Key Benefits:
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Proposed Law No. 201 /X
Exhibition of Motives
The Grand Options of the Plan for 2009 present the state of implementation of the action
rule-based, with prominence for the most recent period of 2007-2008, and identify the
main lines of policy performance for 2009, according to the five strategic options
firmed up in the Grand Options of the Plan for the legislature (2005-2009).
For 2009, the policy performance lines provided for in the Major Plan Options maintain-
if consistent with the outlined strategy, based on the implementation of reforms
necessary for the development of the Country, the importance of which for the resolution of problems
structural had already been identified long ago but that tardded in being executed.
The Government will thus continue the strong bet on raising the growth potential of the
economy, supporting the ongoing recovery and restructuring of economic activity and the
job creation, as well as in support of citizens and families, seeking to strengthen the
its capacity to participate in the collective effort of creating wealth, in modernization
of Portuguese society and in sharing the improvements of well-being.
In coherence with the strategy adopted by the Government, the great options of the policy of
public investment in 2009 will continue to privilege the areas of knowledge and of the
qualification of human resources, structural elements for a development
sustained. At the same time, with respect to physical investment, the Government has
oriented towards its initiatives for areas of support for the business fabric as well as for the
promotion of investments in the energy sector, with a view to reducing dependence
energy face to the outside.
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The Grand Options of the Plan for 2009 have been submitted to the Council's opinion
Economic and Social and the said opinion has been taken into account in the drafting of the document
final now submitted for approval.
Thus:
Under the terms of the paragraph d) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the
Assembly of the Republic the following proposal for a law:
Article 1.
Subject
The Grand Options of the Plan for 2009 are approved.
Article 2.
Strategic framework
The Big Options of the Plan for 2009 are to be found in the development strategy
economic and social of the country defined in the Programme of the XVII Constitutional Government, in the
Major Options of the Plan for 2005-2009, in the National Action Plan for the
Growth and Employment (PNACE), in the Stability and Growth Plan (PEC) and in the
National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN).
Article 3.
European context
Portugal should continue to strengthen its role in European construction by dining on the
work associated with the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and participating in the debate
on the Lisbon Strategy in the pós-2010 period.
Article 4.
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Big Plan Options
1-The Major Options of the Plan for 2009 present the state of the implementation of the action
rule-based, with prominence for the most recent period of 2007-2008, and identify the
main lines of policy performance for 2009 that allow to realize the
guidelines advocated in the medium-and long-term instruments referred to in the article
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2-The priorities for 2009 focus on the implementation of policies that aim to elevate the
potential for growth of the economy and promote the sustainable development of the
country in a framework of consolidated public finance and strengthening social cohesion and
territorial, being the main areas of intervention as follows:
a) Raising the potential for economic growth and employment through the
promotion of knowledge and qualification of human resources, of the
scientific, technological development and innovation and competition, as
strategy to modernize the productive structure and potentiate the competitiveness of
Portuguese companies;
b) Support of citizens and families through active policies that allow
strengthen its capacity to participate in the collective effort to create
wealth, the modernization of Portuguese society and the sharing of the improvements of
well-estar;
c) Consolidation and long-term sustainability of public accounts and improvement of the
quality of public finances, through the structural reduction of public expenditure and
of a qualitative improvement of the process, control and budgetary implementation, in
in line with the latest update of the Stability Programme and
Growth;
d) Modernization of the Public Administration, adapting it to a new paradigm in
that is valued the role that the quality of the public provision of services and of the
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governance of public institutions plays in competitiveness and the
change of the competitive basis of the economy;
e) Sustainable development as a form of resource optimization and
harnessing synergies that enable a growth and development
balanced and lasting.
3-The investment priorities set out in the Major Plan Options for 2009
will be contemplated and compatibilized in the framework of the State Budget for 2009,
and properly articulated with the National Strategic Reference Framework.
4-In the year 2009, the Government will act in the legislative, regulatory framework and
administrative, so as to realize the realization, in each of the areas, of the
targets set out in the Major Options of the Plan for 2005-2009.
Article 5.
Final disposition
It is published in annex to this Law, of which it is an integral part, the document of the
Big Plan Options for 2009.
Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of May 15, 2008
The Prime Minister
The Minister of the Presidency
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs