitation societies, associations of municipalities,

public bodies responsible for the public network of schools

secondary or associations and firefighters ' corporations, provided that,

in any case, the said works are directly contracted

with the contractor.

2.20-Prestations of services related to the cleaning of public roads,

as well as the collection, storage, transport, valorisation and

disposal of waste.

2.21-The endeavor of urban rehabilitation as defined in Article 1.

of Decree-Law No. 104/2004 of May 7, held in real estate or

in public spaces located in areas of urban rehabilitation

(critical areas of reclamation and urbanistic conversion, areas of

intervention of urban rehabilitation societies and others)

delimited in the legal terms. "

Article 52.

Amendment to List II appends to the VAT Code

Allocation 1.8 of List II appends to the VAT Code, approved by the Decree-Law No. 394-B/84,

of December 26, it is replaced by the following:

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" 1.8-Products prepared on the basis of meat, fish, vegetables or products

horticultural, stuffed pasta, pizas, sandes and soups, yet

presented in the state of freezing or pre-freezing and

ready-to-consume meals, in the ready-to-eat schemes and take or

with delivery to the domicile. "

Article 53.

Addition to List I appends to the VAT Code

They are added to List I attached to the VAT Code, approved by the Decree-Law No 394-B/84,

of December 26, appropriations 1.4.9, 2.1-A and 2.21-A with the following wording:

" 1.4.9-soy milk

2.1-A-Contribution to the audio-visual charged for funding the

public service broadcasting and television

2.21-A-The employs of real estate rehabilitation that, regardless

of the location, are carried out, within the framework of special support schemes,

financial or tax, the rehabilitation of buildings or under programmes

supported financially by the Institute of Housing and Rehabilitation

Urban, I. P. (IHRU, I. P.). "

Article 54.

Repeal of provisions of the VAT Code

Article 16 (7) of the VAT Code is repealed, approved by the Decree-Law No

394-B/84, of December 26, and the appropriation 1.1.1. of List II appends to the same Code.

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Article 55.

Changes to the VAT Regime in Intra-Community Transactions

Articles 17 and 22 of the VAT Regime in Intra-Community Transactions,

abbreviately designated by RITI, approved by the Decree-Law No. 290/92, of 28 of

December, shall be replaced by the following:

" Article 17.

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-In the intra-Community acquisitions of goods subject to special taxes of

consumption or vehicle tax, taxable value is determined

with inclusion of these taxes, albeit unsettled simultaneously.

4-[...].

Article 22.

1-Without prejudice to the provisions of the following numbers, the amount of tax

required, to be delivered in accordance with Article 26 (1) of the VAT Code,

shall be ascertained having also in consideration the provisions of the article

19 and in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 20.

2-The taxable persons mentioned in the ( b) and c) of Article 2 (1)

must pay at the legally authorized collection places the tax that

show due to the intra-Community acquisitions of goods that are not

means of transport new or goods which are subject to special taxes of

consumption by the end of the month following the one in which the tax becomes

demanded.

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3-Private individuals and the taxable persons referred to in points a) , b) and c) of paragraph 1

of Article 2 that do not possess the status of registered operator, according to

with the Tax Code on Vehicles, must pay the tax due

by the intra-Community acquisitions of new means of transport

tax on vehicles from the competent entities for charging

of this tax.

4-The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall also apply to taxable persons

referred to in points b) and c) of Article 2 (1) and private individuals who

carry out intra-Community acquisitions of new means of transport, not

subject to vehicle tax.

5-[...].

6-[...]:

a) Simultaneously with the vehicle tax or with the taxes

consumption special, when they are due;

b) [...]. "

Article 56.

Amendment to the waiver Regime to the exemption of VAT in the transactions relating to

real estate

Articles 2 and 5 of the Scheme of the waiver of VAT exemption in transactions relating to goods

real estate, approved by the Decree-Law No. 21/2007 of January 29, go on to the following

wording:

" Article 2.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

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b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) In the case of leasing, the value of the annual rent is equal to or greater than

twenty-five avos of the value of acquisition or construction of the real estate.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

Article 5.

[...]

1-A waiver of the exemption only operates at the time it is entered into the

contract for purchase and sale or leasing of the real estate, or, in the case of

financial leasing contract relating to real estate to be built, at the moment

where the lessor takes possession of the immovable, provided that the taxable person is

in the possession of a valid waiver certificate and continue to check

at that time the conditions for the waiver of the exemption set out in the

present regime.

2-[...].

3-[...]. "

Article 57.

Tourism regions and tourism joints

1-A transfer to VAT title intended for tourism regions and tourism joints, or

to the entities that will succeed them, is EUR 20 million.

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2-A revenue to be transferred under the previous number is distributed on the basis of criteria a

fix by joint dispatch of the members of the Government responsible for the areas of

local administration, finance and tourism.

Section II

Selo Tax

Article 58.

Amendment to the Selo Tax Code

The 26.3 appropriation of the General Table of the Selo Tax Code of the Selo Tax Code,

is approved by Law No. 150/99 of September 11, it is replaced by the following:

" 26.3-Increase of the social capital of a capital society by the

entry of goods of any kind, except cash, on the actual value

of the goods of any nature, delivered or to be delivered by the associates, after

deduction of the assumed obligations and burdens borne by the society

as a consequence of each entry .......................................... 0.4% "

CHAPTER VIII

Special Taxes

Section I

Excise Taxes

Article 59.

Amendment to the Code of Excise Taxes

Articles 27, 52, 57, 58, 71, 71, 73, 74, 83, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85.

The one of the Code of Special Consumption Taxes, abbreviated by Code

of the IEC, approved by the Decree-Law No. 566/99 of December 22, go on

following wording:

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" Article 27.

[...]

1-[...].

2-The merchant on the individual behalf or any of the managers or

administrators, in the case of a legal person, must still declare under

commitment of honor not to have been sentenced, in the three years prior to the

application, for the practice of crime against the economy or public health or of

customs tax or customs tax contracting crime, punishy with

coima equal to or greater than € 4,987.98.

3-[ Previous Article No 2 ] .

4-[ Previous Article No 3 ] .

Article 52.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...]:

a) More than 0.5% vol. and less than or equal to 1.2% vol. of alcohol

acquired-€ 6 ,74 /hl;

b) More than 1.2% vol. of alcohol purchased and less than or equal to 8. th

Plato-€ 8 ,44 /hl;

c) More than 1.2% vol. of alcohol purchased and more than 8. and lower or

equal to 11. Plato-€ 13 ,48 /hl;

d) More than 1.2% vol. of alcohol purchased and more than 11. and lower

or equal to 13. Plato-€ 16 ,88 /hl;

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e) More than 1.2% vol. of alcohol purchased and more than 13. and lower

or equal to 15. Plato-€ 20 ,23 /hl;

f) More than 1.2% vol. of alcohol purchased and more than 15. Plato-€

23 ,67 /hl.

Article 55.

[...]

1-[...].

2-A The tax rate applicable to intermediate products is € 56 ,89 /hl.

Article 57.

[...]

1-[...].

2-A The tax rate applicable to spirit drinks is € 976 ,92 /hl.

Article 58.

[...]

[...]:

a) Liqueurs, as defined in ( r) of Article 1 (4) of the

Council Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89 of May 29,

produced from fruits and plants of the Region;

b) [...].

Article 66.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

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b) [ Repealed ];

c) [...];

d) [...].

2-For application of the provisions of the paragraph a) of the preceding paragraph, considers itself,

notably, grounded:

a) [ Repealed ];

b) [...];

c) [...];

3-[ Revoked ].

4-[ Revoked ].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

Article 71.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) They are provided with a view to their consumption in the air navigation,

with the exception of private recreational aviation;

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [...];

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f) They are provided with a view to their consumption in premises

subject to the National Issuance Licence Allocation Plan

(PNALE) including the new facilities or an Agreement of

Rationalization of Energy Consumption (ARCE) as far as it is concerned

to petroleum and energy products classified by the codes

NC 2701, 2702 and 2704, to fuel oil with an equal sulphur content or

less than 1%, classified by CN code 2710 19 61 and gases of

oil classified by CN code 2711;

g) [...];

h) [...];

i) [...];

j) [...];

l) [...].

2-[...].

3-For the purpose of application of the b) of paragraph 1, is understood by " aviation of

private recreation ", the use of an aircraft by its owner or by

a natural or legal person who may use it upon hire or the

another title, for non-commercial purposes and, in particular, for purposes other than

are the transport of persons or goods or the provision of services

the onerous title or in the interest of the public authorities.

4-[ Previous Article No 3 ].

5-[ Previous Article No 4 ].

6-[ Previous Article No 5 ].

7-[ Previous Article No 6 ].

8-[ Previous Article No 7 ].

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Article 71-The

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-The value of the exemption provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be fixed by porterie between

the minimum limit of € 280.00 and the maximum of € 300.00 per 1000 l, for

the substitute biofuel of diesel and between the minimum limit of € 400.00

and the maximum limit of € 420.00 for each 1000 l, for the biofuel

substitute for gasoline.

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

10-[...].

Article 72.

[...]

1-[...].

2-For petroleum and energy products classified by CN position

2711, with the exception of natural gas, and by CN codes 2701, 2702, 2704,

2710 19 61 a 2710 19 69, 2710 19 81 a 19 99 99 and 3811 21 00 a 3811 90

00, the taxable unit is 1000 kg.

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3-A The taxable unit of natural gas is the gigajoule.

Article 73, para.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-A rate applicable to methane and oil gases used as a carburant

is € 108 ,78/1000 kg and, when used as fuel, is fixed between

€ 7.81 and € 9 ,00 /1000kg, being equally applicable to acetylene used

as fuel.

4-A The rate applicable to natural gas used as a carburetor is €

2 ,78 /gigajoule.

5-[...].

6-A rate applicable to petroleum and energy products rated by the

positions NC 2701, 2702 and 2704 is fixed between € 4.16 and € 35.00 / 1000 kg.

7-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [...];

f) [...];

g) With the rate of between € 100.00 and € 200 ,00/1000 l, the diesel

of heating sorted by CN code 2710 19 45.

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8-A the setting of the tax rates on petroleum products and

energy referred to in the final part of paragraph 3, in paragraph 6 and in points e) , f) and g)

from the previous number, is done by joint portery of the members of the government

responsible for the areas of finance and the economy.

9-[...].

10-[...].

11-[...].

Article 74.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [...];

f) Autonomous refrigerant engines, installed in heavy vehicles of

transport of perishable goods, fed by deposits of

separate fuel, and that they possess ATP certification (Agreement of

Perishable Transport), in the terms to be defined in joint portaria

of the members of Government responsible for the areas of finance, of the

transport and agriculture.

4-[...].

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5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

Article 83.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...]:

a) Specific element-€ 64.75;

b) [...].

5-[...].

Article 84.

[...]

[...]:

a) Cigars 12.25%;

b) Cigarillos 12.25%;

c) Fine-cut tobacco intended for cigarettes from enrolling 45.10%,

d) Remaining smoking tobacco 41.45%.

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Article 85.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) Specific element-€ 9.28;

b) [...].

2-[...].

Article 86-The

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-The quantities of cigarettes that exceed the quantitative limit referred to in the

n. 5 shall be subject to the payment of the tax at the rate in force on the date of

presentation of the declaration of clearance when such excess is

proven by the confrontation of its elements with those processed by the

administration, without prejudice to the infringement procedure to which there is

place. "

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Article 60.

Addition to the IEC Code

It is added to the IEC Code, approved by the Decree-Law No. 566/99 of December 22,

the Article 10-A, with the following wording:

" Article 10.

Minimum threshold

There is no place for collection when, by virtue of liquidation carried out, the

importance to be charged is less than € 10. "

Article 61.

Revocation of provisions of the IEC

The subparagraph shall be repealed. b) of paragraph 1, paragraph 1 a) of paragraph 2 and paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 66 of the

IEC Code, approved by the Decree-Law No. 566/99 of December 22.

Section II

Tax on petroleum and energy products

Article 62.

Tax rates on petroleum and energy products

1-Pursuant to the provisions of Article 73 (1) of the Code of Special Taxs of

Consumption, the values of the unitary tax rates applicable on the continent to the

products listed in paragraph 2 are set by the office of the ministers responsible for the

areas of finance and the economy, taking into consideration the different impacts

environmental of each of the petroleum and energy products, favoring

gradually the least polluting.

2-For the purposes of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the fixation, or the respective amendment, is

carried out within the following ranges:

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Product

Tax Rate NC Code

(in euros)

Maximum Minimum

Petrol with lead ......... 2710 11 51 a 2710 11 59 650.00 650.00

Unleaded gasoline ......... 2710 11 41 a 2710 11 49 359.00 650.00

Oil ......................... 2710 19 21 a 2710 19 25 302.00 339.18

Colored oil and marked .. 2710 19 25 0.00 149.64

Gasoil ......................... 2710 19 41 a 2710 19 49 278.00 400.00

Colored diesel and marked .. 2710 19 41 a 2710 19 49 21.00 199.52

Fueloil with sulphur content

higher than 1% ............................

2710 19 63 a 2710 19 69

15.00

34.92

Fueloil with sulphur content

less than or equal to 1% .................

2710 19 61

15.00

29.93

3-For the purposes of the provisions of Article 75 (1) of the said Code, the values of the fees

tax unitary applicable on the Island of São Miguel to the products listed below

are set by resolution of the Council of the Regional Government, and may be amended

within the following ranges:

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Product

Tax Rate NC Code

(in euros)

Maximum Minimum

Petrol with lead ......... 2710 11 51 a 2710 11 59 650.00 650.00

Unleaded gasoline ......... 2710 11 41 a 2710 11 49 359.00 650.00

Oil ......................... 2710 19 21 a 2710 19 25 49.88 339.18

Gasoil ......................... 2710 19 41 a 2710 19 49 49.88 400.00

Agricultural gasoil ............... 2710 19 41 a 2710 19 49 21.00 199.52

Fueloil with sulphur content

higher than 1% ............................

2710 19 63 a 2710 19 69

0.00

34.92

Fueloil with sulphur content

less than or equal to 1% .................

2710 19 61

0.00

29.93

4-For the purposes of the provisions of Article 76 of the said Code, the values of the fees

Tax unitary in the Autonomous Region of Madeira to the products referred to

in paragraph 2 shall be fixed by porterie of the competent member of the Regional Government,

may be changed within the intervals set in the same number.

Article 63.

Additional to the rates of the tax on petroleum and energy products

1-Maintains in force in 2008 the additional to the tax rates on products

oil and energy, in the amount of € 0.005 per litre for petrol and in the

amount of € 0.0025 per litre for road diesel and colourful diesel and

marked, which constitutes own revenue from the permanent financial fund

provided for in Decree-Law No. 63/2004 of March 22 up to the maximum limit of 30

million euros annually.

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2-The additional one referred to in the preceding paragraph integrates the values of the unitary rates

set in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 of the preceding Article.

Section III

Tax on vehicles

Article 64.

Amendment to the Tax Code on Vehicles

1-Articles 7, 8, 34, 35, 51, 52, and 53, 52 and 53 of the Tax Code on

Vehicles, abbreviately designated by ISV Code, approved by Law No. 22-

A/2007 of June 29 shall be replaced by the following:

" Article 7.

1-[...]:

TABLE A

Cylinder Component

Rank of Cylinder

(in cubic centimeters)

Fees by

centimeters

cubic

(in euros)

Parcel to

Abater

(in euros)

Up to 1250 .................................... 0.90 670.00

More than 1250 .............................. 4.25 4857.50

Environmental Component

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Step of CO2

(in grams per kilometre)

Fees

(in euros)

Parcel to

Abater

(in euros)

Vehicles to Gasoline

Up to 120 ......................................... 5.00 475.00

From 121 a to 150 .................................. 33.00 3835.00

From 151 a to 180 ................................... 40.00 4885.00

From 181 a to 210 .................................. 85.00 12985.00

More than 210 ...................................... 115.00 19285.00

Vehicles to Gasoil

Up to 105 ......................................... 15.00 to 1100.00

From 106 a to 130 .................................. 55.00 5300.00

From 131 a to 150 .................................. 105.00 11800.00

From 151 a to 180 .................................. 122.00 14350.00

More than 180 ................................... 160.00 21190.00

2-[...]:

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TABLE B

Cylinder Component

Rank of Cylinder

(in cubic centimeters)

Fees by

centimeters

cubic

(in euros)

Parcel to

Abater

(in euros)

Up to 1250 .................................... 3.91 2525.10

More than 1250 .............................. 9.25 9199.88

3-The light vehicles equipped with gasoil propulsion system, which

present levels of particulate emissions of less than 0.005 g/km,

constants of the respective certificates of conformity, or in their

inexistence, in their respective technical approvals, benefit from a

reduction of € 500 in the total amount of tax payable, after

applied the reductions to which there is place.

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

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Article 8.

[...]

1-[...].

2-An intermediate fee is applicable, corresponding to 55% of the tax

resulting from the application of Table B referred to in paragraph 2 of the previous article,

to the following vehicles:

a) [...];

b) [...].

3-[...].

Article 23.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-A Directorate-General for Customs and Special Taxes on the

Consumption to inform the National Public Procurement Agency,

E. P. E., of the situation of the vehicles, within the maximum of five days, for which

this is pronounced on the interest of its allocation to the state park

pursuant to the Decree-Law No. 31/85 of January 25, proceeding to

Directorate General for Customs and Special Taxes on the

Consumption at your sale or by communicating to the entity that superintending the

process that nothing obstinates for sale, whenever the National Agency of

Public procurement, E. P. E., pronouns itself in a negative sense.

4-[...].

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5-When the vehicle does not gather the necessary conditions for its integration in the

car heritage of the State and posits seniority over 10 years

or when the National Agency for Public Procurement, E. P. E., has

valued at less than € 1000, the General Directorate of Customs and the

Excise Taxes on Consumption can determine its destruction

through registered operator enabled for the management of vehicles in an end

of life (VFV) free of burden or charges of any nature to the erarium

public.

Article 34.

[...]

1-[...].

2-By way of derogation from the provisions of the a) of Article 30 (1), may

still benefit from the temporary admission scheme the workers

cross-border that resides in Spain with the respective household

familiar and who loophs daily on the round-trip path between the

your residence and the place of work, located in the locality of the territory

national up to 60 Km of the border, as long as the household does not

has housing in this national territory.

3-[...].

4-[...].

Article 35.

[...]

1-[...].

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2-A The application of the scheme depends on the submission of the application to the Directorate-

General of Customs and Excise Taxes on Consumption, in the

maximum period of one year after the start of duties on national territory,

accompanied by document issued by the competent entities

proof of the quality and status of the person concerned and the titles

definitive of the automobile.

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-Decorrids at least four years on the date of assignment of the

first privileged matriculation certificate to the vehicle, or, elapsed

lower term, in case they were regularized under the terms of the article

33., the officials and agents of the European Communities and

European parliamentarians, they can proceed to the replacement of the vehicle, with

suspension of tax, for another acquired in the national market or in

market of another member state, taking place on the issue of new

registration certificate and allocation of new matriculation by the Service of the

Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

6-The officials and agents of the European Communities, who reside in

Portugal at the date of commencement of duties, enjoy the faculty of use of

registration certificate for the vehicle of which they are owners and can

access the scheme provided for in the preceding paragraph, four years after that start.

7-[...].

8-When the officials and agents of the European Communities and

European parliamentarians wish to introduce in the consumption the vehicles

before the four-year term has elapsed, a percentage of the

imposed in accordance with the following table, save if the scheme by the introduction

in the consumption is more favourable, in which case it is the applicable one:

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Years from the entrance of the vehicle in Portugal:

In the course of the first year: the whole;

In the 2. th year: 75%

In the 3. th year: 50%

In the 4. the year: 25%.

Article 36.

[...]

1-[...].

2-Vehicles must be purchased, admitted or imported

temporarily, within the maximum period of one year after the arrival of the

interested in the national territory, and are registered in the Services of the

Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on behalf of the

officials to which they belong, considering themselves in the regime while

to maintain the effective service of the entities referred to in the preceding paragraph.

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-When the entities or persons covered by this article wish to

introduce in the consumption the vehicles before the deadline of four

years, a percentage of the tax is required according to the following

table, save if the scheme by the introduction in consumption is more favourable,

case in which this is the applicable:

Years from the entrance of the vehicle in Portugal:

In the course of the first year: the whole;

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In the 2. th year: 75%

In the 3. th year: 50%

In the 4. the year: 25%.

7-Vehicles introduced in consumption under the terms of this Article

may be replaced a single time by other vehicles to be acquired in

suspension of tax in the national or other market of another

Member state, within a maximum period of six months, taking place at

issue of new registration certificate and allocation of new matriculation

by the Service of the Protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

except if they respect the diplomatic or consular mission, in which case they do not

there are limits to the respective replacement.

Article 51.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) The vehicles declared lost or abandoned in favour of the State

or acquired by the National Agency for Public Procurement, E. P. E.;

d) [...].

2-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

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c) Copy of the sentence or decision that determined the loss or abandonment

of the car, as well as the declaration of its allocation or acquisition by the

National Public Purchasing Agency, E. P. E., in the case referred to in the

point ( c) of the previous number;

d) [...]

3-[...].

Article 52.

[...]

1-Are exempt from the tax the vehicles for collective transport of users

with lotation of nine places, including that of the driver, acquired by title

onerous, in a new state, by legal persons of public utility and

particular institutions of social solidarity that are intended for the

transport in activities of public interest and to show appropriate

to their nature and purposes.

2-[...].

3-[...].

Article 53.

Taxis and vehicles allocated to the rental activity

1-The passenger cars and mixed-use cars that are intended

to the rental service with driver-cabs, letter "A" and letter "T",

introduced in consumption and present up to four years of use,

counted since the assignment of the first matriculation and the respective

documents, benefit from an exemption corresponding to 70% of the

amount of tax.

2-[...].

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3-[...].

4-[...]

5-The unforeseen passenger cars and mixed-use cars

in Articles 8 and 9, new, which are intended for the exercise of activities of

renting without a driver, benefit, in the introduction on consumption, of a

reduction corresponding to 50% of the tax amount, under the conditions

following:

a) The vehicles must possess an emission level of CO2 by 160

g / Km, confirmed by the respective certificate of conformity;

b) The beneficiary companies are to be licensed for the

exclusive exercise of car rental activity;

c) The vehicles subject to tax reduction cannot be rented

or ceded by term of more than three months to a same person or

entity, for a period of twelve consecutive months, nor

may be the subject, in the period of bonuses, of rent or assignment to

people or legal entities or economically linked to the

beneficiary entity;

d) The rentals must be titled by contract, and the vehicles must

circular accompanied by document issued by the locator, which

identify the lessee, the residence, and the period of time of rental

of the vehicle.

6-The status of beneficiary entity requires prior enrolment in the

Directorate General for Customs and Special Taxes on the

Consumption, instructed with copy of the alvshall for the exercise of the activity and

proof of the quality of the society-made form of the passive subject, the

reductions in tax for vehicles required through form

own, previous or concomitant to the presentation of the DAV. "

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Article 65.

Tax incentive for the slaughter of light automobiles in end of life

The tax incentive for the destruction of light automobiles in end of life provided for in the Decree-

Law No. 292-A/2000 of November 15, as amended by Decree-Law No. 33/2007, of 15 of

February, it remains in effect until December 31, 2008.

Section IV

Single Tax of Circulation

Article 66.

Amendment to the Code of Single Circulation Tax

Articles 2, 5, 7, 11, 12, 14, 14 and 15 of the Single-Circulation Code of Circulation,

abbreviately designated by IUC Code, passed by Law No. 22-A/2007, 29 of

June, they shall be replaced by the following:

" Article 2.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) Category E: Motorcycles, cyclomotors, tricycles and quadricycles, such

how these vehicles are defined by the Road Code,

enrolled since 1992;

f) [...];

g) [...].

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2-[...].

Article 5.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-A exemption provided for in paragraph a) of paragraph 2 can only be enjoyed by each

beneficiary in relation to a vehicle and is recognized, annually, in

any finance service, save if the information regarding disability

is already from the knowledge of the tax administration, through the

fulfillment of other declarative or proven obligations undertaken

less than two years ago.

6-[...].

7-[...].

Article 7.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) As for the vehicles of the E category, the cylinder and the seniority of the

tuition.

110

e) [...];

f) [...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

Article 10.

[...]

[...]:

Step of

Cylinder

(in centimeters

cubic)

Fees

(in euros)

Step of CO2

(in grams per

kilometre)

Fees

(in euros)

Up to 1250 25.50 Up to 120 51.10

More than 1250 until

1750 51.10 More from 120 up to 180 76.60

More than 1750 until

2500 102.10 More from 180 up to 250 153.20

Over 2500 to 306.30 More than 250 255.30

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Article 11.

[...]

[...]:

Gross weight scales Annual rates

(in kilograms) (in Euros)

Up to 2500 ............................................. 28.00

2501 a 3500 ......................................... 46.00

3501 a 7500 ......................................... 108.00

7501 a 11999 ....................................... 177.00

Vehicles of Gross Peso <at 12 t

2 AXES

12000 191.00 198.00 177.00 185.00 169.00 163.00 169.00 161.00 167.00 167.00

12001 a 12999 272.00 320.00 253.00 297.00 284.00 232.00 273.00 230.00 271.00 271.00

13000 a 14999 275.00 324.00 255.00 301.00 288.00 235.00 277.00 233.00 275.00 275.00

15000 a 17999 306.00 341.00 285.00 318.00 303.00 261.00 291.00 259.00 289.00 289.00

> = 18000 388.00 432.00 362.00 402.00 383.00 332.00 368.00 329.00 365.00 365.00

3 AXES

<15000 191.00 272.00 177.00 252.00 169.00 162.00 232.00 161.00 230.00 230.00

15000 a 16999 269.00 304.00 250.00 283.00 271.00 229.00 259.00 228.00 257.00 257.00

17000 a 17999 269.00 311.00 250.00 289.00 276.00 229.00 265.00 228.00 262.00 262.00

18000 a 18999 350.00 387.00 325.00 360.00 343.00 298.00 330.00 295.00 327.00 327.00

19000 a 20999 351.00 387.00 327.00 360.00 347.00 299.00 330.00 297.00 331.00 331.00

21000 a 22999 353.00 392.00 328.00 364.00 390.00 301.00 333.00 298.00 371.00 371.00

> = 23000 395.00 439.00 367.00 408.00 390.00 336.00 374.00 334.00 371.00 371.00

> = 4 AXES

<23000 270.00 302.00 251.00 281.00 239.00 230.00 257.00 228.00 255.00 255.00

23000 a 24999 341.00 384.00 318.00 358.00 341.00 291.00 328.00 289.00 325.00 325.00

25000 a 25999 350.00 387.00 325.00 360.00 343.00 298.00 330.00 295.00 327.00 327.00

26000 a 26999 642.00 728.00 597.00 677.00 646.00 547.00 620.00 542.00 615.00 615.00

27000 a 28999 651.00 745.00 606.00 694.00 662.00 556.00 637.00 550.00 630.00 630.00

> = 29000 668.00 755.00 622.00 703.00 671.00 570.00 645.00 566.00 640.00 640.00

Annual fees (in Euros) Annual rates (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros)

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

Weight scales

gross (in

kilograms)

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

With another type

of suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

Motor vehicles of gross weight> = 12 t

Year of 1ª matriculation

Up to 1990 (inclusivé) Between 1991 and 1993 Between 1994 and 1996 Between 1997 and 1999 2000 and after

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2 + 1 AXES

12000 190.00 192.00 176.00 178.00 168.00 162.00 164.00 160.00 163.00 163.00

12001 a 17999 264.00 324.00 248.00 301.00 287.00 229.00 276.00 228.00 274.00 274.00

18000 a 24999 350.00 412.00 328.00 383.00 366.00 303.00 352.00 300.00 349.00 349.00

25000 a 25999 379.00 422.00 356.00 394.00 375.00 328.00 361.00 326.00 358.00 358.00

> = 26000 705.00 776.00 662.00 722.00 689.00 303.00 661.00 606.00 656.00 656.00

2 + 2 AXES

<23000 261.00 299.00 246.00 279.00 235.00 227.00 255.00 226.00 253.00 253.00

23000 a 25999 337.00 382.00 317.00 356.00 339.00 292.00 326.00 290.00 323.00 323.00

26000 a 30999 643.00 733.00 603.00 682.00 651.00 557.00 625.00 551.00 620.00 620.00

31000 a 32999 695.00 752.00 652.00 700.00 668.00 602.00 642.00 597.00 637.00 637.00

> = 33000 740.00 892.00 695.00 830.00 792.00 642.00 761.00 637.00 754.00 754.00

2 + 3 AXES

<36000 655.00 737.00 614.00 686.00 586.00 568.00 628.00 563.00 623.00 623.00

36000 a 37999 723.00 784.00 679.00 735.00 702.00 626.00 679.00 621.00 673.00 673.00

> = 38000 749.00 882.00 702.00 827.00 789.00 649.00 764.00 644.00 757.00 757.00

3 + 2 AXES

<36000 654.00 720.00 613.00 669.00 585.00 566.00 614.00 562.00 609.00 609.00

36000 a 37999 669.00 762.00 628.00 709.00 677.00 580.00 650.00 575.00 645.00 645.00

38000 a 39999 670.00 810.00 629.00 753.00 719.00 581.00 691.00 576.00 685.00 685.00

> = 40000 781.00 1003.00 733.00 935.00 892.00 677.00 856.00 671.00 850.00 850.00

> = 3 + 3 AXES

<36000 607.00 719.00 569.00 668.00 543.00 526.00 613.00 521.00 608.00 608.00

36000 a 37999 715.00 794.00 671.00 739.00 705.00 620.00 678.00 615.00 671.00 671.00

38000 a 39999 723.00 808.00 678.00 751.00 718.00 625.00 689.00 620.00 684.00 684.00

> = 40000 739.00 821.00 693.00 764.00 729.00 641.00 700.00 634.00 695.00 695.00

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros)

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

Weight scales

gross (in

kilograms)

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic

or

equivalent

Articulated vehicles and vehicle assemblies

Year of 1ª matriculation

Up to 1990 (inclusivé) Between 1991 and 1993 Between 1994 and 1996 Between 1997 and 1999 2000 and after

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Article 12.

[...]

[...]:

Gross weight scales Annual rates

(in kilograms) (in Euros)

in Kg in Euro

Up to 2500 ...................................... 16.00

2501a3500 .................................. 27.00

3501 a 7500 ................................ 61.00

7501a 11999 .................................... 103.00

Vehicles of Gross Peso <at 12 t

2 AXES

12000 119.00 123.00 112.00 115.00 107.00 103.00 106.00 102.00 105.00 105.00

12001 a 12999 140.00 181.00 131.00 170.00 162.00 121.00 157.00 120.00 156.00 156.00

13000 a 14999 142.00 182.00 133.00 171.00 163.00 123.00 158.00 122.00 156.00 156.00

15000 a 17999 173.00 251.00 162.00 235.00 225.00 150.00 217.00 148.00 216.00 216.00

> = 18000 203.00 317.00 190.00 298.00 284.00 176.00 275.00 174.00 273.00 273.00

3 AXES

<15000 118.00 143.00 111.00 134.00 106.00 102.00 124.00 101.00 123.00 123.00

15000 a 16999 142.00 184.00 133.00 172.00 164.00 123.00 159.00 122.00 158.00 158.00

17000 a 17999 142.00 184.00 133.00 172.00 164.00 123.00 159.00 122.00 158.00 158.00

18000 a 18999 170.00 242.00 160.00 227.00 217.00 148.00 210.00 146.00 208.00 208.00

19000 a 20999 170.00 242.00 160.00 227.00 217.00 148.00 210.00 146.00 208.00 208.00

21000 a 22999 172.00 259.00 161.00 243.00 232.00 149.00 224.00 148.00 222.00 222.00

> = 23000 258.00 323.00 242.00 303.00 289.00 224.00 279.00 222.00 277.00 277.00

> = 4 AXES

<23000 142.00 180.00 133.00 169.00 127.00 123.00 156.00 122.00 155.00 155.00

23000 a 24999 199.00 240.00 187.00 226.00 215.00 173.00 208.00 171.00 207.00 207.00

25000 a 25999 228.00 264.00 214.00 248.00 236.00 197.00 229.00 196.00 227.00 227.00

26000 a 26999 369.00 462.00 346.00 433.00 414.00 320.00 400.00 317.00 397.00 397.00

27000 a 28999 371.00 463.00 348.00 435.00 415.00 321.00 401.00 319.00 398.00 398.00

> = 29000 418.00 624.00 392.00 586.00 559.00 362.00 541.00 359.00 536.00 536.00

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros)

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

Gross weight scales

(in kilograms)

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

Motor vehicles of gross weight> = 12 t

Year of 1ª matriculation

Up to 1990 (inclusivé) Between 1991 and 1993 Between 1994 and 1996 Between 1997 and 1999 2000 and after

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2 + 1 AXES

12000 117.00 118.00 110.00 110.00 105.00 102.00 102.00 101.00 101.00 101.00

12001 a 17999 140.00 179.00 131.00 168.00 160.00 121.00 155.00 120.00 154.00 154.00

18000 a 24999 180.00 237.00 169.00 222.00 212.00 156.00 205.00 155.00 203.00 203.00

25000 a 25999 228.00 336.00 214.00 315.00 300.00 198.00 291.00 196.00 288.00 288.00

> = 26000 344.00 461.00 323.00 433.00 413.00 298.00 399.00 296.00 396.00 396.00

2 + 2 AXES

<23000 140.00 179.00 131.00 168.00 125.00 121.00 155.00 120.00 154.00 154.00

23000 a 24999 169.00 226.00 159.00 212.00 202.00 146.00 196.00 145.00 195.00 195.00

25000 a 25999 197.00 239.00 185.00 224.00 214.00 171.00 207.00 169.00 205.00 205.00

26000 a 28999 284.00 398.00 266.00 373.00 357.00 246.00 344.00 244.00 342.00 342.00

29000 a 30999 341.00 455.00 320.00 427.00 408.00 295.00 394.00 293.00 391.00 391.00

31000 a 32999 404.00 534.00 379.00 501.00 478.00 350.00 462.00 347.00 459.00 459.00

> = 33000 537.00 627.00 503.00 588.00 562.00 465.00 543.00 461.00 539.00 539.00

2 + 3 AXES

<36000 395.00 454.00 370.00 426.00 353.00 342.00 393.00 339.00 390.00 390.00

36000 a 37999 423.00 595.00 397.00 558.00 533.00 366.00 516.00 363.00 511.00 511.00

> = 38000 582.00 644.00 546.00 605.00 577.00 504.00 558.00 500.00 554.00 554.00

3 + 2 AXES

<36000 335.00 391.00 314.00 367.00 300.00 290.00 338.00 288.00 336.00 336.00

36000 a 37999 402.00 525.00 377.00 492.00 470.00 349.00 455.00 346.00 451.00 451.00

38000 a 39999 527.00 618.00 495.00 580.00 554.00 457.00 536.00 453.00 531.00 531.00

> = 40000 729.00 850.00 684.00 797.00 761.00 632.00 736.00 627.00 730.00 730.00

> = 3 + 3 AXES

<36000 279.00 363.00 262.00 340.00 250.00 242.00 314.00 240.00 312.00 312.00

36000 a 37999 366.00 455.00 344.00 427.00 408.00 317.00 394.00 315.00 391.00 391.00

38000 a 39999 427.00 460.00 401.00 431.00 412.00 370.00 398.00 367.00 395.00 395.00

> = 40000 439.00 622.00 412.00 584.00 557.00 380.00 539.00 377.00 535.00 535.00

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros) Annual fees (in Euros)

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

Gross weight scales

(in kilograms)

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

With another

type of

suspension

With

suspension

pneumatic or

equivalent

Articulated vehicles and vehicle assemblies

Year of 1ª matriculation

Up to 1990 (inclusivé) Between 1991 and 1993 Between 1994 and 1996 Between 1997 and 1999 2000 and after

Article 14.

[...]

The rate applicable to vehicles of category F is € 2 ,05 / kW.

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Article 15.

[...]

The rate applicable to vehicles of category G is € 0 ,51 /kg, having the tax o

upper limit of € 10000. "

CHAPTER IX

Local Taxes

Section I

Municipal Tax on Real Estate

Article 67.

Amendment to the Municipal Tax Code on Real Estate

Article 93 of the Municipal Tax Code on Real estate, abbreviately designated

by IMI Code, approved by the Decree-Law No. 287/2003 of November 12, passes

have the following wording:

" Article 93.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-The notaries and the conservatives of the predial record, whenever they intervene

in acts or contracts that require the presentation of the predial booklet

referred to in paragraph 1 relating to buildings subject to such acts, contracts or facts,

can get it by electronic means and deliver it, free of charge, to the subject

passive.

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5-In cases where the IMI model paragraph 1 is delivered for purposes

of urban building inscription or autonomous fraction in the matrix, the notaries

and the conservatives of the predial record who intervene in acts or

contracts that require your presentation, may obtain it by way of

electronics. "

Article 68.

Amendment to Decree-Law No 287/2003 of November 12

Article 25 of the Decree-Law No. 287/2003 of November 12, which approved the Code of the

IMI and the Municipal Tax Code on the Onerous Transmissions of Real Estate, passes the

have the following wording:

" Article 25.

[...]

1-[...]:

Year 2004-€ 60;

Year 2005-€ 75;

Year 2006-€ 90;

Year 2007-€ 105;

Year 2008-€ 120;

Year 2009-€ 135;

Year 2010-€ 150;

Year 2011-€ 165;

2-[...].

3-[ Revoked ].

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4-The provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall not apply:

a) To buildings that are the property of the entities referred to in paragraph 4

of Article 112 of the CIMI;

b) To the devoluted buildings referred to in Article 112 (3) of the CIMI. "

Article 69.

Repeal of standards within the framework of IMI

Article 25 (3) of the Decree-Law No. 287/2003 of November 12, which is repealed, is repealed

approved the IMI Code and the Municipal Tax Code on Transmissions

Onerous of Real Estate.

Section II

Municipal Tax on the Onerous Transmissions of Real Estate

Article 70.

Amendment to the Municipal Tax Code on the Onerous Transmissions of

Real estate

Articles 9, 11, 12, and 32 and 32 of the Municipal Tax Code on the

Onerous Transmissions of Real Estate, abbreviately designated by IMT Code,

approved by Decree-Law No. 287/2003 of November 12, they go on to the following

wording:

" Article 9.

[...]

They are exempted from the IMT the acquisitions of urban building or autonomous fraction of

urban building intended exclusively for own and permanent housing whose

value that would serve as a basis of the settlement does not exceed € 87,500.

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Article 11.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-Let them also benefit from exemption and reduction of expected fees

in Article 9 and in the paragraphs a) and b) of Article 17 (1), when the goods

is given destination other than the one in which he settled the benefit, at the time

of six years from the date of the acquisition, save in the case of sale.

8-[...].

Article 12.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...]:

1. th-[...].

2. th-[...].

3. th-[...].

119

4. th-[...].

5. th-[...].

6. th-[...].

7. th-[...].

8. th-[...].

9. th-[...].

10. th-[...].

11. th-[...].

12. th-[...].

13. th-[...].

14. th-[...].

15. th-[...].

16. th-[...].

17. th-[...].

18. th-[...].

19. th-[...].

20 th-The value of immovable property acquired under statutory schemes of

financial support for housing, when it comes to the first

transmission, is the value or the price set by the Institute of the

Housing and Urban Rehabilitation, I. P., on the terms

established in these regimes.

5-[...].

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Article 17.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...]:

Value on which focuses on IMT

In euros

Percentage rates

Marginal Average (*)

Up to 87500 0 0

From more than 87500 and up to 119700 2 0.5380

From more than 119700 and up to 163200 5 1.7273

From more than 163200 and up to 272000 7 3.8364

From more than 272000 and up to 543900 8

Higher than 543900 to 6 single rate

* At the upper limit of the step

b) [...]:

Value on which focuses on IMT

In euros

Percentage rates

Marginal Average (*)

Up to 87500 1 1.0000

From more than 87500 and up to 119700 2 1.2690

From more than 119700 and up to 163200 5 2.2635

From more than 163200 and up to 272000 7 4.1581

From more than 272000 and up to 521700 8

Higher than 521700 to 6 single rate

* At the upper limit of the step

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c) [...];

d) [...].

2-[...].

3-When, in respect of the acquisitions referred to in point a) of paragraph 1, the

value on which the tax is to be higher than € 87500, will be divided into

two parts, being an equal to the limit of the largest of the scales that in it

couber, to which the average rate corresponding to this step is applied, and another,

equal to the surplus, to which the marginal rate for the step is applied

immediately superior.

4-[...].

5-[...].

Article 32.

[...]

1-There is no place for payment whenever the amount of tax settled

is less than € 10 for each collection document that is to process.

2-The limit to which the preceding paragraph is concerned is raised to € 25 per each

collection document that is to process, in the cases of settlement

additional. "

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CHAPTER X

Tax Benefits

Section I

Status of Tax Benefits

Article 71.

Amendment to the Status of Tax Benefits

Articles 31, 39-A, 39.-B, 56.-D and 65 of the Status of Tax Benefits,

abbreviated abbreviated by EBF, approved by Decree-Law No. 215/89 of July 1,

shall be replaced by the following:

" Article 31.

Social shareholding companies (SGPS), venture capital companies

(SCR) and venture capital investors (ICR)

1-At SGPS, the SCR and the ICR shall apply to the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 5 of the article

46. of the IRC Code, without reliance on the requirements therein as to

to the percentage or the value of the participation.

2-The most-valuable and the less-valuable ones performed by the SGPS, the SCR and the

ICR of parts of capital of which they are holders, provided that they held by

period not less than one year, and, and thus the financial burden

supported with your acquisition, do not compete for the formation of the profit

taxable of these societies.

3-[...].

4-The SCR and the ICR can deduct the amount ascertained in the terms of the

point ( a) of Article 83 (1) of the IRC Code, and up to its competition,

an importance corresponding to the limit of the sum of the IRC collections

of the five previous exercises to the one that respects the benefit, provided that

be used in the realization of investments in companies with potential

of growth and valorisation.

123

5-[...].

Article 39-A

Elimination of the economic double taxation of profits distributed by corporations

residents in the Portuguese-speaking African countries and in the Democratic Republic of

Timor-Leste

1-A The deduction provided for in Article 46 (1) of the IRC Code shall apply

to profits distributed to entities resident by affiliated companies

residents in Portuguese-speaking African countries and in Timor-

East, as long as verified the following conditions:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...].

2-[...].

Article 39-B

1-[...]:

a) It is reduced to 15% the rate of the income tax of the people

collective (IRC), provided for in Article 80 (1) of the respective

Code, for entities whose main activity is located in the areas

beneficiary;

b) In the case of installation of new entities, whose main activity if

situate in the beneficiary areas, the rate referred to in the preceding paragraph is

reduced to 10% during the first five activity exercises;

c) [...];

d) [...].

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2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

Article 56-D

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [...];

f) [...];

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g) Educational establishments, vocational schools, artistic schools,

crèches, lactaries and kindergartens legally recognized by the

Ministry competent;

h) [...];

i) Public bodies of artistic production responsible for the

promotion of relevant public service projects in the areas of

theatre, music, opera and bailed.

7-Donations provided for in the preceding paragraph are taken at costs, in value

corresponding to:

a) 120% of the respective total;

b) 130%, when awarded under multiannual contracts

celebrated for specific purposes setting the objectives to be pursued

by the beneficiary entities and the amounts to be allocated by the subjects

liabilities;

c) 140%, when assigned to the crèches, lactaries and kindergartens

provided for in paragraph g) and for the entities referred to in paragraph i) from the

previous number.

8-[...].

9-[...].

10-[...].

11-[...].

12-[...].

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Article 65.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-The scheme referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 vigour for acquired real estate or

completed by December 31, 2011.

7-The present arrangements also apply to the business parks of the

Autonomous Region of Madeira, created and regulated by the Legislative Decree

Regional No 28 /2001/M of August 28 with the amendments introduced

by the Regional Legislative Decree No. 12 /2002/M of July 17. "

Article 72.

Addition to EBF

The Article 14 is added to the Status of Tax Benefits, approved by the Decree-Law

n ° 215/89 of July 1, with the following:

" Article 14.

Public capitalization regime

1-Are deductible to the IRS collection, under the terms and conditions laid down in the article

78. of the respective code, 20% of the applied values, by taxable person

unmarried, or by each of the spouses not judicially separated from

persons and goods, in individual accounts managed in public regime of

capitalization, having as a maximum limit € 350 per taxable person.

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2-For the sums paid under the public capitalization scheme is

applicable the scheme provided for in the IRS Code for lifetime reners. "

Article 73.

Repeal in the scope of the EBF

1-Is repealed Article 20 of the Tax Benefits Statute, approved by the Decree-

Law No. 215/89 of July 1.

2-A repeal of Article 20 of the Status of Tax Benefits shall be without prejudice to its

Application to the interest of deposits made in savings accounts-emigrant up to 31 of

December 2007.

Article 74.

Legislative authorization in the framework of the EBF

Is the Government authorized to amend Article 50 of the Status of Tax Benefits,

approved by Decree-Law No. 215/89 of July 1 to extend the scope of the

exemption from IRC to the generality of the managing companies of integrated management systems of

specific flows of waste, in the same terms and conditions established therein.

Section II

Various provisions in the scope of Tax Benefits

Article 75.

Addition to the Statute of the Scientific Mechanics, passed by the Law n.

26/2004, of July 8,

It is added to the Statute of the Scientific Mecenate, approved by Law No. 26/2004, 8 of

July, Article 11-To the following wording:

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" Article 11.

Ancillary obligations of beneficiary entities

1-The beneficiary entities of the donations are obliged to:

a) Issue document proving the amounts of donations

received from your patrons, with the indication of your framing

within the framework of this Statute, and well, with the mention that

the donative is granted without counterparts,

b) Possess up-to-date record of the patron entities, of which they are constem,

namely, the name, the tax identification number, as well as

the date and value of each donate that has been assigned to us

terms of this Statute;

c) Deliver to the Directorate General of Taxes, by the end of the month of

February of each year, an official model statement, concerning

to donations received in the previous year.

2-For the purposes of the a) of the previous number, the supporting document

must contain:

a) The legal quality of the beneficiary entity;

b) The legal normative where it falls, as well as, where applicable, the

identification of the dispatching required for recognition;

c) The amount of the donations in cash, when this is of a nature

monetary;

d) In the case of donations in kind, the identification of the goods

services and the respective value, determined in the terms of the article

previous.

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3-Donations in cash of higher value to € 200.00 must be

performed through means of payment that allows the identification of the

patrons, specifically, bank transfer, nominative cheque or

direct debit. "

Article 76.

Regime applicable to the importances deducted from the collection under the

tax benefit of savings accounts-housing

The scheme which, under Article 39 (3) of Law No 55-B/2004, of December 30,

in the case of use for unforeseen purposes, it shall remain applicable to the importances

deducted from the IRS collection in the scope of the tax benefit on savings accounts-

housing, covers only the annual amounts deducted in periods of taxation, in

relation to which there is not yet to elapse the expiry date of the right to settlement.

Article 77.

National Reading Plan

It is recognized, for the purposes set out in Articles 56-C to 56.-H of the Statute of the

Tax Benefits, which supports granted between January 1, 2007 and December 31

of 2013 for the realization of the National Reading Plan, approved by the Resolution of the

Council of Ministers No. 86/2006 of July 12 are considered to be of interest to

education and can enjoy the legally anticipated tax benefits.

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Section III

Specific incentives

Article 78.

Conventional remuneration of social capital

1-In the determination of IRC's taxable profit, an importance can be deduced

corresponding to the conventional remuneration of the social capital, calculated by

application of the rate of 3% to the amount of the entries carried out, by cash deliveries,

by the partners, within the framework of the constitution of society or increase in social capital,

provided that:

a) The beneficiary society is qualified as a small or medium enterprise, in the

terms of the Commission's Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of January 12

2001, and its attachments;

b) The partners participating in the constitution of the society or the raising of capital

social are exclusively natural persons, venture capital companies or

venture capital investors;

c) Taxable profit is not determined by indirect methods.

2-A deduction referred to in the preceding paragraph:

a) It applies exclusively to entries, within the framework of constitution of societies

or increase in social capital, which occur in the years 2008 a to 2010;

b) It is carried out in the finding of taxable profit, pertaining to the period of taxation

where the mentioned entries occur and in the following two periods.

3-The tax benefit provided for in this Article is cumulable solely with the

benefits pertaining to interiority, provided that globally it does not exceed € 200000

by beneficiary entity, over a period of three years, according to the rules

community applicable to aid of minimis , defined in Regulation (EC) No

1998/2006 of the Commission of December 15.

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Article 79.

Extraordinary Regime in Support of Urban Rehabilitation

The Extraordinary Support for Urban Rehabilitation Support Scheme, which regulates the

provision of tax incentives to real estate rehabilitation actions, taking part

member of the present law and constant of the following articles:

" Article 1.

Scope

1-The tax incentives enshrined in this scheme shall apply to the

rehabilitation actions initiated in the period from January 1, 2008 to 31 of

December 2010 and which are found to be completed by December 31 of

2012.

2-Are covered by the present scheme for rehabilitation actions that have

by immovable property that fills in at least one of the following

conditions:

a) Be leased urban buildings as a fast-out-date update

of the rents pursuant to Articles 27 and following of the New Regime

of Urban Tenure (NRAU), approved by Law No. 6/2006, of

February 27;

b) Be urban buildings located in urban rehabilitation areas.

Article 2.

Concepts

For the purposes of this scheme, it shall be deemed to be:

a) "Rehabilitation Actions" means the interventions referred to in paragraph 2 of the

article 1 of the Decree-Law No. 104/2004 of May 7, of which

result in a state of conservation of the immovable at least two levels

above the assigned before the rehabilitation works;

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b) "Urban Rehabilitation Area", the territorially delimited area,

characterized by the degradation or obsolescence of the buildings, of the

urbanistic infrastructure, social equipment, free areas and

of the public space and may cover historical or old areas,

as such qualid in the municipal planning plans

territory, property protection zones classified under the terms of the

The Law of the Bases of Cultural Heritage and other urban areas

degraded where to check the predominance of buildings with

disabled conditions of soundness, safety, salubrity and aesthetics, in

particular those classified as Critical Areas of Recovery and

Urbanistic Conversion (ACRRU);

c) "state of conservation", the state of the building or housing

determined under the terms of the provisions of the NRAU and the Decree-Law n.

156/2006, of August 8, for the purpose of phasing of the

rents or, where it is not the case, classified by the competent

municipal services, in survey carried out for the purpose, with reference

to the levels of conservation set out in the framework of Article 33 of the

NRAU.

Article 3.

Competencies

1-A The substantiation of the initiation and completion of rehabilitation actions is of the

competence of the municipal chamber of the location of the real estate, to which it is incumbent

certify the state of the real estate, before and after the rehabilitation works.

2-A delimitation of the areas of urban rehabilitation is the competence of the

municipal assembly, on a proposal from the city hall, obtained the opinion

of the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation, I. P.

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3-The opinion referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be issued within 20 days.

Article 4.

Applicable tax benefits

The realization of rehabilitation actions covered by this scheme

allows you to enjoy, under the conditions laid down in the following articles, of the following

tax benefits:

a) Municipal tax exemption on real estate in relation to buildings

urban object of rehabilitation actions;

b) Exemption from IRC in relation to income earned by funds from

property investment to be constituted, whose assets are

predominantly affections for rehabilitation actions carried out in the

areas of urban rehabilitation;

c) Taxation at the special rate of 10% of income relating to

units of participation in the investment funds to which it relates

previous article in IRS headquarters or IRC.

Article 5.

Benefits in the scope of the taxation of heritage

1-The urban buildings the subject of rehabilitation actions are liable to

municipal tax exemption on real estate for a period of five years,

counting from the year, inclusive, of the completion of the same rehabilitation.

2-A exemption referred to in the preceding paragraph may be renewed for a period

additional three years.

3-A concession for exemption under the terms set out in the preceding paragraphs

depends on deliberation of the municipal assembly.

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4-It is up to the municipal chamber, verified the assumptions of the exercise of the

right to the exemption in relation to each building, inform the finance department of the

respective location area:

a) From the recognition of the exemption referred to in paragraph 1, within 30 days

after the communication of the rehabilitation works;

b) From the renewal of the exemption referred to in paragraph 2, with a notice of

90 days in relation to the expiry of the exemption referred to in the preceding paragraph.

5-The scheme provided for in this article is not cumulative with others

tax benefits of identical nature, not harming, however, the option

on the other more favourable.

Article 6.

Real estate investment funds in urban rehabilitation

1-Stay exempt from IRC the income of any nature obtained by

real estate investment funds that operate in accordance with the legislation

national, as long as they constitute between January 1, 2008 and 31 of

December 2012 and at least 75% of its assets are immovable property

subject to rehabilitation actions carried out in the areas of urban rehabilitation.

2-Income relating to units of participation in the funds of

investment referred to in the preceding paragraph, paid or placed at

provision of the respective holders, whether by distribution or by

rescue operation, are subject to retention at the IRS or IRC source, to the

rate of 10%, except where the holders of the income are entities

exempt as to income from capital or non-resident entities without

stable establishment in Portuguese territory to which the yields

are attributable, excluding:

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a) The entities that are resident in country, territory or region subject

to a clearly more favorable tax regime, list constant

approved by the porterie of the Minister of Finance;

b) Non-resident entities held, directly or indirectly, in

more than 25% by resident entities.

3-A retention in the source referred to in the preceding paragraph has character

definitive whenever the holders are non-resident entities without

stable establishment in Portuguese territory or passive IRS subjects

residents who obtain the incomes outside the scope of an activity

commercial, industrial or agricultural, and these may, however, opt for the

encompass for the purposes of that tax, in which case the tax withheld

has the nature of tax per account, pursuant to Article 78 of the Code

of the IRS.

4-A withholding dispensation in the source in the cases provided for in paragraph 2 only occurs

when the recipients of the income make evidence, in the face of the entity

paying, exemption from which they take advantage of or the quality of non-resident

in Portuguese territory, up to the date on which the withholding is to be carried out

source, staying, in the event of omission of the proof, the tax substitute

thank you to hand over the entirety of the tax that should have been deducted

in the terms of the law, the general standards set forth in the

competent codes relating to liability for the possible tax in

foul.

5-A proof of the quality of non-resident in Portuguese territory is made in the

terms set out in Articles 15, 16 and 18 of the Decree-Law No. 193/2005,

of November 7.

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6-Income holders relating to units of participation in the

investment funds referred to in paragraph 1, when they encompass the

income that is distributed to them, they are entitled to deduct 50% of the

income relating to dividends, under the terms and conditions provided for in the

Article 40 of the IRS Code and in Article 46 (8) of the IRC Code.

7-The positive balance between the most-valuable and the less-valuable ones resulting from the

divestment of units of participation in the listed investment funds

in paragraph 1 is taxed at the rate of 10% when the holders are entities not

residents to which the exemption provided for in Article 26 of the Article shall not apply.

Status of Tax Benefits or passive IRS subject residents in

Portuguese territory that get the income out of the scope of a

commercial, industrial or agricultural activity and do not opt for the respective

encompass.

8-The obligations laid down in Article 119 and in Article 125 (1) of the Code

of the IRS shall be complied with by the managing entities or registrans.

9-The managing entities of the investment funds referred to in paragraph 1 are

required to publish the value of the distributed income, the value of the tax

withheld to holders of the participating units, as well as the deduction that

correspond to them for the purposes of the provisions of paragraph 6.

10-Should the requirements referred to in paragraph 1 cease to occur, cessa a

Application of the scheme provided for in this Article, passing the

Regime provided for in Article 22 of the Status of Tax Benefits,

owing the income from the investment funds referred to in paragraph 1

that, at the date, have not yet been paid or put at the disposal of the

respective holders to be taxed autonomously, at the rates provided for in the

article 22, plus the corresponding countervailing interest.

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11-The managing entities of the investment funds referred to in paragraph 1 are

jointly and severally liable for the tax debts of the funds whose

management kayba.

12-The scheme provided for in this article is not cumulative with others

tax benefits of identical nature, not harming, however, the option

on the other more favourable.

Article 7.

Subsidiary provisions

In this scheme, the provisions set out in the present Conditions shall apply

Code of Procedure and the Tax Process and the Status of Benefits

Tax, in everything that respects the recognition of tax benefits. "

CHAPTER XI

Procedure, tax procedure and other provisions

Section I

Tax General Law

Article 80.

Amendment to the General Tax Act

Articles 44 and 52 of the General Tax Act, abbreviated by LGT,

approved by Decree-Law No. 398/98 of December 17, they go on to the following

wording:

" Article 44.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

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3-[...].

4-In the event that the debt is paid within 30 days of the date of the

citation, late payment interest is counted up to the date of issuance of this.

Article 52.

[...]

1-A collection of tax benefit suspending itself in the process of execution

tax by virtue of payment in installments or claim, appeal,

impugning and opposition to the execution that have as an object the illegality or

indebtedness of the exequinum debt, as well as during the procedures

of settlement of disputes in the framework of the Convention of Arbitration n.

90 /436/CEE of July 23 on the elimination of double taxation in

case of correction of profits between associated companies of different

Member States.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-A The guarantee may, once provided, be exceptionally replaced, in

case of the executed prove legitimate interest in the substitution and hence not

result in injury to the tax creditor.

6-[...]. "

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Section II

Procedure and Tributary Process

Article 81.

Amendment to the Code of Procedure and the Trial Procedure

Articles 38, 169, 191, 196, 215, 224, 231, 231, and 250, 231 and 250 of the Code of

Procedure and of Tributal Process, abbreviated by CPPT, approved

by Decree-Law No. 433/99 of October 26, they shall be replaced by the following:

" Article 38.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-The notifications referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 of this article may be

made, in the terms of the preceding paragraph, by telefax when the

tax administration has knowledge of the telefax number of the

notifying and can later confirm the content of the message and

the moment it was sent.

9-The notifications referred to in this article may, as yet, be made

by electronic data transmission, in the terms to be defined by the porterie of the

Minister of Finance.

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10-The notifications made in the terms of the preceding paragraph amount,

depending on the cases, the shipment by registered post or by post

registered with notice of receipt, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of the

article 6 of the Decree-Law No 290-D/99 of August 2.

Article 169.

[...]

1-A execution stays suspended until the decision of the plete in case of complaint

gracious, the judicial challenge or judicial remedy that they have per object

the legality of the debt exequale, as well as during the procedures of

resolution of disputes in the framework of the Convention of Arbitration n.

90 /436/CEE of July 23 on the elimination of double taxation in

case of correction of profits between associated companies of different

Member States, provided that it has been formed in the terms of the

article 195 or provided in accordance with Article 199 or the penhour guarantee to

the whole amount of the exequcum amount and the increased, which will be informed in the

process by the competent employee.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

Article 191.

[...]

1-[...].

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2-[...].

3-[...].

4-The quotations referred to in this article may, as yet, be carried out by

electronic transmission of data, in the terms to be defined by the portaria of the

Minister of Finance.

5-The citations made in the terms of the preceding paragraph amount,

depending on the cases, the shipment by registered post or by post

registered with notice of receipt, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of the

article 6 of the Decree-Law No 290-D/99 of August 2

Article 192.

[...]

1-Personal citations are made pursuant to the Code of Procedure

Civil, without prejudice, with respect to the citation by electronic transmission of

data, from the provisions of paragraphs 4 and 5 of the previous article.

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

Article 196.

[...]

1-[...].

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2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

10-The dispatch of acceptance of debt assumption and the guarantees provided for

in the paragraph b) of paragraph 8 may determine the extinction of the guarantees constituted

and or presented by the former debtor.

11-[...].

12-[...].

Article 199.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-Vale as a guarantee for the effects of the n. 1 a penhora already made on the

goods necessary to ensure the payment of the exequuring debt and

increased or to be carried out in goods named for the purpose by the executed in the

term referred to in paragraph 6.

5-[...].

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6-[...].

7-[...].

8-[...].

9-[...].

10 -- [...].

Article 215.

Penhora, anomalous occurrences, appointment of goods to the penhour

1-Fishing the period after the citation without having been made the payment,

proceeds to the penhour.

2-A penhour may be carried out by electronic means.

3-[ Previous Article No 2 ].

4-[ Previous Article No 3 ].

Article 224.

[...]

1-A penhour of credits consists of the notification to the debtor, made with the

formalities of the personal citation and subject to the scheme of this, of which all the

credits from the executed up to the value of the exequcated and increased debt stay at

order of the body of the tax implementation, observing the provisions of the Code

of Civil Procedure, with the necessary adaptations and still the following

rules:

a) [ Repealed ];

b) [...];

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c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [ Repealed ];

f) Inexisting credit or being its insufficient value to guarantee the

debt exequction and increased, the body of tax enforcement may

notify the debtor of the penhour of future credits up to that value,

by holding valid the notification for period not exceeding one year,

without loss of renewal.

2-[...].

Article 231.

1-A penhour of real estate or parcellared figures of the respective right of

property is carried out by communication issued by the body of the execution

fiscal to the conservatory of the competent predial register, by issuing a

communication by each building, in which they reproduce all the elements

of the predial booklet, as well as the identification of the debtor, the value of the

debt, the process number and the number of the hourly, observing still

the following:

a) The attachment must be registered within the maximum of five days;

b) Carried out the record, the conservatory communicates to the organ of the implementation

the number of the presentation, the identiactive elements of the register and the

identification of the burden or charges that fall on the good

pawned, identifying the respective beneficiaries, as well as the

value of emoluments and the account;

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c) Hereinafter, the body of the tax execution appoints depositary

upon notification by registered letter with notice of receipt,

an employee of the tax administration may be chosen, the

own executed, be it natural or legal person, or other, the

who the pawned goods are delivered.

2-The acts and communications referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be carried out,

where possible by electronic means, and the elements of

predial booklet to be replaced by direct consultation to the predial matrix

computerized.

3-A The communication of the penhora contains the qualified electronic signature of the

execution organ holder, validating as authentication the certification of

access from conservatives to electronic services of the administration

tax.

4-A The communication referred to in paragraph 1 is worth as a presentation for the purpose of

enrollment in the register

5-A immovable property may also be carried out under the Code

of Civil Procedure.

Article 250.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-The base value to be announced for sale is equal to 70% of the given in the

terms of paragraph 1. "

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Article 82.

Repeal of standards in the framework of the CPPT

The points are repealed. a) and e) of Article 224 (1) of the CPPT, approved by the Decree-

Law No. 433/99 of October 26.

Section III

Tax Offences

Article 83.

Amendment to the General Regime of Tax Offences

Articles 52, 67, 75, 93, 95, 97, 119, 120, and 125, 120, 120 and 125 of the General Regime

of the Tax Offences, abbreviated by RGIT, passed by the Law n.

15/2001, of June 5, shall be replaced by the following:

" Article 52.

[...]

The application of the fines and ancillary sanctions, ressaving the specialties

provided for in the Act, compete with the following tax authorities:

a) Dealing with customs counterordinance to the Director-General of the

Customs and Special Taxes on Consumption, to

directors of customs and the heads of customs delegations;

b) Dealing with tax counter-ordinance, the application of fines

provided for in Articles 114 and 116 to 126, as well as those against-

autonomous ordinances, to the leader of the local tax office of the

area where the offence took place and the application of the planned fines

in Articles 114, 118, 119 and 126, when the missing tax is

higher than € 25000, and in the artigos113, 115, 127, 128 and 129 to the

director of finance of the area where the offence took place, to whom

compete still the application of ancillary sanctions.

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Article 67.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) By customs counterordinance, at customs or delegation

customs.

2-[...].

3-[...].

Article 75.

[...]

1-[...].

2-The advance payment of the fine is not applicable to counter-ordinations

customs in which the value of the missing tax benefit is higher than €

15000 or, where the tax provision is not taking place, the subject goods

of infringement is of a customs value of more than € 50000 and, in any

case, does not depart from the application of the ancillary sanctions provided for in the law.

3-[...].

Article 92.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

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d) [...];

is punished with imprisonment up to three years or with penalty of a fine of up to

360 days, if the value of the missing tax benefit is higher than €

15000 or, with no place of tax provision, the goods

object of the offence for customs value of more than € 50000, if

more serious penalty does not fit him by virtue of another legal provision.

2-[...].

Article 93.

[...]

1-Who, by any means, put or detain in circulation, in the interior of the

national territory, goods in violation of customs laws concerning the

internal or community movement of goods, without the processing

of the competent guides or other documents legally required or without

the application of stamps, marks or other legally prescribed signs, is

punished with imprisonment for up to three years or with penalty of a fine of up to 360

days, if the value of the missing tax benefit is more than € 15000 or,

there is no place the tax provision, the subject goods of the offence

is of a customs value of more than € 50000.

2-[...].

Article 95.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

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d) [...];

is punished with imprisonment up to three years or with penalty of a fine of up to

360 days, if the value of the missing tax benefit is greater than € 15

000 or, with no place of tax provision, the goods

object of the offence is of a customs value of more than € 50000.

2-[...].

Article 96.

[...]

1-[...]:

a) [...];

b) [...];

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [...];

is punished with imprisonment up to three years or with penalty of a fine of up to

360 days, if the value of the missing tax benefit is higher than €

15,000 or, where the tax provision is not taking place, if the products

object of the offence are of net worth of tax higher than €

50000.

2-[...].

Article 97.

[...]

[...]:

150

a) [...];

b) The subject goods of the offence are worth more than € 100000;

c) [...];

d) [...];

e) [...];

f) [...];

g) [...].

Article 119.

[...]

1-[...].

2-In the event that there is no tax to be settled, the limits of the fines provided for in the

previous number are reduced to one room.

3-[...].

4-[...].

Article 120.

[...]

1-A non-existence of bookkeeping or bookkeeping books and the model of

export of files, compulsory by force of the law, as well as books,

records and documents with them related, whatever the respective

nature is punishable with fine of € 150 a € 15000.

2-[...].

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Article 125.

[...]

1-[A previous body of the article ].

2-A lack of withholding tax on income subject to this

obligation, when there are legal assumptions for your dispensation

total or partial but without which, within the legally foreseen time, it has been

presented the respective proof, is punishable with fine of € 250 a € 2500. "

Article 84.

Addition to the General Regime of Tax Offences

They are deferred to the RGIT, approved by Law No. 15/2001 of June 5, Articles 110-A and

111.-B, with the following wording:

" Article 110.

Lack or delay of delivery, display or presentation of documents or statements

The lack or delay in the presentation, albeit by electronic means, or the non-

immediate display or on the deadline that the law or customs administration will fix,

of statements or supporting documents of the facts, values or situations

constants of the statements, transport documents or others that

legally can replace them, communications, guides, records, even if

magnetic, or other documents and the non-provision of information or

clarifications that autonomously should be legal or administratively

required are punishable with fine of € 50 a € 2500.

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Article 111-The

Omissions and inaccuracies in statements or in other taxing documents

relevant

The omissions or inaccuracies that do not constitute the intended counterordinance

in the previous article, practiced in the statements, as well as in the documents

proof of the facts, values or situations of them constant, including the

practiced in the transport documents or others that lawfully may

replace or in other taxing documents relevant sue should be

held, presented or required are punishable cm fine from 50 a to € 3750. "

Article 85.

Revocation of provisions of the RGIT

It is repealed at para. e) of Article 59 of the General Regime of Tax Offences, approved

by Law No. 15/2001 of June 5.

CHAPTER XII

Diverse provisions with tax relevance

Article 86.

Amendment to Law No. 55/2007 of August 31

Article 2 of Law No 55/2007 of August 31 is replaced by the following:

" Article 2.

[...]

1-[ Previous body of the article ].

2-The provisions of this Law shall not apply in the Autonomous Regions of the

Azores and Madeira. "

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Article 87.

Amendment to Decree-Law No ___/2007, de __de

Article 12 of the Decree-Law No. ___/2007 of __de ___, which establishes the legal regime

applicable to the production of electricity by means of micro-production units, passes

to be replaced by the following:

" Article 12.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-The yield, upstream of less than € 5000, resulting from the activity of

micro-production provided for in this decree-law, shall be excluded from

taxation in IRS. "

Article 88.

Legislative authorization in the scope of the tax enrollment

It is the Government authorized to review and systematize all the regulations concerning the

allocation and management, for exclusively tax purposes, of the tax identification number by the

Directorate-General for Taxes, in the sense of:

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a) Include in a single diploma the provisions set out in the Decree-Law No. 463/79,

of November 30, with the amendments introduced by Decree-Law No. 240/84,

of July 13, by the Decree-Law No. 266/91 of August 6, by the Decree-Law

n ° 19/97 of January 21 and well so of the Portaria No 386/98 of July 3, of the

Portaria No. 271/99 of April 13, of the Portaria No 862/99 of October 8, of the

Portaria No. 377/2003 of May 10 and of the Portaria No 594/2003 of July 21;

b) Proceed to the harmonisation of the rules of issuance of the tax identification card

with the rules applicable to the citizen's card;

c) Introduce procedures that the practice has shown advisable and innovations that

aim to simplify the fulfillment of tax obligations and provide a service of

better quality to the taxpayer.

Article 89.

Legislative authorization to amend the Statute of the Chamber of Official Techniques of

Accounts

It is granted permission to the Government to review the Statute of the Chamber of Technicians

Officers of Accounts approved by the Decree-Law No. 452/99 of November 5, maintaining

its main characterizing lines, and introducing changes to the prevailing regime, with

the following sense and reach:

a) Change the Chamber assignment of the Official Accounts Technicians for Order of the

Official Accounts Technicians;

b) Establish the conditions of constitution, inscription in the Order and operation

of the companies of professionals of Accounts Officers of Accounts;

c) Establish the conditions of constitution, inscription in the Order and operation

of the Accounting and Administration societies;

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d) Establish the scheme applicable to the official technical account technicians who exercise the

profession under individual contract of employment when the entity

Employer is another official technical of accounts, society of technical professionals

Officers of Accounts and Societies of Accounting and Administration, in the sense of

determine the accumulation of punctuations by professionals or entities

employing;

e) Redefine the Organic Structure of the Order of Accounts Officers;

f) Establish that passive electoral capacity, after the application of sanction

superior to the warning, if it acquires past five years of its application;

g) Typify as a passable offence of suspension for retention, for no reason

justified, in addition to the deadline set out in the Deontological Code, of the

accounting documentation or books of your writing, withholding or

use for purposes other than legal and regulatory of the importancies that

are delivered to them by their customers or employers and the non-

compliance with its professional duties or the technical rules applicable to the

execution of the charities;

h) Typify as a punishable offence of expulsion the supply of

documents or false, inaccurate or incorrect information, which have

induced in error the deliberation which had on the basis of its enrollment in the Order and the

judicial conviction in penalty of effective imprisonment of more than five years;

i) Implement, in the framework of the operation of the Order of the Official Technicians of

Accounts, quality check systems of the services provided by the technicians

officers of accounts;

j) Include in the Statute the Deontological Code of Official Accounts Techniques and the

regulation of professional and accounting and administrative societies.

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Article 90.

Incentives for the acquisition of companies in difficult economic situation

The scheme of incentives for the acquisition of undertakings established by the Decree-Law No. 14/98, of

January 28, applies equally to the processes approved by the Institute of Support for

Small and Medium Enterprises and Investment in the framework of the System of Incentives à

Revitalization and Modernization of the Corporate Fabric (SIRME).

Article 91.

Constitution of guarantees

It is exempt from stamp duty the constitution in 2008 of guarantees in favour of the State or

of the social security institutions, in the context of the application of Article 196 of the CPPT or the

Decree-Law No. 124/96 of August 10.

CHAPTER XIII

Final provisions

Article 92.

Report on combating fraud and tax evasion

1-The Government presents to the Assembly of the Republic, by the end of February 2008, a

detailed report on the evolution of combating fraud and tax evasion in all

areas of taxation, explaining the results achieved, specifically as to the

value of the additional settlements carried out, as well as to the value of the collections

recovered in the various taxes.

2-The report shall contain, in particular, all relevant statistical information on

the tax inspections carried out, as well as on the results obtained with the

use of the various legal instruments for combating fraud and tax evasion,

in particular the indirect assessment of the taxable amount and the administrative derogation of the

duty of bank secrecy, and shall also carry out an assessment of suitability

of those same instruments, taking into account the efficiency criteria of the action of

inspection.

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3-The report must still contain, in the strict respect of the different duties of secrecy to

that the tax administration is bound up, statistical information concerning the offences

tributaries resulting from inspection actions, specifically evidencing, in a manner

aggregated, the end result of the processes.

CHAPTER XIV

Active operations, regularizations and guarantees of the State

Article 93.

Provision of loans and other active operations

1-It shall be the authorized Government, under the terms of the h) of Article 161 of the Constitution,

through the minister responsible for the area of finance, with the faculty of delegation, the

to provide loans and to carry out other active credit operations, up to the amount

contractual equivalent to 530 million euros, not counting for this limit the

amounts referring to restructuring or consolidation of state claims,

including the eventual capitalization of interest.

2-Add to the limit set in the preceding paragraph the granting of loans by the

services and autonomous funds, up to the contractual amount equivalent to 350 million

euro, not counting for this limit the amounts referring to the restructuring or

consolidation of credits, including the eventual capitalization of interest.

3-It is, still, the authorised Government, through the minister responsible for the area of

finance, with the faculty of delegation, to renegotiate the contractual conditions of

previous loans, including the exchange of the currency of credit, or to remitt the credits

of those resulting.

4-The Government hereby informs the Assembly of the Republic of the justification and of the

conditions of the operations carried out under this article.

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Article 94.

Mobilization of assets and recovery of credits

1-Stay the authorized Government, through the minister responsible for the area of finance,

with the faculty of delegation, in the framework of the recovery of credits and other assets

finance of the State, held by the Directorate General of the Treasury and Finance, to proceed

to the following operations:

a) Redefinition of the conditions for payment of debts in cases where the

debtors if they propose to pay for ready or in instalments, and may also, in

duly substantiated cases, be reduced the value of the credits, without

injury to, in the event of default, if it requires payment under the conditions

originally beholdant, and these conditions may apply in the regularization

of the credits acquired by the Directorate General of the Treasury and Finance relating to

debts to social security institutions only when debtors se

find framed in a special business recovery process or

of insolvency or in an extrajudicial procedure of conciliation;

b) Redefinition of payment conditions and, in duly cases

grounded, reduction or remission of the value of loan credits

granted to individuals, under the Special Programme for the Repair of

Fires or Real estate in Degradation (PRID) and the Special Programme of

Self-construction, in the cases of borrowers whose households have a

average monthly income per capita not higher than the value of social income of

insertion or borrowers with manifest financial incapacity;

c) Realisation of capital increases with any financial assets, as well as

upon conversion of credit into capital of debtor companies;

d) Acceptance, as a dation in fulfillment, of immovable property, movable property, values

securities and other financial assets;

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e) Divestition of claims and other financial assets;

f) Acquisition of assets by exchange with other public servants or in the frame of the

exercise of the right of creditor preferable or guaranteed in sales office at

executive process or in liquidation of the insolvency proceedings.

2-Stay the equally authorised Government, through the Minister responsible for the area of

finance, with the faculty of delegation, to proceed:

a) To the assignment of the management of credits and other assets, whether paid title or not,

when such an operation proves to be most appropriate to the defence of the interests of the State;

b) To the contracting of the provision of services relating to the operation indicated in the paragraph

previous, regardless of their value, and may this be preceded by

procedure by negotiation, with or without prior publication of notice, or

carried out by direct adjustment.

3-It is still the authorised Government, through the minister responsible for the area of

finance, with the faculty of delegation, to proceed:

a) To the reduction of the social capital of limited companies of capital exclusively

public, or simply participated, in the framework of sanitation processes

economic-financial;

b) To the assignment of financial assets that the State, through the Directorate General of the

Treasury and Finance, hold on co-operatives and residents ' associations to the

municipalities where those have their head office;

c) To the cancellation of claims held by the Directorate General of the Treasury and Finance,

when, in duly substantiated cases, please check that it is not justified to

respective recovery;

d) To the contracting of the provision of services in connection with the recovery of the credits of the

State, in duly substantiated cases.

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4-The Government informs the Assembly of the Republic of the justification quarterly and

conditions of the operations carried out under this article.

Article 95.

Acquisition of assets and assumption of liabilities and liabilities

Stay the authorised Government, through the minister responsible for the area of finance, with the

faculty of delegation:

a) To acquire credits from public companies, in the context of strategic plans of

restructuring and financial sanitation;

b) To assume liabilities and liabilities or to acquire credits on companies

public and manufacturing establishments of the Armed Forces, in the context of plans

strategic of restructuring and financial sanitation or in the framework of

settlement processes;

c) To settle the balance resulting from the compensation of the existing debits and credits,

by December 31, 2007, arising from financial relations between the State

and Autonomous Regions, up to the amount of € 7500000, within the scope of management

flexible.

Article 96.

Financing of the acquisition of assets and assumption of liabilities and liabilities

The financing of the operations referred to in the previous article is secured by endowment

budget entered in Chapter 60 of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration.

Article 97.

Limit of the benefits of rental transactions

In accordance with that provided for in Article 11 (1) of the Organic Law No. 4/2006, of

August 29, is the Government authorized to meet charges with the benefits to be settled

referring to public investment contracts in the form of leasing, up to the limit

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maximum of € 49533000.

Article 98.

Anticipation of community funds

1-Treasury-specific operations carried out to ensure the continuity of the CSF

III and the beginning of the QREN, including community initiatives and Cohesion Fund, shall

be regularised by the end of the 2009 budget exercise.

2-The anticipations of funds referred to in the preceding paragraph shall not, without prejudice to the

provisions of the following number, exceed at each time:

a) Regarding the programmes co-financed by the ERDF, by initiatives

community and by the Cohesion Fund € 800000000;

b) For the programmes co-financed by the EAGGF-Guidance, by the

FEADER, by the IFOP and the European Fisheries Fund € 600000000.

3-The amounts referred to in the preceding paragraph may be the subject of compensation between

si, upon permission of the member of the Government responsible for the national management of the

compensator fund.

4-The limits referred to in paragraph 2 include the anticipations already carried out until 2007.

5-Treasury specific operations carried out to guarantee the payment of the supports

financial granted in the framework of the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF)

shall be regularised upon the respective reimbursement by the European Union, in the

Terms of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of June 21.

6-By way of bridging possible difficulties inherent in the process of closure of the

CSF II and CSF III and the start of the QREN in respect of co-financed programmes

by the European Social Fund (ESF), including community initiatives, lies the Government

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authorized to anticipate payments on account of Community transfers from the Union

European through the social security budget that cannot exceed each

moment, considering the anticipations already carried out in the year 2007, the amount of

300 million euros.

7-A The regularization of the active operations referred to in the preceding paragraph shall occur until the

end of fiscal 2009 financial year, staying for such the IGFSS authorized to captivates the

corresponding appropriations transferred by the committee.

Article 99.

Principle of the treasury unit

1-All movement of funds from the services and autonomous funds, including, those

whose financial and patrimonial management is governed by the legal regime of public entities

business, should be carried out by recourse to the banking services made available

by the Institute of Treasury Management and Public Credit, I. P., save for

legal to the contrary.

2-The principle of the treasury unit is applicable to the institutions of higher education in the

terms set out in Article 115 of Law No 62/2007 of September 10.

3-Failure to comply with the provisions of the preceding paragraphs may constitute grounds

for retention of the transfers and refusal of twelfth anticipations, in the terms

to be fixed in the decree-budget implementation law.

4-The integrated services of the State and the services and autonomous funds mentioned in the

n. 1 should promote their integration into the network of state collections, provided for in the

State treasury scheme, approved by Decree-Law No. 191/99 of June 5,

upon the opening of bank accounts with the Treasury Management Institute and

of the Public Credit, I. P., for receipt, accounting and control of revenue

own.

5-Business public entities must maintain their availabilities and applications

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financial close to the Treasury Management Institute and Public Credit, I. P.,

to give them to that effect applicable to the State treasury scheme, approved by the

Decree-Law No. 191/99 of June 5.

6-The revenues of all financial applications that are carried out in violation of the

principle of the treasury unit by the entities to the same subject revert to the

State.

Article 100.

Amendment to Decree-Law No 191/99 of June 5

1-It is the Government authorized to amend the State treasury scheme, approved by the

Decree-Law No. 191/99 of June 5, in the sense:

a) From the deepening of the principle of the treasury unit, while

instrument for the optimization of the overall management of public funds by:

i) Specification of the rules associated with compliance with the principle of

treasury unit and the entities to it subject;

ii) Definition of the consequences, specifically, of a sanctionatory nature,

of the default of the principle of the treasury unit by the entities to the

same subject;

iii) Subjection of entities from the business public sector to the principle of unity

of the treasury;

iv) Extension of the banking nature services provided to customers of the

Treasure in the application of availabilities, of active operations

short term and open accounts of cautioned accounts or other type of

guarantee of consignment of revenue;

v) Strengthening of the state treasury management tools in articulation

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with the management of public debt.

b) From its appropriateness to the reform of the management of the state treasury, realized by the

Decree-Law No. 273/2007 of July 30, by the integration of the management of the

treasury and public debt at the Institute of Treasury and Credit Management

Public, I. P.

2-A present legislative authorization shall be valid for twelve months.

Article 101.

Re-privatization and divestant operations

For the reprivatizations to be carried out under Law No. 11/90 of April 5, as well as for

the disposal of other social stakes of the State, lies the authorized Government, through

of the minister responsible for the area of finance, with the faculty of delegation, to be hired,

by direct adjustment, among the pre-qualified companies referred to in Article 5 of the said

law, the assembly of the divestance and public offering operations of shares, the

firm take and respective placement and too much associated operations.

Article 102.

Maximum limit for the granting of guarantees by the State and other persons

public law collective

1-The maximum limit for the authorization of the granting of guarantees by the State in 2008 is

fixed, in terms of annual net flows, at 2500 billion.

2-They are not covered by the limit set in the previous number the operations

resulting from deliberations taken within the European Union.

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3-The responsibilities of the State arising from the commitments of the concession, in

2008, of credit insurance guarantees, of financial credits, insurance-collateral and insurance

of investment may not exceed the amount equivalent to 1100 million

euros.

4-The maximum limit for the granting of guarantees by legal persons of law

public, in 2008, is fixed, in terms of annual net flows, at 10 million

euros.

Article 103.

Balances of Chapter 60 of the State Budget

1-The balances of appropriations allocated to the headings of the economic classification " Transfers

currents "," Subsidies "," Financial Assets "and" Other current expenses " inscribed

in the State Budget for 2008, in Chapter 60 of the Ministry of Finance and the

Public Administration, may be used in expenses whose payment is

achievable until February 15, 2009, provided that the obligation for the State has been

constituted until December 31, 2008 and is on that date known or estimable to

amount required for your fulfillment.

2-The amounts used in the terms of the previous number are deposited into account

special intended for the payment of the respective expenses, and such account shall be

closed until February 15, 2009.

Article 104.

Settlement charges

1-The State Budget ensures that the satisfaction of the obligations is always necessary

of the extinct entities whose remaining asset was transmitted to the State, at the headquarters of

sharing, up to the competition of the respective transferred value.

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2-The provision of collateral provided for in Article 154 (3) of the Code of the

Commercial Societies, when, in the seat of sharing, the totality of the remaining asset is

transmitted to the state.

Article 105.

Processes of extinction

1-The strictly necessary current expenses that result from processes of

disbanding, liquidation and extinction of public and participating companies, services and others

organisms, are carried out through Chapter 60 of the Ministry of Finance and the

Public Administration.

2-In the framework of the processes referred to in the preceding paragraph involving transfers

of heritage sites for the State may proceed to the extinction of obligations, by

compensation and for confusion.

CHAPTER XV

State funding and management of public debt

Article 106.

Funding of the State Budget

To cope with the financing needs arising from the implementation of the Budget

of the State, including the services and funds endowed with administrative autonomy and

financial, is the Government authorized, under the terms of the h) of Article 161 of the

Constitution and Article 109 of this Law, to increase the overall net borrowing

direct, up to the maximum amount of EUR 6 to 437.2 million.

Article 107.

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Housing and Rehousing Financing

1-Stay the IHRU authorized to borrow a loan, from the European Bank of the

Investment, up to the limit of 400 million euros with the following distribution:

a) Up to 200 million euros for the financing of Rehabilitation Societies

Urban and recovery of the degraded housing stock;

b) Up to 200 million euros for the financing of the 18-program

Local, Urban and Regional Development, measure 2-Housing and

Reaccommodation and project 3250-Rehousing.

2-The limit set out in the preceding paragraph shall compete for the purposes of the overall limit laid down in the

article 106 para.

Article 108.

Funding under the MARE Programme

In order to ensure compliance with the approved project funding under the

MARE-Measure 3.2 program. -Development of Aquaculture, stands the Institute of

Financing for Agriculture and Fisheries (IFAP) authorized to borrow a loan from

of the Institute of Support for Small and Medium Enterprises and Investment (IAPMEI) up to the

amount of EUR 9.8 million, which shall compete for the purposes of the overall limit set out in the

article 106 para.

Article 109.

General conditions of financing

1-Under the terms of the h) of Article 161 of the Constitution, is the Government authorized to

borrow amortizable loans and carry out other borrowing operations,

particularly reporting transactions with representative securities of debt

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direct public of the State, irrespective of the rate and currency of denomination,

whose product of the issue, net of more and less valuable, does not exceed, in the

overall, the amount resulting from the addition of the following values:

a) Amount of limits for the addition of direct global net borrowing

set out in accordance with Article 106 para.

b) Amount of public debt redemptions carried out during the year, in the

respective due dates or anticipated by convenience of management of the

debt, calculated, in the first case, second the contractual value of the amortization and,

in the second case, second the respective cost of acquisition on the market;

c) Amount of other operations involving reduction of public debt,

determined by the cost of acquisition in the market of the subject debt reduction.

2-Public debt write-offs that are carried out by the Regularization Fund

of the Public Debt as an application of revenue from privatizations are not considered

for the purposes of the point b) of the previous number.

3-The term of the loans to be issued and the borrowing operations to be carried out to the

under the provisions of paragraph 1, it may not be more than 50 years.

Article 110.

Debt denominated in currency other than euro

1-A currency exposure in currencies other than the euro may not surpass, in each

moment, 10% of the total direct public debt of the State.

2-For the purposes of the provisions of the preceding paragraph, it is understood by currency exposure the

amount of financial liabilities, including those relating to operations of

financial derivatives associated with loan contracts, whose foreign exchange risk is not

find covered.

Article 111.

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Floating debt

For satisfaction of transitional treasury needs and greater flexibility of management of the

issuance of founded public debt, lies the Government authorized to issue floating debt,

by staying the cumulative amount of live emissions at each time subject to the limit

maximum of 15 thousand million euros.

Article 112.

Buying in market and exchange of debt securities

1-A The end of improving the trading and transaction conditions of debt securities

direct public of the State, increasing the respective liquidity, and with a view to

improvement of the costs of state funding, is the Institute of Management of the

Treasury and Public Credit, I. P., authorized to proceed to early amortization

of loans and to carry out market purchase transactions or exchange transactions

of debt instruments, by amortizing in advance the debt securities that, by

this shape, are taken out of market.

2-The essential conditions of the operations referred to in the preceding paragraph, specifically

modalities of realization and debt instruments covered, are approved by the

Government, through the minister responsible for the area of finance, and must:

a) Safeguarding the general principles and objectives of direct public debt management

of the State, in particular those laid down in Article 2 of Law No. 7/98, of 3 of

February;

b) Respect the value and market equivalence of debt securities.

Article 113.

Management of direct government debt of the State

1-Stay the authorised Government, through the minister responsible for the area of finance, the

carry out the following direct public debt management operations of the State:

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a) Substitution between the issuance of the various modalities of loans;

b) Strengthening appropriations for capital amortization;

c) Advance payment, total or partial, of loans already contracted;

d) Conversion of existing loans, in the terms and conditions of the issue or the

contract, or by agreement with the respective holders, when the conditions of the

financial markets thus advising you.

2-A In order to streamline the negotiation and transaction of representative securities of

public debt, it is still the authorised Government, through the minister responsible for the

area of finance, with the faculty of delegation, to carry out reporting operations with

securities representative of direct public debt of the State.

3-A Budget enrollment of financial flows arising from operations associated with the

management of the portfolio of the direct public debt of the State and the management of availabilities

of the State treasury is carried out in accordance with the following rules:

a) The expenses arising from financial derivatives transactions are deducted from the

recipes obtained with the same operations, the respective balance being always

entered under the heading of the expenditure;

b) The interest income resulting from operations associated with the issuance and management of the

direct public debt of the State are abated to expenditure of the same nature;

c) The interest income resulting from the operations associated with the application of the

surplus of state treasury, as well as those associated with advances

of treasury, are abated to the interest expense of the direct public debt of the

State;

d) The provisions of the previous paragraphs shall not waiver the accounting record

individualized from all financial flows, albeit merely scriptural,

associated with the operations referred to therein.

CHAPTER XVI

Financing and transfers to Autonomous Regions

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Article 114.

Financing needs of the Autonomous Regions

1-Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira cannot agree contractually

new loans, including all forms of debt, which entail an increase

of your net borrowing.

2-Can be excepted from the provisions of the preceding paragraph, under the terms and conditions to

define by dispatching the minister responsible for the area of finance, loans and

depreciation earmarked for the financing of projects with the comparticipation of

community funds.

3-The amount of regional net borrowing, compatible with the concept of

need for funding from the European System of National and Regional Accounts

(SEC95), is equivalent to the difference between the sum of the financial liabilities, any that

be its form, including in particular the borrowings, the contracts of

financial leasing and debts to suppliers, and the sum of financial assets,

notably the cash balance, deposits in financial institutions and the

applications of treasury.

Article 115.

Budgetary transfers to the Autonomous Regions

1-Pursuant to Article 37 of the Organic Law No. 1/2007 of February 19, they are

transferred the following monies:

a) € 286060663 for the Autonomous Region of the Azores;

b) € 185863280 for the Autonomous Region of Madeira.

2-Pursuant to Article 38 of the Organic Law No. 1/2007 of February 19, they are

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transferred the following monies:

a) € 57212133 for the Autonomous Region of the Azores;

b) € 24394555 for the Autonomous Region of Madeira.

CHAPTER XVII

Final provisions

Article 116.

Cessation of financial autonomy

Is the Government authorized to make the scheme for financial autonomy to cease and to apply the

general regime of administrative autonomy to services and autonomous funds that do not

have complied with the rule of the budgetary balance provided for in Article 25 (1) of the Law

n ° 91/2001 of August 20, in its current wording, without that for this being

dispensed under the terms of paragraph 3 of the same article.

Article 117.

Prior surveillance of the Court of Auditors

1-In accordance with the provisions of Article 48 of Law No 98/97 of August 26, and for the

year 2008 shall be exempt from prior surveillance by the Court of Auditors the acts and

contracts the amount of which does not exceed 1000 times the value corresponding to the index 100

of the unindicted scale of the general regime of public function.

2-A change in sources of funding in the Ministry's investment budget

of the Justice shall be without prejudice to the effectiveness of the acts or contracts that have already been the subject of

prior surveillance of the Court of Auditors.

Article 118.

Contribution to the audiovisual

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It remains at € 1.71 the monthly value of the contribution to the audiovisual to be collected in 2008,

in the terms of Law No. 30/2003 of August 22.

Article 119.

Appropriations from the budgets of civil governments relating to support for associations

During the year 2008, appropriations from the budgets of civil governments concerning support for

associations, under the competence provided for in the e) of Article 4 (1) of the

Decree-Law No. 252/92 of November 19, have as an exclusive destination the support for

road safety, civil protection and relief activities, in terms to be defined by

dispatch of the minister responsible for the area of internal administration.

Article 120.

Portuguese Carbon Fund

1-Stay the Government authorized to transfer to the Portuguese Carbon Fund:

a) The amount of charges arising from the tax harmonisation between diesel fuel

heating and road diesel;

b) The amount of charges arising from the rate on low-efficiency bulbs,

provided for in Decree-Law No. 108/2007 of April 12.

c) The amount of other revenue that will come into effect in your favour.

2-It is inscribed in financial assets in the budget of the Portuguese Carbon Fund a

allocation of € 18400000 earmarked exclusively for the acquisition of emission units of

CO2 ( emission assigned amount units ) or emission reduction certificates of CO2

( certified emission reduction units ), aiming at the fulfilment of the commitments made in the

scope of the Kyoto Protocol.

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3-In the event that the sum of the transfers referred to in paragraph 1 exceeds € 56600000, it is

captive the excess amount in the monies referred to in the preceding paragraph.

Article 121.

Contracts-programme within the National Health Service

1-The contracts-programme to be concluded by the Regional Health Administrations, I. P., with

Hospitals integrated into the National Health Service or belonging to the national network

of health care delivery under the terms of paragraph 2 of the Base XII of Law No. 48/90

of August 24, and of Article 1 (2) of the legal regime of hospital management

approved by Law No. 27/2002 of November 8 are authorized by the member of the

Government responsible for the area of health and can involve charges up to a triennium.

2- The contracts-programme to be concluded with the integrated hospitals in the National Service of

Health or belonging to the national health-care delivery network become

effective with your signature and must be published in the 2 th grade of the Journal of the Republic.

3-Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 1, the contracts already concluded and valid shall remain for

the present economic year.

Article 122.

Control of the expenditure of the National Health Service

1-The Government takes the necessary measures for the growth of the expenditure in

medications dispensed in ambulatory and the conventions of auxiliary means of

diagnosis and therapy, do not exceed the growth of the budget allocation of the Service

National of Health in 2008.

2-The Government shall also take the necessary measures to contain, in each unit

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hospital, the growth of charges in pharmaceuticals and consumer products

clinical, up to the limit of 1% above the growth referred to in the previous number.

Article 123.

Reduction of payment deadlines

1-The Government sets out for the services of the direct and indirect administration of the State,

multi-annual objectives of reduction of payment deadlines to suppliers,

establishing an appropriate mechanism for monitoring and publicising developments

of the average payment deadlines, simplifying management control procedures

budget and adopting budget implementation rules conducive to the pursuit of

such objectives, in particular with respect to the transition of management balances and

to the duodecimal regime.

2-For the purposes of the provisions of the preceding paragraph and the conditions to be defined by the Government, the

product of the disposal and the burdening of real estate reverses for the payment of debts to

suppliers resulting from the acquisition of capital goods.

3-During the year 2008, in the context of the execution of the contract to be concluded between the State

and the Autonomous Regions and the municipalities that decide to join a programme of

reduction of payment deadlines to suppliers, the celebration of

medium-and long-term loans intended for the payment of debts to

suppliers and in addition to the short-term borrowings contracted by the

Autonomous Regions and the municipalities for cash support, as long as they are not

outpaced net borrowing levels admitted by law.

4-The amount of the medium-and long-term loan referred to in the preceding paragraph

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may not exceed:

a) In the case of Autonomous Regions, the value of the debt resulting from the acquisition of

goods and services and of capital goods registered at the end of the first half of

2007, in accordance with the communication to the Directorate-General for Budget that occurred

in the third quarter of 2007;

b) In the case of municipalities, the value of debt to suppliers (item 22 of the

POCAL) registered at the end of the first half of 2007, according to the

communication to the Directorate General of Local Authorities that occurred in the third

quarter of 2007.

5-A the celebration of loans pursuant to paragraphs 3 and 4 does not waiver the Municipalities of the

compliance with the net borrowing reduction obligation set out in paragraph 2

of Article 37 of Law No 2/2007 of January 15.

Article 124.

Rate on the marketing of cosmetic and body hygiene products

The percentage of the rate on the marketing of cosmetics and hygiene products

body provided for in the letter a) of Article 1 (1) of the Decree-Law No. 312/2002 of 20 of

December, is set at 1% in the year 2008.

Article 125.

Fee payment to the security forces in the framework of requests for collaboration

The provision of services, by the Republican National Guard and the Security Police

Public, which arise from requests for the collaboration of public or private entities, in the

terms provided for in the respective organic laws, is subject to the payment of fee, whose

conditions and value are defined by porterie of the members of the Government responsible for the

areas of finance and internal administration.

Article 126.

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Remnant Fund of the Reconstruction of the Chiado

The financial balances of the Remnant of the Reconstruction of the Chiado placed at the

order of the Directorate General of the Treasury and Finance in accordance with Article 24 (2) of the

Decree-Law No. 321/2002, of December 31, and of the b) of paragraph 1 of the same article, in the

wording given by Law No. 53-A/2006 of December 29 are allocated to the constitution of

a background for the requalification of the riparian front of the Lower-Chiado.

Article 127.

Amendment to Decree-Law No 74/70 of March 2

Article 4 of the Decree-Law No. 74/70 of March 2, amended by the Decrees-Laws n. para.

793/76, of November 5, 275-A/93, of August 9, and 503/99, of November 20,

is replaced by the following:

" Article 4.

[...]

1-The provisions of this decree-law do not apply to services with

administrative and financial autonomy, nor to those endowed with autonomy

administrative and own non-consignment revenue, regardless of the

value of these revenues.

2-[...].

3-The procedural costs, fines, avulous acts and payment interest inherent in

legal proceedings due by any public entities, are

supported directly by the service to which the organ belongs to, from

agreement with the respective sphere of competences, gave rise to the cause,

understanding yourself as such that:

a) Which draws direct usefulness or in which the derivative derivative is projected

of the provenance of the action; or

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b) The one which is attributable to the challenged legal act or on which to recai the

duty to practise the legal acts or observe the behaviours

intended.

4-When they are several the services that gave rise to the cause, it competes

ministry-general of the ministry or, when they belong to different

ministries, to the general secretariat of the one that first figure in the law

organic of the Government in force at the time of settlement, proceed to the

payment, without prejudice to the right of return, calculated as a function of the

division of the total value of the costs by the number of services involved.

5-The payment of costs, of procedural fines or interest of late payment

referring to legal proceedings that have for the subject acts of the members

of the Government delivered in the context of administrative resources competes in the

services that practiced the decision resorted to.

6-When the responsible entity in the terms of the previous figures do not

possess legal personality, the costs are borne by the person

collective that exercises guardian over the one or the one who is entrusted with the management

financial of the said entity.

7-The charges referred to in paragraph 3 arising from acts practiced by the

Council of Ministers are supported by the General Secretariat of the Presidency

of the Council of Ministers, for which the Secretariat-General of the Ministry of

Finance and the Public Administration transfers the corresponding appropriations,

when it is necessary, upon permission of the member of the Government

responsible for the area of finance. "

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Article 128.

Amendment to Decree-Law No 269/98 of September 1

Article 19 of the regime of procedures for the purpose of requiring compliance with

emerging pecuniary obligations of contracts of value not more than € 15000, annex to

Decree-Law No. 269/98 of September 1, is replaced by the following:

" Article 19.

Costs

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-A delivery of the application for injunction by lawyer or solicitor must

be carried out only by electronic means.

5-The applicant who, being represented by counsel or solicitor, does not

comply with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be subject to the immediate payment

of a fine in the amount of half unit of account, save allegation and

proof of fair impediment, in the terms provided for in Article 146 of the

Code of Civil Procedure.

6-[ Previous Article No 4 ].

7-[ Previous Article No 5 ]. "

Article 129.

Amendment to Law No. 159/99 of September 14

Article 9 of Law No 159/99 of September 14 is replaced by the following:

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" Article 9.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-A governance of operational programmes (OPs) that integrate the Framework of

National Strategic Reference (QREN), including the respective management,

be governed by the provisions of the Decree-Law No. 312/2007 of September 17. "

Article 130.

Amendment to Decree-Law No 77/2007 of March 29

Article 7 of the Decree-Law No. 77/2007 of March 29 is replaced by the following:

" Article 7.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-The own revenue referred to in paragraph 2 shall be consigned to the realization of

expenses of the ANSR during the implementation of the budget of the year to which

respect, and the unused balances may be transiting for the following year. "

Article 131.

Amendment to the Code of Expropriations

Articles 20 and 23 of the Code of Expropriations, passed by Law No. 168/99, of 18

of September, they are replaced by the following:

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" Article 20.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-The deposit referred to in point b) of paragraph 1 may be replaced by

surety provided by any of the legally permissible forms.

6-[ Previous Article No 5 ].

Article 23.

[...]

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

7-The State, when it satisfies the compensation, has a right of return on the

expropriating entity, and may, regardless of any

formalities, proceed to the cactivation of budgetary transfers, up to the

total debt value, including the interest of mora that show due

from the date of payment of compensation. "

Article 132.

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Budgetary reinforcement

It is the Government authorized to strengthen the budgets of the entities responsible for the

dematerialization of the judicial processes, streamlining of electronic communications between

all actors of the criminal procedure, as well as the enlargement of the system of

electronic monitoring of defendants, up to the amount of € 7500000, in the framework of the

flexible management.

Article 133.

Competence for authorisation of expenditure in local authorities

1-It is the Government authorized to legislate on the competence to authorize the realization of

expenditure on the celebration and execution of public procurement by local authorities,

within the framework of the revision of the legal regime of the realization of constant public expenditure

of Articles 16 to 22 and 29 of the Decree-Law No. 197/99 of June 8, with the following

sense and extent:

a) Raising the thresholds up to which each of the organs of local authorities can

authorize the realization of spending, in the sense of strengthening its competences

own and delegated, having to limit double the values currently in force;

b) Establish the competence to authorize the realization of expenses arising from the

execution of public contracts up to amounts identical to those set out in the terms

of the provisions of the preceding paragraph;

c) Possibility to establish that the amounts referred to in the above points

can be increased up to three times in the case of urgency, objectively

verifiable, of the works or reparations to be carried out;

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d) Assign competence to the deliberative bodies of local authorities to

authorization of expenses that originate charges in more than one economic year, and

that are not foreseen in multiannual plans of activities.

2-A present legislative authorization shall be valid for 180 days.

Article 134.

Amendment to Law No. 25/2006 of June 30

Articles 12, 15, 16 and 17 of Law No. 25/2006 of June 30, go on to have the following

wording:

" Article 12.

Voluntary payment of the fine

1-[...].

2-Should the defendants not use the faculty conferred by the preceding paragraph, the

dealerships or the entities by these tasked with the collection of fees

of toll due, send the news self to the Institute of Infra-

Road Structures, I. P., which instaura, within the scope of competence

provided for in this Law, the corresponding counterordinance procedure and

notifies the accused, by joining the notification the duplicate of the news self.

3-[...].

4-[...].

5-[...].

6-[...].

Article 15.

Competence for the process

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The Institute of Road Infrastructure, I. P., is the competent entity for

the introduction and instruction of the counterordinance processes to which it relates to

present law, as well as for the decision to apply for the respective fines.

Article 16.

Compliance with the decision

The fine and the due toll fee must be paid within 15 working days

from the date on which the decision becomes final, owing to the payment

carry out before the Office of Road Infrastructure, I. P., and in the

modalities that are to be fixed in regulation.

Article 17.

Distribution of the product of the fines

1-[...].

2-[...].

3-[...]:

a) [...];

b) 20% for the Institute of Road Infrastructure, I. P.

c) [...];

d) [...].

4-[...]. "

Article 135.

Addition to Law No. 25/2006 of June 30

They are deferred to Law No. 25/2006 of June 30, Articles 16-and 16-B with the following

wording:

" Article 16.

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Prescription of the procedure

The procedures by counter-ordinance provided for in this Law extinguish

by the effect of prescription as soon as, on the practice of counterordinance, have

elapsed two years.

Article 16-B

Prescription of fines and ancillary sanctions

The fines and ancillary penalties provided for in this Law shall prescribe within the term

of two years. "

Article 136.

Extinction of the Commission of Explosives

The Decree-Law No. 137/2002 of May 16 is repealed.

Article 137.

Entry into force

This Law shall come into force on the January 1, 2008.

Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of October 11, 2007

The Prime Minister

The Minister of State and Finance

The Minister of the Presidency

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The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

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Table of changes and budget transfers

referred to in Article 6.

Multiple changes and transfers

1 Transition to the State Budget of 2008 of the balances of funding allocations

national associated with community co-funding, constant from the previous year's budget,

for projects co-financed from the same Budget Programme, with the aim that the

Programme does not suffer any interruption for lack of monies

2 Transfer of a sum, up to the limit of 10% of the allocation available in the year 2008 and by

dispatching set of the Ministers responsible for the areas of finance and national defence,

intended for the coverage of charges, specifically, with the preparation, operations and training of

forces, in accordance with the purpose laid down in Article 1 of the Organic Law No. 4/2006, of 29 of

August

3 Transfer of appropriations entered in the budgets of all the departments of the Ministry of

Internal Administration, relating to expenditure on acquisition of data communications services,

for the same item in the budget of the Directorate General for Infrastructures and Equipment, with the

limit of € 4000000, provided that these transfers become necessary by development

of the National Homeland Security Network project,

4 Changes between chapters of the budget of the Ministry of National Defence arising from the Act

of the Military Service, of the ongoing reorganization process at the Ministry of National Defence,

of the disposals and reallocations of the immovable property allocated to the Armed Forces, within the framework of the missions

humanitarian and peace and military observers not framed in these missions

5 Transfer of appropriations from the Ministry of National Defence to the General Box of Retirements,

I. P. and for Social Security, intended for the reimbursement of payment of the provided benefits

in the Laws No 9/2002 of February 11, and 21/2004, of June 5, and in the Decrees-Leis paragraphs

160/2004, of July 2, and 320-A/2000 of December 15, with the amendments that were

introduced by Decree-Law No. 118/2004 of May 21

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6 Transfer to the budget of the Ministry of National Defence of appropriations entered in the budget

of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, for the comparticipation in the reequipment

of the ship "Admiral Gago Coutinho", in accordance with the protocol signed in 15 of

November 2004

7 Transfer of appropriations entered in the budget of the Judicial Magistrate for the budget of the

Superior Council of Magistration for payments under Article 3 (1) of the Law n.

36/2007, from August 14, to the limit of € 89025000

8 Transfer of monies to the Regional Government of the Azores up to the amount of € 4500000 of

Program 18 "Urban and regional local development", inscribed at the Institute of Housing and

Urban Rehabilitation, I. P., in Chapter 50 of the Ministry of the Environment, Planning

Territory and Regional Development, for the title of comparticipation in the reconstruction process

of the habitational park of the islands of Faial and Peak.

9 Budget changes and transfers necessary to the implementation of the proportional sharing system

of expenditure on personnel and expenditure relating to the common use of spaces, facilities, goods and

services in the Citizen's Stores and in the Centres of Corporate Formalities.

10 Regional Health Administrations and the Institute of Quality in Health stay authorized to

carry out transfers within the PIDDAC to the hospitals of the National Health Service with

the nature of business public entities.

11 The Ministry of Health must transfer to the Ministry of Justice the amount of € 1000000, which

constitutes revenue from the Office of the Registered and Notariat, I. P., intended to compensate for that

service by the realization of expenses associated with the citizen card

12 Transfer of appropriations within the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (chapter

50), Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), intended for programs with classifications

different functional, including integrated services

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13 Transfer of appropriations within the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (chapter

50), UMIC-Agency for the Society of Knowledge, I. P., intended for programs with

different functional classifications, including integrated services

14 Transfer of appropriations entered in the budgets of laboratories and other State bodies

for other laboratories, regardless of the organic and functional classification, provided that the

transfers become necessary by the development of projects and activities of

scientific research in charge of these entities

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Changes and transfers within the framework of the Central Administration

DESTINATION ORIGIN

MAXIMUM LIMITS

OF THE AMOUNTS

The TRANSFER

SCOPE / PURPOSE

15 Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity

Institute of Employment and Vocational Training, I. P.

High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue, I. P.

€ 4187000 Ensuring the operation of the activities of the entity

16 Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity

Institute of Employment and Vocational Training, I. P.

National Institute of Rehabilitation, I. P.

€ 190000 Financing of operating expenses

17 Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity

Social Action System of the Social Security budget

Program Choices

€ 5750000 Financing of operating expenses and transfers relating to the same Programme

18 Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity

Social Security Budget

Directorate General for Social Security

€ 300404 Health of the technical support structure for family affairs

19 Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity

Social Security Budget

Directorate General for Social Security

€ 205000 Development of Social Security reform

20 Ministry of Culture

General Secretariat (operating budget)

Foundation Cultural Center of Bethlehem

€ 7900000

Financing of activity

21 Ministry of Culture

General Secretariat (operating budget)

Observatory of Cultural Activities

€ 200000

Financing of activity

22 Ministry of Culture

General Secretariat (operating budget)

House of Music Foundation

€ 9000000

Financing of activity

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Transfers relating to Chapter 50

DESTINATION ORIGIN

MAXIMUM LIMITS

OF THE AMOUNTS

The TRANSFER

SCOPE / PURPOSE

23 Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Office for the Media

Radio and Television of Portugal, S. A.

€ 500,000 Modernization of the televisions of the PLOPS

24 Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Office for the Media

Radio and Television of Portugal, S. A.

€ 141,100 Modernization of the radio of the PLOPS

25 Ministry of Finance and Public Administration

Institute of Informatics

Resource-Sharing Management Company of the Public Administrations (GeRAP), E. P. E.

€ 9000000 Human resource management and financial resource management system in shared mode in Public Administration

26 Ministry of the Environment, Territory Planning and Regional Development

Portuguese Agency for the Environment (APA)

EDM-Company of Developing Mineiro, S. A.

€ 140000

Environmental restoration projects of degraded mining areas

27 Ministry of the Environment, Territory Planning and Regional Development

Institute of Water, I. P.

RECILIS-Treatment and enhancement of Efluents, S. A., and Trevo West-Treatment and Valorization of Livestock Waste, S. A.

€ 1000000

Participation in projects for the treatment of pig effluents from the river basins of the river Lis and the Royal rivers, Arnóia and Tornada

192

DESTINATION ORIGIN

MAXIMUM LIMITS

OF THE AMOUNTS

The TRANSFER

SCOPE / PURPOSE

28 Ministry of the Environment, Territory Planning and Regional Development

Office of the Minister of the Environment, Territory Planning and Regional Development

Expo Park 98 S. A.

€ 3000000 Participation of Portugal in the Expo Saragoza 2008

29 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Administration of the Port of Setúbal and Sesimbra, S. A.

€ 1000000 Financing of Port Infrastructure and Environmental and Planning Monitoring Plan

30 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Administration of the Port of Lisbon, S. A.

€ 2000000

Financing of port infrastructure

31 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Administration of the Port of Douro and Leixões, S. A.

€ 4000000

Financing of port infrastructure

32 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Administration of the Port of Aveiro, S. A.

€ 2564779

Financing of port infrastructure and acessibilities

33 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Administration of the Port of Sines, S. A.

€ 922500

Facilities, operating systems for supervision and safety and landscape planning and recovery

193

DESTINATION ORIGIN

MAXIMUM LIMITS

OF THE AMOUNTS

The TRANSFER

SCOPE / PURPOSE

34 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

EDAB-Company for the Developing of Beja Airport

€ 5600000

Financing of airport infrastructure

35 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Metro of Porto, S. A.

€ 8000000

Funding for long-term infrastructure and rolling stock

36 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Metropolite in the of Lisbon, E. P.

€ 5000000

Funding for long-term infrastructure

37 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Metro of the Mondego, S. A.

€ 4472000

Financing of the Mondego lightweight metropolitan system

38 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

CP-Railways of Portuguese Iron, E. P.

€ 9000000

Financing of rolling stock, bilhtics and interfaces

39 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

RAVE-High Speed Network, E. P.

€ 12500000

Funding for Studies and Projects

40 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

TRANSTEJO -Transport Tejo, S. A.

€ 4500000

Fleet Financing, Bilhethics and extension and Modernization of Terminals

194

DESTINATION ORIGIN

MAXIMUM LIMITS

OF THE AMOUNTS

The TRANSFER

SCOPE / PURPOSE

41 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Metropolite Authority in the Transport of Lisbon, E. P. E.

€ 500000

Installation and apetrecting and financing of investments in the integrated mobility system of the Metropolitan area of Lisbon

42 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Planning Office, Strategy and International Relations

Metropolite Authority in the Transport of Porto, E. P. E.

€ 500000

Installation and apetrecting and financing of investments in the integrated mobility system of the Port Metropolitan Area

43 Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications

Institute of Mobility and Terrestrial Transport, I. P.

OTLIS-Transport Operators of the Region of Lisbon, ACE

€ 200000

Generalization of bilhtics without contact to the private operators of the Lisbon Region

44 Ministry of Health

Regional Health Administration of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo

Ministry of National Defence / Fund of Ancient Combatants

€ 2613360 Satisfaction of the commitments made with the acquisition of the land for the construction of the new Cascais hospital (Resolution of the Council of Ministers No 140/2004)

195

DESTINATION ORIGIN

MAXIMUM LIMITS

OF THE AMOUNTS

The TRANSFER

SCOPE / PURPOSE

45 Ministry of Health

Regional Health Administration of the North

Ministry of National Defence-Directorate General of Infra-structures

€ 1,250,000 Reallocation of the PM 5 / Braga-Carrier de Tiro de São Victor and satisfaction of the commitments made with the acquisition of the land for the construction of the new Braga Hospital under the terms of the Joint Dispatch n. 71/2005 of December 27, 2004.

46 Ministry of Culture

General Secretariat Foundation House of Music

€ 2500000

Financing of activity

196

Transfers to external entities, in addition to those listed in Chapter 50

DESTINATION ORIGIN

LIMITS

MAXIMUM OF THE

AMOUNTS TO

TRANSFER

SCOPE / PURPOSE

47 Ministry of the Environment, Territory Planning and

of the Developement

the Regional

Directorate-General for Territory Planning and

Urban Development

SetúbalPOLIS, Society for the Development of the POLIS Program in

Setúbal, S. A.

€ 315012 Financing in the framework of urban requalification

48 Ministry of the Environment, Territory Planning and

of the Developement

the Regional

Directorate-General for Territory Planning and

Urban Development

Cacém POLIS, Society for the Development of the POLIS Program in

Cacém, S. A.

€ 1046535

Funding in the framework of urban requalification

49 Ministry of the Environment, Territory Planning and

of the Developement

the Regional

Directorate-General for Territory Planning and

Urban Development

Take POLIS, Society for the Development of the POLIS Program in

Take, S. A.

€ 438549

Funding in the framework of urban requalification

50 Ministry of the Environment, Territory Planning and

of the Developement

the Regional

Directorate-General for Territory Planning and

Urban Development

VianaPolis Society for the Development of the POLIS Program in

Viana do Castelo, S. A.

€ 928227

Funding in the framework of urban requalification

51 Ministry of the Environment, Territory Planning and

of the Developement

the Regional

Direction-General of the

Planning of the Territory

and Developing

nto Urbano

CostaPolis, Society for the

Development of the POLIS Program on the Coast of Caparica,

S. A.

€ 2672976 Financing in the framework of urban requalification

197

DESTINATION ORIGIN

LIMITS

MAXIMUM OF THE

AMOUNTS TO

TRANSFER

SCOPE / PURPOSE

52 Ministry of Economy and

Innovation

Secretary-General

Innovation Agency € 400000 Operational management of supports to business strategies in the field of technological innovation and the dynamisation of business technological enveloping

53 Ministry of Economy and

Innovation

Institute of Support for

Small and Médias

Companies and the Investment

Agency for Investment and

Foreign Trade of Portugal

€ 3500000 Under Article 24º of the Annex to Decree-Law No 245/2007 of June 25

54 Ministry of Public Works,

transport and Communications

General Secretariat-Metropolitan Authority

of Transport from Lisbon,

E. P. E.

€ 688300 Expense of

health

55 Ministry of Public Works,

transport and Communications

General Secretariat-Metropolitan Authority

of Transport from Porto,

E. P. E.

€ 688300 Expense of

health