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Proposal for Law No 301 /XII

Exhibition of Motives

Law No. 2/2013 of January 10 established a new legal regime of creation,

organization and operation of professional public associations. The new regime

covers free provision of services, freedom of establishment, internships

professionals, the societies of professionals, the regimes of incompatibilities and

impediments, advertising and the widespread provision of relevant information

about the professionals and about the respected societies regulated by public associations

professionals.

In accordance with Article 53 of Law No 2/2013 of January 10, it becomes

necessary to appropriate the bylaws of the professional public associations already set up under the scheme

of that law.

By this proposed law proceeds to the adequacy of the Statute of the Order of the

Engineers, approved by the Decree-Law No. 119/92 of June 30, to the Law regime

n ° 2/2013 of January 10, the revision of which translates, in essence, the maintenance of the

statutory provisions already existing, with the changes arising from the application of the said

law.

Thus:

In accordance with Article 53 (5) of Law No 2/2013 of January 10 and of the d ) from the

n Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the Assembly of the Republic a

the following proposed law:

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Article 1.

Object

This Law amends the Statute of the Order of Engineers, approved by the Decree-Law

n ° 119/92 of June 30 in accordance with Law No. 2/2013 of January 10, which

establishes the legal regime for the creation, organization and operation of the associations

professional public.

Article 2.

Amendment of the Status of the Order of Engineers

The Statute of the Order of Engineers, approved by the Decree-Law No. 119/92, of 30 of

June, it becomes the constant essay in Annex I to this Law and of which it is a part

member.

Article 3.

Engineering graduations prior to the application of Decree-Law No. 74/2006, de

March 24

For the purposes of the provisions of the Statute of the Order of Engineers set out in Annex I to the

present law, specifically for the purpose of enrolment, determination of the probationary period,

and assignment of professional titles, they are deemed to also satisfy the condition

provided for in paragraph a) of Art. 15 (1) of the said Statute in a specialty of the

field of engineering, those that meet one of the following conditions:

a) Be a holder of the degree of licentiate in a field of engineering conferred by a

Portuguese higher education institution in the framework of the organisation of studies

previous to the application of Decree-Law No. 74/2006 of March 24, as amended by the

Decrees-Laws No 107/2008, of June 25, 230/2009, of September 14, and

115/2013, of August 7;

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b) Be a holder of a foreign higher academic degree in a field of engineering

to which equivalence has been conferred to the degree referred to in the preceding paragraph, or that

has been recognized with the level of that.

Article 4.

Regulation

The regulations approved under the Statute of the Order of Engineers, approved

by Decree-Law No. 119/92 of June 30, which do not contravene the provisions of the Act

n ° 2/2013 of January 10 and in the Statute of the Order of Engineers listed in the Annex

I à this law, remain in force until the publication of the new regulations.

Article 5.

Elections

1-Within 60 days of the publication of this Law, the representative assembly approves, under

proposal of the national governing council, the electoral regulation in accordance with the Statute of the

Order of the Engineers set out in Annex I to this Law.

2-Within 120 days of the publication of this Law, they must be completed, according to

the new statutory standards and the electoral regulation, the elections for national bodies and

Regional of the Order of Engineers, ceasing the mandate of those elected on December 31, 2017.

3-The mandate of the current national and regional leaders of the Cessa Order with the possession of the holders

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elected, in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Article 6.

Distrital and island delegations

1-A The Order of Engineers institutes delegations in the districts, islands or groups of islands,

by deliberation of the national governing board, on a proposal from the board of directives

regional, once domiciled 80 effector members in the constituencies concerned.

2-Are since already installed the following district delegations:

a) In the northern region: Braga, Bragança, Viana of the Castle and Vila Real;

b) In the central region: Aveiro, White Castle, Guard, Leiria and Viseu;

c) In the southern region: Évora, Faro, Portalegre and Santarém.

Article 7.

Republication

It is republished in Annex II to this Law and of which it is an integral part, the Decree-Law

n. 119/92, of June 30, with the current essay.

Article 8.

Entry into force

This Law shall come into force 120 days after its publication.

Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of March 12, 2015

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The Prime Minister

The Minister of the Presidency and Parliamentary Affairs

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ANNEX I

(referred to in Article 2)

STATUS OF THE ORDER OF ENGINEERS

Title I

From the Order

CHAPTER I

General provisions

Article 1.

Denomination, nature and headquarters

1-A The Order of Engineers, hereinafter referred to, abridgingly, by Order, is the public association

representative professional of professionals, who, in accordance with the precepts of the present

Statute and the remaining applicable provisions, exercise the profession of an engineer.

2-A Order is independent of the organs of the State and enjoys administrative, financial autonomy,

scientific and disciplinary.

3-A Order is a collective person of public law and in the exercise of their public powers practise the

administrative acts necessary for the performance of its functions and approves the regulations

provided for in the Act and in this Statute.

4-Ressalved the cases provided for in the law, the acts and regulations of the Order are not subject to

governmental approval.

5-A Order has its registered office in Lisbon.

Article 2.

Administrative tutelage

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The powers of administrative tutelage referred to in Article 45 of Law No. 2/2013 of 10 of

january, are exercised by the member of the Government responsible for the construction sector.

Article 3.

Mission

It is the mission of the Order to exercise, pursuant to this Statute, the control of access to

professional activity of engineer and his / her exercise, contribute to the defence, the

promotion and the progress of engineering, stimulate the efforts of its members in the

scientific, professional and social domains, and championing ethics, deontology, valorisation and

professional qualification of engineers.

Article 4.

Attributions

1-A Order has as fundamental scope to contribute to the progress of engineering by stimulating the

efforts of its associates in the scientific, professional and social fields, as well as compliance

of the rules of professional ethics.

2-In the pursuit of your assignments, it is up to the Order:

a) Ensuring compliance with the rules of professional ethics and the level of professional qualification

of the engineers, as well as the rest who, registered in the Order, exercise the activity of

engineering in the national territory;

b) Assign, in exclusive, the professional title of engineer;

c) Collectively defend the legitimate interests, rights and prerogatives of their

members and to provide them with training and information services on the subjects directly

related to the exercise of professional activity;

d) To ensure the social function, dignity and prestige of the profession of engineer and to assign distinctions

and honorific titles;

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e) To foster the development of teaching and training in engineering and to participate in the

official processes of accreditation and evaluation of the courses giving access to the profession, or in

others promoted by domestic or foreign entities.

f) Contribute to the structuring of engineers ' careers;

g) Protecting the title and profession of engineer by promoting the judicial procedure against

who use it or to exercise it illegally, and may, in particular, constitute an assistant in

criminal procedure;

h) To promote cooperation and solidarity among their associates;

i) To value the professional qualification of engineers by the assignment of specialist titles,

senior and adviser and for active participation in their continuing education by issuing the

competent certificates and professional ballots;

j) To provide technical and scientific collaboration in the area of engineering that is requested by

any entities, public or private, when they are concerned with related matters

with its purposes and assignments or with the pursuit of purposes of related public interest

with the profession of engineer;

k) Participate in the drafting of legislation that concerns the access and exercise of the profession of

engineer;

l) Develop relations with related, national and foreign associations, and may constitute or

join international unions and federations;

m) Exercise disciplinary jurisdiction over engineers and all those who, registered in the Order,

exercise the engineering activity on the national territory;

n) Elaborate and keep up to date the registration of members;

o) Recognizing professional qualifications for the exercise of the profession of engineer obtained

out of Portugal by citizens of State-Member of the European Union or the Economic Area

European and, under conditions of reciprocity, by citizens of third countries, under the terms of

law, of the law of the European Union, of international convention or on the basis of agreement of

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cooperation between the Order and foreign afim entity;

p) Establish forms of collaboration or cooperation with European and foreign entities

which aim to facilitate and encourage the mobility of professionals, particularly through the

issuance, validation and use of the European professional portfolio;

q) Regulate the professional activity of engineers, pursuant to this Statute;

r) Create, whenever it is justified, forms of representation in the European Union, in Space

European Economic and abroad, so as to be able to provide support services to the

engineers who will exercise their professional activity;

s) To promote forms and means of communication with the aim of providing its members and the

public in general information updated in the technical, scientific, deontological, legal and

cultural, and, as well, promote, sponsor or support the editing of publications or articles

with relevance in the area of engineering;

t) Celebrate protocols with public or private entities intended to obtain conditions

advantageous and benefits to its members in respect of the goods supplied and or

services provided by those entities;

u) Defend the interests of the recipients of the services;

v) Exercise the remaining functions that result from the law and the provisions of this Statute.

3-It Is Incumbent on the Order to represent the engineers to the organs of sovereignty and collaborate with the

State and too many public entities.

4-A Order may intervene, as an assistant, in the judicial proceedings in which it is part one of its

members and in which they are concerned with issues related to the exercise of the profession of

engineer.

5-A The Order is entitled to use insignia, flag and seal of its own.

Article 5.

Autonomy, patrimonial and financial

1-A Order has own heritage and own finances, as well as budgetary autonomy,

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without prejudice to its subjection to the jurisdiction of the Court of Auditors pursuant to the law.

2-A Financial autonomy includes the power to set the value of the monthly or annual quota of its members,

as well as the fees for the services provided.

CHAPTER II

Members

Article 6.

Inscription

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 9, the attribution of the title, its use and the exercise of the

profession of engineer depend on enrolment as an effective member of the Order, be it

liberal form or on account of outrain, and regardless of public sector, private,

cooperative or social in which the activity is exercised.

Article 7.

Title of engineer and exercise of the profession

1-The engineer deals with the application of the sciences and techniques concerning the different specialties

of engineering in the activities of research, conception, study, project, manufacture, construction,

production, evaluation, surveillance and quality control and safety, peritting and audit of

engineering, including the coordination and management of these activities and others with them related.

2-Are own acts of those carrying out the engineering activity the constants of Law No. 31/2009, of 3

of July, and of other laws that especially conscribe them.

3-The exercise of professional activity on account of outrain does not affect the technical autonomy of the

professional nor dispensing with compliance with the same of the deontological duties.

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4-The illegal use of the title of engineer or the exercise of the respecting profession without the fulfillment of the

requirements for access to the profession on national territory are punished under the criminal law.

5-The workers of the services and bodies of the direct and indirect administration of the State, of the regions

autonomous, local authorities and the other public collective people, who practise, in the

exercise of their duties, own acts of the profession of engineer, and carry out actions of

verification, approval, audit or surveillance on previous acts, must be validly

enrolled as effective members of the Order.

Article 8.

Right of establishment

1-The recognition of professional qualifications of national Member State of the European Union

or from the European Economic Area obtained outside Portugal for your enrolment as a member of

Order is governed by Law No. 9/2009 of March 4, amended by the Laws No. 41/2012, of 28 of

August, and 25/2014, of May 2, without prejudice to special conditions of reciprocity if the

qualifications in question have been obtained outside the European Union or the Economic Area

European.

2-The professional who intends to register in the Order under the preceding paragraph and who shall pay

services, in a subordinate or autonomous manner or as a partner or who attests as a manager or

administrator in the Member State of origin, within the framework of associative organization of professionals,

observed the provisions of Article 37 (4) of the Law No. 2/2013 of January 10, shall identify the

organization concerned in the application submitted pursuant to Article 47 of Law No. 9/2009 of 4 of

The March, amended by the Laws 41/2012, of August 28, and 25/2014, of May 2.

3-In case the fact to be communicated in the terms of the preceding paragraph shall occur after the submission of the application for

recognition of qualifications, should the associative organization in question be identified in the face of

Order within the maximum term of 60 days.

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Article 9.

Free provision of services

1-The legally established professionals in another Member State of the European Union or of Space

European Economic and that there they develop activities comparable to the professional activity of

engineer regulated by this Statute, may exercise them, in an occasional and sporadic manner, in

national territory, in regime of free provision of services under the terms of Law No. 9/2009, 4 of

The March, amended by the Laws 41/2012, of August 28, and 25/2014, of May 2.

2-The professionals referred to in the preceding paragraph are equated with the engineer for all purposes

legal in which such a professional qualification is required for the exercise of a particular

activity, except where the contrary results from the provisions in question.

3-The professional who will pay services, in a subordinate or autonomous manner or in the quality of a partner or

which act as a manager or administrator in the Member State of origin, within the framework of organisation

associative of professionals and intends to engage in their professional activity on national territory

in that capacity, in regime of free provision of services, shall identify before the Order a

associative organization, on the account of which it provides services, in the declaration referred to in Article 5 of the Law

no 9/2009 of March 4, as amended by Laws No 41/2012 of August 28, and 25/2014, of 2 of

may.

Article 10.

Electro trade

The legally established professionals in the Member State of the European Union or of the

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European Economic Area that will develop activities comparable to activity

professional engineer regulated by this Statute, may exercise them, through

electro trade, with fate to the national territory, observed to be the

requirements applicable in the Member State of origin, in particular the standards

deontology there behold, as well as the permanent provision of information

provided for in Article 10 of the Decree-Law No 7/2004 of January 7, as amended by the

Decree-Law No. 62/2009, of March 10, and by Law No. 46/2012 of August 29.

Article 11.

Societies of engineers

1-Engineers established in national territory may exercise in group the profession,

constituting or joining as partners in engineers ' societies.

2-Can still be professional associates of engineers ' societies:

a) Companies of engineers previously constituted and entered as members of the Order;

b) Associative organisations of professionals who are equipped with engineers constituted in another

State Member of the European Union or of the European Economic Area whose capital and rights

of voting would fall majority-level to the professionals concerned.

3-The capital requirement referred to in para. b ) of the previous number is not applicable should this not

dispose of social capital.

4-The equiparation judgment referred to in point (a) b ) of paragraph 2 is governed by:

a) As for nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of the European Economic Area,

by Article 1 (4) of the Law No 9/2009 of March 4, as amended by the Laws 41/2012, of

August 28, and 25/2014, of May 2;

b) As for nationals of third countries whose qualifications have been obtained outside

Portugal, by the internationally-beholdant reciprocity regime.

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5-Societies of engineers shall enjoy the rights and are subject to the duties applicable to the

professionals members of the Order who are compatible with their nature, with the exception of the right

of voting, being in particular subject to the principles and deontological rules set out in the

present Statute.

6-The members of the executive body of professional societies of engineers independently

of its quality of members of the Order, must comply with the principles and rules of the ontological, the

technical and scientific autonomy and the guarantees conferred on engineers by law and the present

Statute.

7-Engineers ' societies may still develop any other activities that are not

incompatible with the activity of engineer, nor in relation to which to check impediment,

under the terms of this Statute, not being those activities subject to the control of the Order.

8-A The constitution and operation of the societies of professionals appears in their own diploma.

9-Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the majority of the social capital with the right to vote of

engineers ' societies, when it exists, belongs to engineers established in territory

national, the societies of engineers constituted under national law, or in other ways

of associative organisation of equied professionals constituted in another Member State of the

European Union or the European Economic Area entered in the Order pursuant to the following article.

Article 12.

Associative organisations of professionals from other Member States

1-The associative organizations of professionals who are equipped with engineers constituted in another State-

Member of the European Union or of the European Economic Area for the exercise of activity

professional whose manager or administrator is a professional and whose capital with right to vote

kayba majoritarian to the professionals concerned and or to other associative organizations whose

capital and voting rights kayba majoritarian to those professionals can sign up for their respects

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permanent representations in Portugal, constituted under the terms of the commercial law, as members

of the Order, while being such equated to company of engineers for the purpose of the present

Statute.

2-The capital requirements referred to in the preceding paragraph shall not apply if the latter does not possess

social capital, applying, in its place, the requirement for the allocation of the majority of voting rights to the

professionals there referred to.

3-The equiparation judgment referred to in paragraph 1 is governed by:

a) As for nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of the European Economic Area,

by Article 1 (4) of the Law No 9/2009 of March 4, as amended by the Laws 41/2012, of

August 28, and 25/2014, of May 2;

b) As for nationals of third countries whose qualifications have been obtained outside

Portugal, by the internationally-beholdant reciprocity regime.

4-The legal regime of enrolment of associative organizations of professionals from other states-

Members appear in the legal regime of the constitution and operation of the companies of professionals

that are subject to professional public associations.

Article 13.

Nationals of third countries

1-Can register in the Order, for the purpose of the exercise on national territory of the profession of

engineer, the nationals of third countries, under agreements under conditions of reciprocity.

2-The candidates mentioned in the previous figures may be required to carry out internship

professional, the frequency of training in ethics and professional deontology and the achievement of evidence

of assessment, in the terms set out in this Statute and in the regulations approved by the Order

for applicants whose qualifications have been obtained in Portugal.

Article 14.

Members

The members of the Order distribute themselves by the following categories:

a) Effective member;

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b) Member trainee;

c) Honorary member;

d) Member student;

e) Corresponding member;

f) Collective member.

Article 15.

Effective member

1-Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 8, admission as an effective member depends on the satisfaction

cumulant of the following conditions:

a) Be a holder of the master's degree in a specialty of the field of engineering conferred by

a Portuguese higher education institution, or of a higher academic degree

foreign in a field of engineering to which equivalence has been conferred to that degree,

or that has been recognized with that level;

b) Having, in the terms of Article 20, carried out and been approved in an internship with duration not

less than six months, or of it has been waived;

c) Have provided evidence of assessment of deontology knowledge for the exercise of the

profession of engineer.

2-Without prejudice to the provisions of the following article, it may still be admitted as an effective member what

satisfy, cumulatively, the following conditions:

a) Be a holder of the degree of licentiate in a field of engineering conferred by an institution of

Portuguese higher education in the framework of the organisation of studies arising from the application of the

Decree-Law No. 74/2006 of March 24, amended by the Decrees-Laws No 107/2008, of 25

of June, 230/2009, of September 14, and 115/2013, of August 7, or of a degree

top foreign academic in a field of engineering to which it has been conferred

equivalence to that degree, or that has been recognized with that level;

b) Having, in the terms of Article 20, carried out and been approved in an internship with duration not

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less than 18 months, or of it has been waived;

c) Have provided evidence of assessment of deontology knowledge for the exercise of the

profession of engineer.

3-Regarding the examination of internship, deontological training and proofs of assessment to which they refer

the previous figures, it is up to the Order, in a regulation approved by the member of the government

responsible for the area of infrastructure define the conditions under which they are carried out, by the

less, once annually.

4-Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 54 (3), effective members shall be enrolled in the college of

specialty corresponding to your course.

5-A society of engineers or associative organization of professionals equated with

engineers can sign up as a member of a particular specialty college when,

at least, one of your partners, managers, administrators or full-time collaborators is

effective member of that same college.

6-Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the legal arrangements for enrolment of the organizations

associative associates of professionals from other Member States appears in the legal regime of the constitution and

operation of the societies of professionals who are subject to public associations

professionals.

Article 16.

Exercise of the profession after admission with graduation

1-The engineers enrolled as effective members in the Order under the preceding Article 2 (s),

assigned level 1 engineers, can practice all of the engineering's own acts,

excepted those expressly vated to them by law, without prejudice to the provisions of the number

next.

2-The engineers referred to in the preceding paragraph pass to the condition of members enrolled in the terms

of paragraph 1 of the previous article, designated level 2 engineers, as soon as:

a) Have five years of effective professional experience, where we demonstrate to have effectuated them

engineering work framed in Article 7 (1) specified in the Annex to the

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this Statute, or

b) They acquire the title of master's degree in a specialty of the field of engineering

conferred by a Portuguese higher education institution, or an academic degree

foreign in a field of engineering to which equivalence has been conferred to that degree,

or that it has been recognized with that level.

Article 17.

Senior engineers and advisers

1-In addition to the title of professional specialty recognized to the member upon enrolment

in the Order in a particular college of specialty, according to its academic background,

could still be assigned to engineers the following titles:

a) Senior engineer;

b) Engineer advisor.

2-The professional title of senior engineer is assigned to the engineers who:

a) Being holders of the master's degree in a specialty of the field of engineering conferred

by a Portuguese higher education institution, or from a higher academic degree

foreign in a field of engineering to which it has been conferred equivalence to that degree

or that has been recognized with that level and have five years of experience

engineering;

b) Not being holders of the academic qualification mentioned in the previous paragraph, have 10

years of experience in engineering.

3-The professional title of an advisor engineer is assigned to the senior engineers who:

a) Be holders of the master's degree in a specialty of the field of engineering conferred

by a Portuguese higher education institution, or from a higher academic degree

foreign in a field of engineering to which equivalence has been conferred to that degree,

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or that has been recognized with that level and have 15 years of experience in

engineering;

b) Not being holders of the academic habilitation mentioned in the preceding paragraph, are 20 years old

of experience in engineering.

Article 18.

Place of inscription

Enrollment in the Order is made in the region of the candidate's tax domicile.

Article 19.

Member trainee

1-Has the category of member trainee the candidate who, for access to effective member, effectuates the

stage provided for in this Statute, in accordance with the terms to be defined by the Order by regulation

homologated by the responsible government member perla area of infrastructure.

2-The national professionals of Member States of the European Union or of the European Economic Area

whose qualifications have been obtained outside Portugal and wish to carry out the internship in territory

national can sign up as trainee members of the Order.

Article 20.

Stage

1-The internship is aimed at the professional habilitation of the trainee, implying not only integration

of the knowledge acquired in the academic training and the experience of its practical application, but

also the perceiving of the conditioners of a deontological, legal, economic, environmental, of

human, security and managerial resources in general that characterize the exercise of the profession of

engineer, so that the profession can be performed competently and

responsible.

2-The internship shall be governed by the provisions of the law, in this Statute and in the regulation of approved internships

by the Order and homologated by the member of the government responsible for the area of infrastructure.

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3-The trainee members enrol in the college of specialty corresponding to that of their course.

4-A enrollment in the Order is made in the region of the candidate's tax domicile.

5-A enrollment in the internship can be done at any time and its realization, to be done within the

parameters defined by the Order, it is the responsibility of the trainee member, without prejudice to the

powers of organization, supervision, control and evaluation of the Order and the powers of direction and

supervision of the internship advisor whose nomination is mandatory.

6-A Order carries out at least once in each year final exams of internship.

7-The internship is dispensed to applicants who own five or six years of experience in

engineering, as they are holders of the academic qualifications referred to in paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 of the

article 15.

8-The internship considers itself to be completed with the presentation of the internship report with positive evaluation

and respect homologation, in the terms provided for in the regulation of internships.

9-The professional internship of the Order does not confuse with the professional internship promoted by the service

public employment.

10-A Order may decide forms of recognition or equiparation of the stages promoted by the

public employment service.

11-The professional stages of adaptation as a measure of compensation are governed by Law n.

9/2009, of March 4, amended by the Laws No 41/2012 of August 28, and 25/2014, of May 2.

Article 21.

Suspension of the internship

At the reasoned request of the person concerned, the internship may be suspended.

Article 22.

Duties of the trainee

The trainee engineer must carry out the following duties:

a) Participate in the mandatory deontological training actions and carry out the respects-

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vas evidence of evaluation and the final stage examination;

b) Collaborate with the advisor whenever the latter requests it and as long as this is

compatible with your trainee activity;

c) Guarding loyalty and respect towards the advisor;

d) Provide all the information requested by you by the competent bodies

of the Order on the way in which the internship is taking place;

e) Comply with zeal and competence its obligations to the entity where

is carrying out the internship.

Article 23.

Internship advisor duties

It is the duty of the advisor to guide the activity of the trainee engineer, in the sense of

supplement your training by advising you and informing you about the effective exercise

of the profession and the fulfillment of the ethical rules of the ethical rules.

Article 24.

Professional insurance

The underwriting of professional civil liability insurance by the trainee engineer

is not mandatory.

Article 25.

Personal accident insurance

The trainee is relieved to carry out personal accident insurance, in cases where the

guided professional internship decorated within the scope of a contract of employment.

Article 26.

Honorary members

They may be admitted, by deliberation of the national directive board, on the quality of

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honorary members the individuals or collectives who, by exercising or having exercised

activity of recognized public interest and contributed to the dignified and prestige of the

profession of engineer, are considered to be worthy of such distinction.

Article 27.

Student members

Students of engineering courses may be admitted to the quality of members

students.

Article 28.

Matching members

As the corresponding members can be admitted, by the board of admission and qualification:

a) Professionals with the academic degree of licentiate who, by not exercising the profession of

engineer, nor having the respective school training, exercise related activities and present

a valuable curriculum, as such recognized by the competent body;

b) Members of European or foreign congenic associations confirming equal

treatment to members of the Order;

c) Engineering professionals graduating from Portuguese higher education institutions where

are awarded licentiates in engineering and who exercise their activity in the Union

European, in the European Economic Area or abroad.

Article 29.

Collective members

1-How collective members can sign up in the Order the collective people who with it

establish written agreement and to develop relevant training activity, research or

diffusion of knowledge in area directly related to engineering.

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2-When it deals with associations, it is still necessary, for the purpose of the provisions of the preceding paragraph,

that at least 50% of its members find themselves enrolled in the Order.

Article 30.

Suspension and cancellation of enrollment

1-Are suspended from the Order the members who for their initiative require the suspension of the respect

enrollment in the terms approved by the Order and, as well, the members who, following

disciplinary procedure, be punished with the sanction of suspension, or with preventive suspension

2-It is cancelled the enrollment in the Order to the members who request it and to the trainee members who do not

complete the professional internship within the applicable time period.

3-The cancellation of the inscription in the Order shall not preclude the new inscription, to be made in the terms provided for

in the Regulations of the Order.

4-In the cases provided for in the preceding paragraphs, the professional ballot shall always be returned to the

Order, by the holder.

CHAPTER III

Organization

Article 31.

Organization

1-A Order, as for your organization, is divided into two plans:

a) Territorial;

b) By specialties.

2-A The order is organized, in the territorial plan, on three levels:

a) National;

b) Regional;

c) Location.

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3-A The organization of the Order, in the plan of the specialties, operates by the constitution of colleges,

grouping the engineers of each specialty.

Article 32.

Territory

The Order covers, at the territorial level, the continent and the Autonomous Regions.

Article 33.

Continent

1-In the territory of the continent, the regions of the Order are as follows:

a) The northern region, based in Porto;

b) The central region, with headquarters in Coimbra;

c) The southern region, based in Lisbon.

2-The territorial area of jurisdiction of the own organs of the regions referred to in the preceding paragraph

integrates the areas of the current districts, in the following way:

a) Northern Region: Braga, Bragança, Porto, Viana do Castle and Vila Real;

b) Region center: Aveiro, White Castle, Coimbra, Guard, Leiria and Viseu;

c) Southern Region: Beja, Évora, Faro, Lisbon, Portalegre, Santarém and Setúbal.

3-The territories of the Autonomous Regions constitute regions of the Order.

Article 34.

Local structures

1-In the territory of the continent the local structures correspond to the districts.

2-In the territory of the Autonomous region of Madeira the local structures correspond to the islands.

3-In the territory of the Autonomous Region of the Azores the local structures correspond to the groups of islands.

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CHAPTER IV

Organs

Article 35.

Organs

1-Are national bodies of the Order:

a) The magna assembly;

b) The bastonary;

c) The representative assembly;

d) The national governing board;

e) The national tax council;

f) The jurisdictional council;

g) The board of admission and qualification;

h) The national college boards;

i) The coordinator council of the colleges.

j) The commissions of specialization.

2-Are regional bodies of the Order:

a) The regional assemblies;

b) The directional boards of the regions;

c) The tax councils of the regions;

d) The disciplinary boards;

e) The regional college boards.

3-Are local bodies of the Order:

a) The dystrital and island assemblies;

b) The district and island delegations.

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Article 36.

Competences of national bodies

1-The competences of the national bodies of the Order shall be exercised in such a way as to stimulate the

initiative of the regions, by the way of ensuring:

a) The national character of the Order, as an association representing those who exercise in

Portugal the profession of engineer;

b) The need to foster the unity of engineers;

c) The respect for the characteristics and interests of the colleges of specialties;

d) Respect for the individuality and autonomy of the regions;

e) The need to integrate regional actions by inserting them into national plans.

2-The national organs of the Order exercise their competences in matters of a national character,

Notably those that are announced below:

a) The defence and improvement of the conditions for the exercise of the profession of engineer,

specifically by the participation in the drafting of legislative provisions and

regulatory;

b) The intervention with the organs of the central administration or other entities of scope

national, when the problems in question exceed the direct intervention capacity of the

regions;

c) The development of international relations of the Order;

d) The monitoring of the general situation of the teaching of engineering;

e) The appreciation of the levels of training, competence and experience compatible with the levels

of qualification and the specialization titles conferred by the Order, as well as the admission

of associates;

f) The identification of national problems whose resolution justifies the commitment of the

engineers;

g) The assessment of the needs for valorisation of national engineering, whether in the plan

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scientific and technical, either in the plan of their social intervention;

h) The preparation of generic plans, coordinating, in the medium and long terms, the set of

activities to be developed by the regions;

i) The development of cultural initiatives, specifically those related to activity

editorial and the congress;

j) All those that this Statute expressly provides for or which will come to them

committed.

3-The national bodies are supported in their activity by a secretary-general, designated, by free

choice of each national directional board, from among the effective members of the Order.

4-To the Secretary-General, who is remunerated for the performance of his duties, it is up to the coordination of the

services of the Order and the execution of the directives of the bastonary and the national directional council.

5-To support the action of colleges there is a secretariat of its own, with a structure by them proposed

and approved by the national governing board.

Article 37.

Magna assembly

1-A magna assembly is made up of the entirety of the effective members in the full enjoyment of their

rights and gathers once a year.

2-The meetings of the magna assembly take place in the region which, according to the system of rotation,

get incarcerate from your organisation and carry out, where possible, on the day designated as Day

of the Engineer.

3-A The table of the magna assembly consists of the chair of the table of the representative assembly,

which presides over, and by the chairs of the desks of the regional assemblies, and the president of the

representative assembly cede the presidency to the chair of the table of the regional assembly where the

magna assembly take place.

4-A magna assembly is intended for open debate on the problems of the Order and the approval of

recommendations to the other organs of the Order.

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Article 38.

Bastonary and vice-chairs

1-The bastonary is the President of the Order and, by inherence, the chairman of the national directional council,

being coached by the two vice-presidents, members of the national governing board.

2-Compete to the bastonary:

a) Represent the Order;

b) Chair of the national governing council, the board of admission and qualification, to the council

coordinator of the colleges, the executive committee of the congress and the convention of the delegates

dystritals and insular;

c) Confer possession of the elected members to the national bodies and appreciate their

requests for exoneration or suspension of the mandate;

d) Convene the magna assembly;

e) Require the convening of the representative assembly;

f) Driving the services of the Order of national scope;

g) Mandating any effective member of the Order for the exercise of specific functions;

h) To propose the proclamation of honorary members and the award of the Gold Medal of the Order;

i) Assigning the remaining medals and diplomas of honour of national scope provided for us

regulations of the Order;

j) Watch, wanting, the meetings of all the collegiate bodies of the Order, only having the right to vote

in meetings in which pursuant to this Statute and the regulations the same

is assigned;

k) To make the deliberations of the national bodies, in particular, those of the assembly

representative and the national governing council, as well as, follow up on

recommendations of the magna assembly and the congress of the Order;

l) Ensure compliance with the legislation concerning the Order of Engineers and respects

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regulations and ensure that they carry out their assignments;

m) Present annually to the national board of the national board the budget and plan projects of

activities for the following calendar year and the draft report and the accounts regarding the year

previous civil, national governing council, as well as the budget and accounts of the whole

Order for the purpose of compliance with legal obligations;

n) Use the quality vote, in the event of a tie, at all meetings of the collegiate bodies in

who is entitled to vote and to which I preside;

o) Send for type-approval of the tutelage the regulations referred to in Article 45 (5) of the

Law No. 2/2013 of January 10;

p) Exercise, in urgent cases, the competences of the national governing board without prejudice to

be able to be required for ratification by the majority of the members who make up the board;

q) Exercise the remaining functions that the laws and regulations confirm to you.

3-The bastonary can delegate to the vice-presidents and the chairmen of the regional boards

any of their competences.

4-Compete to Vice-Presidents:

a) Coating the bastonary in its functions, replacing it in its absences or

impediments;

b) Carry out the competency assignments of the bastonary that by it are delegated to you.

Article 39.

Representative assembly

1-A representative assembly shall consist of:

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a) 60 members elected on list by universal, direct, secret and periodic suffrage;

b) The five presidents of the desks of the regional assemblies.

2-A The table of the representative assembly is formed by the President, Vice-President and Secretary,

nominees and elected on the list who get the highest number of votes for the assembly.

3-A The meeting of the representative assembly takes place at the national headquarters and the southern region of the Order,

it may, however, by proposal of the bastonary and decision of the Chair of the table, be carried out in others

sites of the national territory.

4-Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, in the course of each term, it shall take place, by the

less a meeting of the representative assembly in the seats of the northern and central regions of the Order.

5-Compete, in particular, to the representative assembly:

a) Deliberating on the subjects of the national governing council's competence that are

submitted;

b) Deliberating on the report and accounts of the national governing board concerning the calendar year

transact, taking into account the opinion of the national tax council;

c) Deliberating on the activities plan and the budget of the national governing council, having in

account for the opinion of the national tax council;

d) Take notice of the budget and annual accounts of the Order, which include the

budgets and the accounts of the national governing council and regions, for the purpose of

compliance with legal obligations, accompanied by the opinion of the national tax council;

e) Fix the quotas to be collected by the regions, and the fees, as well as set the percentage of the

quotization intended for the national governing board;

f) Approve the regulations;

g) Deliberating, upon a proposal from the national governing council, on the holding of referendums;

h) Approve your regiment, drawn up by the table;

i) Organizing specialty colleges, according to new technical fields and

scientific activity of engineering activity;

j) Deliberating on projects to amend this Statute;

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k) Deliberate on any issues that are not assigned to other organs.

6-A representative assembly, convened by its chairman, brings together:

a) In ordinary sessions, until March 25 and December 20 of each year, for the purposes set out

in the points b ) and c ) of the previous number, respectively;

b) Extraordinarily whenever the president loathes it necessary, or at the request of the

Bastonary, of the national directional council, of the national tax council, of the council

jurisdictional, the coordinating council of colleges, a regional assembly or a

third of the members who constitute it.

7-Extraordinary Meetings shall be convened in the 60 days subsequent to the decision of your

president or to the request referred to in the preceding paragraph.

8-At the ordinary meeting may be treated not referred to in paragraph 5 as long as they meet

mentioned in the order of work that accompanies the convocation.

9-A representative assembly works with the presence of the absolute majority of the members that the

constitute however, if at the time marked in the convocation does not attend the number of

enough members to constitute that majority, function, half an hour later, with at least,

a third of its members.

10-The deliberations of the representative assembly lack the favorable vote of the majority of the

members present.

11-The bastonary and the remaining members of the national governing board participate in the meetings of the

representative assembly, without the right to vote.

12-Members of the national tax council participate in the meetings of the representative assembly, without

right to vote, when dealing with matters relating to the financial management of the Order, including the

budgets and annual accounts.

Article 40.

National guideline council

1-The national governing board consists of the bastonary, which presides, by the two vice-chairs

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national, by the presidents and secretaries of the boards of the northern, central and southern regions and

by the chairpersons of the regional direct boards of the Azores and Madeira.

2-The functioning of the national directional council obeys its regiment, which it shall contemplate

the following rules:

a) The deliberations of the national governing board are taken by a simple majority;

b) The members of the national directional board act on individual basis, and not as

representatives of any of the regions ' boards of directors, save when they have been

expressly mandated to the effect by the respective directional boards or by the

regional assemblies;

c) The national governing board cannot muster without the presence of the majority of its members.

3-Compete, in particular, to the national governing council:

a) Develop an activity oriented towards the pursuit of the objectives of the Order, for the

the prestige of the association and the class and for the full compliance of the guidelines emanating

of the competent organs;

b) Define the broad lines of common acting to be followed by the regions;

c) To develop the international relations of the Order;

d) Raise revenue and meet expenses, acquire and alienate real estate and administer the goods

national of the Order and to orient superiorly the services of the Order of national scope whose

direction competes with the bastonary, including the hiring and dismissal of the support staff to the

national bodies;

e) Fix the travel allowances of the members of the tables of the assemblies and the organs of the

Order, as well as of the committees and working groups created within the framework of the Order, and of the

members who are appointed to represent the Order, taking into account the values

abated in the Public Administration for offsets and cost aids;

f) To draw up annually the budget and the activities plan of the national governing council and

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submit it to the approval of the representative assembly, accompanied by the respective opinion of the

national tax council;

g) Annually draw up the report and accounts of the national governing board and submit it to the

approval of the representative assembly, accompanied by the advice opinion of the council

national tax;

h) Draw up the budget and annual accounts of the Order, which include the budgets and accounts

of the national governing council and the regions, for the purpose of fulfilling obligations

legal, accompanied by the opinion of the national tax council, and give notice to the

representative assembly;

i) Organizing the congresses;

j) Approve the general lines of the colleges ' action programmes;

k) Approve, on a proposal from the board of admission and qualification, tables and respects

updates of the matches of the engineering courses professed in schools

national and structured specialties in the Order;

l) Decide on the internship dispensation, in accordance with Article 20 (7);

m) Confirm the enrolment of the effective members and trainees, register service providers

and to ensure the good conservation, updating and operationality of the general registration of inscriptions of

members and professionals in free provision of services;

n) Exercising the powers defined in the law in respect of nationals of Member States of the

European Union and the European Economic Area wishing to exercise in Portugal to

professional activity of engineer, including service providers, under proposal of the

board of admission and qualification;

o) Present to the representative assembly, for opinion or deliberation, proposals on

matter of particular relevance to the Order;

p) To propose to the representative assembly to hold referendums;

q) Promote and hold referendums in collaboration with the national electoral commission, the tables

of the regional assemblies and the regional and local executive bodies;

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r) Decide from the organisation of new specialties, as well as decide the creation of

specializations and outoring the respective titles;

s) Assign to the members of the Order the levels of professional qualification and the titles of

specialist and confer the quality of honorary member;

t) Making available the means for the realization of the electoral acts, including those that are

requested by the national electoral commission, and fix the comholdings for the lists

competitors to national bodies;

u) Deliberating on the purposeful of lawsuits, confessing, giving up, transigir, alienating or

burdening goods, borrowing and accepting donations and legacies;

v) Decide, listened to the board of admission and qualification, on the doubts that arise

regarding the enrollment of the effective members in the specialties recognized by the Order;

w) Assign the Gold Medal of the Order;

x) Assigning the remaining medals and diplomas of honour of national scope provided for us

regulations of the Order;

y) Constitute commissions and working groups with specific purposes;

z) Elaborate, in accordance with the provisions of this Statute, the regulations of elections and

referenda, admission and qualification, of internships, specialties, specialisations,

of the acts of engineering, of the insignia and galarms of the Order, of the district delegations and

island and the status of the elected member;

aa) Pronount on the regulations whose elaboration is committed to other organs

nationals and whose approval is the competence of the representative assembly;

bb) Mark the date of the elections for the organs of the Order;

cc) Approve the agreements, arrangements and protocols of international and national scope, of agreement

with the tasks of the Order;

dd) Require the convening of the representative assembly;

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ee) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

4-The national governing council should hear in advance the coordinator of the colleges on the

subjects referred to in points c ), f ), g ), n ), the ) and v ) of the previous number.

5-The national governing council may delegate to the bastonary the powers provided for in the sub- m ),

n ), the ) and t ) and in the sub-paragraph ee ) of paragraph 3, may also delegate you skills to contract

expenses, effectuing payments and celebrating and amending contracts, with subdelegation faculty.

6-The national governing board may still delegate to any of its members competences for

deal with specific subjects.

7-The national governing board gathers when convened by the bastonary, on the initiative of this or

upon request by the absolute majority of its members, at least once a month.

Article 41.

National tax council

1-The national tax council consists of a president and a vogal, elected by universal suffrage,

direct and secret, on list.

2-The national tax council further integrates an official reviewer of accounts, after prior public process of

hiring promoted by the national board of directors.

3-Compete to the national tax council:

a) To examine the financial management of the competence of the national governing board;

b) Give opinion on the budget and annual accounts of the national board of directors;

c) Give advice on the budget and annual accounts of the Order, which include the budgets and the

accounts of the national governing council and the regions, for the purpose of compliance with

legal obligations;

d) Attend the meetings of the national governing board, whenever the convenient judge or this the

request, without a right to vote;

e) Require the convening of the representative assembly;

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f) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

4-The national tax council meets when convened by its chairman, on the initiative of this or

upon request by the absolute majority of its members, at least once per quarter.

Article 42.

Court of law

1-The jurisdictional council shall be independent in the performance of its duties and shall consist of a

president, a vice president and five vowels, elected by universal suffrage, direct and secret, in

closed list, working in two sections.

2-Compete to the jurisdictional council:

a) To ensure compliance with this Statute, respect for regulations and decisions

taken by the competent bodies;

b) Check the legal and statutory compliance of the referendum proposals and the proposals for

regulations;

c) Exercise, independently, the disciplinary action in respect of infractions

committed by members or former members of the governing bodies of the Order and by professionals

in free provision of services;

d) Instruct the disciplinary processes referred to in the preceding paragraph;

e) Judging in plenary the resources of the decisions of its sections in the disciplinary proceedings

referred to in the preceding paragraph and the interposed appeals of the decisions of the councils

disciplars;

f) Declare the existence of conflicts of interest susceptible to generate incompatibility for the

exercise of positions in the Order;

g) Judging resources on the validity of decisions regarding loss or suspension of mandate

of the members of the organs of the Order, the application of those concerned;

h) Judging the resources on the validity of the decisions of the other organs of the Order that affect

directly rights of the members of the Order, the application of those concerned;

i) Judging the resources of the decisions in electoral matters taken by the tables of the assemblies

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regional, in accordance with Article 82 (2);

j) Give advice to be requested by the bastonary or by the national governing council on the

professional and deontological exercise;

k) To draw up the proposal for disciplinary regulation;

l) Apply for any organ of the Order the opinions and information which, within the framework of its

disciplinary or supervisory skills, become necessary for the performance of the

their functions;

m) Require externally the expert opinions you consider necessary to the

performance of their duties;

n) Require the convening of the representative assembly;

o) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

3-The jurisdictional board is advised by jurists with more than five years of experience

professional and has the administrative staff required for the respected secretarial secretariat.

4-The jurisdictional council meets when convened by its chairman, on the initiative of this or

upon request by the absolute majority of its members.

5-The remaining organs of the Order collaborate with the jurisdictional council, when by this requested,

within the framework of their disciplinary and supervisory functions.

Article 43.

Board of admission and qualification

1-The board of admission and qualification consists of the bastonarium, which presides, and by two

effective elective members of each of the specialties recognized by the Order.

2-The board can be advised by personalities of recognized scientific merit or

professional, on a permanent or eventual basis, and soliciting opinions from specialized commissions of the

Order or external entities to the same, whenever you judge convenient.

3-Compete to the board of admission and qualification, heard the coordinator council of colleges:

a) Pronounting on the conditions for admission of effective members, specifically on the

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internship dispensation, as well as on the conditions of admission of trainee members;

b) To propose to the national governing board the recognition of professional qualifications of

national of the Member State of the European Union or of the European Economic Area obtained

out of the national territory and its enrolment as an effective member, as well as the registration of

professionals in free provision of services;

c) To propose to the national board the conditions of the provision of the final stage examinations

of the trainee members;

d) To propose to the national board the award of the title of specialist engineer and of the

level of qualification of senior engineer and an advisor engineer;

e) To propose to the national board the recognition of specialties;

f) Decide on the admission of corresponding members, on a proposal from the respective council

regional directive;

g) Pronounting on the recognition of new specialties;

h) Pronounting on the creation and recognition of specialisations and the awarding of the title of

specialist;

i) To propose to the national board the specialty in which they should be grouped the

holders of engineering courses that allow access to the Order, which do not have

direct correspondence with the specialties in it structured;

j) Elaborate and propose to the approval of the national governing board tables and respect updates

of the correspondences of the engineering courses professing in national schools and the

specialties structured in the Order;

k) Present to the national board the proposal for admissions regulation and

qualification;

l) To submit to the national governing board the proposal for a regulation of specialties;

m) Pronounting on the regulation of specialisations;

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n) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

4-Of the decisions of the board of admission and qualification rests with the national board of directors,

to which it competes in respect of type-approval.

5-The board of admission and qualification may delegate to your President the foreseen skills

in the points a ), b ), c ), d ), f ) and i ) of paragraph 3.

6-The board of admission and qualification brings together when convened by its chairman, on the initiative

of this or upon request of the absolute majority of its members, at least once per each

quarter.

7-The chairman of the board of admission and qualification enjoys quality voting, in the event of a tie

in the votes of the organ.

Article 44.

National college boards

1-For each specialty college referred to in Article 54, a national council shall be constituted of

college.

2-Constituent national councils, elected on the list by the respected college in universal suffrage,

direct, secret and periodical:

a) The president of the college;

b) Two vowels, being one for the professional and other subjects for cultural affairs,

understanding the formation, updating, specialization and dissemination.

3-Constitutions still the national boards of college the regional coordinators of the council

regional of the vocational college.

4-When summoned, they participate in the meetings of the boards of college, without a vote, the

group coordinators constituted to deal with specific, professional or cultural subjects,

of the specialties of the college, as well as representatives of the collective persons affiliated to the Order

through the college.

5-In the meetings of the councils may still participate, in the occasional or permanent title, the

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specialists who for this have been invited.

6-The decisions of the college boards are taken by a simple majority, and they must be present,

at least four elements of those referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, being two national elements and two

regional elements.

7-The chairman of the board of the college may delegate his / her competences in the national vowel to the

matter to be discussed at the meeting.

8-The college boards can meet separately in two sections:

a) Professional subjects;

b) Cultural affairs.

9-They are part of the section for professional affairs:

a) The president of the college;

b) The national vowel for professional affairs;

c) The regional college coordinators;

d) Regional vowels, one by region, who are in charge of professional affairs;

e) Group coordinators constituted to deal with specific professional subjects,

when summoned.

10-They are part of the cultural affairs section:

a) The president of the college;

b) The national vowel for cultural affairs;

c) The regional college coordinators;

d) Regional vowels, one by region, who are in charge of cultural affairs;

e) Group coordinators constituted to deal with specific cultural affairs and the

representatives of the affiliated collectives, when summoned.

11-Compete to each college board:

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a) Discuss and propose action plans concerning professional issues within the framework of the specialty

of the college;

b) Discuss and propose action plans concerning the cultural issues of the specialty of the college,

including those for training, upgrading and specialisation, as well as those for admission and

qualification;

c) Give opinion on subjects of the specialty of the college, or others concerning the Order,

when requested by the bastonary, national vice presidents or by the board of directors

national;

d) Develop own editorial activity, within the general directives of the board of directors

national;

e) Support the national directional council in professional and cultural affairs, in the field of

respects specialty;

f) Pronouns on activities developed and to develop through the boards

regional high school, of the same specialties;

g) Coordinate the activity of the regional college boards;

h) Participate in the coordination of the overall activity of the Order, through the coordinating board of the

colleges.

i) Pronounting on the allocation of the qualification levels of senior engineer and

engineer advisor and the title of specialist engineer in the integrated specializations

in the college;

j) Adjudication, the solicitation of the bastonary, national vice-presidents and board of directors

national, on matters of professional insole, as well as on legal diplomas or

regulations, the opinion of which is requested to the Order;

k) Define the parameters of realization of the internship works so that this is the most

uniform possible within the scope of the same specialty, taking into account academic training

and professional of the trainee member;

l) Pronounce on the conditions of the provision of the final exams of the members ' internship

trainees;

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m) Guiding regional college boards in the organisation and control of internships and in the

supervision of your assessment in accordance with the academic and professional training of the member

trainee, pursuant to the provisions of this Statute and the regulation of internships;

n) To provide the jurisdictional board with the opinions and information that this national body

solicit, within the framework of their disciplinary or supervisory powers;

o) Pronounce on the regulation of internships;

p) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

12-The national council of the college may delegate to its chairman the powers provided for in the

points c ), i ), j ) and l ) of the previous number.

13-The national college boards meet when convened by the respective presidents ' respects, by

initiative of these or upon request of the absolute majority of its members, at least one

time by quarter.

14-The president of the national council of the college has also the designation of president of the college.

15-The president of the national council of the college enjoys quality voting, in the event of a tie in the

votes from the organ.

Article 45.

Council coordinator of colleges

1-A The articulation of the activity of the colleges and the coordinated support to the national directional council is

carried out through the coordinator council of the colleges.

2-They are part of the coordinator council of colleges:

a) The bastonary of the Order;

b) The vice-presidents of the Order;

c) The presidents of each specialty college.

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3-The coordinator council of colleges has, in particular, the following competences:

a) Articulating the activity of colleges and specialisations and the coordinated support to the council

national directive;

b) To propose to the national governing board the creation of habilitation verification commissions

where it is necessary to carry out individual recognition of competences

specific professionals of engineers coming from more than one specialty;

c) To draw up the acts of the engineers grouped in the specialties;

d) To draw up the proposal for a regulation of colleges;

e) To draw up the proposal for a regulation of specialisations;

f) Listing the technical standards that relate to specialties;

g) Elaborate and approve your regiment;

h) Require the convening of the representative assembly;

i) Pronounce on:

i) The organization of congresses;

ii) The general lines of the colleges ' action programmes;

iii) The realization and organisation of referendums;

iv) The conditions of the provision of the final internship examinations of the trainee members;

v) The regulation of admission and qualification;

vi) The assignment of the specialist title in the specialisations that covers more than

a specialty;

vii) The structuring of new specialties and new specialty colleges;

viii) The structuring of new specialisations;

ix) The criteria for grouping the members in the specialties;

x) The proposed amendments to this Statute;

xi) The proposals for a regulation of internships;

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xii) The proposals for a regulation of specialties;

xiii) The other matters provided for in the Act and in this Statute.

4-The coordinator council of colleges may delegate to its chairman the skills provided for in the

subpoints iv ) and vi) of the paragraph i ) of the preceding paragraph, as well as the powers provided for in points

a ), b ), c ), d ), f ) and i ) of Article 43 (3), in the part that refers to the pronunciation of the council

coordinator of the colleges.

5-The coordinating board of the colleges meets when convened by its president, on the initiative

of this or upon request of the absolute majority of its members, at least once by

quarter.

6-The chair of the colleges ' coordinator of the colleges enjoys quality voting, in the event of a tie

in the votes of the organ.

Article 46.

Commissions of specialization

1-By each structured specialization in the Order, pursuant to Art. 55, there is a commission

consisting of five specialist engineers in it.

2-Each commission has a coordinator and an adjunct coordinator and three vowels.

3-Compete to the commissions of specialization:

a) Give advice on the assignment of the title of specialist engineer;

b) Streamline and conduct the activity of the specialization, specifically lead to the effect of

training and dissemination, including the drafting of documents, relevant in the area of

specialization, which contribute to the improvement of the quality of the professional exercise;

c) Provide the support that is requested of them by the remaining national bodies of the Order, or by the

their presidents.

4-Vertical specialization commissions report to the national council of the college in which they are

and the horizontal specialization commissions, report to the chair of the coordinating board of

colleges.

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5-Specialization commissions, with at least 20 specialist engineers, are elected on lists

closed, designating the coordinator, the deputy coordinator and the three vowels, by the universe of the

specialists specialists who integrate the specialization, and who are in the full enjoyment of their

statutory rights.

6-Specialization commissions with fewer than 20 specialist engineers are assigned by the

national governing council, by proposal of the national council of the college, being vertical, and by the

coordinator council of the colleges, being horizontal.

7-Specialization commissions may delegate to the coordinator the skills provided for in the

a ) of paragraph 3.

8-Specialization commissions meet when convened by their coordinators, on the initiative

of these or upon request of the absolute majority of its members, at least once by

bimestre.

9-The coordinator of the specialisation committee enjoys quality voting, in the event of a tie in the

votes from the organ.

Article 47.

Regional assemblies

1-Regional assemblies consist of all the effective members in the full enjoyment of their

rights, inscribed in the respective regions ' respects.

2-Compete to regional assemblies:

a) Voting for the members of national bodies and electing members of the regional assembly's desk

and of the regional bodies;

b) Discuss and vote on the report and bills of the board of the board and the opinion of the tax council of the

respects region, relative to the transact year;

c) Appreciate and deliberate on the budget and plan of activities of the board of the board and the opinion

of the tax council of the region, for the following year;

d) Appreciate the acts of management of the regional bodies ' respective respects;

e) Appreciate matters which, within the framework of this Statute, are submitted to it;

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f) Require the convening of the representative assembly;

g) Approve your regiment, drawn up by the table.

3-The regional assemblies are directed by a table consisting of a president and two

secretaries.

4-Regional assemblies meet in ordinary sessions every three years, in the month of February,

for the purpose of the elections provided for in the a) of paragraph 2.

5-Regional assemblies meet in ordinary sessions every year, up to day 10 of the month of

march and up to day 30 of the month of November, to exercise, respectively, the skills

provided for in points b ) and c ) of the n. two.

6-Regional assemblies meet extraordinarily whenever the boards of directors or

tax advice from the region concerned, on its own initiative, consider it necessary or whenever it

a minimum of 5% or 100 effective members in the full enjoyment of your rights the rewant to the table.

7-Regional assemblies can only make decisions on matters that enquel in the objectives

of the Order.

Article 48.

Direct advice from the regions

1-The directional boards of the regions consist of the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary,

the treasurer and three vowels, being at least these of different specialties, elected in

regional assembly.

2-Compete to the directional boards of the regions:

a) Promote actions aimed at the realization of the objectives of the Order, according to the large

acting lines defined by the national governing board;

b) Managing the activities of the respective regions, under the terms of this Statute and the Regulations-

ments, and administer the goods entrusted to them;

c) Require the convening of regional assemblies;

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d) To draw up and present to the respective tax advice, at the minimum 15 days ' notice,

regarding the scheduled dates for the meetings of the respective regional assembly, the

report and the accounts of the transact calendar year and the budget and activity plan for the year

next;

e) Submit to the discussion and vote of the respected regional assemblies the report and accounts of the

previous calendar year and ensure its subsequent submission to the national governing council, ensuring

compliance with the statutory deadlines to which the Order is obliged;

f) Submit to the appreciation and voting of the respective regional assemblies the plan of activities and

budget for the following year and ensure its subsequent submission to the board of directors

national, ensuring compliance with the statutory deadlines to which the Order is obliged;

g) Raise revenue, transfer monies raised by outrain and meet expenses;

h) Organizing the means for the realization of the electoral acts in the region and setting the compositions

for the competing lists for the organs of the region and the delegations;

i) To collaborate with the national governing council in the organization and holding of referendums;

j) Convene meetings of clarification and debate regarding referendums to be held;

k) Receive and instruct applications for enrollment, as well as enroll effective members and

trainees, sending them to the national governing board for confirmation of enrollment;

l) To propose to the national governing board the admission of honorary members and the board of

admission and qualification the admission of corresponding members;

m) Promoting disciplinary actions through the competent disciplinary board;

n) Organizing and directing the respective administrative services;

o) Admit and fire the administrative personal respects, giving notice to the board

national directive;

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p) Enroll the student members;

q) To promote the registration in the general framework of the Order of members enrolled in the region;

r) Choosing the region whose respective regional board of college exercises the envisaged competence

in the paragraph a ) of Article 51 (2) in the cases of the specialties in which, in their region, no

is still structured the corresponding regional college council;

s) Approve the agreements, arrangements and protocols of regional scope, according to the assignments

of the Order and the skills that are assigned to them;

t) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

3-Regions are represented in judgment and outside of it, by the respective chairs of the councils

directives, which have also the designation of president of the region.

4-The board of directors may delegate to its chairman the powers provided for in points (s) k ) a l ), the ) a

q ) and s ) of paragraph 2, with faculty of subdelegation.

5-The board of directors may still delegate to any of its members competences to deal with

specific subjects.

6-The chairman of the board of the board may exercise, in urgent cases, the competences assigned to the

board, without prejudice, however, of being able to be required for ratification by the majority of the members

that make up the board.

7-The chairman of the board of directors can watch, wanting, the meetings of all collegiate bodies

of the region, including of the delegations, shall only be entitled to vote in the meetings in which under the

present Statute and the regulations the same is allotted to it.

8-The chairman of the board of the board enjoys quality voting, in the event of a tie in the votes of the

directional board.

9-The board of directors gathers when convened by the respected president on the initiative of this or

upon request by the absolute majority of its members, at least once a month.

Article 49.

Tax advice from the regions

1-The tax councils of the regions consist of a president and two vowels elected in

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regional assembly.

2-Compete to the tax councils of the regions:

a) Examine the financial management of the competence of the respective directional advice;

b) Give opinion on the report and accounts presented by the respected boards of directors,

as well as on budgets;

c) Participate, without the right to vote, at the meetings of the respective boards of directors directives, whenever the

deem it convenient or these to request it;

d) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

3-The tax council meets when convened by the respected president on the initiative of this or

upon request by the absolute majority of its members, at least once per quarter.

Article 50.

Disciplinary advice

1-The disciplinary boards are constituted by a president and four vowels, elected in assembly

regional.

2-Compete to disciplinary boards:

a) Instruct and judge the disciplinary processes that concern the members of the Order, with

the exception of those of the jurisdiction of the jurisdictional board;

b) Apply for any regional and local body the opinions and information that, within the framework of

your disciplinary competencies, become necessary for the performance of your duties;

c) Require externally the expert opinions they deem necessary to the

performance of their duties;

d) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

3-Of the decisions of the disciplinary boards rests with the jurisdictional board, in the terms of the

disciplinary regulation.

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4-The disciplinary boards are advised by jurists with more than five years of experience

professional and have the administrative staff required for the respective secretariats of

support.

5-The remaining regional and local bodies of the Order collaborate with the disciplinary boards, when

by these requested, within the framework of their disciplinary functions.

6-The disciplinary boards meet when summoned by the respected presidents on the initiative

of these or upon request of the absolute majority of its members.

Article 51.

Regional college boards

1-In each region there is a regional college council as long as it is enrolled, by the

less, 20 effective members grouped in the college.

2-The regional college boards are integrated by the regional college coordinator, by the vogal

regional for professional affairs and regional vowel for cultural affairs, elected by the

members of the college enrolled in the region respect.

3-A The articulation of the activity of the regional college councils is done in meetings convened by the

Respecting chairman of the regional board of directors.

4-Compete to the regional boards of college:

a) Organize and control the stages and superintender in your assessment, under guidance

of the respected national council in accordance with academic training and

professional of the trainee member, under the terms of this Statute and the

stages regulation;

b) Collaborate with the national council of the college in setting the parameters of

realization of the internship work;

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c) Pronount on the regulation of internships;

d) Collaborate in the activity of the national college board;

e) Collaborate with the regional governing council and provide the opinions and the

information that this will ask you about your activities, as well as about the

professional activity of the members enrolled in the region;

f) Pronouns on the conditions of the provision of the final stage examinations of the

trainee members;

g) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

5-The regional college boards meet when convened by the respective coordinator for

initiative of this or upon request of the absolute majority of its members, at least once

per month.

Article 52.

Distrital and island delegations

1-The district delegations and the island delegations or group of islands, have an executive body

made up of one delegate and two adjoining, which brings together at least bimonthly.

2-A delegation is represented, locally, by the delegate, to whom it competes to convene and direct the

meetings of the executive body.

3-A Assembly of the delegation consists of the effective members domiciled in the constituencies

covered by the delegation and competes with electing the local executive body.

4-As local structures of the Order for the purpose of providing proximity services to members

and for the local pursuit of the mission and tasks of the Order, it is incumbent upon the executive body of the

delegation:

a) Ensuring the provision of proximity services to the members of the Order and the institutions

places;

b) Promote actions aimed at the realization of the mission and tasks of the Order, according to the

acting lines and activity plans defined by the regional governing board;

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c) Managing local activities pursuant to this Statute and the Regulations of the Order, and

administer the goods entrusted to it, by providing quarterly accounts to the board

regional directive, being that the last quarter's accounts of each year have to be premised

by the January 20 of the following year;

d) Collaborate in the organisation and holding of elections and referendums;

e) Receive applications for enrolment of member candidates and promote, locally, services

and supports to be provided to members;

f) To propose the organization and to direct the respective administrative services;

g) Represent the Order in judgment, when, for this, you have delegation of the President of the

respects region;

h) Elaborate and approve your regiment.

5-At least triennially, summoned and directed by the bastonary, takes place, without deliberative character,

a convention of the district delegates that includes the island delegates or group of islands, to treat

of subjects pertaining to their activities, and recommendations may be approved for advice

regional directives and the national governing board.

6-The executive bodies of the delegations meet when summoned by their delegates, by

initiative of these or upon request of the absolute majority of its members, at least one

time by bimaster.

7-The delegate shall enjoy quality voting, in the event of a tie in the votes of the local executive body.

Article 53.

Meetings of the organs

Participation in the meetings of the organs and commissions of the Order is done through the presence

physics of the members who integrate them in the place themselves where the meetings are due to elapsed,

it may, however, up to half of the members who make up the organ or commission,

participate in and vote in them through audiovisual media.

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CHAPTER V

Specialties and specializations

Article 54.

Definition and enumeration

1-Understand for specialty a mastery of the engineering activity with technical characteristics and

scientific own which takes in the country economic and social relevance.

2-A Order is structured in accordance with the following specialties:

a) Civil engineering;

b) Electrotechnical engineering;

c) Mechanical engineering;

d) Geological and mining engineering;

e) Chemical and biological engineering;

f) Naval engineering;

g) Geographical engineering;

h) Agronomic engineering;

i) Forest engineering;

j) Engineering of materials;

k) Computer engineering;

l) Engineering the environment.

3-Engineering course holders that allow access to the Order that has no correspondence

direct with the specialties and colleges in it structured are inscribed in that which, through

proposal of the board of admission and qualification, the national governing board consider the most

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suitable.

4-A The organizational structuring of new technical and scientific domains of engineering activity

within the colleges competes for the representative assembly, on a proposal from the board of directors

national, listened to the board of admission and qualification and the coordinator council of the colleges.

5-Under proposal of the board of admission and qualification, the national governing board approves and makes

public through the portal of the Order, a table and respect updates, of the matches of the

engineering courses professed in national schools and the specialties and structured colleges

in the Order.

Article 55.

Specializations

1-Understand by specialization a restricted area of the activity of engineering, contained in a

specialty or covering subjects of various specialties, which takes on scientific importance and

technique and develop specific methodology.

2-The specialisations are structured as follows:

a) Vertical specializations;

b) Horizontal specializations.

3-Are vertical the specializations contained only in a specialty and horizontal as those that cover

subjects of various specialties, accessible to members holding the respective titles of

specialty.

4-A The specialty of civil engineering contains the following specialisations:

a) Direction and management of construction;

b) Structures;

c) Hydraulics and water resources;

d) Planning and planning of the territory;

e) Safety in the work of construction.

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5-A The specialty of electrotechnical engineering contains the following specializations:

a) Luminotecnia;

b) Telecommunications.

6-Engineering specialties contain the following horizontal specializations:

a) Engineering evaluations;

b) Energy;

c) Acoustics;

d) Aeronautics;

e) Food;

f) Climatization;

g) Refrigeration;

h) Security;

i) Industrial management;

j) Sanitary;

k) Textile;

l) Geotecnia;

m) Industrial maintenance;

n) Geographical information systems;

o) Transport and routes of communication.

Article 56.

Assignment of the title of specialist engineer

1-The title of specialist engineer is assigned to the senior engineers who achieve result

positive global in an evaluation of the competent bodies of the Order, in the regulatory terms,

contemplating the following requirements:

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a) Curriculum professional, which reveals scientific value and or technical for the specialization;

b) Knowledge and degree of professional competence in specialisation;

c) Relevance of professional activity in the scope of specialization;

d) Extension of the professional experience, relevant to the specialization;

e) Further education of academic or professional innermost in the area of specialization;

f) Experience as a trainer in the area of specialization;

g) Editorial production in the area of specialization;

h) Enrollment in scientific or technical organizations and other, national or foreign, in the

mastery of your specialization, and participation in the realization of them.

2-The title of specialist engineer is assigned by the national governing board, under opinion of the

commission of specialization, and pronunciation of the national college board, being the specialization

vertical, or of the coordinator council of colleges, being the horizontal specialization, and of the council

of admission and qualification.

3-The opinion of the committee of specialization concludes in an explicit manner by the assignment or not of the title

from expert to the applicant, after the evaluation of the elements mentioned in paragraph 1.

4-The competences assigned to the national, admission and qualification boards and

coordinator of colleges may be by these delegated to the respective presidents and the assigned

to the specialization committees may be by these delegated to the coordinators ' respective respects.

5-A The tramway in the Order, the deadlines for the organs ' organs to speak, the communication of the

opinions and decisions to the applicant, are the subject of the regulation of specializations.

CHAPTER VI

Congress and editorial activity

Article 57.

Congress

1-A Order carries out, with frequency not less than three years, a technical, scientific-intakes congress

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and professional.

2-The congress takes place, rotatively, in each of the northern, central and southern regions, with

possibility of realization in the Azores or Madeira by deliberation of the national governing council.

3-A congress organization competes with the national governing board, which counts, for its

organization, with an executive board, which integrates, among others, elements of the council

direction of the region in which to perform and representatives of the colleges.

Article 58.

Editorial activity

1-A The editorial activity of the Order constitutes one of the means of projecting its associative life and its

technical, scientific and professional activities and must obey the directives of the board of directives

national, to be integrated into an editorial regulation.

2-It is up to the national governing council, the governing boards of the regions and the councils of colleges

promote the production of technical, scientific and professional texts.

3-The regions and sections may carry out the publishing of the publications, periodicals or not, that their

directional advice consider convenient for pursuing the objectives of the Order in

respects regional ample areas.

CHAPTER VII

Elections and referendums

Article 59.

Eligibility

1-They can only be elected to the organs of the Order the effective members who find themselves in full

enjoyment of your rights.

2-Members of the election act supervisory committees may not be elected.

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3-Can only be elected for the post of bastonarium and for member of the organs with competences

disciplining effective members with at least 10 years of exercising the engineering profession

and, for the positions of member of the bodies with executive competences, the effective members with,

at least, five years of exercise of the engineering profession.

Article 60.

National electoral assembly

1-A The national electoral assembly consists of all effective members of the Order in full

enjoyment of your statutory rights.

2-A The competence of the national electoral assembly is restricted to electoral matters.

3-A The national electoral assembly is organized in regional delegations.

4-The desks of the regional assemblies function as desks of the regional assembly delegations

national electoral.

Article 61.

Incompatibilities in the exercise of functions

1-The exercise of executive, disciplinary and supervisory functions in organs of the Order is incompatible

of each other.

2-The exercise of office in the organs of the Order is not incompatible with the exercise of any functions

leaders in the public function or with any other function, except where such incompatibility

result expressly from the law, or when a manifest conflict of interest is apparent, as such

declared by the court of law.

Article 62.

Mandates and exercise of office

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1-The mandates of the members of the organs of the Order shall have the duration of three years.

2-Whenever it proves necessary to proceed to mid-term elections for any of the organs of the

Order, the term of office does not exceed the term of office of the remaining bodies.

3-The posts of the executive bodies, when exercised with character of regularity and permanence,

may be remunerated, in the terms of regulation approved by the representative assembly.

Article 63.

Reelection

Reelection is allowed, but the same post cannot be played,

consecutively, for more than two terms.

Article 64.

Start and end of annual exercise

The annual exercise of the mandate of the elected members shall be deemed to be the annual exercise of the bodies of the

Order starts on April 1 or on the first working day immediately following, when that

not the for.

Article 65.

Start of term

The mandates start with the taking of possession at the beginning of an annual exercise.

Article 66.

Alhement of the office

In addition to other reasons provided for in the Act and in this Statute, they forfeit the mandate

by heeling of the post:

a) The members of the executive bodies of the Order who will be missing more than three meetings followed

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or six interpolates of the organs ' respective respects, including the posts exerted by inherency in the

organ to which they fail;

b) The members of the representative assembly who will be missing more than two meetings followed or

four interpolated;

c) The members of the remaining organs of the Order who will be missing more than three meetings followed or

six interpolates of the same;

d) The members of the desks of the assemblies who speak to more than two meetings followed by the

respects assemblies or four interpolates, or still in the same number, to meetings of the

desk or of the organs or commissions of the Order to which they belong by inherence.

Article 67.

Vacancy of the office

1-In cases of resignation, disciplinary sanction more serious than warning, exoneration, disability

prolonged, alhement of the post or loss of the effective member quality of the:

a) Bastonary and national vice-presidents;

b) President and vice-president of the regions ' boards of directors;

c) President and vice-president of the jurisdictional council;

concurrent or successively, places are filled, by election, in the three months following the

verification of the said situations.

2-If identical situation is to be checked for any other eligible office, the vacant seat is filled by the

alternates on the list of respect election or, if this is not possible, by election, in the three months

following the verification of the cessation of the mandate.

3-The appointed members whose mandate cesse, for any reason, are replaced by choice of the

body competent for his appointment.

4-Elected members, substitutes or appointees as a result of the provisions of the figures

previous, end the term of the replaced member.

5-The elections referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 take place only if the period which elapse for the date of

ordinary elections for the organs of the Order and desks of the assemblies for more than 180 days.

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Article 68.

Mandates of the alternates

The mandates exercised by the substitute members in substitution, which do not exceed 18

months, do not count for the effects provided for in Article 63.

Article 69.

Ordinary and extraordinary elections

1-Elections for the organs of the Order are ordinary and extraordinary.

2-The ordinary elections are intended to elect the members of the organs of the Order for mandates

complete.

3-The extraordinary elections are aimed at the designation of members for the filling of vacant posts.

4-Elections for the organs of the Order shall be governed by the provisions of this Statute and the Regulation

of elections and referendums.

Article 70.

Territorial scope of elections

1-Elections for the organs of the Order are of national and regional scope.

2-The national elections are intended for the choice:

a) From the bastonary and the vice-president;

b) Of the eligible members of the representative assembly;

c) Of the eligible members of the national college boards, specialisation committees and

of the board of admission and qualification;

d) Of the members of the national tax council;

e) Of the members of the court council.

3-Regional elections, in regional assembly, are aimed at the choice of members of the:

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a) Direct advice from the regions;

b) Tax advice from the regions;

c) Disciplinary advice;

d) Regional college boards.

4-The local elections, in the district or island assembly, aim at choosing members of the

district delegation or insular.

Article 71.

Simultaneity of elections

Ordinary and regional elections of national and regional scope take place simultaneously.

Article 72.

Electoral standards

1-A The election of the bastonary and the two vice-presidents, members of the national governing board, is made

jointly, on a closed list, by secret and universal scrutiny, and may not all be from the

same region or the same specialty.

2-Within the scope of each specialty, election candidates for the board of admission and qualification

are elected by the effective members of the specialty respect, in open list.

3-Election candidates for president and remaining members of the national college boards are

elected by the effective members of the respected high school, in closed list.

4-Of the 60 members to elect to the assembly, the representation is in proportional mode by the

method of Hondt to the number of members of each specialty and college, having the lists

competitors, however, to present candidates of all specialties and colleges

structured in the Order, with the territorial origin of the members obeying also the same

representation system and method, depending on the number of members enrolled in each region,

having to be submitted, however, at least one candidate coming from each of the regions

of the Azores and Madeira and each district delegation and insular.

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closed, saying each list respect to each of the organs to be elected.

6-A The election of the members of the regional college boards is made by the members of the respective

college.

7-A The election of the president and the vowel of the national tax council is made in a single and closed list.

8-A The election of the members of the jurisdictional board is made on a single and closed list, with indication of the

respects president.

Article 73.

Submission of applications

The submission of applications obeys the regulation of elections and referendums.

Article 74.

Marking of elections

The marking of the date of the elections competes with the national governing council.

Article 75.

Referendums

The referendums in the Order have national scope and binding character, aimed at the

voting:

a) Of proposals relating to the dissolution of the Order;

b) Of the subjects that the representative assembly delibere, upon proposal of the

national governing council, submit the referendum, under the terms of the g ) of paragraph 5

of Article 39.

Article 76.

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Organization of the electoral process

The organization of the electoral process or the referendums compete at the tables of the assemblies

regional, which must, inter alia:

a) Convene the electoral and referendum assemblies;

b) To promote the constitution of the supervisory committees;

c) Arrange the electoral notebooks and appreciate the respective complaints;

d) Check the regularity of applications;

e) Decide on complaints from the election act that are presented to them.

Article 77.

National electoral commission

1-A The national electoral commission shall consist of the chair of the representative assembly desk,

by the presidents of the desks of the regional assemblies, or by their legal substitutes.

2-Preside to the national electoral commission the member of the lowest number of enrollment in the Order, de

among those referred to in the preceding paragraph.

3-The deliberations of the national electoral commission are only valid with the favorable vote of the majority of the

its members.

4-Compete to the national electoral commission to coordinate the electoral process of the national bodies of the

Order:

a) Bastonary and vice-president;

b) Of the members of the representative assembly;

c) Of the eligible members of the national college boards;

d) Of the members of the national tax council;

e) Of the members of the national jurisdictional council;

f) Of the members of the board of admission and qualification;

g) Of the members of the specialisation committees.

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5-A The coordination referred to in the preceding paragraph shall include, inter alia, the competence for:

a) Check the regularity of respect for applications;

b) Ensure equal opportunities for competing lists;

c) Ensuring that all types of voting guarantee the people and the secrecy of the vote;

d) Draw up the national map of the election results for the organs referred to in the number

previous;

e) Proclaim the winning lists for national bodies.

6-A national electoral commission enters office, for electoral purposes, on the day it is released

by the bastonary the date scheduled for the elections and basket them with the proclamation of the winning lists.

Article 78.

Supervisory commissions

1-It consists of each region or regional section a supervisory commission, composed of the

chair of the regional assembly's bureau and by a representative of each of the lists

competitors or bidders, to which it starts its functions on the day after the presentation of the

applications or the opening of the referendum process.

2-Representatives of each competing list must be nominated jointly with the

presentation of the respective applications.

3-If the chairman of the general meeting's desk is candidate in the elections to be held, he is replaced in the

supervisory commission by one of the secretaries or by a member of the Order designated by the

respects table.

Article 79.

Competence of supervisory commissions

It is incumbent on the supervisory committees:

a) Scrutinising the electoral or referendum process;

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b) Draw up reports of any irregularities, to be delivered to the corresponding tables of the

regional assemblies.

Article 80.

Suffrage

1-The suffrage is universal, direct, periodic and by secret vote.

2-Have the right to vote the effective members of the Order who find themselves in the full enjoyment of their

rights.

Article 81.

Types of voting

1-The vote is personal and secret, not being admitted to the proxy vote.

2-The vote shall be exercised by one of the following means:

a) Electronically, by the Internet;

b) Presentially.

3-A The transitional title, and in period to be set out in the regulation of elections and referendums, the vote may

still be exercised by correspondence.

4-All types of voting must ensure voter authentication, confidentiality and

integrity of the vote and the auditability of all types of voting.

5-Voting bulletins are, depending on the respect of nature, electronically or on paper, in them owing

record the lists admitted to suffrage.

6-The models of the ballot papers for the election of national bodies are approved by the committee

national electoral.

7-The models of the ballot papers for the election of the regional bodies and for the members of the

representative assembly to be elected in each region are approved by the assembly's respectful table

regional.

8-The procedures relating to the electro voting, the presential vote and the vote by

correspondence are set out in the regulation of elections and referendums.

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Article 82.

Feature

1-Can be brought into appeal of the electoral act on the grounds of irregularities verified in the act

election, which is to be presented to the regional meeting's table at the time of five

days from the close of the electoral act.

2-From the decision of the table of the regional assembly it is up to the jurisdictional board, to intervene in the

period of eight days counted from the date on which the interested parties were aware of the decision of the

table.

Article 83.

Proclamation of the results

1-There has been no interposition of resources, or decided on those that housed being interposed, is made the

proclamation of the winning lists.

2-The winning lists for the regional bodies are proclaimed by the respected tables of the

regional assemblies.

3-A The proclamation of the winning lists for the national bodies of the Order is made by the committee

national electoral.

Article 84.

Possession of the elected members

1-The outgoing bastonary confers possession to the elected members for the national bodies.

2-The outgoing chairpersons of the regional assemblies confer possession of the elected members to the

regional bodies.

Article 85.

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Election campaign

1-A Order participates in the charges of the election campaign of each list in an equal amount to

all.

2-The comholdings are set by the national governing board or by the boards of the

regions, as it deals with elections for national or regional bodies.

Article 86.

Organisation of the referendum

1-Compete to the national governing board set the date of the referendum.

2-The texts to be submitted to the referendum must be disclosed to all members of the Order and be

subject to meetings of enlightenment and debate, without deliberative character, which are convened to

regional level and directed by the respective directional advice.

3-The proposed amendments to the texts to be referred to must be directed in writing, during the period

of enlightenment and debate, to the national governing board, being the underwriters

identified by the full name, signature, number of member and residence.

4-The remaining proposals may, by deliberation of the representative assembly, be or not included

in the texts to be referred to or, still, presented as an alternative.

Article 87.

Result of the referendum

1-The results of the referendums correspond to the simple majority of valid votes entrenched in the ballot box.

2-When it deals with tender projects concerning the dissolution of the Order, the approval lacks the

express vote of more than half of the effective members enrolled in the electoral rolls.

3-The results of the referendums can only be considered as definitive:

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a) In the first vote, if you vote, at least 20% of the members enrolled in the notebooks

election;

b) In second vote, if you vote, at least 10% of the members entered notebooks

election.

4-A The second vote takes place in the 30 days subsequent to the date of the first vote.

5-If, in the second vote, the results cannot be considered definitive, the process may

be restarted one year on the date of the second vote.

6-The results of the referendums are released by the national governing council after the recetion of the

partial ascertainments of all regions and regional sections.

Article 88.

Amendments to the Regulation

No changes can be made to the regulation of elections and referendums during the

election or referendum process nor in the preceding 90 days.

CHAPTER VIII

From disciplinary action

SECTION I

General provisions

Article 89.

Disciplinary infraction

1-Consider disciplinary infraction all the action or omission of any member of the Order that viole

the duties as set out in this Statute or in the respect of regulations.

2-The disciplinary infractions provided for in this Statute and too much legal provisions and

applicable regulations are punishable by title of dolo or negligence.

3-A attempt is punishable.

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Article 90.

Disciplinary jurisdiction

1-Members of the Order are subject to the disciplinary power of the organs of the Order, in the terms

provided for in this Statute and in the disciplinary regulation.

2-A The suspension of enrollment does not stop disciplinary liability for infractions previously

practiced by the Member of the Order as such.

3-During the time of suspension of the inscription, the member remains subject to the disciplinary power of the

Order.

Article 91.

Independence of the disciplinary responsibility of the members of the Order

1-A disciplinary liability shall be independent of civil and criminal liability arising from the

practice of the same fact.

2-A disciplinary liability to the Order coexists with any other provided for by law.

3-When, on the grounds of the same facts, criminal proceedings have been instituted against member

e, in order to get to know the existence of a disciplinary infraction, it is necessary to judge any matter

which cannot be properly resolved in the disciplinary process, can be ordered to

suspension of the disciplinary process for a maximum period of one year.

4-A The suspension of the disciplinary procedure, pursuant to the preceding paragraph, shall be communicated by the Order à

competent judicial authority, to which he shall order the consignment to the Order of copy of the order of

prosecution and, if there is any place, of the pronunciation dispatch.

5-Elapsed the deadline set in accordance with paragraph 3 without the matter having been resolved, the question is

decided in the disciplinary process.

6-Whenever, in criminal proceedings against member, it is designated day for the trial hearing,

the court shall order the consignment to the Order, preferentially by way of electronicity, of the order of

prosecution, of the order of pronunciation and of the contestation, if it has been submitted, as well as

any other elements requested by the national governing board or the bastonary.

7-The facts deemed to be proven in criminal proceedings against member consider themselves as well

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proven in disciplinary process.

8-A disciplinary responsibility of the members before the Order arising from the practice of infractions is

independent of disciplinary liability in the face of employers ' respects, per infringement of the

emerging duties of working relationships.

Article 92.

Disciplinary responsibility of professionals in free provision of services

Professionals who provide services on national territory in free provision

are equated with the members of the Order for disciplinary purposes, pursuant to paragraph 2 of the

Article 4 of Law No. 9/2009 of March 4, amended by the Laws 41/2012, 28 of

August, and 25/2014, of May 2, with the specificities set out in Article 100 (5).

of this Statute and the disciplinary regulation.

Article 93.

Disciplinary responsibility of professional societies

The collective persons who are members of the Order are subject to the disciplinary power of the

organs of the latter in the terms of this Statute and the law establishing the scheme

legal of the constitution and operation of the societies of professionals who are

subject to professional public associations.

Article 94.

Prescription of the disciplinary procedure

1-The disciplinary procedure extinguishes, by effect of prescription, as soon as on the practice of the

infraction has elapsed the term of five years, save the provisions of the following number.

2-If the disciplinary infraction constitutes simultaneously criminal infraction for which the law establishes

prescription subject to longer term, the disciplinary procedure only prescribes after the course

of this last term.

3-The period of limitation of the disciplinary procedure runs from the day on which the fact is

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consummated.

4-The limitation period only runs:

a) In the instantaneous infractions, from the time of its practice;

b) In the continuing infractions, since the day of the practice of the last act;

c) In the permanent infractions, from the day on which to cease consummation.

5-The disciplinary procedure also prescribes whether, from the knowledge or the participation effected

in accordance with paragraph 1 of the following article, do not commense the competent disciplinary procedure within the period of

one year.

6-The limitation period of the disciplinary procedure shall interrupt with the notification to the accused:

a) Of the establishment of the disciplinary procedure;

b) From the prosecution.

7-After each period of interruption begins to run new limitation period.

8-The limitation period of the disciplinary procedure suspending itself during the time when:

a) The disciplinary process is suspended, awaiting dispatch of charge or pronunciation

in criminal proceedings;

b) The final decision of the disciplinary procedure cannot be notified to the accused, on the grounds that

be attributable to you.

9-A suspension, when it results from the situation provided for in the paragraph b ) from the previous number, cannot

surpass the two-year deadline.

10-The limitation period comes back to running from the day on which the cause of the suspension is ceased.

SECTION II

From the exercise of disciplinary action

Article 95.

Exercise of disciplinary action

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1-Have legitimacy to participate in the Order facts susceptible to constitute disciplinary infraction:

a) The bastonary;

b) The regional guideline councils;

c) The Public Prosecutor's Office, pursuant to paragraph 3;

d) Any person directly or indirectly affected by the participates facts;.

2-Courts and any other authorities shall give notice to the Order of practice, by

members of this, of facts susceptible to constituting disciplinary infraction.

3-Without prejudice to the provisions of the law of criminal procedure about the secret of justice, the Public Prosecutor's Office

and the criminal police organs refer to the Order's certificate of complaints, stakes or complaints

presented against associates and which may substantiate facts susceptible to constitute

disciplinary infraction.

Article 96.

Desistance of participation

The dismissal of the disciplinary participation by the participant extinguishes the disciplinary procedure,

save if the imputed infraction affects the dignity of the target member and, in this case, this

express an intention that the process will proceed, or the prestige of the Order or profession,

in any of their specialties.

Article 97.

Introduction of the disciplinary procedure

1-Any organ of the Order, officiously or having on the basis of complaint, complaint or participation

presented by properly identified person, containing facts susceptible to integrin

disciplinary infraction of the member, communicates, immediately, the facts to the competent body for the

introduction of disciplinary proceedings.

2-When it is concluded that participation is unfounded, it becomes aware of the target member and

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are issued the certificates that the same understands necessary for the tutelage of your rights and

legitimate interests.

3-The disciplinary proceedings against the bastonary or against any member of the jurisdictional board in

effectivity of functions can only be instituted by deliberation of the representative assembly,

approved by an absolute majority.

Article 98.

Procedural legitimacy

Persons with a direct, personal and legitimate interest regarding the facts involved

may request the Order to intervene in the process, requiring and claiming what

have for convenient.

Article 99.

Subsidiary law

Without prejudice to the provisions of this Statute, the disciplinary procedure shall be governed by

disciplinary regulation, being in a subsidiary to be applicable to the procedures

provided for in the General Labor Law in Public Functions, passed by Law No. 35/2014, of

June 20.

SECTION III

From disciplinary sanctions

Article 100.

Application of disciplinary sanctions

1-The disciplinary sanctions are as follows:

a) Warning;

b) Repreension registered;

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c) Suspension of the professional exercise up to the maximum of 15 years;

2-A The warning sanction is applied to light infractions in the exercise of the profession of the members.

3-A The sanction of registered reprimand is applicable to serious infractions.

4-A suspension penalty is applicable when, taking into account the nature of the profession, the infraction

discipline is serious and has put into question life, physical integrity of people or be

seriously lesive of the honour or of the alheian heritage or of equivalent values.

5-Failure by the member of the duty to pay quotas may give way to the application of sanction

suspension disciplinary, when you learn that that non-compliance is culpable and extend

for period of more than 12 months.

6-In the case of professionals in free service provision of services on national territory, the sanction

provided for in paragraph 4 takes the form of temporary interdiction of the exercise of professional activity

in this territory.

7-A more serious sanction application than mere warning to member who will exercise some post

in the organs of the Order determines the immediate ousting of that post, without dependence on

deliberation of the representative assembly in this direction.

8-A The attempt is punishable by the penalty applicable to the consummate infraction, especially mitigated.

9-Where the infraction results from the violation of a duty by omission, compliance with the penalties

applied not to waiver the accused from the fulfilment of that, if this is still possible.

10-A The practice of infraction is considered recidivist when it repeans the illicit behavior before

elapsed the term of five years after the day on which the conviction is to become final

commitment of the previous infraction.

Article 101.

Graduation

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1-In the application of the sanctions must meet the professional and disciplinary antecedents of the accused,

the degree of guilt, the seriousness and consequences of the infraction, the economic situation of the accused and the

all the remaining aggravating or mitigating circumstances.

2-Are mitigating circumstances:

a) The effective exercise of the engineering profession for a period of more than five years,

followed or interpolated, without any disciplinary penalty;

b) The spontaneous confession of the infraction or infractions;

c) The collaboration of the accused for the discovery of the truth;

d) The remediation of damage caused by the lesive conduct.

3-Are aggravating circumstances:

a) Premeditation, in the practice of the infringement and the preparation of it;

b) The collusion;

c) The recidivism;

d) The accumulation of infractions, whenever two or more infractions are committed in the same

moment or when another is committed before it has been punished the previous one;

e) The fact that the infraction or infractions are committed during the performance of sanction

discipline or in the course of the period of suspension of disciplinary sanction;

f) The production of considerable value damage, by understanding itself as such where it exceeds the

value of half of the wavement of the courts of the relationship.

Article 102.

Application of ancillary sanctions

1-Cumulatively with the application of the disciplinary sanctions, may be applied, in the title of

ancillary sanctions:

a) Mandatory frequency of supplementary training shares to the training shares

mandatory;

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b) Restitution of amounts, documents or objects;

c) Loss, total or partial, of fees and the costing of expenses;

d) Loss of the product of the benefit obtained by the accused;

e) Ineligibility for organs of the Order for one for a maximum period of 15 years.

2-The ancillary sanctions can be cumulated with each other.

3-In the application of the ancillary sanctions shall meet the criteria set out in Article 1 (1)

previous.

4-The result of the application of the ancillary penalties provided for in points c) and d) of paragraph 1, consider themselves

lost in favour of the Order.

Article 103.

Unity and accumulation of infractions

Without prejudice to the application of the ancillary sanctions referred to in the previous article, it cannot

apply to the same member more than a disciplinary sanction for each punishable fact.

Article 104.

Suspension of sanctions

1-Taking into consideration the degree of guilt, the behaviour of the accused and the other circumstances of the

practice of the infraction, disciplinary sanctions may be suspended for a period of time

between one and five years.

2-Cessa the suspension of the sanction whenever, in respect of the punished Member, a decision is given

end of conviction in new disciplinary process.

Article 105.

Application of suspension sanctions

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1-A The application of the suspension sanctions over two years can only take place after public hearing,

in the terms provided for in the disciplinary regulation.

2-The suspension penalties for a period of more than two years can only be applied by deliberation

which meets the qualified majority of two thirds of the members of the disciplined body.

Article 106.

Implementation of sanctions

1-Compete to the national governing board to give execution to decisions rendered in a process seat

discipline, specifically by practicing the necessary acts to the effective suspension of enrollment of the

members to whom the suspension sanctions are applied.

2-A The application of suspension sanction implies the temporary prohibition of the practice of any act

professional and the delivery of the professional ballot at the headquarters of the Order or in the region in which the accused

have your professional domicile, in the applicable cases.

Article 107.

Start of production of effects of disciplinary sanctions

1-The disciplinary sanctions initiate the production of its effects on the day after the one in which the decision

become definitive.

2-If the date on which the decision becomes final is suspended the inscription of the accused, the

compliance with the disciplinary penalty of suspension commencement on the day following the lifting of the

suspension.

Article 108.

Communication and advertising

1-A application of the sanctions referred to in points b ) and c ) of Article 100 (1) is communicated by the

national directive board:

a) To the society of professionals or associative organization on account of which the accused preside

services at the date of the facts and the date of the conviction by the practice of the disciplinary infraction; and

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b) To the competent authority in another Member State of the European Union or Space

European Economic for the control of the activity of the accused established in that same

Member State.

2-When the sanction applied for suspension is given advertising through the official website of the Order

and in places deemed to be elderly for the fulfillment of the general prevention purposes of the system

legal.

3-If it is decided the preventive suspension or enforced sanction of suspension the national governing board

must enter the corresponding annotation in the permanent lists of members released by means

computer.

4-A The publicity of disciplinary sanctions, preventive suspension and ancillary sanctions is

promoted by the disciplistically competent body, being effected at the expense of the accused.

5-Without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Order restitutes the amount paid by the accused to

give publicity to your preventive suspension whenever the latter does not come to be condemned in the framework

of the respective disciplinary procedure.

Article 109.

Prescription of disciplinary sanctions

1-The disciplinary sanctions prescribe us on the following deadlines:

a) The one of warning, in two years;

b) The reprimand registered, in four years;

c) The one of suspension, in five years.

2-The limitation period runs from the day after the one in which the decision becomes final.

Article 110.

Principle of enrollment in the Order

1-The individual process of the members in the Order includes a enrolment, from which the sanctions are listed

disciplars referred to in points b ) and c ) of Article 100 (1) and the ancillary sanctions that

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have been applied.

2-The enrollment is managed by the national governing council, based on the elements communicated by the

disciplinary bodies of the Order.

3-A The conviction of a member in criminal proceedings is communicated to the Order for the purpose of

averaging to the enrollment respect.

4-A sanction referred to in paragraph b ) of Article 100 (1) is removed from the enrollment after the course of the

term of five years from its compliance.

SECTION IV

From the process

Article 111.

Compulsion

The application of a disciplinary sanction is always preceded by the finding of the facts and the

disciplinary liability in own process, in the terms provided for in the present

Status and the disciplinary regulation.

Article 112.

Forms of the process

1-A disciplinary action may behave in the following ways:

a) Process of inquiry;

b) Disciplinary process.

2-The inquiry process is applicable when it is not possible to clearly identify the existence of

a disciplinary infraction or the infringing respect, by imposing itself on summary representations to

the clarification or the concretization of the facts in question.

3-Applies to the disciplinary process whenever there are indications that a particular Member of the Order

practiced properly realized facts, susceptible to constituting disciplinary infraction.

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4-After ascertaining the identity of the offender, or, as soon as they show minimally realized

or clarified the participatory facts, being they susceptible to constitute disciplinary infraction, is

proposal for the immediate conversion of the inquiry process into disciplinary proceedings by opinion

succinctly reasoned.

5-When participation is manifestly unviable or unfounded, it should be the same to be liminally

filed, giving fulfillment to the provisions of Article 97 (2).

6-If the analysis of the conduct of a member carried out in the context of the investigation process results

proof enough of the practice of disciplinary infraction abstractly punishable by warning sanction

or registered reprimand, the competent disciplinary organ may determine the provisional suspension

of the proceedings by the imposition of the defendants ' rules of conduct or payment of a

certain amount, by way of surety, where the following assumptions are checked:

a) Absence of previous application of provisional suspension of the process by the same type of

infraction;

b) Absence of a high degree of guilt.

7-In the case provided for in the preceding paragraph, the following measures shall apply to the following:

a) Payment, within 10 working days, of an amount between € 100 and € 5000, in the case of

natural persons, or between € 1000 and € 50000, in the case of collective persons or

equstops;

b) Implementation of a plan to restructure its activity, in the terms and deadline that

are defined;

c) Frequency of supplementary training actions to the mandatory training actions, in the

terms and timeframe that are defined.

8-The default of the determined measures, referred to in the preceding paragraph, implies the

continuation of the disciplinary proceedings provisionally suspended pursuant to paragraphs 6 and 7.

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9-If the accused complies with the determined measures, the case is filed and shall be returned to him the

paid amounts.

Article 113.

Disciplinary procedure

1-The disciplinary procedure shall be governed by this Statute and the disciplinary regulation.

2-The disciplinary process is composed of the following phases:

a) Instruction;

b) Defence of the accused;

c) Decision;

d) Execution.

3-At all stages of the disciplinary procedure, the defendants are assured of all defence guarantees

in the general terms of law.

Article 114.

Preventive suspension

1-After the hearing of the accused, or if this one, having been notified, does not appear to be heard, it may

be ordered for your preventive suspension, upon deliberation taken by a qualified majority of

two thirds of the members in effectivity of duties of the competent organ of the Order.

2-A suspension referred to in the preceding paragraph shall only be enacted in cases where there are indications

of the practice of disciplinary infraction to which the suspension penalty is matched.

3-A preventive suspension may not exceed three months and is always discounted in the sanction of

suspension.

Article 115.

Secret nature of the process

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1-The process is of a secret nature until the dispatch of prosecution or archiving.

2-The rapporteur may, however, authorize the consultation of the case by the defendant, by the participant, by the

Prosecutor's Office, by the criminal police bodies or by the interested parties, when there is no result

inconvenience to the instruction and on condition of not being disclosed what it consents to.

3-The accused or the person concerned, when member, who does not respect the secret nature of the proceedings

incurs disciplinary responsibility.

SECTION V

Of the guarantees

Article 116.

Recurrable decisions

1-Of the decisions taken by the regional disciplinary council or the jurisdictional board in the first

instance is fit for the plenary of the jurisdictional council

2-Decisions of mere expedient or referring to the discipline of work are not liable to appeal

under the terms of the previous number.

3-The exercise of the right of appeal shall be governed by the applicable provisions of the disciplinary regulation.

Article 117.

Review

1-Is admissible the review of final decision delivered by the organs of the Order with competence

discipline whenever:

a) A court ruling carried forward on trial to declare false any elements or means of

proof that it has been determinant for the decision to revidend;

b) A judicial decision carried forward on trial has given as proved crime committed by

member or members of the organ that delivered the decision revidend and related to the

exercise of its functions in the process;

c) The facts that have served as a basis for the sentencing decision are irreconcilable with the

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that are given as proven in another final decision and the opposition will result in serious

doubts about the fairness of the conviction;

d) If they have discovered new facts or means of proof that, by themselves or comprised of those with

have been appreciated in the process, whisper serious doubts about the fairness of the decision

condensate prowound.

2-A simple allegation of illegality, formal or substantial, of the process and disciplinary decision not

constitutes grounds for the review.

3-A The review is admissible even if the process finds itself extinct or the sanction prescribed or complied with.

4-The exercise of the right of review shall be governed by the applicable provisions of the disciplinary regulation.

CHAPTER IX

Revenue and expenses

Article 118.

Revenue of national bodies

They constitute revenue of the national bodies of the Order:

a) The percentage of the quotization charged by the regions that is fixed by the assembly

representative;

b) The product of the sale of edited publications;

c) The results of the realization of the congresses;

d) The product of the provision of services and other activities;

e) The inheritances, the legacies, the donations and the subsidies;

f) The income of goods that are affected by it and financial applications;

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g) The fees for specific acts or services;

h) Other revenue provided for in the law.

Article 119.

Revenue of regional bodies

They constitute revenue of the organs of the regions:

a) The proceeds of the fees paid by the registered members ' respective members;

b) The percentage that has been provided to them by the quotas paid by the registered members ' respective members;

c) The proceeds from the sale of publications edited in the ambit respects;

d) The product of other activities brought about by your initiative;

e) The heritages, legacies and donations intended for use in the region concerned;

f) The incomes of the goods that are affected to them;

g) The interest on deposit accounts.

Article 120.

Expenses

1-It is expenses of the Order those of installation, of personnel, of maintenance, of operation and all the

too much needed for the pursuit of their assignments.

2-Displacement expenses occasioned by the operation of national organs shall be borne

by the national governing council.

Article 121.

Congress

Expenditure on the realization of the congresses shall be borne by the national bodies.

CHAPTER X

Regulations

Article 122.

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Disciplinary regulation

The disciplinary regulation, whose drafting and revision competes with the jurisdictional board, is

approved by the representative assembly.

Article 123.

Regulation of elections and referendums

The regulation of elections and referendums, whose drafting and revision is incumbent on the council

national directive, is approved by the representative assembly.

Article 124.

Regulation of internships

The regulation of internships, the elaboration and revision of which is incumbent on the governing board nacio-

nal, is approved by the representative assembly and homologated by the tutelage.

Article 125.

Regulation of remuneration

The regulation of remunerations of the posts of executive bodies, the elaboration of which and I have reseen-

are incumbent on the national governing board, is approved by the representative assembly.

Article 126.

Regulation of specialties

The regulation of specialties, the drafting and revision of which is incumbent on the board of directors

national, is approved by the representative assembly and homologated by the tutelage.

Article 127.

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Regulation of specializations

The regulation of specializations, whose drafting and review is incumbent on the board of directors

national, is approved by the representative assembly and homologated by the tutelage.

Article 128.

Regulation of admission and qualification

The admission and qualification regulation, the drafting and revision of which is incumbent on the board

national directive, on a proposal from the board of admission and qualification, is approved by the

representative assembly and homologated by the tutelage.

Article 129.

Regulation of operation of the representative assembly

The regulation of operation of the representative assembly, the drafting of which competes

to the national governing council, it is approved by that assembly.

Article 130.

Other regulations of operation

1-The operating regulations of the national governing board, the national tax council, of the

jurisdictional board, the board of admission and qualification and the coordinating board of the

colleges are drawn up by the bodies themselves and approved by the representative assembly.

2-The regulations that define the operating conditions of regional assemblies, the

elaboration and review compete on the respective tables, are approved by the respective assemblies

regional, owing any revision to the same tramites.

3-The conditions of operation of the boards, tax advice and advice

Disciplinary of the regions and sections are set by regulations to be drawn up by the organ itself and the

approve by the respected regional assemblies.

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4-The health regulations of colleges are drawn up by the respective councils

college nationals and approved by the representative assembly after advice from the board

coordinator of the colleges.

Article 131.

Quota exemption regulation

The quota exemption regulation and other charges shall be approved by the representative assembly under

proposal of the national directive board.

Article 132.

Regulation of distrital delegations

The regulation of district delegations, the elaboration of which is incumbent on the national governing council, is

approved by the representative assembly.

Article 133.

Other internal regulations

The Order may approve other regulations of an internal nature, specifically in respect of

functioning of the respected services, of commissions and specific working groups, of the congress, and

of the editorial activity, as well as on the procedure of accreditation of formation actions, of

indication of experts and evaluators.

Article 134.

Publication

The regulations of the Order with external effectiveness are published in the 2 th grade of the Journal of the Republic .

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Title II

Professional deontology

CHAPTER I

Scope

Article 135.

Rights and duties

All members of the Order shall have the rights and duties arising from this Statute and

of the legislation in force, pursuant to the following articles.

Article 136.

Effective members ' rights

They constitute the rights of the effective members:

a) Participate in the activities of the Order;

b) Intervene in congresses by enrollment, intervene in the magna assembly and intervene and vote

in the referendums and regional assemblies;

c) Consult the minutes of the representative assembly and the regional assemblies;

d) Require the convening of extraordinary regional assemblies;

e) Eleger and, when natural persons, be elected for the performance of duties in the Order;

f) Apply for the assignment of specialist, advisor and senior titles;

g) Benefit from the editorial activity of the Order;

h) Use the services offered by the Order;

i) Use the professional ballot issued by the Order.

Article 137.

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Effective members ' duties to the Order

1-Constituent duties of the effective members towards the Order:

a) Comply with the obligations of this Statute, the deontological code and the regulations of the

Order;

b) Participate in the pursuit of the objectives of the Order;

c) Perform the duties for which they have been elected or chosen;

d) To provide commissions and working groups the specialized collaboration that is to them

requested;

e) Contribute to the good reputation of the Order and seek to broaden its scope of influence;

f) To meet punctually the payment of the quotas and other charges set by the

Order;

g) Respond to inquiries from the disciplinary boards.

2-Can be exempted from the payment of the charges referred to in paragraph f) from the previous number the

effective members who do not find themselves in the effective exercise of the profession on national territory,

in the terms of the regulation referred to in Article 131.

Article 138.

Rights and duties of trainee members

1-Constitute specific duties of the trainee members the constants of Article 22.

2-The trainee members may enjoy the rights that are not vetted and that they are not

incompatible with your condition, and are subject still to duties that are not incompatible

with their condition, provided for in this Chapter.

Article 139.

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Rights of honorary and corresponding members

The honorary members, correspondents enjoy the following rights:

a) Participate in the activities of the Order;

b) Intervening, without a right to vote, in the magna assembly, in regional and district assemblies and

island.

Article 140.

Duties of the corresponding members

They constitute duties of the corresponding members to the Order:

a) Comply with the provisions of this Statute and the regulations established by the Order;

b) Participate in the pursuit of the objectives of the Order;

c) To provide commissions and working groups the specialized collaboration that is to them

requested;

d) Contribute to the good reputation of the Order and seek to broaden its scope of influence;

e) Satisfy the burdens set by the Order;

f) Respond to inquiries from the disciplinary boards.

CHAPTER II

Duties arising from the exercise of professional activity

Article 141.

Engineer's duties to the community

1-It is the fundamental duty of the engineer to possess a good preparation, so as to perform with

competency its functions and contribute to the progress of engineering and its best application

at the service of Humanity.

2-The engineer must defend the environment and natural resources.

3-The engineer must ensure the safety of the executing staff, users and the general public.

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4-The engineer shall object to the fraudulent use, or contrary to the common good, of his work.

5-The engineer should look for the best technical solutions, pondering the economy and quality

of the production or of the works that design, direct or organize.

6-The engineer must fight and report practices of social discrimination and child labour

assuming an attitude of social responsibility.

Article 142.

Duties of the engineer to the employing entity and to the customer

1-The engineer shall contribute to the achievement of the economic-social goals of the organizations in

that integrates, promoting increased productivity, improving the quality of products and

of the working conditions, with the fair treatment of the people.

2-The engineer must provide his services with diligence and punctuality, so as not to harm

the customer nor third parties, never abandoning, without justification, the work entrusted to him

or the posts that you play.

3-The engineer shall not disclose or use professional secrets or information, in particular the

scientific and technical obtained confidentially in the performance of their duties, unless, in

conscience, consider being able to be at serious risk demands for the common good.

4-The engineer should only pay for the services he has effectively provided and having in attention

your fair value.

5-The engineer must refuse his or her collaboration in works whose payment is subordinated to the

confirmation of a predetermined conclusion, although this circumstance may influence the fixation

of the remuneration.

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6-The engineer must refuse compensation from more than one interested in his work when he can

there are conflicts of interest or there is no consent of any of the parties.

Article 143.

Duties of the engineer in the exercise of the profession

1-The engineer, in his professional associative activity, shall pugnate for the prestige of the profession and

to impose themselves on the value of their collaboration and for irreproachable conduct, using always in good faith,

loyalty and exemption, either by acting individually, or collectively.

2-The engineer shall object to any unfair competition.

3-The engineer must use the most sobriety in the professional advertisements he makes or authorizes.

4-The engineer shall not accept work or perform duties that exceed his or her competence or

require more time than the one you possess.

5-The engineer shall only sign opinions, projects or other professional work from which he is author

or collaborator.

6-The engineer must issue his professional opinions with objectivity and exemption.

7-The engineer shall, in the exercise of public functions, in the company and in the works or services in which

perform their activity, act with the greatest correction and in such a way as to obstinate discrimination or

disconsiderations.

8-The engineer must refuse his or her collaboration in work on which he has to speak in the

exercise of different functions or which imply ambiguous situations.

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Article 144.

Reciprocal duties of engineers

1-The engineer must evaluate with objectivity the work of his collaborators, contributing to the

their valorisation and professional promotion.

2-The engineer should only claim the copyright when the originality and the importance

concerning your contribution justifies you, exercising that right with respect for the property

outrain intellectual and with the limitations imposed by the common good.

3-The engineer must provide colleagues, when requested, all possible collaboration.

4-The engineer should not harm the professional reputation or professional activities of colleagues,

nor let them be mentored their jobs, owing, when necessary, to appreciate them

with elevation and always with safeguarding of the dignity of the class.

5-The engineer must refuse to replace another engineer, only by doing so when the reasons for this

replacement are correct and giving the colleague the necessary satisfaction.

Title III

Final provisions

Article 145.

Judicial control

1-A activity of the Order in the context of its assignments and the exercise of the public powers that

are conferred shall be subject to the administrative jurisdiction, in the terms of the respect of the legislation.

2-Of the disciplinary sanctions applied by the Order rests with the administrative courts

competent

Article 146.

One-stop shop

1-All applications, communications and notifications provided for in this Statute between the Order and

professionals, companies of engineers or other associative organizations of professionals for the

engineering exercise, with the exception of those relating to disciplinary procedures, are carried out by

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electronic means, through the single electronic counter of the services, referred to in Articles 5 and 6 of the

Decree-Law No. 92/2010 of July 26, accessible through the website of the public association

professional in question.

2-When, on the grounds of unavailability of the electrolytic platforms, the

compliance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the transmission of the present information may be

made by delivery on the services of the professional public association concerned, by shipment by mail

under registration, by fax or by electro-mail.

3-A presentation of documents in simple form in the terms of the previous figures dispensing a

shipping of the original, authentic, authenticated or certified documents, without prejudice to the

provisions of the paragraph a ) of paragraph 3 and in paragraphs 4 and 5 of Article 7 of the Decree-Law No. 92/2010 of 26 of

July.

4-They shall also apply to the procedures referred to in this Article to the provisions of the provisions of the d ) and and ) from the

article 5 and in Article 7 (1) of the Decree-Law No 92/2010 of July 26.

Article 147.

Information on the Internet

In addition to the information referred to in Article 23 of Law No 2/2013 of January 10, in the

n Article 6 (3) of the Decree-Law No 92/2010 of July 26 and in Article 19 (4) of the Article

Directive No 2000 /31/CE, of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 8, 2000,

on certain legal aspements of the services of the information society, in particular of the

electro trade, in the domestic market, the Order should make available to the general public,

through its electronic site on the Internet, the following information:

a) Regime of access and exercise of the profession;

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b) Principles and deontological rules and technical standards applicable to its members;

c) Procedure for filing a complaint or complaints by the recipients relatively

to the services provided by professionals in the context of their activity;

d) Offers of employment in the Order;

e) Updated registration of members with:

i) The name, professional domicile and the number of portfolio or professional ballot;

ii) The designation of the title and professional specialties;

iii) The situation of suspension or temporary interdiction of the exercise of the activity, if it is

case of this;

f) Updated registration of professionals in free provision of services in the national territory, which

they consider themselves to be enrolled in accordance with Article 4 (2) of Law No 9/2009 of March 4,

amended by Laws No 41/2012 of August 28, and 25/2014, of May 2, which shall behold:

i) The name and professional domicile and, in case there is, the designation of the professional title of

origin and the specialty respects;

ii) The identification of the professional public association in the Member State of origin, in the

what the professional is found to be enrolled;

iii) The situation of suspension or temporary interdiction of the exercise of the activity, if it is

case of this;

iv) The information relating to companies of professionals or other forms of organisation

associative of professionals in order to provide services in the Member State of origin,

case here you provide services in that quality;

g) Updated registration of companies of engineers and other forms of organisation

associative inscribed with the respect designation, registered office, enrolment number and number of

identification;

h) Table of the correspondences of the engineering courses professors in national schools and the

specialties and structured colleges in the Order.

Article 148.

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Administrative cooperation

The Order provides and requests the administrative authorities of the other Member States or

of the European Economic Area and the European Commission mutual assistance and take the

measures necessary to cooperate effectively, notably through the System of

Information of the Internal Market, in the context of the procedures for providers of providers

services already established in another Member State, pursuant to Chapter VI of the Decree-

Law No. 92/2010 of July 26, of Article 51º (2) of Law No 9/2009 of March 4,

amended by Laws No 41/2012 of August 28, and 25/2014, of May 2, and of paragraphs 2 and 3

of Article 19 of the Directive No 2000 /31/CE, of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 8 of

June 2000, concerning certain legal aspements of the services of the information society, in

special of the electrolytic trade.

ANNEX

(As referred to in point (a) of Article 16 (2) of the Statute of the Order of the

Engineers)

1. Project

Elaboration or coordination of at least five works projects, of which at least

two of category II.

2. Project and direction of labor and or direction of labor surveillance:

a) Elaboration of at least three projects of works, of which at least one of category II;

and

b) Direction of work or direction of work surveillance in three buildings up to the class 5 of alvshall,

of which at least one of class 3 or above, or, alternatively, in other works of the

categories I and II, of which at least one of this latter category.

3. Direction of work and / or direction of work surveillance:

a) Direction of work or direction of supervision in seven different works, of which at least,

three of a class higher than 2 or category higher than I; or

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b) Direction of work or direction of work surveillance in at least ten works of any

class or category.

Notes:

a) The categories of works and the classes of alvshall to which the previous figures are referred to are the

predicted, respectively, at the 701-H/2008 Portaria, July 29, and the Portaria

n. 119/2012, of April 30.

For the purposes of the provisions of this Annex, the work of the identical shall also be eligible

relevance carried out in the other areas referred to in Article 7 (1) of the Staff Regulations.

ANNEX II

(referred to in Article 7)

Republication of the Decree-Law No. 119/92 of June 30