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Great Plan Options For 2009

Original Language Title: Grandes Opções do Plano para 2009

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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