Key Benefits:
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Proposal for Law No 11 /XIII
Exhibition of Motives
The present proposed law aims to submit to the Assembly of the Republic the Great Options of the
Plan for 2016-2019.
The Big Options of the Plan for 2016-2019 express the new model of
development and a new strategy of consolidation of public accounts such as
defined in the programme of the XXI Constitutional Government.
The commitment and determination of the Government in changing public policies, such as
recommended in its programme, it is realized around the following priority axes of
acting:
First, a strategy of boosting economic growth and economic growth is devoting
employment based on the increase in disposable income of households and the creation of
conditions for the investment of companies.
Second, it promotes the defence of the Social State and public services,
specifically in the areas of social security, education and health, targeting the
strengthening social cohesion and decreasing levels of poverty and social inequalities.
Third, it is intended to relaunch the investment in Science, Innovation,
Education, Training and Culture, returning to the country a vision of future in the economy
global of the twenty-first century.
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In the fourth and last place ensures respect for international commitments to
Portugal, in the perspetive of the defence of the interests of our Country, aiming, in the context of the
our participation in the European Union, a greater solidarity between the different states-
members and the deepening of economic and social cohesion.
The Grand Options of the Plan for 2016-2019 have been submitted to the Council's opinion
Economic and Social.
Thus:
Under the terms of the paragraph d ) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the
Assembly of the Republic the following proposal for a law:
Article 1.
Object
The Grand Options of the Plan for 2016-2019, which integrate the measures of
policy and the investments that allow them to realize.
Article 2.
Strategic framework
The Major Plan Options for 2016-2019 fall into the strategies of
economic and social development and consolidation of public accounts enshrined in the
Programme of the XXI Constitutional Government.
Article 3.
Big Plan Options
The Major Plan Options for 2016-2019 integrate the following set of
commitments and policies:
a) Increase the disposable income of households to re-launch the economy;
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b) Solve the problem of financing of companies;
c) Priority to the innovation and internationalization of companies;
d) Promoting employment, fighting precariousness;
e) To improve democratic participation and the defence of fundamental rights;
f) Governing better, valuing political activity and the exercise of public office;
g) Ensure National Defence;
h) Internal security;
i) Criminal policy;
j) Administration of Justice;
k) Administrative simplification and enhancement of public functions;
l) Regulation and supervision of markets;
m) Enhancing the autonomy of autonomous regions;
n) Decentralization, the basis of the reform of the state;
o) Defend the National Health Service, promote health;
p) Combating school unsuccess, ensuring 12 years of schooling;
q) Investing in youth;
r) To promote adult education and lifelong training;
s) To modernize, qualify and diversify higher education;
t) To strengthen investment in science and technology, democratizing innovation;
u) Reacting to the demographic challenge;
v) A new generation of housing policies;
w) Sea: a bet of future;
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x) Affirm the interior;
y) Promoting territorial cohesion and environmental sustainability;
z) Valuing agricultural and forestry activity and rural space;
aa) Leading the energy transition;
bb) Investing in Culture;
cc) Ensuring the sustainability of social security;
dd) Better tax fairness;
ee) Fighting poverty;
ff) Building a more equal society;
gg) Promoting the Portuguese language and luscious citizenship;
hh) A new policy for Europe;
ii) A global Portugal;
Article 4.
Budget framework
The constant investment priorities of the Major Plan Options for 2016-2019
are contemplated and compatibilized in the framework of the State Budget for 2016.
Article 5.
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Final disposition
It is published in annex to this Law, of which it is an integral part, the document of the
Big Plan Options for 2016-2019.
Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of February 4, 2016
The Prime Minister
The Minister of Finance
The Secretary of State and Parliamentary Affairs
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ANNEX
GREAT PLAN OPTIONS FOR 2016-2019
Executive Summary
Economic and Social Diagnosis
1. INCREASE THE DISPOSABLE INCOME OF HOUSEHOLDS TO
RELAUNCHING THE ECONOMY
2. SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF FINANCING OF COMPANIES
3. PRIORITY TO INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION OF ENTERPRISES
4. PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT, FIGHT PRECARIOUSNESS
5. IMPROVING DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION AND THE DEFENCE OF RIGHTS
FUNDAMENTAL
6. GOVERN BETTER, CHERISH POLITICAL ACTIVITY AND THE
EXERCISE OF PUBLIC OFFICE
7. ENSURE NATIONAL DEFENCE
8. INTERNAL SECURITY
9. CRIMINAL POLICY
10. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
11. ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF FUNCTIONS
PUBLIC
12. REGULATION AND SUPERVISION OF MARKETS
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13. VALUING THE AUTONOMY OF AUTONOMOUS REGIONS
14. DECENTRALIZATION, BASE OF STATE REFORM
15. DEFEND THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, PROMOTE HEALTH
16. COMBAT SCHOOL UNSUCCESS, ENSURE 12 YEARS OF
SCHOOLING
17. INVESTING IN YOUTH
18. PROMOTING ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING ALONG THE
VIDA
19. MODERNIZE, QUALIFY AND DIVERSIFY HIGHER EDUCATION
20. STRENGTHEN INVESTMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION
21. REACT TO THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE
22. A NEW GENERATION OF HOUSING POLICIES
23. MAR: A BET OF FUTURE
24. AFFIRM THE INTERIOR
25. PROMOTING TERRITORIAL COHESION AND SUSTAINABILITY
ENVIRONMENTAL
26. VALUING AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY ACTIVITY AND RURAL SPACE
27. LEAD THE ENERGY TRANSITION
28. INVESTING IN CULTURE
29. ENSURING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF SOCIAL SECURITY
30. BETTER TAX FAIRNESS
31. FIGHTING POVERTY
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32. BUILD A MORE EQUAL SOCIETY
33. PROMOTING PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE AND LUSCIOUS CITIZENSHIP
34. A NEW POLICY FOR EUROPE
35. A GLOBAL PORTUGAL
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Great Options of Plan 2016-2019 of the XXI Constitutional Government draw a
alternative path, generator of better economic and social outcomes.
The crisis of sovereign debts, which also struck down on Portugal, has resulted, in our
case, of an accumulation of structural-public, demographic, institutional imbalances and
financial-for which subsequent policies did not know to give an answer
adequate, which prevented the impoverishment of the country. The policies adopted were always
justified with the consideration that there did not exist an alternative. Only the resilience of the
public servants, the perseverance of workers and private sector companies and
the improvement of the design of the European institutions generated some relief to the process of
adjustment of the Portuguese economy.
Finding the path of sustained economic growth requires a set of
socially and economically coherent measures and, at the same time, compatible with
preservation of the conditions of sustainability of public expenditure. It is this principle that guides
the options of the XXI Government. In light of this principle, the Government has set five priorities
that conformed to the Major Plan Options for the period from 2016 a to 2019. From a
economic and social point of view, the Government intends to generate further growth, with
better employment and more equality.
These Options aim to resume fundamental principles that have to be reaffirmed in the action
ruler:
● Ensure respect for the fundamental rights of citizens in the light of the Constitution and
of the principles enshrined in a European democracy (assistance in childhood, old age
and unemployment), reposing the credibility of the state as part of the social contract;
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● To enhance the credibility and qualification of the State in its exclusive functions of
sovereignty (sovereign functions, regulation, safeguard of strategic interests
national), as well as in the functions of provision of services with relevance to
society (education and health) and in its irreplaceable role of redistribution of wealth
and protection from the risks. This reinforcement stems from the rejection of new concessions or
privatization assented in the preconceptions that public management is less effective and less
competent;
● To promote efficient and accountable management of public resources, ensuring that
public institutions fulfil essential functions for economic growth,
how to combat poverty and exclusion and the enhancement of qualifications and capacity
scientific and technological;
● To respect and stimulate private initiative, limited by the rules of the competition,
protect the rights of workers, public health and the environment, and work on the
sense that public institutions will create conditions that promote investment
private and the internationalization of Portuguese companies;
● Dignify and requalify the Portuguese international presence, whether in space
european institutional, whether with third countries, actively advocating the agenda and the
national interests.
The relaunch of strong growth and with a solid and sustainable foundation is essential
to ensure the financial creditworthiness of the country and to improve the living conditions of the
Portuguese. Economic governance should return Portugal to a path of
economic growth, with equality of opportunity and equity, and in a social dialogue
compatible with a mature and transparent democracy.
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For sustained economic growth proves to be essential to bet on competitiveness
of the companies, creating the conditions for investment, innovation and internationalization,
at the same time that it promotes job creation and fights precariousness.
Abandoning once the idea of strengthening competitiveness centered on compression
wage, the strategy passes before by the valorisation of national scientific capacity and the
enhancement of cooperation between companies, knowledge centres and institutions of
transfer of technology.
Inclusive economic growth requires, in turn, a capable Public Administration
of fulfilling its functions of sovereignty, to improve the quality of democracy, of the
internal security and defence, but also of justice and economic regulation and a
Strong Public Administration, which values the exercise of public functions, rejecting the
current regimes of requalification and special mobility.
On the basis of that growth are the people, who constitute the most important asset of the
country. Betting on the valorisation of human capital is a condition first for a country more
thriving, which entails providing all opportunities for qualification, through the
education and vocational training. In this context, and considering the current challenge
demographic, it will also be given priority to policies that promote birth and the
parenthood, which allow for the return of emigrants and contribute to the best
hosting of immigrants, without forgetting new housing and rehabilitation policies
urban.
Innovation constitutes another key factor for increasing competitiveness and the
growth by creation of value. An increase in resources is proposed for the area of
transfer of technology, with a reinforcement of incentives to the greater integration of the
knowledge in value chains. Universities and research centres must
be integrated, strengthening the role of business development that they already have today.
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It matters to take full advantage of our territory, taking advantage of all its potentials,
promoting balanced economic development, harmonious and ecologically
sustainable, by a rational harness of our endogenous resources. The
territorial development strategy will have two fronts-the Atlantic and the peninsular-
equally dignities, which open both to vast markets, with numerous opportunities
for exploring. The levels of poverty, precariousness and inequality currently existing
in Portugal constitute not only a clear violation of the rights of citizenship that it puts
as a cause of our democratic living, but they are also an obstacle to the
economic development. In this context, the Government assumes the commitment of
defend and strengthen the Social State, from implementing a strategy to combat poverty
and to social exclusion, to ensure the sustainability of Social Security and the reposition of the
social minimums, of driving Portugal on the path of growth and development
sustained.
Portugal should design a clear philosophy in the international order, promoter of peace,
advocate for Human Rights, Democracy and the rule of law, on par with a
consenting attitude within the framework of the policies of cooperation and development. The Government
will put a particular highlight in the assertion of the Portuguese language, in the implantation of a
luscious citizenship and in the narrowing of the link to the Portuguese communities in the
foreign.
Defending Portugal requires, on the part of the Portuguese Government, a different attitude in the
framework of the European Union (EU) and the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It takes
defend more democracy in the EU, greater solidarity among different states-members
and the deepening of the economic and social cohesion of the EU.
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIAGNOSIS
In the framework of public policy programming assumes crucial relevance to identification
of the real situation of the Portuguese economy and society for about them acting in a way
proper.
The Portuguese economy displays a worrying reduction in investment, the one that is not
alheia the reduction of the savings rate that has been observed since the period prior to entry
in the euro area. The Portuguese economy has failed to prevent a slow slowdown, but
sustained, of the total factor productivity, which started in the late 80. The
fall in the savings rate reached worrying values at the height of the current crisis. In 2012,
in the face of the galloping rise in unemployment, the household savings rate fell to 6.9
% of disposable income. The most recent values released by the National Institute
of Statistic, I. P. (INE, I. P.), for the 3 ° quarter of 2015, place the savings rate
of households in only 4% of disposable income.
In the decade prior to the international crisis (2007/ to 8) there was a retrenchment of growth
economic in all countries of the Organisation for Cooperation and Development
Economic (OECD). As a result of the Asian emergency, there was a greater
competition for exports of industrial products and a rise in prices of the
raw materials on the international market. Portugal, with a specialisation marked by
a production structure close to that of the emerging countries, was particularly affected.
In an early period the country benefited from the positive shock of the entry of European funds and
of preferential access to a market of 400 million consumers, which benefited from
some protection. However, Portugal has seen the gradual degradation of its position, with the
progressive opening of the single market to the new member countries of the Union and the large
world producers, in particular in the traditional specialisation sectors of the country. The
adoption of the Euro, which has turned out to be a particularly strong currency, reinforced the problems
of competitiveness of national exports. Today, Portugal has to reclaim its
competitiveness in a more open market and exposed to global competition.
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The country's economic difficulties are not an exclusive one of the first decade of this century.
The deceleration in productivity began in the late 80, after the initial impact
of the opening to the EU with the European trade and fund flows. The Portuguese economy
has entered the EU with important structural delays, at the level of qualifications, intensity
capitalistics, infrastructure, technological capacity and operation of the institutions and
markets. Despite the progress achieved in the first two decades of integration, the
results were insufficient and many of these delays persisted and contributed to
to fragilize the Portuguese situation in the face of the international crisis. To this situation, they add others
problems, such as the breaking of birth and aging.
In the current phase, the two largest competitive instruments of the Portuguese economy
arise from materialized investments before the financial crisis of 2008: the capital
human available and the infrastructures and institutions. None of these ingredients were
available in the 80. In 1980 only 2% of workers in private companies
had graduation. In 2010 it was already about 16%. Among the youngest the percentage of
graduates approached the European standards. The quality of education has also
coming to increase, fruit of the investments made in the last decade, such as
demonstrate the international comparative instruments, such as the PISA tests, yet
some of this progress has been challenged in the recent period, as
demonstrate the indicators of school unsuccess.
One cannot take the risk of losing the race of technology again. In the past, the
absence of the Country from that race contributed to low productivity and cost him successive
waves of emigration and a huge increase in inequality between Portuguese.
In an economic space open to the world, as is the European today, the success of society
Portuguese has to go through sustained growth in the increase in qualifications.
This bet will allow Portugal to stop being the country of the EU with a higher proportion of
individuals among the 10% with lower wage income. Only education and creation
of employment will allow you to overcome situations like this.
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The last 10 years have exposed the unsuitability of Portuguese institutions to disruptions
the one that the economy was subjected to. On the one hand, globalization, which can be understood as
a change in the international distribution of production, for which Portugal was not
prepared, particularly in terms of the formation of the workforce, showed the
debilitativities of the growth model followed. On the other hand, the entry into the euro has proceeded
in an institutional framework that has not facilitated an appropriate affection of resources and talents
national to their most productive purposes. The modernization that has occurred in the fabric
productive and in the pattern of specialization was clearly insufficient in the face of challenges
external placed on the Portuguese economy.
The low interest rates and lack of adequate institutional framing induced a
excessive concentration of investment in non-transactionable goods sectors. The
reduction in financing costs has not promoted healthy growth of companies
competitive at the international level and, on the contrary, favored strategies of
de-capitalisation, in such a way that the non-financial corporate sector finds itself
strongly debilitated, with high levels of indebtedness and an average size of the
companies lower than the generality of EU countries.
On the basis of this general framework, the main lines of force are then described
developments verified in recent years.
Macroeconomic performance
The Portuguese economy has recorded in recent years a macroeconomic development
clearly negative.
Since 2010, gross domestic product (GDP) has decreased in real terms 6%, a performance
worse by about 9 percentage points when registered in UE28 and 7.2 points worse than the
verified in the Euro Zone, thereby significantly aggravating the divergence against the
space where Portugal is inserted.
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In the same period, the total productivity of the factors remained almost constant,
registering also a worse performance than the verified or in the Euro Zone, where
increased by 0.5%, or in the set of UE28, in which it increased by 1.2%.
This performance has resulted in a decrease, by more than 7% percent, of disposable income
gross of households in the same period, causing significant regression in this
indicator.
The rebalancing of external accounts was one of the major goals of the program of
adjustment implemented, as only such a correction would allow to increase the capacity of
financing the economy and reducing indebtedness. It was intended to promote a
acceleration of export growth and ensure a positive contribution of demand
net external to GDP growth with a change in the structure of the economy,
correcting the excessive weight of non-transactionable goods in the Portuguese economy.
It has indeed seen an accelerating correction of external imbalances, presenting the
Portuguese economy a positive balance of the current and capital account since the end of
2012. Unfortunately, such a correction did not result from the acceleration of exports, nor
corresponds to a structural correction, becoming due a lot to the significant compression
of domestic demand, with levels of investment and consumption of durable goods much
low, and to a reduction in the price of energy goods, which allowed imports to
of goods and services were, at the end of 2014, and in nominal terms, below the value
registered in 2011. At the end of 2015, imports are, however, at a higher level
to that of the previous maximum, the year 2008, which raises serious reservations to the interpretation
structural on the improvement of the current account balance.
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Exports of goods and services have registered since 2005 very positive developments. Everything
indicates, however, that the recent recorded increases in exports of goods and services
do not correspond to a sustained evolution, as they register rates each time
smaller for their growth. In 2014, exports grew by only 3.9% percent being
this the lowest growth since 2009; and in the third quarter of 2015 present a
year-on-year growth rate of 3.9%, in sharp deceleration in the face of quarters
previous. Thus, in the whole of the year 2015 there is an acceleration for 5.9%.
Additionally, it has witnessed, since 2010, a contraction in employment and investment in the
exporting and transactionable sector, thereby reducing its productive capacity and
putting into question the sustainability of export growth.
The contribution of net external demand to growth, despite the balance of the balance
of goods and services (and the current and capital account) if it was balanced, it began
decrease still in 2012 (although it remained positive). As of the end of 2013,
has gone through the negative, where it has held since that date, with imports to grow at
a pace higher than exports. In 2014, imports grew by 7.2% percent and, by 2015 percent,
have accelerated slightly to 7.6%. In the same years exports grew by minus 3.3
and 1.7 p.p., respectively.
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The behaviour of exports seems to be thus more justified by the entry into
operation of some major projects in implementation since before the crisis, the
increased, significantly, the exporting capacity in some sectors, well
as for the effect of demand for new markets on the part of some producers
faced with the significant decrease in domestic demand, than by the reduction of the
unit costs of work. Once these effects have been exhausted there does not appear to be a
structural correction of external competitiveness problems, nor a reinforcement of the
exporting capacity of the country. In the meantime, employment in the manufacturing industry has fallen
strongly during the adjustment programme, being more than 20% below the values
previous to the crisis. Thus, they will be strategies based on innovation and increasing value
added of exports those that might be relevant if you intend to correct
structural and sustainable form the external deficit of the Portuguese economy.
The other major goal of the adjustment programme and economic policy adopted in the
last years was the correction of the imbalances of the public accounts. The evolution
verified in the main indicators of this field reveals, on the one hand, the failure of the
adopted strategy and, on the other, that persist the important structural imbalances of the
public accounts, the correction of which justifies the adoption of a different strategy.
The main indicator of failure is the unfavorable sense of the evolution of the debt burden
public in GDP, as it shows the growing vulnerability of the country in the face of its
creditors. By envisioning in the Adjustment Program and in the successive documents of
budgetary strategy a moment from which a reduction of this would be initiated
indicator, what is a fact is that today the weight of public dilife in GDP is at levels
very high, with values close to the 130% at the end of 2015. The public debt in
percentage of GDP rose by a further 24 percentage points than anticipated at the beginning of the
Adjustment Program. If it is certain that part of this increase is statistical, as it has deeded
to the widening of the perimeter of public administrations (by the incorporation of companies
public), part deposed to endogenous noun factors.
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Also the public deficit has decreased less than initially planned, as it is predicted
that is to end the year 2014 with a value of 7.2% of GDP in the face of the 2.3% provided for in the
Adjustment Programme, and in 2015 is expected to reach 4.2%, in the face of the 2.7% assumed
as a goal.
On the other hand, the public expenditure ratio in GDP has not been reduced significantly,
finishing 2015 at about 48.5%, value close to that of 2011. The ratio of public revenue
total in GDP is equally well above what was anticipated, with values close to the 44%
in 2015.
It is thus the case that, contrary to what has been advocated, the reduction of the deficit in terms of
percentage of GDP was achieved by the increase in the level of taxation, and with measures
non-structural, unsustainable intertemporally and penalizers of growth. The
recessive effects of the pursued policies have generated additional budgetary pressures. In
particular, the nearly 500 thousand jobs destroyed are the main one responsible for the worst
verified results in the area of social security.
Territory
As far as the territory is concerned, the last few years have witnessed a reduction in
disparities measured in indicators such as GDP per capita or the disposable income per
capita . Unfortunately, this reduction did not result from an improvement in the regions less
developed, but of a more intense deterioration in the more developed regions or
more dynamics.
Notwithstanding such a reduction in disparities, the dynamics of development of the
territories record worrying trends of abandonment and non-valorisation of the potential
of the various territories, which manifested in the reduction of population and activity
economic in many of the less developed regions.
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The growth factors
Portuguese economy is characterised by reduced levels of human capital, manifest
in the low qualification of the population, low capital intensity, as a result of low
levels of stock of capital and investment, and an equally low technological intensity.
Many of these dimensions came by checking for a recovery trend that has been laid
at cause during the recent crisis.
At the level of education, Portugal presents much lower qualifications to its partners,
with a proportion of the population that has completed the highest levels of teaching much
low.
On the other hand, it deserves highlighting that Portugal already has a coverage of preschool education
high (slightly above the values of the European average and the OECD). In particular,
for children with five years the schooling rate reached, in 2012/13, about 97%. If
the rates checked in the age range of the three to the five are high, the same cannot be
say of effective schooling before the three years. In this age group the values for the
European countries are quite disparate. Portugal has a schooling rate of 45.9%
which falls clearly short of the 65.7% in Denmark, but which, for example, is
frankly above the 27.7% percent of Finland. In 2011, Portugal was even on the tail of the
OECD with regard to public spending on early education. The total spending on
education before the five years approached the 0.4% of GDP, value comparable with
countries such as Estonia, Cyprus or Slovakia. If in the age range between the three and the five the
values were approaching the OECD average (0.4% versus 0.5%), in the ranking of the most
new ones with values close to zero, Portugal was clearly below average. Thus,
globally, Portugal is a long way from these countries as far as spending is concerned
public in early childhood education.
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There is also a significant problem at the level of abandonment and retention at the level of the
basic education. The dropout and retention rate at the basic level rose from 7.8%, in the year
letivo 2008/09, to 10.4% in 2011/12. This increase is transversal to the 3 levels of education
basic, being particularly serious the increase of almost 5 percentage points at the level of the
2. cycle. It matters to highlight that in 2000, Portugal had retention and abandonment rates
very high with almost 9% in the 1 th cycle and more than 18% in the 3 th cycle. These rates have reached
minimums at 2009 with values below 4% in the 1. cycle, below 8% in the 2. cycle and
about 14% in the 3 th cycle. From here the situation began to aggravate. In the school year
2012/13 recorded a withholding rate and dismissals of almost 5% in the 1 th cycle, 12.5%
in the 2 th cycle and from 16% in the 3 th cycle.
Secondary education is clearly the level of education that more adults (between 25 and 64
years) reach at the level of the OECD. On average 24% of individuals in this age group have
an education below secondary school, 44% have completed this level of education and 33% o
higher education. In the 21 EU countries that belong to the OECD the figures are very
similar. Portugal contrasts worryingly with these values.
As far as higher education is concerned, there has been a very positive development in the latter
two decades, with a strong increase in the number and percentage of graduates among the
young people and a very important evolution in scientific production. However, in the latter
Four years there was a retraction of the number of matriculates for the first time in teaching
higher, an increase in school dropout for economic reasons and a greatly reduced
accentuated from support for advanced training.
In addition to the qualification of the youngest there is a clear problem with the qualification of the
adults. The low percentages registered in Portugal affect literacy in a blatant way
of individuals, conditioning the ability to integrate into the labour market and
contributing to the unemployment of older and long-lasting ones.
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Showing the relevance of the number of years of education, the unemployment rates note
important differences by level of education. In 2015 there was registered in Portugal a rate
of unemployment of 12.3%. This rate is higher when we consider individuals with
schooling equal to or less than the 3. cycle, but lower for individuals with the teaching
top. Also the average earnings per level of instruction are quite revealing. The
salary of a worker who has not completed secondary education is only 68% of the
average wage of workers with secondary education. Already a worker with teaching
top earns more 73%.
In the past four years it has reversed the bet on investment in the reinforcement of capital
human Portuguese that was being developed consistently by successive
Governments and the effort of Portuguese families. At the same time lost capital
human with a strong outflow of workers abroad and with the generalization of
intermittent entry practices of young people in the labour market that they generate
dismotivation and loss of productive capacities. Additionally, the unemployment of long
duration removed precocemente from the labour market so many workers whose
experience was the most important asset they had.
With respect to investment, the last few years have witnessed a significant reduction
of capital expenditure in the Portuguese economy. In nominal terms, the total investment
in the economy was 2014 percent more than 30% percent below the 2010 percent value and investment of the
companies reduced by about 13% in the same period. The current investment level is
below the threshold of amortization, which means that one is seeing a reduction in the stock
of existing capital in the economy with effects on the potential product. The investment rate
of the Portuguese economy is today clearly lower than that of the EU average, what happens
also with respect to the investment rate of companies.
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The levels of investment in research and development (R&D) as a percentage of the
GDP after reaching a maximum in 2009 have registered a reduction in the last
years. Notwithstanding more than 50% of Portuguese companies to refer to the realization of
innovation activities in the period from 2010 a to 2012, the value of R&D expenditure has been coming to
reduced at a pace higher than that of the fall in GDP, and much more pronounced than that of the
reduction of public expenditure. The state has reduced spending in the area of science and teaching
higher, and the private have also retracted investment in this area.
Market for work
In the labour market, there was a strong break in employment between 2011 and 2013,
watching a slight recovery in the most recent period as well as insufficient for
annul the previous fall. To have the notion of the magnitude of the destruction of registered employment,
the level of employment in the Portuguese economy was at the end of 2015 close to the 4.5
millions of people, the lowest figure recorded since 1996.
Unemployment rose very sharply, registering in some quarters of 2013
a number of unemployed above 900 thousand and rates higher than 17%. Despite the
some improvement in the most recent period, remained at relatively high levels.
Unemployment is particularly high among young people. They maintain unemployment rates
higher than 30%, with almost 2/3 of the unemployed being in that situation there are more than
a year and about 50% unemployed more than two years ago. It deserves to still highlight the
Fact that less than 1/3 of the unemployed have access to unemployment benefit.
The active population has registered a significant reduction, existing in 2015 less about
of 300 thousand assets in Portugal than existed in 2010. This reduction has made it feel only
on the scales of the 15 to 24 and from the 25 to 34, i.e., affecting fundamentally
the young people, being associated with emigration and conditioning in a significant way the
potential growth of the economy.
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The dynamics of employment and unemployment, over the course of 2015, led to the maintenance of the fall
of the active population, which in the third quarter of 2015 came back to fall 1.1% in terms
homologs.
Characterizing the recent dynamics of the labour market, the rise in unemployment and
decrease in employment were more associated with a decrease in the creation of posts
of work and hiring than to an increase in the destruction of the jobs.
This dynamics is symptomatic of the high uncertainty and negative expectations relatively to the
developments in the economy that significantly condition hiring decisions and
of investment.
On the other hand, the market features very high levels of precariousness, with 90% of the
new hiring of unemployed workers to be effected with contracts not
permanent and 70% of the new entries in unemployment associated with the termination of contracts
not permanent. The use of the fixed-term contracts could be associated with logics of
assessment and monitoring of the quality of the worker. However, the fact of less than 2 in
each 10 fixed-term contracts to be converted into non-stop contracts suggests that it is not
this the justification underlying the weight of the fixed-term contracts. The excess of contracts
temporary is a relevant obstacle to the progress of productivity by reducing the
incentives for investments in specific human capital.
Social situation
The economic performance and the evolution of the labour market have translated into a
significant deterioration of the social situation, with immediate implications on the level of
well-being present but conditioning also the growth perspetives of the
economics.
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The recent demographic change is marked by an increase in life expectancy, by the
reduction of infant mortality, increased emigration and the sharp fall of the
fertility, factors that converge to a significant aging of the population
which happens in parallel with a decrease in population.
The natural balance has been persistently negative since 2008 and has been aggravated since 2010,
still a substantial reduction in the birthrate, which has reached minimal in
2013. Fruit of these dynamics, the population has been reduced, for which it also contributes the
reinforcement of the phenomenon of emigration. In the last three years, the resident population in
Portugal has decreased by about 168 thousand people. Demographic projections suggest a
significant decrease in population in the coming years if they are not reversed the
recent trends, registering a decrease in the young population and an increase in
elderly population, with the worsening population ageing.
This reduction is particularly focussed on individuals with ages between
the 20 and the 35 years, which raises strong constraints on the growth potential of the economy
Portuguese.
The indicators associated with the domains work, remuneration and vulnerability
economic record a deterioration in the well-being of the population, in particular after 2012.
Are the material conditions of life that reveal themselves as more determinant for the
deterioration of welfare, as the dimensions associated with the quality of life
maintain some growing trend, although rather attenuated after 2011.
The last few years have also witnessed a reversal in the reduction of inequalities and the
poverty that was coming by checking in Portugal, with an increase in social exclusion and the
risk of poverty, mainly in children and young people.
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The latest data on poverty reveals a significant worsening of these
indicators. In 2014, 19.5% of people were at risk of poverty, a worsening
from more than 1.4 p.p. face to 2010. The increase in the risk of poverty was cross-sectional to the various
groups but was more intense in the group of the 18-year-old, who registered a
increase in the incidence of poverty of more 2.5 p.p. The evolution of this indicator would still be
more serious if you used a fixed poverty threshold, such as a line of
poverty anchored in 2009, in which case an increase in the proportion of
people at risk of poverty over the five years under review, between 17.9% in 2009 and
24.2% in 2014. In addition to the worsening incidence of poverty, it has registered
equally an increase in the intensity of poverty, increasing by 6 p.p. (face to 2010) the
insufficiency of resources of the population at risk of poverty, to levels around the
29.0% in 2014.
Indicators of inequality of income distribution have also registered a
significant aggravation. The group of the 10% billion people with the highest income had in
2014 an income 10.6 times higher than the 10% with lower yield. This relation
was 9.4 in 2010.
The deprivation indicators also met a significant deterioration, registering-
if, in 2015, that 9.6% of the population lived in severe material deprivation, not having access to
a significant number of items related to economic and property needs
durables of families. This indicator featured a value of 8.3% in 2011, which reveals
an increase of 1.3 p.p. of the families with severe deprivation.
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Poverty among the youngest has had a very sharp growth. Today more than 30%
of children are in a situation of risk of poverty or social exclusion, which means
that only with social policies can we ensure that they are going to have equality of opportunity.
In a context of ageing and outflow of population, the country has to ensure that
you will be able to harness the maximum potential of all, not letting you waste the contribution
of so many for denying them opportunities. The social policies of support for the poorest and the
guarantee of access to health and a quality education are determinants for the contribution
that this generation can give to the Portuguese economy.
These needs are in contrast to the widespread retreat of social policies that if
checked, with a worsening in the conditions of access to social benefits not
contributors, having been made difficult, in this way, access to those that are the main
social benefits of combating poverty. This reality is well expressed in the reduction of the
beneficiaries of the Social Insertion Throughput (RSI) for minus 115,000 (about 35%),
precisely in a period where the measure would most be necessary. As for the protection of the
more new, more than 23,000 children and young people lost their family allowance, while in the
support for the poorest elderly, no longer being allocated the Comprehensive Supplement for
Seniors (CSI) to more than 62,500 beneficiaries (minus 26.5%).
Macroeconomic Projections
For the year 2016, a strengthening of the relevant external demand for Portugal is expected,
as a result of the improvement of the economic activity of major trading partners,
particularly from the euro area, with reflections on the evolution of its imports. In fact,
according to the latest forecasts either from the European Commission or the IMF, in 2016 it is
expected a gradual improvement in economic growth in the euro area pool.
In particular, an acceleration of economic growth is expected in Germany, France and
Italy and the maintenance of strong growth in Spain and also in the United Kingdom.
In this scenario, it anticipates the maintenance of short-term interest rates at a low level,
as well as the decrease in the price of oil and a slight depreciation of the euro vis-vis
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dollar.
The current macro-economic scenario reflects the latest information concerning the
development of economic activity at national and international level, as well as a
set of measures perspetivated for 2016. Among the embedded information is the account
review, by the INE, of the National Accounts in the period 2013-2014, as well as the publication of
Quarterly Accounts for the first three quarters of the year.
In this context, for 2015, a real GDP growth of 1.5% is projected on average
annual, 0.6 p.p. higher than the one observed in 2014. In quarterly terms, it is expected that the
recovery in economic activity acellates slightly in the last quarter of the year, both
for the maintenance of positive input from domestic demand, as for the improvement of the
behavior of exports.
This estimate is supported not only by the data released by the INE in the framework of the
National Accounts Quarterly but also by the advanced and coincidental indicators of
economic activity disseminated by a varied set of institutions, in conjunction
with the profiling in the qualitative indicators associated with the expectations of the agents
economic.
The current estimate for GDP, by volume, for 2015 represents a downward revision
presented in April under the framework of the Stability Programme (PE) for the horizon
2015 -2019, resulting from changes in composition of the domestic demand contribution (2.2
p.p. and 1.6 p.p., respectively) and net external demand (-0.7 p.p. and 0.1 p.p.,
respects). For the most favorable developments in global demand running all the
components, with a standout for exports (+ 0.3 p.p.) and private consumption (+ 0.7
p.p.), fact that, together with the changes registered in the terms of exchange, is reflected
in a higher growth of imports in the face of the initial scenario (+ 2.3 p.p.). Thus, the
Portuguese economy is expected to present a net financing capacity in the face of
outside equivalent to 2.0% of GDP, registering the current account a positive balance of
0.6% of GDP. Highlight, still, the upscale revision of the GDP deflator, the growth of which
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average year-on-year should be 1.9% (1.3% in PE).
For 2016, a GDP growth of 1.8% is forecast, a reflection of the maintenance of a
positive contribution of domestic demand, coupled with a less negative input from the
net external search. On foreign demand, a slowdown is anticipating
of exports, notwithstanding a slight acceleration of the relevant external demand, well
as a moderation of imports by volume, explained essentially by a
minor differential between the deflator of exports and imports.
The dynamics of domestic demand have been to materialize the normalization of economic activity.
On the one hand, the evolution of private consumption is in line with the expected ones for the
pay and disposable income, not by persisting with relevant impacts on the rate
of savings nor in the current pace of reduction of indebtedness, given the yield effect
positive from a set of measures embedded in this scenario. On the other, the increase in
investment, mainly business and in its component of machinery and
equipment, translates the need to increase the utilization of productive capacity, and the
your update. This fact is consonant with the expected growth in employment, with the
increase in global demand and with the progressive normalization of conditions of
funding, despite the need for correction of debt levels.
Given the continued growth in exports, it is to be expected that the adjustment of the
external accounts persists: the joint balance of the current and capital account should set
at 2.2% of GDP, increasing the net financing capacity of the economy
Portuguese, at the same time as the current account is expected to reach a surplus
equivalent to 0.9% of GDP, thus strengthening the result of 2015.
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Table 1. Main Indicators
(rate of change,%)
GDP and Components of Expense (Real year-on-year growth rate,%)
GDP -1.1 0.9 1.5 1.8 1.6 2.0
Private Consumption -1.2 2.2 2.6 2.4 1.9 1.9
Public consumption -2.0 -0.5 -0.7 0.2 -0.7 0.1
Investment (FBCF) -5.1 2.8 4.3 4.9 3.8 4.4
Exports of Bens and Services 7.0 3.9 5.1 4.3 4.8 5.5
Imports of Bens and Services 4.7 7.2 6.9 5.5 4.6 5.3
Contributions to GDP growth (percentage points)
Internal Search -2.0 2.2 2.2 2.2 1.6 1.9
Net External Demand 0.8 -1.3 -0.7 -0.4 0.1 0.1
Evolution of Prices
Deflator of GDP 2.3 1.0 1.9 2.0 1.3 1.4
IPC 0.3 -0.3 0.5 1.2 -0.2 1.3
Evolution of the Labour Market
Employment -2.9 1.4 1.1 0.8 0.6 0.8
Rate of Unemployment (%) 16.2 13.9 12.3 11.3 13.2 12.7
Apparent productivity of work 1.8 -0.5 0.4 1.0 1.1 1.2
Balance of Current and Capital Balances (in% of GDP)
Capacity / Needed net of f inanciation face to exterior 2.3 1.7 2.0 2.2 2.1 2.0
-Balance of Current Account 0.7 0.3 0.6 0.9 0.5 0.4
of which Balance of Balance of Bens and Services 1.0 0.4 1.0 1.2 1.5 1.7
-Balance of Capital Balance 1.6 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.6 1.5
2016 (p)
By memory: PE-
abril-15
2016 (p)
INE Base Scenario
OE16
2015 (p) 2013 2014 2015 (p)
Caption: (p) forecast.
Sources: INE and Ministry of Finance
The unemployment rate is expected to be located at 11.3% (-1 p.p. face to expected for 2015 and -2.6
p.p. face to 2014). The reduction in unemployment should be accompanied by an increase in
apparent productivity of work and a slightly lower job growth
by registered in 2015 as a result of the typical dephasing in the face of economic activity and
by the approximation to structural unemployment. It is expected, still, that the sectoral distribution
of employment continues to reflect the reallocation of resources from the productive structure of the
sectors of non-transactionable goods for the transactionable goods sectors.
Public consumption is expected to stabilise next year as a result of the continuation of the
process of adjustment of public expenditure. Wage policy changes should
translate into a positive impact on the deflator.
Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is expected to reach 1.2% in
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2016 (0.5% in 2015), in a context of balance of tensions-whether inflationists, or
deflationists-in the international commodity markets. This rise in inflation in
about 0.7 p.p. face to 2015 will translate higher upward pressure on prices. To
this contributes the improvement of domestic demand and a reduction of the product hiatus, the
acceleration of earnings per employee associated with the increase in the minimum wage and the
reposition of the wage cuts in the Public Administration, as well as the effect of the
currency devaluation of the euro. The differential in the face of price developments in the set of
area of the euro should become positive (+ 0.7 p.p.).
Fiscal policy in 2015 and 2016
For 2015, it is estimated that the deficit of Public Administrations is located at 4.3% of GDP.
However, this value includes punctual effects that are estimated to be 1.4% of GDP, namely:
capital injections in the EFISA Bank, in the Collective Transport Society of Porto, SA
(STCP), at the Lisbon Carris Company of Lisbon, S.A. (CARRIS) and the conversion into
increase in supply capital granted by the Wolfpart company to the Real estate Box,
in a total of 0.2% of the GDP and the resolution measure applied to the BANIF, which corresponds to
1.2% of GDP. Excluding these effects the budget deficit stands at 2.9% of GDP.
Table II.2.1. Budget indicators (% of GDP)
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015P 2016e
Global balance -11.2 -7.4 -5.7 -4.8 -7.2 -4.3 -2.2
Primary balance -8.2 -3.1 -0.8 0.0 -2.3 0.4 2.3
Interest 2.9 4.3 4.9 4.9 4.9 4.7 4.6
Sources: INE and Ministry of Finance.
The budget policy of the XXI Government is structured around a strategy of
economic growth allied to the sustainability of Public Finance.
In effect, it is imperative: to relaunch the economy and pursue equitable public policies;
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reverse the trend of loss of income of households; stimulate job creation and
combatting precariousness in the labour market; modernising and diversifying the economy
Portuguese, creating conditions for investment, innovation and internationalisation of the
companies and for the qualification of workers; to protect social policies by reducing the
poverty and social inequalities and promoting, too, birth; ensuring provision
of universal and quality public services. In this way, it will be possible to secure a
sustainable trajectory of reduction of the budget deficit and public debt,
In effect, increasing the disposable income promotes a rebalancing of the
family budgets, fundamental to correct their financial imbalances and foster
the business investment inducted from a sustainable growth of the economy.
Concomitantly, the financing of the companies will be promoted through use
of funding mechanisms without direct budgetary implications, namely, the
reformulation of the Fiscal Investment Support Regime and the acceleration of funds
Portugal 2020 co-financed by the European Union.
These measures for the reorientation of budgetary efforts stimulate job creation,
promoting the return to the labour market of middle-aged workers, with
reduced qualifications, facing long periods of unemployment and with minors
perspetives of employability, as well as young and qualified employment.
The simplification and administrative modernization will improve the services provided by the
Public Administration, through the simplification of procedures, efficiency gains and
cost reduction, namely: sectoral savings in external contracting and gains
with rationalization and dematerialization of public services; integration of the information of the
territorial and urban planning of the predial register and the enrolment; reorganisation of the
devolved services and enlargement of the network of proximity services; modernization
of infrastructure and equipment of the Public Administration.
In this way, in 2016, the consolidation strategy allows to achieve a budget deficit
of 2.2%, a reduction of 2.1 p.p. in the face of the predicted value for the previous year.
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1. INCREASE THE DISPOSABLE INCOME OF HOUSEHOLDS TO
RELAUNCHING THE ECONOMY
The next few years enshrine a model of development and a new strategy of
consolidation of public accounts, based on sustainable and inclusive growth and the
quality employment, the increase in household income and the creation of conditions
for the enhancement of investment. Of this framework is still part of the defence of the Social State and the
improvement of public services involved in combating poverty and inequalities.
Economic recovery, with strong content in sustainable and quality employment,
will be associated with a recovery in household incomes and the improvement of their
disposable income, which, in turn, will constitute a priority lever for the
improvement of economic activity and the creation of employment.
In this framework, the Government's commitments go through:
● The start of a correction to the huge tax hike on the families that went
concretized in this legislature, with the extinction of the surcharge on the Tax on the
Income of Singular People (IRS);
● Update the pensions of the general regime and the convergent social protection regime;
● Support the increase in disposable income of households;
● The realization of a speedy recovery of the income of the workers of the
State;
● The remake of the payment of the reform add-ons in the companies of the Sector
Business of the State;
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● Renewing the policies of social minimums, notably through the reposition, in the year
of 2016, of the reference value of the CSI, of the RSI coverage, with the change of the scale
of equivalence and with the gradual increase of the reference value of the RSI,
redirecting this particular benefit to the most numerous families and with
children in charge and updating the amounts of the scales of the family allowance, whose
nominal value has been maintained since 2010. The special protection of single-parent families,
particularly vulnerable and susceptible to finding themselves at risk of poverty,
as they indicate the official data, it will be realized in 2016 by the increase in
percentage of monoparental majoring in the Family Abono;
● Unlocking collective bargaining, promoting the definition of a policy of
income in a dignified work perspetive and, in particular, guarantee the
revaluation of the national minimum wage.
2. SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF FINANCING OF COMPANIES
Business investment should take a preponderant role, being a variable-
key to a strong and sustained recovery of economic growth.
In a framework of scarcity of funding, we need to find new and effective ways of
to finance companies and to streamline economic activity and job creation.
Taking this down, the Government will mobilise the resources and appropriate the framework of supports
public to the need for a quick resumption of investment. For the purpose, it will act in six
domains.
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So, first of all, it will be streamlined and accelerated the implementation of European funds,
securing its targeting for companies and exploring new sources of
European funding to strengthen financing for the economy. In the second place, it will be
set up a fund to capitalize on business investment support. In the third place,
a greater articulation and integration of investment supports will be promoted, which
includes the stimulus to new forms of private funding that broaden the options of
financing for businesses and the creation of tax incentives for investment applied in
business projects. Fourth, initiatives will be adopted to encourage the
foreign investment in Portugal. Fifth, in the framework of the new programme
Simplex, will be removed obstacles and reduced the time and cost of investment through
of a new program. Finally, in sixth place, the students will be studied and identified
selective investments that allow maximum investments to be made
infrastructure already carried out and that can be profitable in favor of development
economic.
Speeding up the implementation of European funds
European funds will be able to help dynamise the economy, business activities
Portuguese and employment. It is this fundamental instrument of public investment that is
need to accelerate and concentrate on the priority areas, as the same constitutes a powerful
aid factor for economic development.
To strengthen and accelerate the implementation of the European funds the Government will:
● Assign top priority to the extraordinary implementation of European funds
involving organisational, legislative and coordination efforts with the regions and
partners that allow to concretize it in quality speed;
● Adopt the specific measures required for immediate operationalization of the
financial instruments (capital, guarantees and loans) provided for in Portugal 2020,
essential for the financing of business investment;
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● To promote the adaptation of the regulatory framework for the application of European funds of
speedy form, ensuring quick solutions and solving constraints;
● Streamlining investment and the ability to draw more funding through
a pro-active attitude in Europe in the negotiations for the investment plan
announced by Juncker and of an organized effort by the government of fundraising
of other European budget items in favour of Portugal;
● Create conditions, including technical capacity, for maximum possible use
not only from the European funds allocated to Portugal 2020, but also from others
available means of funding still insufficiently used;
● Streamlining access to European funds making it more transparent, accessible and
understandable the conditions and cases in which the same can be used.
Create a Capitalization Fund
The Government will set up a Capitalisation Fund financed by European funds, whose
operation will be operationalized by the Mission Unit for the Capitalization of the
Companies, and the state may allocate still other public funds for investment title
of capital, or of the granting of loans or guarantees. The financial institutions
will be able to contribute to the capitalization fund by taking equally capital positions
or almost capital or by granting loans or guarantees. This fund will have the following
characteristics:
● Should allow for fundraising from international investors
of institutional nature (international funds of venture capital, sovereign wealth funds,
pension funds and insurers, etc.), whether of a personalized nature (investors
Portuguese of the diaspora, foreign investors, etc.);
● It should be further financed by the reimbursements of European funds and the counterparts
of the "gold visas", now reorienting them to the goal of capitalizing on companies and
strengthen its autonomy;
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● In addition to the venture capital and other capital instruments, the Capitalization Fund
should give priority to innovative loan solutions under conditions
very special that make them similar to the capitals of their own (instruments of " almost
capital ");
● Most financial resources should be applied in companies and investments
entered in clusters that they come to be defined as of strategic development
for the Portuguese economy.
Strengthen and ensure greater articulation of investment supports and the
financing of companies
The revival of business investment requires two key conditions. By a
side, policies that potentius the impacts of European funds on the economy,
notably through greater articulation and concertation between public entities and
of these with the financial system. On the other hand, the expansion and diversification of the options of
financing of companies. The governing action will pass by:
● Change the tax treatment of the financing costs of the companies that promote
the financing of companies by recourse to own capital and contribute
for the reduction of the levels of indebtedness to the banking system,
specifically encouraging reinvestment of profits and evolving into a larger
neutrality in the handling of financing through own capitals and
borrowing;
● Double the tax credit to investment for investments above 10 million
euro and de-bureaucratize the granting of an automatic tax credit. So they will be
eligible for automatic tax credit of 25% under the Tax Support Regime
to Investment investments up to 10M euros (the current value is 5M euros),
allowing to increase the dimension of supported projects. The contractual arrangements apply-
if-to investments above 10M, increasing the tax credit granted
from 10% to 20% of the eligible investment value realized;
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● Institute a logic of service and personalized listening to the national investor and
international, with integrated value propositions of financial and tax incentives and
support in the acceleration of licensing processes;
● Reduce reliance on bank credit, strengthening the role of the capital market
in the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in particular through
capital instruments (issuance of shares), specialized private debt funds
(issuance of SME bonds) or hybrid instruments (equated with capital);
● Promoting the acceleration of business and respect restructuring processes
capitalization, creating mechanisms that facilitate the conversion of debt into capital or
of debt reduction in companies considered viable;
● Fostering the introduction of new financing instruments to the investment of
smaller companies, such as the crowdfunding and the financing peer2peer .
Pursue policies favourable to microenterprises and entrepreneurship
The mechanisms directed at the development of microenterprises and projects
entrepreneurs will include:
● Create a line of financial advance by tax credit account approved in the
scope of the tax incentive system for business R&D (SIFIDE II), at a discount
deferred, for microenterprises with investments in R&D but still without results
coletable in the short term, as happens frequently with start-up companies
recent or very prolonged valuation cycle. This measure aims to anticipate the
enjoyment of the assigned benefit, increasing the liquidity of microenterprises and their
investment capacity in the short term, within certain limits and
conditions;
● Adopt measures to facilitate the access of new SMEs to public procurement of mode
that it facilitates access to the markets of new competitors.
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Launching the "Seed Program" of boosting entrepreneurship
To stimulate entrepreneurship and the creation of start-ups the Government will launch the
"Semente Program" that will establish a set of tax benefits for anyone who wants
invest in small business in the phase of start-up or in the early years of start-up. These
benefits will contemplate the following three measures:
● The creation of benefits in IRS headquarters for those who, being willing to share
the risk inherent in the development, invist their savings in the capital of these
companies;
● The most favourable taxation of more-valuable mobiliary or real estate, when these
are applied in start-ups ;
● The adoption of a more favorable tax regime in the taxation of more-valuable ones arising
of the success of the projects carried out by these companies in the sale of parts of
capital, after a period of relevant investment.
Attract more and better foreign direct investment
A new boost to foreign direct investment caption reveals strategic for
enabling the expansion of financial and non-financial resources available in the economy
Portuguese, i.e. to increase investment levels and strengthen the competitiveness of the
economic fabric. In this sense, it is crucial:
● Draw up and implement a specific plan of foreign investment attraction
structuring that potentiate qualified human resources and results from projects of
R&D, which values our geoeconomic position, take advantage of the advantages
competitive existing in the economic fabric, collaborate in the sustained valorisation of
natural resources and that, in addition, can function as a factor of dynamization of
new clusters promising for the Portuguese economy;
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● Betting on the valorisation of the territory as a way of attracting foreign investment,
developing an integrated offering, for an extended time horizon, which
integrand tax benefits, co-financing commitments, facilities in the policy of
visas for immigrants and supports of a logistical nature, among other benefits;
● Launch specific dissemination campaigns of the hosting potentials of
foreign investment directed at international and development banks,
venture capital ecosystems, consulting firms, and attorneys ' offices
international, organizations that broadcast rankings of international competitiveness,
etc.;
● Dynamising the knowledge and influence of the diaspora network in their countries of
hosting, to promote the caption of foreign investment.
Reduce the time and cost of investment for companies, within the framework of the
SIMPLEX program
The bureaucracy is a generator of time and money consumes that harm investment,
create excessive context costs and undermine the dedication of the company and the
entrepreneurs to the creation of business, wealth and employment. Therefore, the Government assumes that in the
scope of the SIMPLEX programme will be contemplated measures which target companies and the
economic activity, specifically through the following initiatives:
● Approve a set of urgent administrative simplification measures for
reduce context costs in business life by focusing them on the most critical aspets
of business activity and the elimination of excessive demands or
disproportionate;
● Relaunch the "Zero Licensing" initiative for investment and for activities
business, eliminating prior licences and control acts and replacing them with a
enhanced surveillance, after initiated the activities;
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● To review and simplify the regime applicable to responsible business areas;
● Launch the "Single Declaration" programme by suppressing declarative obligations and
mandatory communications for the State and other public entities that are not
necessary (specifically in the areas of taxes, Social Security,
environmental and statistical information), by instituting a single point for the sending of the
information, when the same is necessary;
● Approve a "Zero Rate for Innovation" regime, dispensing with the payment of
administrative fees and emoluments associated with various areas of business life
certain types of companies created by young investors and start-ups innovative.
3. PRIORITY TO INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION OF ENTERPRISES
The Government intends to bet, by means of concerted foreign action in the various strands
sectoral, in the strengthening of the internationalization of the Portuguese economy and in the exploitation of
new markets-be of origin of foreign direct investment, be of destination of
investment and Portuguese exports-where the advantages can be asserted
competitive of Portuguese companies, issue that assumes paramount importance in the
frame of revival of the Portuguese economy.
The Government's performance for the sake of the internationalization of the Portuguese economy, in its
three key domains-foreign trade, foreign direct investment and investment
portuguese abroad-will be done either through the caption of new channels of
export and investment, either through the consolidation of diversification already achieved
with other export and investment markets, without forgetting, in this
framework, the importance of European markets. It is, for so much, essential a
effective articulation between diplomacy and promotion of investment and foreign trade.
Importantly, it is also to articulate the policies of internationalization with those of innovation,
thus potentiating the entry of innovative projects into the international market.
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The presence of a State Secretariat of Internationalisation, at the Ministry of the
Foreign Affairs, and the exercise of the oversight and guardian about the Agency for the
Investment and Foreign Trade of Portugal, E. P. E., by that ministry, in
coordination with the Ministry of Economy, will give greater coherence and consistency to
converging policy measures in the realization of the political dismay of the promotion of the
internationalization. So the following measures will be taken:
● Consolidation of the work of the public entity responsible for the promotion of the
investment and foreign trade of Portugal with the aim of enhancing effectiveness
of the external and internal network of support for companies;
● In the framework of European supports for SMEs in the framework of internationalization and
export, promotion, within certain conditions, of collaborative projects
involving SMEs;
● Streamlining of credit insurance mechanisms and pre-financing of the
exports;
● Promotion of mobilization of human resources and skills in the area of
internationalization, involving the revision and reinforcement of the bet on the INOV-Contact, the
launch of young cadres ' insertion programmes at exporting companies and
programs that promote the return of young people with international experience to
strengthen the area of internationalisation of businesses and support for programmes of
training in key competences in internationalisation;
● Creation of a line of support for the internationalization of ongoing projects for
viabilise, with little extra public means, the increase in applications to
programs, such as Horizonte 2020 or EUREKA;
● Making available by the National Institute of Industrial Property, I. P., of " Fichas de
PI for export support " to companies;
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● Ratification of the Geneva Act concerning the International System of Denominations of
Origin and Geographical Indications that will confer greater legal certainty on agents
economic that they wish to export to various countries national products that
bear Denominations of Origin and Geographical Indications;
● Development of technological information products on the ibero space-
american allowing companies to obtain relevant information for the
business development and for the definition of internationalization strategies
in the countries that integrate ibero-americano;
● Cooperate with Industrial Property institutes of other countries to accelerate the
processes of obtaining Patents in these territories;
● Stimulating innovation and business competitiveness by promoting the inclusion of
modules of Industrial Property in the curricula of higher education;
● Promoting innovation in the ranks of the agrofood and forestry sector, leading to a
greater efficiency in the use and preservation of resources, as well as the increase in
productivity and competitiveness, with a view to a system of agro production
ecological, resilient, which guarantees the supply of human and animal food and
safe and sustainable biomaterials, as well as integration into markets
contributing to the internationalization of enterprises and the enhancement of exports
national.
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Link between universities and companies
Having Portugal assisted with a considerable evolution and maturation of its system
scientific, it becomes now necessary to give continuity to this evolution and stimulate the
transmission of the knowledge generated for the economic and business fabric, favoring
the relations between universities and companies, essential to the development of
products and services of higher added value and innovation activities. Portugal
remains far below the average in inputs so important for innovation as the
availability of qualified human resources, the availability of venture capital, or
the R&D spending of the companies, and the known evolution of the R&D system has not had yet
the accompanying follow-up on the part of the companies. Studies indicate that it is necessary
that there will be some time of public investment, and that the private will follow up naturally
this evolution. On the other hand, part of this difference may be related to one's own
economic structure, and with the use of international performance indicators, which
do not allow the real assessment of the innovation performance in Portugal. However,
some of the indicators, such as the integration of skilled human resources into the fabric
economic, illustrate the need to promote the integration of frameworks in companies,
promoting young employment and empowerment of companies in Portugal.
It becomes thus essential to promote the relationship between universities and companies,
integrating the technological centers and other interface institutions, creating platforms
of joint acting, and ensuring conditions for the strengthening of these relations.
In this process, the technological centres and interface institutions have a place of
highlight in facilitating the transfer of knowledge produced at universities and
research centres for companies and the business fabric, so that these can
bring to the market more innovative products and services, capable of competing in the
global value chains.
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The promotion and stimulation of the relationship between universities and business requires
relaxation and broadening of modes of collaboration, strengthening of the acting of the
technological centres and interface institutions, capable of facilitating this link. In
Portugal, there are several examples of technological centres that have been determinant for the
technological and quality improvement of different sectors, having contributed to the
R&D activities and for development and success in different sectors. Based on
in this experience, it is possible to stimulate enlargement to other sectors and favour the
establishment of new platforms and modes of collaboration between the university and the
companies, using for such a dynamisation of the role of technological centres and
interface institutions, to the image of international best practices.
For the promotion of the actuation of technological centres, as key elements of binding of the
science to the economy, Proposed:
● To promote the collaboration of technological centres and interface institutions with the
Universities;
● Integration of lecturers, researchers and students from the universities in the centres
technological;
● To promote the broadening of the network of technological centres and interface institutions;
● Disseminate cases of success and good practice;
● To stimulate the creation of sectoral interface partnerships.
They have been established, at universities, technology transfer offices, which if
have mainly specialised in assisting lecturers and researchers to prepare processes of
marketing of technology. The focus on the industrial relationship has not yet been made in the majority
of the institutions. In this way, it is proposed to set up such structures to promote the
connection with the companies, the creation of incentives for the establishment of these connections, and the
valorisation of the individual effort of the lecturers and researchers who have established these
connections, integrated incentive forms.
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There has been an increase in the collaboration of researchers with the industry, patent in
analysis of indicators of innovation and R&D exists yet by the educational institutions
higher, little concerted interaction with the companies and little means and structures for the
transfer of technology. The Government intends to:
● Stimulation of the development of strategic communication plans and linkage to
economics and society by the universities;
● Promotion of structures for the promotion of the connection to companies in universities;
● Promotion of mobility of lecturers, researchers and pupils between universities and
the companies;
● Promotion of the mobility of entrepreneurs and managers among companies and the
universities;
● Creation of permanent physical spaces for the participation of companies in the
universities;
● Disclosure of success cases.
Valuing innovation through public demand and empowing small and medium-sized
companies in the response to public markets
Public demand has the potential to play a very relevant role in the
valorisation of the results of the innovation projects, functioning as the market of
start up, test and improve the product and still of necessary curriculum creation
to the internationalization and export of goods and services by SMEs. For such, the
Government intends, inter alia:
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● Convene the municipalities so that, together with companies and universities,
develop projects of innovation and competitiveness of common interest (ex.:
urban rehabilitation; micro generation; autonomous energy production systems;
smart cities; or others in exporting sectors or that promote the
replacement of imports);
● Promote demonstrator investments, at scale and in actual conditions of use,
with training of human resources for the proper use of new technologies and
materials, accelerating the arrival in the market of innovative new products in whose
development the companies invested with the support of the previous framework
community;
● Empowing SMEs in the response to public markets: eliminating barriers of access,
systematizing and making available databases with detailed and up-to-date information
on investments in scheduled and ongoing infrastructure; offering support
technical in certification or (pre-) qualification processes as suppliers and
support in the organisation of consortia or other forms of cooperation between SMEs, in the
presentation of proposals and identification of financing to customers;
● Promoting investment and innovation in the area of health, with future impacts on
total expenditure, such as for example projects directed at combating contamination in
hospital environment or the most effective diagnostic methods;
● Launch a time-landed programme of public procurement of goods and services
innovators for public services on the basis of identifying needs
regarding services and goods that require R&D to be designed and
produced, specifically in areas that allow for the improvement of public services
and the reduction of public spending;
● Establish a share of purchase of goods and services start-ups so as to streamline the
emergence of new market players.
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Internationalization and foreign direct investment
Portugal's economic and social development goes through to boost and encourage
modernization and diversification of the Portuguese economy, creating conditions to strengthen the
innovation, investment and the internationalization of companies. This reinforcement allows
diversifying exports and the production of more sophisticated goods and services and
differentiated, increasing the competitiveness of companies and the Country.
The opening of new export channels and the enhancement of the internationalization of the fabric
business and innovative projects puts the economy on a growth trajectory
sustained. The exploration of new markets where more and more Portuguese companies
can assert their competitive advantages and potentiate project results
innovators is determinant. The empowerment and qualification of human resources of the
companies from the transactionable sectors, the enhancement of investment with the promotion
international and an external commercial network of more effective support assume as areas
fundamental of intervention. In addition to the cross-sectional concern of internationalization
of the companies and the national economy as a whole, the Government will give particular attention to the
internationalization of start-ups , of tourism, the defence industry, higher education, the
knowledge, health, agricultural and forestry sectors, the economy of the sea, culture and
of the arts, language and literature.
However, the contribution of the exporting sector to the growth of the national economy
differs from the imports incorporated in its production. The lower the level of
imports in the national production, the greater the national added value, that is, the greater is the
incorporation of national resources associated with this production, contributing to the creation
of direct and indirect employment. In this sense, and by virtue of the increase in competitiveness
of the Portuguese business fabric, it will be a priority to draw and implement policies that
allow to reduce imports and increase the incorporation of national added value
in national production, both for the domestic market and for the external market.
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Similarly, capturing foreign direct investment is strategic to attract
financial and non-financial resources for the national economy, contributing to the
strengthening of the economic fabric, for job creation and for an increase in
competitiveness of the Portuguese economy.
Finally, it is also revealed to be also strategic to draw the maximum potential of a link more
strong and enduring with the Portuguese diaspora. A serious and systematic effort in this
domain will bring results both at the level of internationalization, innovation and the
investment, as also of the national cohesion itself in the world.
In these terms, the measures to be adopted fall into four essential axes:
● Priority to internationalization
-Renovate the public entity responsible for the promotion of investment and the
foreign trade of Portugal with the aim of strengthening the external and internal network
of support for companies, integrating human resources with greater experience
international that can function as true supporting agents
commercial of Portuguese SMEs;
-Ensuring that community supports for SMEs in the framework of internationalization and
export also include, within certain conditions, collaboration projects
with large enterprises involving SMEs;
-Agilize the mechanisms of credit insurance and pre-financing of exports,
by fostering its concession on the basis of the proven existence of orders;
-Promoting greater mobilization of human resources and skills in the area of
internationalization, involving the revision and reinforcement of the bet on the INOV-Contact,
the launch of young cadres ' insertion programmes in the companies
exporters and programs that promote the return of young people with experience
international to strengthen the area of internationalisation of enterprises and support for
training programmes in key competences in internationalisation;
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-Evaluate conditions for more favorable taxation of costs and investments
with international promotion;
-Promoting the catchment of foreign entrepreneurs, carriers of talent,
technology and access to international markets, reassessing the current tax regime for
the uncustomary resident in order to privilege the strategic areas of investment,
net employment creation and internationalization of the economy;
-Articulate innovation policies with those for export and internationalization
aiming also to accelerate the arrival to the international market of the results
innovators and, simultaneously, help to change the external image of the economy
national with reflections on the valorisation of exports from all sectors;
-Make replicable and exportable the equipment solutions and software
developed, constituting a new axis of expertise and a facilitator for the
internationalization for countries with caries in human resources;
-Streamlining the Country's participation in international cooperation networks in R&D
business, focusing these efforts on the same entity that manages the supports and
dynamizes business R&D, favoring greater articulation;
-Create a line of support for the internationalization of ongoing projects, to viabilize,
with little extra public means, the increase in applications to programmes
of international cooperation, such as Horizonte 2020 or EUREKA;
-Stimulate cooperation and concentration among SMEs, notably through the
constitution of complementary groupings of companies or other forms of
cooperation.
● Incorporation of more national added value
-Promoting the correct implementation of a Portugal brand and its promotion and
dissemination to producers and consumers;
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-Introducing mechanisms that allow to privilege, in public supports, companies
exporting, or with activity outside the country, whose productive process incorporates
greater national resources, to the similarity of what is done in other European countries,
in respect of community standards;
-Accompanying on stay the multinational companies installed in Portugal
in such a way as to be able to respond quickly to their needs and
development of concerted strategies to ensure an increase in
incorporation of national added value;
-Contract local development goals (proportion of purchases
national) with companies installed in Portugal;
-Encouraging initiatives of the "civil society" for the creation of commercial circuits and
logistics, and use of specific payment systems, which contribute to the
dynamization of national production directly linking domestic producers and
consumers;
-Develop import substitution initiatives where there are more
external vulnerability and better potential conditions of competitiveness,
particularly in the food sector, supporting the development of production
national;
-Supporting measures that favour the alternative use of collective transport,
where you have invested in a capacity that is under-utilized, or equipment of use
shared, decreasing the incentive to the acquisition and use of own car.
● Attract more and better foreign direct investment
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-Draw and put in place a specific investment attraction plan
foreign structuring that potentiate qualified human resources and results
of R&D projects, which values our geoeconomic position, take advantage of the
competitive advantages existing in the economic fabric, collaborate in valorisation
sustained from natural resources and that, in addition, can function as a factor of
dynamization of new clusters promising for the Portuguese economy;
-Bet on the valorisation of the territory as a way of attracting foreign investment,
developing an integrated offering, for an extended time horizon, which
integrand tax benefits, co-financing commitments, facilities in politics
of visas for immigrants and supports of a logistical nature, among other benefits;
-Launching specific dissemination campaigns of the hosting potentials of
foreign investment directed at international and development banks,
venture capital ecosystems, consulting firms, and attorneys ' offices
international, organizations that broadcast rankings of competitiveness
international, etc.;
-Dynamising the knowledge and influence of the diaspora network in their countries of
hosting, to promote the caption of foreign investment.
● Take advantage of the potential of the Portuguese diaspora for investment, the
entrepreneurship and internationalization
-Facing communities as a lever of the internationalization of the economy
Portuguese, resorting to the effect to local structures such as chambers of
trade, thematic associations, cooperation between cities, etc.;
-Fostering the investment of emigrants and lusodescendants in Portugal in
priority sectors (tourism, trade and industry, culture), but also in the sector
social and health;
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-Valuing and supporting the companies of Portuguese and lusodescendants abroad,
specifically through the development of strategic international partnerships
between companies.
Betting tourism as a strategic sector for employment and for growth
of exports
Tourism takes on special relief as an engine of economic and social dynamism of the
regions, contributing strongly to the creation of employment and export growth
nationals, currently representing almost half of the exports of services.
The transversality of tourism originates synergies in multiple areas such as transport, the
culture, heritage, the sea, science and regional development, and thus having a
multiplier effect on the national economy that must be potentiated.
In this sense, it is dismist of this Government to assert and promote tourism as a pillar
strategic for territorial cohesion, job creation and for the growth of
exports.
The planning participated and the promotion of the development of tourism are
fundamental to, in an articulated way, guarantee the tourist competitiveness of the destination
Portugal, in the economic, social and sustainability strands of resources.
In this context the Government will give priority to the valorisation of natural resources and
heritage and investment in human capital, key factors for the sector, as well as the
promotion of transversal policies generating synergies, notably by mobilizing the
sectors of culture, science, innovation, transport, training, rehabilitation and regeneration
urban, with a view to the qualification and differentiation of supply and the development of
new business areas.
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The Government will give special focus to the policies for the repositioning of the tourist regions,
in the framework of combating seasonality, dynamisation of internal tourism, decentralization of
search, promotion of acessibilities and of a more effective promotion of Portugal.
Simultaneously, the Government will take an active role in creating a context
positive economic for businesses in the area of tourism to swoom and invist,
promoting entrepreneurship and the development of new tourism business,
as well as the digital enablement of companies.
To pursue the proposed goals in the area of tourism, the Government will:
● Investing in a planning participated in tourism activity, through a Plan
National Strategic and Reasoned Tourism Strategic and Promotion Plans
National and regional base tourist, with real involvement of tourist companies;
● Promote aerial acessibilities to Portugal, in an articulated and integrated manner, with the
airport authorities and with the tourist offer;
● Promoting Portugal as a destination wi-fi ;
● Enhancing the competitiveness of digital capacity of destinations and business
Portuguese tourist, encourage e-business and increase in the presence of the offer
Portuguese tourist on the Internet in aggregated form;
● Ensure the presence of destination Portugal on the internet and strengthen the effectiveness of the network
external of tourism in its promotion and sale;
● Maintain and credibilize the concentration in the public entity responsible for the promotion,
valorisation and sustainability of the tourist activity of the competences of the
Public administration related to the sector, reinforcing it as an interlocutor
main of companies and entrepreneurs in this field;
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● Potentiating the tourism sector as a foreign investment attraction factor
of high quality, for global repositioning and continuous improvement of supply
national;
● Valuing and dignifying human assets in tourism, enhancing the quality and the
prestige of the schools and occupations of the sector and improving the conditions inherent in the
professional exercise and the permanent training of employees;
● Valuing natural and cultural heritage as a differentiating factor of Destination
Portugal, developing visitable content and putting it to the service of citizens,
in a context of effective collaboration between culture and tourism;
● To promote the dynamisation of urban centres with an interest for tourism,
notably through urban requalification and encouraging the creation of projects with
innovative concepts of animation and valorisation of regional assets and products;
● Ensure full consonance between the implementation of the European Funds of Portugal
2020 and the strategic priorities set for the tourism sector in Portugal,
avoiding double standards and inconsequence in the affectation of public resources;
● Creating conditions to promote access for tourist companies to finance, well
how the dynamisation of financial innovation instruments dedicated to tourism;
● Implement a programme to reduce the bureaucratic barriers still existing in the
touristic activities as well as developing the digital agenda for the entrepreneur
tourist, as a centre of support resources in all strands of activity
business;
● Promoting entrepreneurship and the development of new tourism business,
with the contributions of innovation, the arts and science, so as to harness the
existing potentials in cities, protected areas and the rural world;
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● Monitoring tourism activity and its impacts, creating mechanisms of
follow-up and anticipation of the existing business reality, so as to
enable entrepreneurs, investors and public decision-makers to take
informed and knowledge-based decisions;
● Implement, in articulation with private sector, repositioning programs
regional, from combat to seasonality, through the dynamisation of tourism products
specific (notably health tourism, business tourism, tourism
sports and religious tourism), of touristic promotion directed to segments
identified (particularly senior and juvenile) and the caption of events and congresses;
● Operationalize and regulate the game online ;
● Articulating the development of Tourism with the improvement of the quality of life.
4. PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT, FIGHT PRECARIOUSNESS
In the current context, the sustained creation of quality employment and the reduction of the
unemployment, particularly of young people and the long-term unemployed,
constitute strategic desicrations for the next few years. So being, the acting in the
different areas of intervention should have underlying this concern, which in turn,
will have positive impacts on other areas.
Within the framework of promoting the sustained creation of quality employment, it will be necessary
take into consideration a broad set of sectoral measures that contribute to this
goal. In this sense, urge to build an agenda of promoting employment and combat
to precariousness, based on the resumption of the dynamism of social dialogue at the different levels-of the
social consultation for collective bargaining at sectoral and company level.
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The Government's acting vectors in this field go through to focus on active policies
of employment in combating youth unemployment and long-term unemployment,
supporting employment in the transactionable goods sectors and in the creator sectors of
employment.
With the aim of promoting employment, the tax on value will be reduced
added (VAT) of the restoration to 13% and priority will be given to the creation of programmes
of strong encouragement for urban rehabilitation and restoration of historical heritage
portuguese, sectors strongly potentiating employment.
Active policies for effective employment
Active employment policies should be more effective, selective, and directed to segments
and groups hardest hit by unemployment and with special difficulties of entry or
re-entry into the labour market, such as young people and the long-term unemployed,
as well as promoting employment in sectors with high potential for creating
employment and the transactionable goods, in articulation with the modernization strategy and
competitiveness of the economy. The reposition, at the heart of the priorities of public policies,
of adult education and lifelong training constitute, as well, responses to
new employability requirements for the long-term unemployed and for the
workers who did not have the opportunity to acquire the skill levels
indispensable.
The active job policies of responding to the blockade that young people face at the entrance
of the labour market by drawing and / or adjustment of employment programmes
young person who, with the appropriate resources, favour the sustained insertion of young people in the
labour market.
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Launch a youth employment support programme "Contract-Generation"
It stands out, in this framework, the commitment to develop a programme of support for
young employment-the "Contract-Generation".
Supporting the enhancement of skills and employability
The improvement of employability is invariably based on the development of the
competencies, in order to promote their effective correspondence with real needs and
immediate from the labour market, in a perspetive of constant suitability for the challenges
posed by the permanent technological and business innovation to which they are subject to
global economies.
National unemployment is no longer characterised only by the predominance of low levels
of qualification in the Portuguese population, reaching all the habilitational levels, from the
basic level to the top. In this compliance, urge to strengthen the conjugated programmes of
training and recognition, validation and certification of skills for adults
with levels of habilitation up to the secondary level, as well as promoting programmes
specific advanced training for unemployed young graduates, who must
betting on the reinforcement of the sabers already acquired with transversal or specific skills,
that they value young people in the labour market.
Thus, the Government proposes:
● Create education pathways-differentiated training depending on the needs of
specific groups;
● Create mechanisms for counseling and guidance of adults allowing for the
forwarding of the trainees depending on their profile, the needs of
training and opportunities for professional insertion and personal achievement;
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● Launching a sector-oriented skills conversion programme of the
information and communication technologies, including the acquisition of tools in the
domain of code programming, in partnership with universities and companies, which
allow to address the lack of human resources with training in these areas
contributing to overcoming the hiring difficulties of the companies installed in
Portugal and for the caption of more foreign investment in emerging sectors;
● Associate curriculum traineeships with mechanisms to support employability of the
graduates and graduates;
● Launching programmes for retraining skills of unemployed graduates in the
various areas of education and training, oriented towards sectors of activity with
recognized deportment of professionals;
● To promote greater recognition of vocational education and qualifications
professionals within the labour market, establishing dynamics of
cooperation with the social partners and regional business councils and
potentiating social concertation and collective bargaining to obtain a greater
recognition of professional certifications;
● Encouraging the requalification of assets and business managers, through support for
action programmes-training and or continuing education, at universities and
polytechnics, in school and in the companies themselves, taking advantage of the experience of the
private bodies that have been successfully developing these actions, with particular
emphasis on the international training of SME managers;
● To stimulate local networks for qualification that allow to coordinate and concert the
regional and local level the needs of educational and formative offer and its
adjustment to demand, with the necessary articulation with the central bodies
responsible for policies and funding;
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● Constitute platforms for dialogue and partnership, with a view to the promotion of forms of
enhanced articulation of the formative offerings of higher education institutions and
vocational training with the needs of companies;
● To integrate the promotion of the qualification levels of the Portuguese, the dynamics of
life-long learning, the creation of conditions for employability and the
decent work as strategic aspetes of a deal in concert
social;
● Create a National Social and Supportive Economy Support Program, targeting the
modernization and consolidation of the sector, notably by way of mechanisms of
administrative simplification, such as the "cooperative at the time".
Stimulate the creation of employment
Young companies are responsible for almost half of the employment created in Portugal
in recent years. High growth companies may represent a small
proportion of the business fabric, but they make a strong contribution to job creation.
To potentiate the dynamics of creation of new companies in emerging sectors and
innovators and, consequently, stimulate the creation of more and better jobs, the
policies to promote entrepreneurship reveal essential. For this, the Government will
promote business development by adopting measures that contribute to eliminating
barriers to entrepreneurship and potentiate the creativity and initiative capacity of the
Portuguese and foreign investors who choose Portugal to create employment and
generate wealth. In this framework, the Government advocates as key measures:
● Create a large company accelerator, nationwide but with relevance
european, which supports the internationalization of start-ups , through a mentoring network
specialized and from supports to internationalization, while promoting exchanges for
start-ups in growth and in the phase of expansion;
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● Creating the National Network of Incubators, promoting cooperation, sharing of
resources and leveraging mutually the initiatives of its members. This network will have
also as an objective to promote and support the development of new
quality incubators in areas complementary to the existing network;
● Create the National Network of Fab Labs (or prototyping), allowing to interconnect the various
already existing equipment, creating synergies between these and promoting the emergence
of new prototyping spaces. In this area it will also be relevant
develop and promote the connection of the Fab Labs to entrepreneurship, education and the
research;
● Promoting entrepreneurial culture in young people through the introduction of modules
or entrepreneurial courses in public schools and development of
student internship programs in start-ups , incubator or accelerator.
Fighting precariousness, avoiding the excessive use of fixed-term contracts, the false
green receipts and other atypical forms of work, strengthening regulation and
changing the rules of your social security regime
Precariousness has grown in form means, particularly among the youngest. If, by a
side, the generalization of precancerous labour relations weakly fragilizes the labour market itself
and the economy, on the other hand, overly precarious labour relations undermine the
existence of perspetives of social development and people's lives.
In turn, the competitiveness of companies in a developed European space should make-
whether through the valorisation of its human capital and its high qualifications, what
implies adequate labour relations that preserve durable and long-term bets,
apts to enjoy these assets.
With the aim of combatting precariousness and reinforcing the dignified of the work, the
Government will look for:
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● To propose the limitation of the contract regime with term, with a view to improving protection
of workers and increase the rate of conversion of forward contracts to
permanent;
● Aggravate the contribution to Social Security of companies that reveal excess of
rotation of its cadres as a result of the excessive precarization of relations
labour;
● Facilitate the demonstration of the existence of employment contracts in situations of
provision of services, and must pass the consideration of the effective existence of a
labor contract, and not just to assume it, when to check out the
characteristics legally provided for in this matter;
● Ponder the creation of a fast, safe and effective mechanism of recognition of
situations of effective contract work in situations of service provision,
dispensing the resource worker to court to make proof of the facts
ascertained, without prejudice to an arbitral or judicial remedy by the employer;
● To improve the inspection and acting capacity in labour matters, namely
strengthening the Authority for Working Conditions, increasing the capacity of
regulation of the labour market by way of increasing deterrence of default
of the labour rules and, also, of verification of compliance with them;
● Re-evaluate the scheme of contracting entities, with a view to strengthening justice in the
apportionment of the contributory effort between employers and self-employed workers
with strong or total dependency on income from a single contracting entity;
● Review the rules for determination of the amount of contributions payable by the
workers in service provision, for these contributions to pass
the focus on the income effectively earned, having as a referential the months
more recent pay;
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● Repeal the Labor Code standard that allows for the hiring to be allowed to
permanent jobs of young people looking for the first job and
long-term unemployed, and evaluate new mechanisms of increase in their
employability;
● To strengthen the monitoring of compliance with the standards of work by combating the use
abusive and illegal contracts to term, from the false "green receipts", of the work
temporary, understated and undeclared work and abuse and unlawfulness in the
use of employment measures, such as internships and contracts-insertion,
for the replacement of workers;
● Limiting fixed-term employment contracts to needs properly
proven;
● Regularizing the situation of workers with false provision of services: false
independent work, false green receipts and false scientific research fellowships;
● Assessing protection in unemployment for self-employed workers, detearing
possible inefficiencies in its operationalization in light of the protection needs and
of the goals drawn for this new protection regime;
● Carry out an assessment of the risks covered in the provision of services,
with a view to a greater balance between duties and contributory rights of the
independent workers and an effective social protection that improves the realization of
benefits, contributing to a greater linkage of these workers to the system
previdential Social Security;
● Proceeding to the regulation of the Regime of Professionals ' Work Agreements
of the Espetacles and the creation of the Artist Statute, responding to the challenges
specific to a sector with incidence of work of a precarious nature and
intermittent;
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● Draw up a National Plan Against Precarity that consolidates the measures
predicted to prevent the excessive use of fixed-term contracts, the false receipts
green and other atypical forms of work;
● The Government will set out a policy of phasing out the resource to work
precarious and occupational type programmes in the public sector as a form of collkilling
long-lasting needs.
Diminish litigiousness and promote labour conciliation
In processes of labour conflict, including in proceedings of termination of the contract
of work, the use of agile conflict resolution mechanisms will be explored,
with legal certainty, seeking gains for all parties, specifically in
fastness, predictability and costs associated with the process. Therefore, the Government
will study, with the social partners, the adoption of arbitration and use mechanisms
of means of alternative dispute resolution in the context of the labour conflict, without
prejudice to the right to appeal to the courts.
Streamline collective hiring
Taking aim at the dynamization of collective hiring and collective bargaining in the
public administration.
The Government is further proposing to work in close articulation with the Standing Committee
of Social Concertation, as well as to streamline social dialogue.
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5. IMPROVE DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION AND DEFENCE OF THE
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
It has become usual to talk about a breach of trust of citizens regarding politics, the
democratic institutions and their agents. This disbelief becomes particularly
expressive when considering the levels of abstention: taking on the basis of the elections for
the Assembly of the Republic and departing from an abstention rate of 8.5%, in 1975-or
is, in the first free elections after the April 25, 1974-it has occurred, in the last few
elections of October 4, 2015, an abstention rate of 44.1%. This means that in a
election universe of nearly 9.7 million Portuguese, about 4.3 million chose
not participate in the eleitoral1 act. More so, according to the "European Social Survey" , which
accumulates data from 2002 a to 20122, 71% of the Portuguese demonstrated little or no
interest in the politics of your country. In turn, the confidence indexes revealed by the
same poll in politicians, in the parties, and in the national parliament pointed out, in a
scale from 0 a to 10, levels of 2.2, 2.1, and 3.4, respectively.
The deepening of democratic participation of citizens implies bringing the
electives of the elected and to extend and facilitate the exercise of the right to vote. The adoption of
mechanisms that broaden and stimulate democratic participation is seen by the Government
as one of the priority intervention areas and which complains about profound changes in the
scope of the electoral administration. In this sense, measures, either legislative, will be adopted,
wants technological, with a view to extending and facilitating the exercise of the right to vote.
To this end, the Government will adopt the following measures:
● Extending the possibility of early voting by broadening the cast of professions and the
situations in which it applies;
1 Source: SGMAI-Base of Election Census Data (voters)
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● Create conditions for the exercise of the right to vote at any point in the Country,
regardless of the area of residence, always in respect of the principle of
presential verification of identity.
On the other hand, they are also conditions for the full operation of democracy to
provision of effective means and speedy for citizens to exercise their rights and
get necessary clarifications from the public institutions. With this purpose, the
action of the Government will promote the implementation of the following measures:
● The adoption of a Participatory Budget at the level of the State Budget, giving
priority to promoter measures of the quality of life;
● The introduction of effectual consequences by absence of response to the petition of interest
general to the Assembly of the Republic sent by Parliament to the Government;
● The adoption of the possibility of foreign citizens residing in Portugal
be able to file petitions to the organs of sovereignty;
● The creation of means that allow the monitoring of the processes associated with the
petitions, particularly through an Internet site that works as a " counter
of the petitioner ";
● The development of a project of "Citizen Questions to the Government";
● The dynamisation of mechanisms of permanent auscultation of social movements and
of the citizen, through which Parliament and the Government can contact them and
auscultate with regularity;
● The introduction of benefits for employers that create conditions for the
civic participation of its collaborators;
2 Source: http://barometro.com.pt/archives/ 1432
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● The annual assessment of compliance with the measures provided for in the Government's programme,
with the participation of a group of randomly chosen citizens from among
voters who pre-enrol;
● The strengthening of the Citizenship Education themed in school curricula.
It also matters to strengthen the role of the Constitutional Court in its function
necessary to promote and defend fundamental rights and the Constitution. This one
reinforcement goes through the reduction of the formal and financial constraints that condition access
of the citizens to the court and by the guarantee of the speed of their decisions. For this, the Government
intends to:
● Setting maximum decision-making deadlines at successive audit headquarters of the
constitutionality, as its absence has originated a great unpredictability
in the deadlines for the decision;
● Create the figure of the Constitutional Assistant, which enjoys a status of amicus curiae ,
that integrates, in particular, the power to add to the autos requirements, documents,
official and statistical data, as well as legal or technical opinions, even in the
cases where the process of abstract, preventive or successive supervision, does not decorate
of your initiative;
● Regulate the conditions under which entities with constitutional legitimacy to
suscitate the successive abstract review of the constitutionality have to appreciate the
requests that are directed to them by municipalities or by citizens under the law
of petition.
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The strengthening of the tutelage of fundamental rights cannot ignore the risks that today if
they place the right to the protection of personal data, which require updating the framework
legislative that protects the informational identity, namely the right to veracity and to the
information rectification, the right to oblivion, the right to the protection of the good name and the
protection from the appropriation of identity. In that sense the Government will create and
develop:
● Mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation of electronic systems, public and
private, recording and archiving of personal data, ensuring the existence of
management platforms of the applications related to the right to oblivion and the
reserve of the intimacy of private life and good name;
● Rapid and expedient mechanisms to react and obtain compensation in the face of violation of the
rights to oblivion, reservation of the intimacy of private life and good name.
6. GOVERN BETTER, CHERISH POLITICAL ACTIVITY AND THE
EXERCISE OF PUBLIC OFFICE
It is essential to undertake immediate and committed remedial action in the sense of
modify the conceit and the way it governs, so as to go more and more to the encounter
of what is expected and required by citizens and businesses. The growing demand of these
social and economic actors impose that governance is increasingly dialogant and
participatory and, consequently, more transparent, agile and effective in fulfilling the
your goals.
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These targets can only be met when governance is more flexible and targeted
for the achievement of the results that are required. Thus, the way to target these
targets becomes clear: it is essential to improve the quality of legislative production and apply a
more efficient methodology with a view to the planning and implementation of public policies with
significant and diversified impacts. This should necessarily incorporate a larger
involvement and participation of citizens that the Portuguese Republic is to serve.
In order to realize the goals described above, it is absolutely crucial to undertake
a set of efforts that ensure a legislative activity governed by criteria of
high rationality and which generate a positive and significant impact on the lives of citizens,
by simplifying at the same time your access (and consequent involvement) in the flow
legislative. So, and in order to govern better and different, it will proceed to the execution of
a cross-sectional strategy, based on five strategic pillars:
● Focus on the governing organization in its mission and the results it aims to obtain:
-Stabilizing the central core of the organic structure of the ministries, thus avoiding the
amendments that successive Governments are effectuing;
-Allow the governing organic to be punctually relaxed depending on the
policy priorities taken in the Government's programme, without this entailing
significant changes in the services of the different ministerial departments;
-Adapting the organic structure of the Government with a view to the integration of policies
transversal to the various ministerial departments, upon consolidation of
powers of coordination in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
● Carry out a medium-term strategic agreement that articulates economic policies,
tax, income, employment and social protection;
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-Submit to social concertation and negotiate with the partners a tripartie agreement
for the legislature that articulates different policy areas to foster the
competitiveness and social cohesion, thus creating a strong foundation of support and
extended to strategic areas of public policies;
-Create a midterm horizon, within the framework of the legislature, of goals
shared and the stability of policies, introducing security, predictability, and
credibility in political processes, thus creating better conditions for the
decisions of the various actors, particularly for the daily lives of citizens and the
investment of companies;
-Articulate in a virtuous manner economic, fiscal, income-based policy measures,
of employment and social protection, among others, in order to maximize the different
existing synergies between them and minimise the context costs caused by
conflicts between the same.
● Improve the quality of legislation;
-Resume planning mechanisms of legislative activity that aim at fixing
of priorities and the surveillance of legislative activity in such a way as to avoid efforts
useless or without political or social reason that justifies them, guaranteeing the
implementation of a programme for the improvement of legislative practices;
-Simplify the Budget Act, ensuring that it only contains provisions
budgetary;
-Repeal useless or unnecessary laws, setting quantitative targets for reduction
of the legislative "stock" and making consolidated versions of the legislation available
structuring, and simultaneously promoting legislative coding exercises,
eliminating their dispersion;
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-Elaborate guidance guides for the institutions responsible for the application of the
legislation and regulations, so as to improve their application and to ensure the
highest level of uniformity possible;
-Disseminate information about the published laws, in clear language, in Portuguese and
in English, accessible to all citizens and including a summary in audio support
for insightful, thus supporting the decision-making of both the citizens and the
companies, including foreign nationals wishing to invest in Portugal;
-Making available all the legislative acquis of the Journal of the Republic , free of charge, in the
Internet, completing it with the access to research tools, the legislation
consolidated, to a legal translator, to a legal dictionary and to legislation and
related regulation with the legislative act in question;
-Assessing prior and subsequently the impact of structuring legislation, on
special of that which behaves costs for SMEs.
● Adopt a new methodology for programming and performing public works;
-Constitute a Superior Council of Public Works with plural representation, which
issue appear mandatory on the investment programs and projects of large
relevance;
-Constitute centres of competence in the different technical areas essential to
planning, assessment of projects, and supervision of the execution of public works;
-The subjection, appreciation and parliamentary approval, by qualified majority of 2/3, of the
multi-annual investment programs, with express indication of the respective
sources of funding.
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● Improve the quality of public spending.
-Promoting clear improvements in the efficiency of the State at the level of use and management
of the resources on the part of public administrations, making decisions based on
cost and effectiveness criteria and identifying expense production factors
excessive or ineffective;
-Break down the opacity of the web of exemptions, deductions, and other benefits that go
being outed and your non-crossing, ensuring that all tax revenue
due is effectively charged and that the regime of tax benefits to investment
is found harmonized;
-Effecting exhaustive lifting, in all ministries, from sources of generation
unwarranted of charges, as well as measures of rationalization and qualification of the
expense.
On the other hand, the appearance of the susceptibility of public office holders to interests
alheios to the functions they play has contributed to undermining the trust of citizens
in the institutions. The Government will promote the increment of transparency in the exercise of
public office, the adoption of measures that contribute to the increment of the levels of
independence and impartiality, as well as of initiatives that allow to value the
political activity and the exercise of public office, namely:
● The adoption of a Public Transparency Code, to which they will be subject,
notably, the holders of the political offices, the public managers, the holders of
organs, officials and employees of the Public Administration, which reguls, between
other aspetes, the acceptance of gifts and "hospitality" made available
free of charge by private entities (invitations for participation in congresses or
conferences);
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● The regulation of the activity of the private organizations that want to participate in the
definition and implementation of public policies, known as lobbying ;
● The creation of a public register of interests in local authorities, bringing its
Regime of what is already enshrined today for MPs and members of the Government;
● The prohibition of acceptance of judicial mandate, in the actions in favour of or against the State or
any other public servants, for MPs who exercise advocacy.
7. ENSURE NATIONAL DEFENCE
The valorisation of the State and the Public Administration passes also by a new
approach to policies in the national defense sector.
The affirmation of a national defense capable of ensuring our vital goals while
Sovereign state, independent and safe, depends on the ability to assure Portugal to
existence of Armed Forces adapted to the main threats of the strategic environment
current, with capable and resilient forces, means and organization, that adapt to change and
complexity of risks and threats and their increasingly unpredictable nature and each
less anticipable.
For this disigning, the following acting axes are defined:
● Improve the efficiency of the Armed Forces:
-Frame the modernization of the Armed Forces pragmatically, conjugated
with the prevailing economic-financial environment, by answers
transparent to issues related to needs, priorities, processes and
temporaneity for its achievement;
-Maximize existing civil and military capabilities, by an approach
integrated in the response to threats and risks, operationalizing an effective system
national crisis management;
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-Stimulate the adoption of an attitude of accountability , according to which they are
established clear priorities, centralizing investment, so as to ensure
human resources and materials appropriate to the fulfillment of the missions of which
are incumbent on the Armed Forces, returning to these the stability to
implement your organization and device, operationalizing and debugging
recently approved instruments;
-Promoting a framework of action of elementary continuity in a society
democratic, political and plural, where the sageness, the experience and the good sense of the
several interlocutors must conduct, with objectivity and rigor, the full execution and
serene from the whole process of consolidation of the instrument and the military device;
-Profitability resources, strengthening the sharing within the scope of services, systems of
support and logistics between the branches of the Armed Forces, as a normal fact, owing
be common what can be more efficient, without undermining identity
substantial from each of the branches;
-Deepening the rationality of resource management, pugnising for the realization
effective of the established in the Military and Infrastructure Programming Laws, having
in view of modernization and investment in the areas of the Armed Forces, second
criteria of need, efficiency and transparency.
● Stimulating the national defense industry:
-Promoting a defense industry as a relevant tool to ensure
autonomy and acting of the Armed Forces and generate added value in the economy
national, maintaining and strengthening qualified employment;
-Ensuring the effective management of public shareholdings in the defence industry and the
promotion of internationalization and the export capacity of companies that
operate in Portugal;
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-Stimulate and support the participation of the national defense industry in programs of
international cooperation.
● To value the exercise of functions in the area of defence:
-Ensuring statutory stability and reinforcing qualifications and other factors that
contribute to quality, such as key aspets to ensure cohesion,
motivation and the maintenance of the actuals;
-Pursue the appropriate development of a qualification system of the
training that allows you to align with the National System of Qualifications (SNQ)
with the forms and duration of the training conferred on the Armed Forces, during the
provision of military service;
-Implementing the Military University Institute, trave-mestra for the realization of
a disigning of greater equality and qualification (and at different levels), in a framework
of accountability for military education, traditionally pioneering the
development of thought and knowledge and modernization and where, plus a
time, efficiency will be explored;
-Recognizing the specificity of the military condition, with special attention to the
Disabled of the Armed Forces and the Ancient Combatants, giving due
priority to social support and assistance in the disease.
-Develop the complementary social action, reconciling in terms of reasons
circumstantial and structure, the legitimate expectations of users with the good
service and management practices, promoting shared responsibility of the
several interlocutors and partners;
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-Realizing the process of installation and operationalization of the Forces Hospital
Armed, improving the good practices and the health care provided there,
framing this priority on the valorisation of the human element of Defence
National, and of public added value, to be explorable upon criteria of scale and of
opportunity in available markets.
● To strengthen the connection of national defence to the Portuguese.
-Develop a better understanding, approximation and knowledge of the
Portuguese regarding the importance and individual responsibility in defence
national, as a crucial factor to the affirmation of your citizenship;
-Promote a better dissemination of the developed operational activities;
-Stimulating the adoption of a culture of defense, open to citizens, valuing the
cultural assets of national defence (university and related institutes, museums, bands,
monuments, ceremonial and places of digital information, etc.) in articulation
narrow with the sectors of education, science, culture, sport and tourism,
framed on National Defense Day;
-Strengthen, where possible, identitarian ties with the Portuguese communities,
giving continuity to the contacts established between outstanding national forces and
the Portuguese radically radicalized abroad.
On the other hand, and having present the need to involve society in the debate on the
issues of national defense and to bring the Armed Forces closer to the Portuguese, the
Government will promote, among other measures, an action plan for a culture of defense
that will fall within the National Defence Day and will involve schools, authorities and associations,
by valuing the own resources of the defence and the Armed Forces (museums, laboratories,
libraries, archives, musical bands, sports equipment, monuments, magazines,
newspapers and sites on the Internet) in articulation with the sectors of education, science, culture,
sport and tourism.
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8. INTERNAL SECURITY
The maintenance of a safe state, prevention and combat of the various types of
violence and crime and the promotion of trust in the forces and security services,
constitute fundamental desicrations of the Government.
The prevention and suppression of risks and threats to the increasingly global security,
diversified, complex and sophisticated-as are the trafficking of people, weapons and
drugs, terrorism, cybercrime and modern economic-financial crime-,
imply clear strategic direction, well defined and conducted in a coherent manner,
a properly coordinated, effective and operative internal security system and the
reinforcement of international cooperation.
It also matters to realize actions that, by keeping the expenses controlled, allow
release the largest number of elements of the security forces for operational work and,
on the other hand, stimulates the sharing of resources between Forces and Security Services,
increasing its effectiveness and meeting internal security priorities.
Modernization and rationalization of the internal security system, so as to make it more
coordinated, effective and operative, through the establishment of a strategic concept of
clear internal security for the realization of the integrated goals of national security.
Reorganisation of procedures and human resources so as to release the largest
number of elements of the security forces for operational work.
For the pursuit of these sectoral policies the main axes of acting will be the
following:
● Investment in technological resources, with the implementation of solutions
technology that allow to increase organizational efficiency, promotion of
transparency and accountability of the Security Forces;
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● Investment in human resources, recognizing the specificities of the condition
police officer, giving special attention to the digniation of agents, services and forces
of security;
● Deepening of partnerships for community safety, which are settled in the
development of collaboration with local communities in a way to apply
problem-solving techniques that preemptively address the reduction of
criminal activities, behaviors considered antisocial and issues of
quality of life. The sharing of these responsibilities with the stakeholders places to if
reduce crime and improvement of quality of life. A new generation of shares
of proximity policing will be integrated into the National Programme of Prevention
and Proximity Security;
● Reorganisation of infrastructure connected to the area of security, through a
judicious lifting of the needs in terms of internal security with a view to the
elaboration of a Multiannual Investments Plan for qualification of assets
(infrastructure and equipment) of the security forces. It will be defined, according
with internal safety and urgency criteria in the intervention in the face of degradation of the
infrastructures, a plan for modernization of the equipment affections to the Forces of
Security. In this sense, the works launched without criterion, and / or with the
criteria of dubious robustness, in which it was not assessed for its necessity, its
consistency and its economic-financial sustainability. Avoiding, in this way,
projects launched case-casuistically and without being bolted on a national plan of
reorganisation and reformulation of the Security Forces;
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● To develop and strengthen the external dimension of internal security, through expansion
and the deepening of international cooperation, at the bilateral and multilateral levels,
especially within the scope of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and
of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) and with the partners of the basin
of the Mediterranean; of the increment of international cooperation in prevention and in the
control of serious, violent and highly organized crime; and the affirmation of
a policy of immigration and border control based on the principle of
solidarity and in the creation of effective coordination and surveillance tools.
Civil protection
In the field of civil protection the Government will consolidate the civil protection system
clarifying the competences of the political authorities and operational coordination in the
national, regional, district and municipal levels, so as to increment the conditions of
prevention and response in the face of the occurrence of serious accidents and disasters, mobilizing the
agents and partners of the protection and relief system.
In this framework, the following measures are highlighted:
● Implementation of the Permanent Operational Directive, at all the pataseas of the
civil protection system;
● Strengthening of the municipal civil protection plateau, in articulation with the
National Association of Portuguese Municipalities;
● Valorisation of humanitarian associations and the bodies of volunteer fire brigade,
notably by means of voluntary measures of volunteering;
● Development and implementation of operational decision support systems, with the
georreferencing of operating means and with the development of means of
videovigilance;
● Implementation of risk monitoring, warning and early warning systems,
incrementing the preventative plateau of the civil protection system;
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● Modernization of the infrastructure and equipment of civil protection officers;
● Update of the legal regime of civil protection.
Road safety
With regard to the intervention in the field of promotion of road safety, it will be
launched the National Road Safety Strategic Plan (2016-2020), involving the
participation of civil society, with the aim of strengthening the fight to the claims
road.
From the evaluation of the results achieved in the last five years, they will be delineated
new measures in the context of prevention, awareness of population and surveillance
selective of the most risk behaviors.
In this framework, the National Automatic Watchdog Network will be implemented
Speed, the designated "letter by points", as well as the conduct of audits of
safety of the road network. Awareness will be relaunched with integrated initiatives,
multiannual and with recourse to different channels of communication.
Within the framework of the cooperation with the Portuguese municipalities, the elaboration will be incremented
of municipal and intermunicipal road safety plans and streamlined the process of
road counterordinations in such a way as to significantly decrease the delays of their
administrative strand and allowing to be an effective instrument of combating the
dangerous behaviors on the road.
9. CRIMINAL POLICY
Prevention and combating crime
The prevention and combating of crime and external threats, on the one hand, and the protection of the
victims of crime and of people at risk constitute a clear government option for the
legislature.
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Crime is a serious threat to the values of democracy, which requires the
appropriate capacity-building of the Police Judiciary so as to ensure national security,
contributing equally to the security of the European space.
The new challenges force the upgrading of specific technological resources and solutions
directed towards the prevention and combating of crime, specifically terrorism, the
cybercrime, the crimes against freedom and sexual self-determination and crime
economic-financial.
Among the measures envisaged, they emphasize:
● Keep updated the criminal policy guidelines, adept at the laws of definition
of objectives, priorities and criminal policy orientations to the evolution of phenomena
criminals, in a framework of strict respect for the principle of separation of powers;
● Enhancement of information systems and technologies, increasing capacity for
criminal investigation, specifically through the creation of a mobile unit of
digital proof collection, as well as from a forensic laboratory in the computer area, and
of the implementation of a system of management of forensic laboratory activity.
● The promotion of proactive policies for prevention and research of corruption,
particularly by means of surveys among public service users.
Protection for victims of crime and people in risk situation
On the other hand, the Government will improve the system of protection for victims of violent crime
and domestic violence, as well as persons in risk situation, namely
through the realization of the following measures:
● The deepening of prevention and combating gender and domestic violence,
through a comprehensive national strategy, with local and perspetive participation
integrated for a decade, on the line of what is defined in the Istanbul Convention and
in the Convention on the Trafficking of Human Serbs;
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● Increment of the mechanisms of electronic surveillance and teleassist in support of
victims of domestic violence;
● Creation of a new regime of safeguard measures as to interim regulation
of the parental responsibilities of individuals involved in prosecutions of violence
domestic;
● Creation of a network of safe spaces for assistive visits and delivery of children and
young people in the framework of parental responsibility schemes;
● Adaptation of the Child and Youth Protection Commissions, so that they can exercise
protection functions of persons in risk situation.
Execution of feathers and social reinsertion
The improvement of the feathering system and the valorisation of social reinsertion
will also be priorities of the action of the Government that will seek, in a phased manner,
implement measures that allow to qualify the prison system and invest in a goal
of course of social reinsertion.
Among other measures, they stress:
● Elaborating and initiating the execution of a plan, with the horizon of a decade, with the
goal to rationalize and modernize the network of prison establishments and adjust the
national network of educational centres;
● Introduction of measures of appropriateness of the penal regime applicable to young people
offenders to the new challenges of society, aiming for general and special prevention
with the objectives of its ressocialization;
● Medium-term improvement of material conditions of prison establishments and
enhancement of the qualification of prison system professionals;
● Review the concepts of imprisonment for free days and other short-lived penalties, in cases
at low risk, intensifying probatory solutions;
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● Admit the recourse to the ongoing penalty of imprisonment in housing with electrolytic surveillance,
in the judicially determined cases, with possible possibility of leaving to
work;
● Enhancement of the response of the national electronic surveillance system, particularly in the
implementation of the short-lived prison sentences, under the conditions of application of the
conditional release associated, if necessary, to another type of interventions,
particularly of a therapeutic nature, in the field of the implementation of the measures of
coating, as well as in the surveillance of assailants in cases of domestic violence.
Criminal recidivism
With respect to criminal recidivism, the Government will invest in its prevention by seeking
dynamise social reinsertion tools, specifically as for the younger ones. To
such, the Government intends to implement the following measures:
● Investment in the vocational training of inmates and in prison work, by
fair remuneration;
● Caption of more private contractualization and dynamisation of entrepreneurship,
increasing the supply of work in the prison medium;
● Deepening the relationship of penitentiary entities with the local communities and the sector
business;
● Dynamisation of a vacancy of employment offers for the period after
prison term compliance, strengthening social supports for reintegration in the
active living.
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10. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Within the framework of the administration of justice the challenges that an open society and in
permanent evolution determine an adaptive capacity of all operators and
a culture of exacting and demanding change.
The complexity, often unnecessary, in the legislative and regulatory fields, the
insufficient or disappropriate provision of alternative means of dispute resolution and the
procedural morosity in some areas are areas where the Government will intervene for the sake of
of the improvement of the quality of public service and the exercise of citizenship that matters
stimulate.
The Government is strongly committed to bringing justice closer to all levels of the
society, adopting a more modernization-oriented gestionaria perspetive,
simplification and rationalization of means. To this end, it will guide its action in the resolution
of the effective problems of the citizen focusing on the following strategic axes:
● Improvement of the management of the judicial system-With regard to the improvement of the management of the
judicial system, it is dismal of this Government to promote commitment and cooperation
among judicial operators relaunching the collective effort of change, agilizing
the functioning of the different institutions and strengthening the trust of the citizen in a
of the main pillars of democracy. The management deficit associated with the judicial system is
recognized, and it is necessary that the qualification of its management effectively revert to
favour of the recipients and users of the system:
-Within the framework of the SIMPLEX programme, simplify the practices in the courts, in the
internal and external communication with the citizens, the organisation and functions of
support for judicial activity;
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-Implementation of a new system of management indicators in the various areas of the
system of justice, specifically for the courts, which allows to monitor and
evaluate the management results;
-Strengthening and qualification of formative offer for the management of the courts and for the
procedural management;
-Improvement of the planning of human, material and financial means involved
in the judicial activity, taking into account the procedural burden and the nature and
complexity of litigation in the courts.
● Promotion of the decongestment of the courts-The resolution of situations of
Congestion in the courts, as well as especially its prevention for the
future, may benefit from the enlargement of the offer of justice, specifically
through alternative means of conflict resolution and specific tools
for their prevention. In this sense, the following measures are presented:
-Evaluation of the management model for development of the enlargement plan
rational and phased of the competence and network of the peace judgements as well as of the
mediation and arbitration centres;
-Creation of the necessary conditions to modernize the tramping of processes
instituted in the trials of peace;
-Evaluation and identification of a new means of verification of a reality,
attesting with probative value a de facto situation, avoiding recourse to the
courts;
-Implementation of a referral pilot experiment for a paced resolution
from the judicial process (court multidoor ).
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● Procedural simplification and dematerialization-The exercise of justice involves a
complex network of agents, processes and resources, dispersed and subjected to fragilities of
vary order. Making justice faster, transparent and effective, mandates an effort to
permanent simplification and technological suitability based on the effective needs
of the citizen and the companies. The modernization of the exercise of justice is not exhausted in the
direct transfer of the information and the prevailing procedures in the physical medium to the
digital support. The procedural complexity should be assessed and whenever it is
justifies, simplified. The Government is also strongly committed to
to enhance the security and resilience of justice information systems. Thus,
are justified by measures such as the following:
-Evaluation and enhancement of the CITIUS procedural management system in close
collaboration with users, contemplating new functionalities, with
safety, robustness and effectiveness;
-Introduction of procedural, legislative and technological simplification measures, with
a view to the reduction of redundant procedural acts, useless or without added value;
-Creation of the legal domicile and a public list of absentee defendants;
-Creation of the innovation centre of the Ministry of Justice for the development of
new legal and technological solutions, of value added for justice, open,
among others, the judicial operators, universities, researchers and
technological community.
● Approach to citizens ' justice-The facilitating of access to information, the increase
of transparency and communication and the enhancement of proximity to users of the
justice services are elements that the Government intends to privilege, so if
proposes to adopt measures such as:
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-Correction of errors and introduction of enhancements in the recent reform of the
judicial organization;
-Achievement of studies of the benchmarking of the satisfaction of justice users, ensuring the
effectiveness of the developed policies;
-Creation of a justice portal as a centralized communication vehicle, in
accessible and customizable language, focused on the needs of the citizen and the
companies;
-Assessing the effectiveness of the supply and the adjustment of the network of the consultation offices
legal, to favour access to qualified legal information, in particular in
zones or together with groups that reveal more insufficiencies in access to law, in
collaboration with the authorities, the Order of Lawyers and the Order of the
Solicitors and the Execution Agents.
● Improvement of the quality of the public service of justice-the Government is proposing to strengthen the
quality of services ensured to the users of the justice services, in particular
in situations where these users are in particular fragility or when if
checks that it needs to strengthen the qualification of the actors themselves. Thus,
propose measures such as the following:
-Improving the quality of the right access system by implementing measures that
eliminate embarrassments and ensuring that access to the right is more effective;
-Strengthening training for magistrates and for bail-out officers in relevant areas
of current legal practice or associated with increasing the efficiency of judicial work.
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11. ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF FUNCTIONS
PUBLIC
Administrative simplification
The Government will resume the Simplex program for the entire central, regional public sector and
site, with joint measures for the three levels of administration, involving either the
participating public entities, whether their users, with a view to extending and renewing the
Simplex to the whole public sector, notably by creating 'single balconies' that
avoid multiple displacements to solve the same subject and delivery of the same
documents to different public entities.
The Government will further promote the broadening of the network of proximity services.
Administrative simplification allows for better management in the Public Administration. In this
meaning, the Government will promote to:
● Admission of the autonomous management of budgets by the leaders of the services of the
Public Administration, in accordance with objectives previously set and subject to a
interim evaluation that associates the availability of the budget to the degree of
performance;
● Promotion of the matrix organization model;
● Flexibilization of the creation and extinction of internal organic units, increasing the
degree of responsibility and decision-making ability of the maximum officer of the service.
The priority of innovation in the public sector makes it possible to find new formats for
provision of public services, in more effective and efficient terms and experimentation
helps to decrease the risk inherent in processes of change.
Public procurement will be used as one of the essential tools for the efficiency of the
Public Administration, particularly through the:
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● Improvement of shared services of public procurement, specifically by way of the
better articulation of central entities with the setorials;
● Creation of a network of shared services, articulating central entities such as
Shared Services entity of Public Administration, I.P., and the Directorate-General of the
Qualification of Workers in Public Functions, and sectoral contact points,
situated in the general secretariats of the ministries and in specific units of other
entities of the Public Administration;
● Obligation of public entities and subject to the regimes of public procurement
disclose an indicative annual plan regarding the public procurement actions that will
carry out, in such a way that economic agents can programme in the medium term to
your participation.
Valuation of public functions
A strong, intelligent and modern state will only be achieved if served by workers
competent, qualified, motivated, open to innovation and strongly imbued from the
public service values. Without these characteristics, the Public Administrations will be
inefficient and ineffective, unable to support the preparation of appropriate policies
public, to seriously commit to their application and to contribute
decidedly for the improvement of the well-being of citizens and the competitiveness of the
companies. The Administrations have disobjected and tend to irrelevance, with
very high costs for social cohesion and for the future of the country.
Also the quality of the participation of Portugal in European policies and organisations,
international and supranational depends largely on the quality and commitment of the
workers of the Public Administrations.
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Without putting aside the necessary complementarity and solidarity between the private sectors
and public, the Government will take appropriate measures for the valorisation of the employees of the
Public Administration depending on the requirements and specificity of its activity and without
lose sight of the context of the conditions of the country.
In particular, to write up the exercise of public functions, the Government will ensure the
elimination of restrictions on the hiring of the necessary actuals of public administration
central, regional and local without implying increased overall costs with personnel.
Valuing the exercise of public functions entails having vision of the future and the commitments
that its construction requires the present generations, without discuring the answers to problems of
short and medium term. It also requires unambiguous bet on the prospetive analysis of the
quantitative and qualitative needs, in the rationality of management and professionalism
of the people who serve the Administrations.
The widespread austerity policies, not selective, of recent years have led to the
reduction in the quality of services provided by public services, to the dismotivation of the
workers in public functions and the breach of trust of citizens in the state and in the
your public services.
The Government intends to reverse this negative spiral and with respect to the people who serve
the Public Administrations will act around three structuring axes:
● Revitalization and rationalization of public employment, with measures that aim to provide the
priority public services, socially and economically strategic, of resources
adequate human, in quantity and quality, to the fulfilment of their missions;
-Adopt and implement an integrated strategic management model of the
workers of the Public Administrations, articulating the judicious assessment of
needs, the setting of priorities, the predictive management of effectors, the
mechanisms for voluntary mobility and qualified recruitment and
tendentially centralized of new workers for public functions;
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-Will positively discriminate against sectors and functions whose activity is priority for
strengthen social and territorial cohesion, decentralization and devolution and
efficiency and effectiveness of the governing action;
-Give special attention to the recruitment of young senior level cadres,
specifically taking advantage of and developing the potentials of the Course of
Advanced Studies in Public Management.
● Promotion of the effectiveness and efficiency of public services, stimulating motivation
of workers, the humanization of working relationships and promotion of a culture
of results, through the adoption of diverse human resource policy measures
that increase the productivity of services for the benefit of citizens and
entrepreneurs as well as the level of satisfaction and professional achievement of the
workers of the Public Administrations. With these objectives, the Government:
-It will eliminate in a phased manner, but still in 2016, the discriminatory wage reduction
imposed on employees and workers in public functions from entry to
vigour of the State Budget for 2011;
-Report the general scheme of the 35 weekly working hours for workers in
public functions. The expected increase in motivation of the workers and the
productivity of services, allied to the effort of simplification of the organisation and the
operation of the Administration, to the effective use of the technologies of the
information and communication and the improvement of management methods, will allow the
resumption of the working hours of the 35 weekly hours has no repercussions on the
global volume of public employment;
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-Initiate, from 2018, the process of controlled defreezing of evolution
in the careers. The mechanisms and conditions of promotion / progression in the
careers will be assessed so that the expetations of professional evolution are
articulated with the instruments of evaluation and reward of merit and
compatibilized with the available budgetary resources. The differentiation with
basis on merit is factor of equity, of motivation and contributes to the addition of
productivity;
-Will review the evaluation instruments of the merit of the employees of the
Administrations, notably of the Integrated Evaluation System of the
Performance of Public Administration (SIADAP), with the aim of its
simplification and operationalization. Special focus will be given to deepening
of the potential of the evaluation mechanisms as stimulus for the better
overall performance of public services and reduction of costs and burden
bureaucratic that the operationalization of SIADAP implies. As much as the
budgetary conditions permitting, the practice of good incentives will be resumed.
management of services and improvement of individual and collective performance.
● Ensure the quality and professionalism of the agents of Public Administrations,
notably, through the development of the initial training system and
continuous, general and specialized, oriented in function of the real needs of
modernization and effectiveness of public service, as well as, of rational use
of the professional competences of the employees of the Administrations and develop-
las, specifically with a view to their qualification for the necessary functions to the
Administration in articulation with the public employment policy.
-Will Develop the initial and continuous training system, general and specialized,
oriented on the basis of the real needs of modernization and effectiveness of the service
public;
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-Promote the rational harnessing of the professional skills of the
employees of the Administrations and develop them, specifically by having in
view of their qualification for the necessary functions of the Administration in articulation
with the public employment policy;
-Will provide for development, rationalization, integration and
complementarity of the existing formative capacity in the country, public or private,
particularly by protocols with institutions of higher education. Always
which is warranted, in this effort existing capacities will also be involved
other countries and international or supranational institutions;
-Revitalizes central service for study, planning, organisation, monitoring and
assessment of vocational training in the Administration in order to guarantee the
quality of the formative offer and its suitability for the needs and capabilities of the
country;
-Will Facilitate mobility within the Public Administrations and with the
administrations of other States, in particular those of the EU Member States, and
of international and supranational organizations;
-Will provide for the enhancement of the values and ethics of public service by promoting the
integrity in the exercise of public functions and the culture of service;
-Will Adopt the necessary measures to strengthen the professionalism of workers
of the Public Administrations, with particular emphasis on those for the enhancement of the
guarantees of exemption and recognition of merit in the selection of the posts
leaders. The high public function, whose professionalism must be exemplary and
transparent, will merit special attention;
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-Create conditions for the knowledge and know-how of those who work or
have worked in the Public Administrations can be rationally harnished
in the management and transmission of knowledge, specifically through its
participation in training, sharing of good practices and cooperation.
12. REGULATION AND SUPERVISION OF MARKETS
The last years have been marked by an international framework characterized by the
global financial crisis of 2007/2008, which created significant pressures originated in the sector
financial with severe consequences for the real economy and for the states, since soon
with the crisis of sovereign debts. These crises have put more and more into evidence
multiple failures at the level of supervision and regulation. Several financial institutions were
intervened over the past few years, resulting in direct and indirect damage
avulted to the economy, for the increasingly pressured public finances and
particularly for citizens, as well as for the credibility and reputation of the diverse
regulatory entities.
We consider, thus, an urgent reflection on the institutional architecture of the
financial regulation in Portugal, especially with regard to the conflicts of
verified interest between supervisory and resolution authorities and also
relatively to the preventive effectiveness of prudential supervisory processes and
behavioral.
Thus, the main axes of acting of the XXI Government will be:
● Improving the institutional design of regulation and supervision functions in the sector
financial, notably taking into account the increase in supervisory effectiveness
preventive and the elimination of conflicts of interest in the framework of the mechanisms of
bank resolution;
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● Provide the regulatory bodies with the highest capacity for surveillance and intervention,
particularly preventive, in terms of the verification of idoneity (with possibility
of suspension of duties when there are indications of the practice of serious unlawful facts) and
prevent harmful management practices, defence of competition and protection of consumers;
● Ensure the affectation of the means necessary for effective regulation / supervision, through
of gains in efficiency and synergies;
● Reduce the dispersion of competences and improve coordination, collaboration and exchange
of information between regulation / supervisory entities, reducing conflicts of
interests between the different entities and between the different functions;
● Strengthen the impediments ex-ante and ex-post , in order to stop the rotation of workers
between regulatory bodies and regulated companies or service providers
relevant to these entities ( revolving doors );
● Ascribe to the Assembly of the Republic a relevant role in quantifying objectives and
in the evaluation of the results obtained by the regulatory bodies, thus increasing the
rigor, requirement, visibility and transparency of the respective performances;
● Compel to the identification of the last economic beneficiaries of shareholdings
qualified in credit institutions, as well as the disclosure of all operations
of granting credit (or similar) to members of the social bodies and to the holders of
qualified participations in credit institutions;
● Limiting the exercise of non-financial activities by credit institutions,
segregating the exercise of the deposit-receiving activity with a view to increasing the
protection of the same;
● Strengthen the standardization of pre-contractual information linked to the supply of instruments
financial to non-professional customers, imposing restrictions on the sale of products
financial whenever such set an injury to the customer and penalizing
possible bad trade practices.
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13. VALUING THE AUTONOMY OF AUTONOMOUS REGIONS
On this model of political decentralization, constitutionally enshrined 40
years, considers the Government to exist an imperative need for mobilization of the regions
autonomous for a new level of relationship and shared responsibility, and
for a more effective realization, of the foundational goals of the autonic experiment
and that they are that of the democratic participation of citizens, economic development-social
and the promotion and defence of regional interests, as well as the strengthening of national unity and
of the bonds of solidarity among all Portuguese.
To do so, it understands the Government:
● Be it time to overcome a too reductive and simplistic perspetive of the potential and
of the role that autonomous regions can play, evolving into a vision
which relies on the relationship between the state and regional autonomies on the basis of
complementarity, in concert and in contractualization. In that scope, they assume
particular relevance the resources, humans and materials, to ensure, in that part of the
national territory, the functions of the State;
● Call the autonomous regions for a renewed and visible participation in the subjects
who are interested in the Country as a whole, particularly in decision-making processes at the level
European;
● The valorisation of the autonomous regions, while active in the Country, passes by the extension of the
Portuguese continental shelf which at present finds itself in analysis in the
United Nations. It is the Portuguese archipelagos, not least the Azores, which give
consistency and dimension to this Portuguese pretension, and are the autonomous regions that
constitute the indispensable interlocutors for a better effectivation of the
national skills that on it will go on to focus. This is one of the areas in which the
autonomous regions will constitute, by excellence, the entity for its effective
operationalization;
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● Another field in which the valorisation of the action of the autonomous regions will revert,
also, for the benefit of the state, it relates to the harnessing of the huge
potential that encloses the privileged relationship that autonomous regions have
with foreign infrastructure entities, such as provinces, federated states, between
others.
In these cases, the contractualization and mobilization of national resources in favour of such
privileged relations which, in the economic, political or cultural plan, the autonomous regions
may develop are considered by the Government to be essential.
14. DECENTRALIZATION, BASE OF STATE REFORM
The Government considers that the transfer of skills to organs with greater
proximity must be accompanied by greater democratic legitimacy of these bodies,
reaffirming the deepening of local democracy and the value of respect for autonomy
administrative and financial of local authorities. For this, the Government intends to:
● Enhancement of the role and effective powers of the authorities in the organization model of the
Coordination and Regional Development Committees (CCDR), specifically
establishing the election of the respected executive body by an electoral college
formed by the members of the chambers and the municipal assemblies (including the
freguish joint chairpersons) of the intervention area, answering the organ
executive of the CCDR, with three to five members, before the regional council and being
the functions exerted on a mismatch regime with any other functions
policies or administrative of a national or a municipal nature;
● Transformation of the current metropolitan areas, enhancing their legitimacy
democratic, with directly elected bodies, being the elected metropolitan assembly
by direct suffrage of the voters ' citizens, the chairman of the executive body the first
elected from the most voted list and the remaining members of the body elected by the assembly
metropolitan, on a proposal from the president.
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On the other hand, the principle of subsidiarity should be assumed to be the advisor of the
decision on the most appropriate level for the exercise of assignments and competences
(national, regional or local), and therefore the Government will promote the transfer of
competencies for the most appropriate levels:
● Metropolitan areas will have well-defined own skills that enable them to
contribute effectively to the management and coordination of scope networks
metropolitan, specifically in the areas of transport, waters and waste, of the
energy, economic and tourism promotion, as well as in equipment management and
of incentive programmes for the regional development of the concelhos that the
integrate;
● Inter-municipal communities will be an instrument for strengthening cooperation
Intermunicipal, in articulation with the resulting new model of regional governance
of the democratization of CCDR and the establishment of metropolitan authorities. Will be reviewed
assignments, governing bodies and models of governance and accountability;
● Municipalities are the fundamental structure for the management of public services in a
proximity dimension, so it will be extended the cast of their skills in
various fields, without prejudice to the safeguarding of the universality of the functions and of the
due and proven affectation of the means that guarantee their effective exercise;
● Freguesies will have differentiated skills depending on their nature and will exercise
powers in areas that are assigned to them today by municipal delegation;
● The strengthening of the competences of local authorities in the area of transport implies the
cancellation of the concessions and privatization in progress of the collective transport of Lisbon
and Porto.
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In this area the Government will give, still, territorial coherence to the devoltioned administration
of the State and will promote the integration of the state's devolved services into the CCDR.
It is a priority to generalize the network of public services of proximity to be developed in
close collaboration with local authorities.
In the framework of administrative decentralization policies, it will also be promoted to
evaluation of the territorial reorganization of the freguesias, establishing objective criteria that
allow the authorities themselves to hurt the results of the merger / aggregation and to correct the cases
poorly resolved, as well as, the amendment of the local funding rules, so that the
financing of the authorities not only monitor the enhancement of their competences, but
allow to re-establish financial capacity by ensuring convergence with the average
European for participation in public revenue:
● The participation of municipalities in state taxes (IRS, Tax on the
Income of Collective Persons (IRC) and VAT), to be redeed second criteria of
promotion of social and territorial cohesion;
● The direct participation in the revenue generated in the municipality, through the IRC spill and
of territorial basic shareholdings in the IRS and VAT;
● The tax collection and local fees in areas of municipal competence.
15. DEFEND THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, PROMOTE HEALTH
The crisis and weak policy-making have prompted the National Health Service (SNS) to spend
worse the scarce resources and generated serious problems and inequalities in access, having it
lacked strategic vision and capacity to carry out the organizational reforms
indispensable. The reinvigoration and recovery of SNS and its performance
constitute, therefore, one of the most arduous challenges for the next decade, being a test
decisive for political determination in the defence of the Social State. The Portuguese more
vulnerable feel today the lack of accessibility, dehumanization and loss of quality
of the SNS.
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It is therefore urgent to provide the SNS with the capacity to respond better and faster to the
needs of the SNS citizens, simplifying access, taking advantage of the means of
proximity, broadening the ability to, in one place, the citizen obtain consultation, means of
diagnosis and therapeutics that there can be concentrated, avoiding constant referral
for dispersed and long-linting units. The SNS can only be friendly if your administration
is simplified and modernized through the creation of a Health SIMPLEX that makes
transparent, informed and welcoming the movement of the utent at the various levels of the system.
We have to repose the family-state balance in health funding. The current 32% to
job title of households have to be progressively reverted to values that do not
discriminate against access, nor do they become insolvent to families.
The policies to be developed in the area of health aim to improve the access equity of the
citizens to health care and the quality of services that are provided by the SNS,
allowing positive impacts on the state of health of the population. These goals will be
pursued in the context of the challenges that arise, namely ageing
of the population, the decrease in the birthrate and the increase in the number of patients
cronics. To realize these goals establish themselves as priorities reinvigorate and
regaining the performance of SNS, through the implementation of a health policy of
proximity and in defense of the Social State.
Rebalancing the balance in the sharing of financing between families and the state is a
priority, taking into consideration the high costs borne by the families, which have to be
progressively reverted to values that do not discriminate against access.
It is critical to relaunch the reform of primary health care and care
continued integrated with the elderly and citizens in dependence situation, at the same
time that one will have to realize a hospital reform that retires in the relaunch of the
SNS.
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It is also a priority to integrate health benefits with those of Social Security,
both locally and at the regional and central level involving also municipalities
(as long as fundamental structures for the management of public services in a dimension of
proximity). Only with a coordinated support from the different instruments of the Social State
whether it can provide satisfaction, in an integrated manner, to the needs of the elderly citizen and with
dependency, avoiding the discoordination of currently existing supports.
The strategy to be implemented in the area of health aims, too, to promote the inclusion of
people with disabilities or disability, overcoming serious flaws at the level of access and
suitability of therapeutic support, as well as ensuring health care in the situations
of addictions, infectious diseases and diseases of the venue of mental health.
At the European level, it stands out the goal of stepping up cooperation with the remaining countries
with special emphasis on integrated planning and the effective articulation of the offer network
of health services on both sides of the border, thus avoiding redundancies and
waste.
The strategy described for the health sector aims to give a positive response, which ensures, in the
more diverse levels of delivery, the access of the entire population to health care of
excellence.
Health reform is based on a set of measures developed from nine axes
of acting:
Promoting health through a new ambition for Public Health
Public Health will be valued as an area of intervention, for the good management of the
warning systems and timely response of services, diagnosis of situations
problematics and the elaboration, with the community, of strategic action plans,
ensuring that local health profiles and plans are built in a way to potentiate the
resources, valuing people. For this axis, the following measures are highlighted:
● Create a National Programme of Education for Health, Literacy and Autocuidates;
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● Implementing the Local Health Plans in fulfillment of the National Plan of
Health;
● To strengthen epidemiological surveillance, health promotion, primary prevention and
of secondary prevention;
● Revitalizing the Communicable Diseases Control Programme;
● Promoting measures to prevent smoking, healthy eating and
prevention of the consumption of alcohol and of the remaining addictive generative products;
● Reclaim the importance, in the context of the SNS, of the National Network of Mental Health;
● Evaluate and update the National Programme of Vaccination;
● To repeal the amendment to the Voluntary Interruption of Gravity Act, with entry into
vigour as early as 2016.
Reducing inequalities between citizens in access to health
The goal of this strategic axis is to overcome inequality between citizens in access to health,
through the following measures:
● Elimination of the moderating rates of urgency whenever the utterer is referenced;
● A global reduction in the value of moderating rates;
● Reposition of the right to transport of non-urgent patients in accordance with
clinical and economic conditions of SNS users;
● Combating inequalities of access and positive differentiation, among which:
-Practice positive differentiation policies oriented towards citizens more
vulnerable, for women of childbearing age, children, elderly people and in situation
of dependency;
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-Paying special attention to children at risk and in danger, developing the
capacity for support of health services, in the joint with other entities
competent in this matter;
-Strengthen the participation of the regional coordinating bodies and the administration
self-respecting levels, developing the corresponding mechanisms
participatives in the management of SNS.
To strengthen the power of the citizen in the National Health Service by promoting availability, accessibility,
convenience, swiftness and humanization of services
To strengthen the power of the citizen in the SNS the following measures will be adopted:
● To provide citizens, in a progressive way, the freedom to choose in which
units want to be assisted, with respect for the technical hierarchy and by the rules of
referencing of SNS;
● Simplifying procedures concerning the access and use of SNS, within the framework of
SIMPLEX program;
● Modernize and integrate information technologies and existing networks in a manner
keep older people and the sick for longer in their family environment,
developing telemonitoring and telemedicine;
● To encourage the participation of older people in working and social life;
● Creating the National Board of Health to ensure citizen participation
users of SNS in the definition of policies;
● Create legal and tax incentives that directly or indirectly influence the environment and
the determinant behaviors of health and disease.
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Expansion and improvement of the capacity of the primary health care network
It is critical to ensure the centrality of the primary health care network in politics
of health, expanding and improving its capacity. In this framework, they highlight the
following measures:
● Provide this level of care with a new type of responses (ancillary means of
diagnosis and therapy);
● To strengthen the capacity of primary health care (through support
supplemental in areas such as psychology, ophthalmology, obstetrics, pediatrics and the
physical medicine and rehabilitation);
● Creating a prevention programme for the Integrated Management of Chronic Disease
(hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and oncological disease);
● Broadening and improving SNS coverage in the areas of Oral Health and Visual Health;
● Pursue the goal of ensuring that all Portuguese have a family doctor
assigned;
● Create 100 new Family Health Units, ensuring by this route the assignment of
family doctors to a further 500 thousand inhabitants.
Improvement of the management of hospitals, circulation of clinical information and the
articulation with other levels of care and other sector actors
This strategic axis is based on the definition of the following measures:
● Reforming the hospitals in your internal organisation and management model, betting on the
autonomy and accountability of management and the application of incentives linked to the
performance;
● Promote independent external evaluation of existing hospital experiences
in public-private partnership regime to technically enable the political decision
in the function of the defence public interest;
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● Create an Integrated Access Management System-SIGA, which facilitates access and
freedom of choice for users in SNS, particularly in areas where the time of
expects is still significant: specialty consultations, internships, ancillary means
of diagnosis and therapy;
● Betting on the Electrolytic Health Register, as an indispensable tool for management
of access with efficiency, equity and quality.
Expansion and improvement of the integration of the Continued Care Network and other
support services for people in dependency situation
In articulation with the authorities, the continuing care network will be articulated with the
social action network, targeting:
● To strengthen the continued care provided at home and in ambulatory care;
● Strengthen the national network by increasing the number of vacancies in care
continued integrated in all their typologies (joint effort with the
third-sector organizations and the private sector, with a special focus on the large
urban centres);
● Recognizing and supporting informal caregivers who support dependents in the
your domiciles;
● Strengthen the mental health component in the Integrated Comprehensive Care Network.
Perfecting the management of human resources and the motivation of professionals of
Health
For the defence of SNS it is critical to perfect the management of its human resources and
promote the valorisation of health professionals by fostering new models of
cooperation and division of responsibilities between the different professions. For that, it is
fundamental:
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● To improve the articulation between the assistential, teaching, training pre- and
postgraduate and research fellow at universities, polytechnics and laboratories of
State;
● Appropriate the educational offer at the level of higher education in the area of health to
needs of SNS health professionals;
● Encouraging the mobility of professionals for specialties and regions less
favored through professional development-oriented policies;
● Betting on new models of cooperation between health professions, as far as
to the allocation of competences and responsibilities.
Improving the governance of the National Health Service
The increased efficiency of SNS will be supported by the improvement of the instruments of
governance targeting:
● To strengthen the capacity of SNS through the allocation of human resources, technicians and
adequate financial, to achieve concrete objectives of reducing the time of
expects in access to health care, as well as for exams and treatments, from
how to ensure quality health care, safely and in good time;
● Streamline the current model of contractualization of services by introducing incentives
associated with the improvement of the quality, efficiency and fairness of the services, inserted in the
management contracts;
● Strengthen the autonomy and responsibility of SNS managers and units
service providers;
● Clarify the roles of shareholder, financier, regulator and provider within the SNS,
ending with the ambiguities derived from overlaps of various functions;
● Promoting progressive developments for the separation of sectors through the creation of
mechanisms of full dedication to the exercise of public functions in SNS;
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● Reduce inefficiencies and redundancies in the system, preventing the desnauling of the
demand and the deterioration of productivity and quality in the sector;
● Introduce transparency measures at all levels, with timely disclosure of the
information regarding the performance of SNS;
● Progressively reduce the generating situations of conflicts of interest among the
public and private sectors (including relations with the pharmaceutical industry);
● To strengthen the mechanisms of regulation by clarifying skills and the
roles of the different actors in each sector of activity;
● Open the management of the General Directorate of Social Protection to Employees and Agents of the
Public administration and representatives legitimately appointed by their
beneficiaries, pensioners and relatives;
● Promoting a sustainable policy in the area of the medicine so as to reconcile the
budgetary stringency with access to therapeutic innovation, which passes in particular by:
-Review the mechanisms for dispensing and the comparticipation of medicines from the
chronic patients in ambulatory;
-Promoting the increase in the market share of generic drugs (in value)
for the 30%, taking into account the margin for the low price that subsists;
-Stimulating research and national production in the medicine sector.
Improving the quality of health care
In 2016 it is imperative to strengthen policies and programmes for improving the quality of the
health care, namely:
● Betting on the promotion of health and combating the disease;
● Betting on the implementation of health governance models based on improvement
continuous of the quality and valorisation of the experience and participation of the utent;
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● Implement measures of reduction of waste, of valorisation and dissemination of the
good practices and ensuring the safety of the patient;
● Deepening and developing the models for assessing health technologies, which
properly evaluate the new medicines, medical devices, the
non-pharmacological interventions and the new health programmes involving the
relevant university and research centres;
● Support scientific research, in its clinical strands, public health and, in
special, administration of health services creating specific mechanisms of
funding.
16. COMBAT SCHOOL UNSUCCESS, ENSURE 12 YEARS OF
SCHOOLING
Education and training play a central role in the promotion of social justice and
equality of opportunity, being also a foundation of economic growth and
sustainability of the country. The contribution of education and training is a determinant of the
realize the vision of a cohesive, modern and democratic society, so the Government
prioritids priority to policies that seek to ensure equal access for all
children to the public school, promote the educational success of all and overcome the deficit of
qualifications of the Portuguese population.
The main acting line of the Ministry of Education will be the combating of unsuccessful
school, guaranteed 12 years of schooling. In this framework will be drawn and
implemented public policies aimed at extending the network and qualification of the
early childhood education, the development of an integrated basic education and which promotes
a variety of learning common to all children, to the valorisation of teaching
secondary and diversification of its formative offer, to the enhancement of school social action, to the
valorisation of education professionals, by focusing schools on learning the
students and lastly, to the modernization of the models and learning tools.
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They will be mobilised for this dismay all the agents and sectors of Portuguese society,
involving the different government departments, parents, schools and authorities.
For the realization of these strategic objectives, the XXI Government will draw on and
will implement public policies aimed at all levels of education having, however,
a special focus on basic education as this level of teaching has seen its trajectory of
progressive improvement interrupted in this recent past. Thus, it is objective to reduce the
school insuccess in elementary school education for half to the end of the legislature. For such combat
to school insuccess will be developed a National Success Promotion Program
School, in its strands of continuing education, local projects of pedagogical innovation and
enrichment and curriculum valorisation.
Betting on preschool education as a key to combating school insuccess:
Starting well is always worth it
The expansion of preschool education has a decisive role in promoting success
school, constituting the essential foundation of the children's school future, for what should be
resumed investment in the expansion of the network and the qualification of early childhood education.
For this, the following measures will be implemented:
● Universality of the provision of preschool education to all children from the three to five
years;
● Specific plans for development of apprenticesseals, which ensure that all
children develop the apprenticesons provided for in the curricular guidelines;
● Tutelage pedagogics on all the establishments in the national, public or
supportive, of pre-schooling education;
● Early diagnosis of risk situations as a strategy for preventing unsuccessful
school at a time when action is most effective;
● Programmes for monitoring and training of educators, articulated with the actions
forecasted for the 1. cycle of basic education.
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Fighting unsuccessful at its root: developing an integrated, global basic education
and common to all children
It matters to invert the trajectory of increased school insuccess in elementary school education and to return to
a pathway of progressive improvement of this central indicator of the education system,
guaranteed that all children and young people complete the first years of schooling with
a quality education, underpinning a wide variety of apprenticesments, rejecting
the early dualization.
With a view to achieving these goals will be going to proceed:
● To the promotion of greater articulation between the three cycles of basic education, mitigating
the effects of transitions between cycles, through integrated management and review of the
curricula of the basic education and the reduction of the excessive disciplinary burden of pupils;
● On the incentive of curriculum flexibility, from the 1 to the cycle, using different
possibilities for pedagogical management and managing with autonomy the resources, times
and the school spaces;
● To the rejection of early dualization, guaranteed that all arrangements of organization and
curriculum management is aimed at the integration of pupils and their school progress;
● To the prioritization of the 1-cycle of basic education, with a view to which, at the end of the legislature, the
retention is residual;
● To the generalization of the "School to Time Whaling" in all basic education;
● To the support of schools and groupings in the development of evaluation processes
internal, which contribute to the regulation and self-regulation of apprenticesups and the
education and educational projects;
● To the realization of the Ferment Protests in the 2, 5 and 8 years of schooling, in
replacement of final evidence in the 4 and 6. years of schooling.
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Ensuring compliance with the 12 years of compulsory schooling: valorising the
secondary education and diversify the formative offer
The valorisation of secondary education, through the consolidation and deepening of its
diversity, quality and value of all formative offerings, is essential for the
compliance with the 12-year schooling. Thus, compulsory schooling should be
inclusive and promote the success of all and, for the realization of this goal, will
developed a program that helps students delight their school pathways and
life projects, seeking to progressively ensure a rapprochement between the
percentages of young people who attend courses of a professionalizing nature and those who
attend the scientific-humanistic courses.
Valuing secondary education and diversifying the formative offer
In this framework it will seek to improve the quality of the scientific-humanistic courses,
through the creation of Experimental Teaching Development Programmes, the resolution
of problems and of all the components of technical, technological, artistic and physical training;
and also through support for schools and groupings in the development of systems of
internal assessment that contribute to effectively improving apprenticesand teaching and
that constitute fundamental elements of regulation and the self-regulation of practices
curriculars.
Diversifying the formative offer and valuing vocational and artistic education
In this second line of action, a teaching valorisation agenda will be implemented
professional, promoting their quality of response, their relationship with the market of
work and the valorisation of your contribution to the promotion of equity and success
educational through:
● Broadening the range of courses and qualifications contemplated in secondary education and
professional post-secondary;
● Pedagogical diversification of vocational education and promotion of a greater connection of the
school to the community and the family;
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● Continuing education programmes of vocational education trainers with a view to the
appreciation of the status of these;
● Multi-Annual Funding Programmes of vocational schools, on the basis of a
merit analysis, so as to create conditions of stability to network funding
of vocational schools;
● Boosting vocational education for young people, valuing and dinering the offerings
of double certification;
● Promoting the identification of vocational training needs, strengthening the
relevance of teaching and training for the labour market and establishing
dynamics of cooperation with the social partners and with business councils
regional;
● Production of indicators of employability and pursuing courses
professionals and vocals, in complement to the already realized for the indicators of
school results;
● Specialized Artistic Education Development Programme, from the basic level to the
secondary level, supporting the celebration of partnerships.
Mobilizing School Social Action to combat inequalities and unsuccessful
school
Social action should be mobilized to improve and deepen supports for children and
young people in situations of greater social and economic fragility, so as to play a
active role in combating poverty, inequalities and school dropout. It will exist like this
strengthening of School Social Action not only in the school arm but also in support,
mentoring and educational and social mediation. A programme will also be developed
acquisition and return of school textbooks and didactic resources formally adopted for the
basic and secondary education.
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Focus schools on the teaching and learning of pupils by valuing their
professionals
It is necessary to re-enter schools in the process of teaching and learning of pupils and
promote a greater appreciation of their professionals. Thus, it matters to consolidate and
to significantly extend the regime of autonomy, administration and management of schools and
groupings, as a central element of the decentralization effort of competences up to
now concentrated in the Ministry of Education, with reinforcement of legitimacy and
responsibility of its governing and management bodies. This effort has as
fundamental element the consolidation of the pedagogical autonomy of schools and the
professors, valuing the teaching function.
In order to achieve these goals, the development of:
● New system of recruitment and linking of the faculty and workers of the
schools, revoking since already the requalification regime, and seeking to carry out a
diagnosis of permanent needs, with a view to stability;
● Process of decentralization of competences, through the consolidation of autonomy
pedagogical of schools and teachers;
● Review of the process of transfer of competences to the authorities at the level of the
basic and secondary education.
Modernising models and learning tools
On the transversal strand of modernization of the education system and the
models and learning tools, will be developed and deepened measures
how to:
● National Programme for Innovation in Learning;
● Strategy of educational digital resources;
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● Promotion of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the
scope of the curriculum;
● Launch of a Competitiveness and Technological Polo for educational innovation;
● Process of simplification in the central administration of education for a larger
autonomy and concentration of schools in their fundamental activity, which is
learning from students;
● Maintenance and operation of the Local Area Networks of Schools;
● Expanded Network of Education (Internet);
● Videovigilance of Schools (Monitoring Services);
● SIGA-Students ' Management Integrated System;
● Remote security monitoring and pickets in schools (videovigilance);
● Maintenance of videovigilance equipment; Implementation of system of
management of faculty identities (single sign-on );
● Development of software for support of Portaria No 321/2013, of October 28
(ICT Competences);
● System of Ticketing and helpdesk with IT inventory update functionalities of the
schools;
● Implementation of a unified voice-over-IP communications system in the
schools;
● Information Security Management System (project with co-financing in the
scope of the SAMA);
● Digital Mobile Key Education (project with co-financing under the SAMA framework);
● Cloud School;
● Equipment in Schools Park schools and with POVT works.
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17. INVESTING IN YOUTH
After the celebration of the 20 years of the World Plan of Action for the Youth of Nations
United in 2015, the youth saw enhanced the importance of transversality and its
involvement in the definition, implementation and evaluation of public policies. Thus, it is
key to continuing to call on the participation of the youngest, promoting their inclusion
and facilitating them the necessary conditions so that they can take on themselves as actors of
change and development.
In the framework of European Cooperation in Youth Matters, the aim is to strengthen the
Structured Dialogue process as a priority space of discussion and definition of the
public policy, supporting the different actors to make it more articulate. This
European process has been proving to be more and more consequential, namely,
through integration into the Council's Recommendations of various youth proposals
exits of the European Youth Conference of Luxembourg.
The European Union's Youth Action Plan 2015 -2018, which prioritizes inclusion
social, participation, the transition to the labour market, mental health, the digital age and
migrations will be monitored closely, a transversal approach is pursued that
guarantee young people access to their rights.
Education holds strong centrality in the development of every young person, being it
also the great guarantor of social justice and equality of opportunity. Thus, endear-
if education in a holistic perspetive, valuing all learning processes
that happen in the formal, non-formal or informal educational spaces, establishing
Compulsory bridges that will be necessary to strengthen and value the organizations of
youth as key structures of promotion of citizenship and participation and
of development of skills facilitators of happy life projects for all the
young people.
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The European, luscious, ibero-American dimension and to the United Nations of the action in
around youth policy will still serve to strengthen ties between young people and decision makers
politicians from these different spaces of cooperation and where Portugal has taken over the long
of the years a preponderant role.
For the pursuit of such strategic objectives, the following measures will be adopted:
● Prioritising education for citizenship by fostering narrowing between the system
formal education, youth organizations and the non-formal education sector;
● Articulate interministerially with the tubs and programs that have an impact on life
of young people, in particular, with regard to employment and entrepreneurship, to the
higher education, housing, natality, health, quality of life, sport, à
culture, the environment, agriculture, transport, sustainability of safety
social, combating poverty, equality, inclusion and migrations;
● Debating the Law of Jovem Associativism and too much legislative instruments
related, encouraging young people to participate in the areas and in the ways that most
interested in and supporting the associative movement in the search for models of
governance more tailored to the new forms of socialization of youth, open and
participatory, but also efficient and effective, in a logic of empowerment and
empowerment of each young person and of their more or less formal spaces of
participation;
● To strengthen the intervention of the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth, I. P., in the
sense of ensuring that the best answers will always be given to young people,
by valuing their human capital and potentiating the infrastructures that have to be at the
service of youth;
● Ensure an integrated and joint work with the Erasmus + National Agency
Youth in Action and the Moviyoung;
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● Work on the process of recognition and validation of acquired apprenticesin
non-formal and informal context, encouraging the young associative movement to be
an active agent and proponent of the mechanisms that will have to be defined by 2018;
● Creating spaces of proximity, consultation and debate with youth, youth associations
and too many actors from the sector;
● Search for conditions to identify and value young talent in different areas,
promoting equality of opportunity and the social mobility of young people;
● Contribute to the promotion of Young Volunteering Youth and the Occupation of Times
Free, implementing programs, supporting and developing a network of entities
on the national territory that can develop projects, in various areas of
intervention, and to enable responding to the institutions and populations in the resolution of
needs and problems, which at the same time contribute to the empowerment of the
young people;
● To strengthen cooperation at the European, luscious, ibero-American level and with the nations
united in youth policy matters.
18. PROMOTING ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING THROUGHOUT
FROM LIFE
Create an Adult Education and Training Program that consolidates a
life-long learning system and its strategic action for the next
decade
The second major acting line of the Ministry of Education refers to the investment in the
adult education and lifelong training, through the creation of a Program of
Education and Training of Adults that ensures overcoming the deficit of school qualifications
of the Portuguese active population and the improvement of the quality of education processes-
training of adults.
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To achieve these goals, a set of measures that seek to be implemented will be implemented
boost lifelong learning for all by promoting compatibilization
of the individual needs of the people with the available educational and formative offers
through:
● Intervention of the Centres for Qualification and Professional Education (CQEP), in their
forwarding and orientation dimension throughout the life;
● Consolidation of the system of recognition, validation and certification of competences
school and professionals;
● Promotion of complementarity between the recognition processes of
skills and offers of adult education and training;
● Dynamization of local networks for the qualification, with the aim of diagnosing
qualification needs that lead to the alignment of the offer network of
courses in Education and Formation of Adults with the diagnosis effectuated;
● Promotion of learning experiences and recognition of skills in
work context and with companies;
● Creation of education pathways-differentiated training in group roles
specific;
● Progressive replacement of recurrent education by courses in education and training of
adults, rehearsing a pilot phase of distance learning.
Still on this line of acting, it appears equally necessary:
● Promote the quality of the network of SNQ operators through implementation and
certification of mechanisms and systems of guarantees aligned with the Quality Assurance
Reference Framework for Vocational Educational and Training (EQUAVET), of the
monitoring and monitoring of dual-certification offers and the
monitoring and monitoring of the network of CQEP;
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● Streamlining the National Catalog of Qualifications (CNQ) in improving the
qualifications, involving the Qualification Sectoral Boards through the
consolidation of the referencing of all the dual-certification offerings to the CNQ, from the
update of the qualification and evolution benchmarks for the drawing of qualifications
based on learning outcomes.
Create an Adult Education and Training Program that consolidates a
life-long learning system and its strategic action for the next
decade
The Government aims to revitalize adult education and training as a central pillar of the
skills system, ensuring the continuity of learning policies to the
long life and the permanent improvement of the quality of processes and results of
learning, particularly by the:
● Stimulation of local networks for the qualification that allow to coordinate and concert the
regional and local level the needs of educational and formative offer and its
adjustment to demand, with the necessary articulation with the central bodies
responsible for the policies and financing of the different modalities of
qualification.
19. MODERNIZE, QUALIFY AND DIVERSIFY HIGHER EDUCATION
Broadening and democratizing access to higher education
The Government intends to evaluate the access regime for higher education and to promote a debate
public, aiming at its modernization and appropriateness to the new contexts:
● Creating a mobility support programme in higher education and students
shifted that associates state, universities and municipalities.
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The primary objective of the Government is to make Portugal a country of science, culture and the
knowledge. Our commitment is this: to bet on knowledge. And bet on the
knowledge, it is before more betting on people. It is, therefore, to take on the
investment in science and knowledge as a collective project for the future of the
country, creating the necessary conditions to raise the qualification of the active population and
reduce the distance that separates us from the most developed countries in Europe.
In that context, Portugal should speed up its qualification effort so as to achieve, in
2020, the target of 40% of higher education graduates in the age group 30-34 years.
Given that, in 2014, the percentage of graduates at this age was still 31.3%, while the
average European (UE28) reached already the 37.9%, matters to extend and democratize access to the
higher education, strengthen and modernize its institutions and processes, promote the
continuous and systematic modernization of students ' apprenticesments, stimulate the
young employment and the attraction of qualified human resources.
The Government's performance during the present legislature will be guided by the adoption of measures
that support the consolidation of higher education as a driver of progress, notably
through the guarantee of existence of stable, consensualized and focused public policies
in the scientific development of the Country and its growing openness and relevance
international.
The Government will promote the deepening of the autonomy of scientific institutions and
higher education, in a context of demanding fiscal consolidation and coresponsiveness
of the entities, as well as the articulation between the policies of higher education systems and
science. Such effort must be made accompanied by the availability of the universities and
polytechnics to carry out the restructuring of the respective networks and the formative offer to the
national and regional scale, promoting quality and making use even more efficient
of public resources.
Thus, they constitute as guidelines during the present legislature:
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● The enlargement and democratization of higher education;
● The deepening of the autonomy of scientific and higher education institutions;
● The guarantee of institutional diversity, potentiating the installed formative capacity;
● The stimulus to improving levels of educational success;
● The support for the greater employability of graduates;
● The strengthening of the instruments of internationalization of higher education institutions.
The political priorities identified above will be realized through the adoption of the
measures that are enunciated next.
In the framework of the enlargement and democratization of higher education, the Government will:
● Evaluating the access regime for higher education and promoting a public debate, targeting
their modernization and suitability to the new contexts;
● Strengthen Direct School Social Action, through the increase in the value of the scholarships
study and the number of eligible students, and the indirect social action with the
transfer of the appropriate public funding to universities and polytechnics to
ensure food, accommodation and transport services;
● Re-structuring and unbureaucratizing the school social action system, so as to achieve
efficiency gains and better respond to the needs of the deprived students
in the different cycles of education;
● Creating a mobility support programme in higher education and students
shifted that associates state, universities and municipalities;
● To stimulate distance education in higher education institutions, for this
represent an alternative and effective model, notably in the face of the goals of
superior qualification of assets;
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● Reduce the existing constraints to pursue higher education studies,
in particular for the students who complete the Higher Technical Courses
Professionals.
The reinforcement of the number of students and the widening of higher education include
necessarily the guarantee of resources for the development of the system in a context
of demanding fiscal consolidation and deepening of autonomy of the institutions,
targeting:
● Stimulate a long-term stable financing framework, based on objectives
and with multiannual definition, involving finance-base, projects of
pedagogical modernization, equipment reinforcement projects and infrastructure;
● To ensure the strengthening of the autonomy of higher education institutions, notably the
administrative and financial.
The Portuguese need a differentiated framework of institutions that stimulates the
qualification of all Portuguese and favours forms of collaboration and sharing of
resources between institutions, where appropriate. Thus, the Government will:
● Encouraging the process of continuous improvement of the public network of establishments
and programs, through processes of reinforcement, cooperation or association between
institutions, and taking into account criteria for territorial coverage, social demand,
specialization and internationalization;
● Take advantage of and develop the diversity of higher education, university and polytechnic,
potentiating installed capacity;
● Launch measures to support the attraction and continuous renewal of lecturers and experts
for higher education institutions, which stimulates mechanisms for recruitment
more competitive, of promotion and internal qualification and of joint appointments with costs
shared;
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● Promoting better integration between higher education institutions and policies
of regional development.
The elevation of the qualification of the active population passes not only by the increase in the number
of students and for the enhancement of the conditions of educational institutions but also by the
stimulus to the completion of training by greater number of people. In that way, the Government
we will work towards improving levels of educational success, notably through
of the following measures:
● Create a programme of support for pedagogical modernization by means of a contest for
Competitive base projects, ensuring the systematic implementation of practices
pedagogical truly centred on the student and stimulating their autonomy;
● To deepen and specialize the pedagogical training of the lecturers of higher education,
ensuring the formalization of systematic work and stimulating projects of
pedagogical modernization in all areas of knowledge and cooperation between
institutions;
● Encouraging programmes with high curricular flexibility and second best
international practices (specifically with adoption of major / minor ) with the goal
of stimulating the suitability of the formations to the challenges that emerge;
● To stimulate better integration between teaching and research, trying to secure the
all students the effective practice of scientific research activities during the
your studies.
For the purpose of ensuring the success of the transition to the labour market and the larger
employability of graduates, will also act to create support programmes
the curricular internships with institutional matching of employability
sustainable and enduring of the youngest. Within this context the governative activity will:
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● Support the institutionalization and systematization of curricular internships and
extracurriculars and the relaxation of schedules and curricula in all the years of
graduates and master's degrees;
● Associate curriculum traineeships with mechanisms to support employability of the
graduates and graduates;
● Encouraging collaboration between universities, polytechnic institutes and companies and
other employers, so as to deepen the territorial linkage of the institutions of the
higher education and to facilitate the transition between academy and professional insertion.
Finally, the Government will secure the bet on the internationalisation of educational institutions
top by adopting the following measures:
● Strengthening of the tools to support the dynamisation of partnerships for access to
mobility funding programmes (Erasmus + and others), as well as
initiatives for the creation of movement among students of the language higher education
portuguese;
● Strengthening of international partnerships and creation of platform access instruments
of funding for mobility;
● Development of a specific programme of support for the creation and development of
thematic networks between university institutions with international partners.
Strengthening support for the international dissemination of higher education institutions,
promoting Portugal as a top graduate and postgraduate training destination, in the
space of the Portuguese language and in other languages.
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20. ENHANCING INVESTMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DEMOCRATIZING INNOVATION
Over the past 25 years we have seen a signable transformation in quantity and
quality of scientific and technological knowledge produced and diffused in Portugal. The
strengthening of scientific and higher education institutions and the exposure of researchers
Portuguese to more and better centres of knowledge at the international level,
complemented by public policies for funding scientific activity, allowed
sustain mechanisms of knowledge transfer between generations of scientists and between
these and society in their different dimensions.
However, this pathway was halted in 2011, when it was broken up the wide
social and political commitment to science, systematically using the argument of
fund only "excellence" and to increase selectivity in access to science, not least
on the basis of avulous evaluation processes. No scientific system is sustainable if
based only on a restricted and exclusive group of scientists.
The results of the policies of the past four years show poorly informed options and
wrong public policies, with alteration of all procedures without calibrating them and testing
conveniently. All, institutions of higher education, faculty, scientists and students,
have criticized the policies founded on ignorance and prejudice, assents in the fury of destroying
what was well done and that had guaranteed the success of science and overcoming the delay
Portuguese scientific. Discredibilized the practice of independent scientific evaluation and
it has made it impossible to use its results as a strategic management tool in the
interior of the institutions.
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It is now critical to regain trust in the science and technology system and ensure the
predictability of public incentives, ensuring proper planning of the
priorities and a convenient framework of institutions and career management, so
as the re-establishment of clarity, transparency and regularity in the operation of the
scientific policy actors. This goal is a priority, together with the assurance that the
science is considered an inalienable right of all Portuguese.
Broadening the scope and strengthening the technological centres
The Government intends to develop a programme to strengthen technological centres
as intermediary institutions between the production and the diffusion of knowledge by the
companies, to be implemented on the basis of international best practices.
Additionally, the Government intends to:
● Include regional-wide actions in close association between local partners and
higher education institutions for the support of applied technology units;
● To strengthen trust in the distributed network of higher education institutions, including
polytechnic institutes, stimulating their connection to local actors and stimulating
regional economies.
The development and convergence pathway of the scientific and technological system
portuguese with Europe in what concerne the main R&D indicators, to which if
has seen over the past 25 years, it was halted in 2011 when it was ruptured the
broad social and political commitment to science, systematically using the argument
to finance only "excellence" and to increase selectivity in access to science,
not least on the basis of avulous evaluation processes. No scientific system is
sustainable if based only on a restricted and exclusive group of scientists.
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The results of the policies of the past four years show poorly informed options and
wrong public policies, provoking a deep disruption in the functioning and
coherence of the national scientific and technological system. It is now fundamental to recover the
confidence in the system of science and technology, as well as the credibility of the agents of
scientific policy, notably from the Foundation for Science and Technology, I. P. (FCT,
I. P.) and its capacity in the national assessment and coordination of science policy and
technology.
It is necessary to ensure consistent management of sectoral funding for science, well
as the predictability of public incentives, with the aim of securing a
appropriate planning of priorities and a convenient framework of the institutions and
the management of careers. On the basis of a sustainable scientific and technological system and
competitive is the qualification of human resources, so it is crucial to stimulate
continuously the advanced training and scientific employment of doctorates.
The broad outlines presented are aimed at modernizing the system
scientific and technological and reclaim the trajectory of national affirmation as country of
knowledge. To achieve this advanced society disgust, it will be necessary:
● To strengthen the instruments of internationalization of the scientific system, by
promote the affirmation of Portuguese science abroad, but also affirm the
Portuguese language as a language of science;
● Strengthen the Public Administration with doctored researchers, rejuvenating and
qualifying the public sector;
● To strengthen the national scientific and technological system and to counteract the precariousness of the
its investigators, with the aim of increasing employment opportunities for the
young doctorates;
● To strengthen scientific institutions and to secure a new scientific evaluation program
of the units of I &D;
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● Strengthen and give stability to the financing of R&D projects and activities,
stimulating scientific and technological activity as well as sustainability and
predictability in the functioning of institutions;
● To strengthen the programmes and tools for promoting scientific and technological culture,
articulating measures in the field of culture, education and economics, in the sense of
democratizing scientific culture;
● Broadening the scope and strengthening the technological centres, in a programme in close
articulation with local partners and stimulation to the growth and creation of institutions and
networks that act on the consolidation and valorization of knowledge.
The Government advocates for the strengthening of the system's internationalization instruments
scientific, in particular through the following measures:
● Strengthen Portugal's participation in European programmes and other networks and partnerships
international, not least of transatlantic scope, as well as with institutions
international scientific and internationally renowned centres;
● Betting on scientific diplomacy and the relationship with scientific diasporas, empowying
our consular network in the world for systematic dialogue with diasporas
scientific and the knowledge networks that emerge, not least from the institutions
scientific and leading business groups at the world level;
● Relaunching the "GLOBAL Science" Programme, facilitating national involvement in the
empowerment of researchers from Portuguese-speaking African countries, in a logic
of use of Portuguese for scientific and technological empowerment and for promotion of
cultural industries.
The qualification of the public sector requires a strengthening of the Public Administration with
doctoral researchers. Within this context, the governing activity will:
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● To provide the public bodies of more qualified professionals and to strengthen the
investment in science and technology, increasing job opportunities for
the young doctorates;
● Establish a contingent of the renewal of the Public Administration of researchers
doctorates to be integrated into laboratories and other public bodies,
encouraging the participation of the institutions in the recruitment process and the
mobility of researchers;
● Act as a facilitator of the strengthening of scientific employment by following the guidelines of
international bodies and international best practices.
To strengthen the national scientific and technological system and to counteract the precariousness of its
researchers are crucial to increase employment opportunities for young people
doctorates, guarantee the formalization of scientific employment after the doctorate, contribute
for the highest attractiveness of the national territory to pick up highly qualified young people and,
still, ensuring the rejuvenation of scientific institutions, attracting more and better
scientists from all over the world and facilitate a framework that stimulates mobility of
researchers. With these objectives, the Government will:
● Relaunch a new programme of support for research professorship for lecturers of the
cadres of public universities, with public funding up to retirement or
jubilation of those who occupy them;
● To strengthen the scientific employment programme, progressively replacing the
allotment of annual postdoctoral fellowships over six years by the creation,
for doctoral researchers, from a much larger number of new contracts of
Researcher;
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● To strengthen the programme of human potential and advanced training, in all areas
of knowledge, in a way to give everyone to whom it is recognised merit
absolute opportunity to study and to get a doctorate in Portugal.
With the aim of regaining the trust of scientific agents in the evaluation processes
and allocation of funding to the R&D activities, the Government will work towards the
strengthen scientific institutions and ensure a new scientific evaluation program of the
units of R&D, notably through the following measures:
● Creation of a new scientific evaluation program of the R&D units, having by
basis an initial audit process to the evaluation and consultation processes to the
scientific community with a view to the redefinition of methodologies;
● Creation of a new "Legal Regime of the Institutions of Science and Technology", of
mode to ensure a long-term framework to strengthen the autonomy of institutions
scientific and ensure your correct assessment.
With the purpose of reinforcing and giving stability to the financing of projects and activities
of R&D, the Government will work towards:
● Strengthen and systematize the annual contest for support for R&D projects by the FCT, I. P.,
ensuring the periodicity and predictability of assessments and the diversity of typology
of competitions;
● Stimulate large-scale thematic mobilizers programmes, oriented towards the
solution of challenges of society and economy and enhancing scientific cooperation and
international technological.
The Government will work towards strengthening programmes and tools for promotion
of scientific and technological culture. For this, the Government will adopt articulated policies in the
domain of culture, education and economics in the sense of promoting democratization of the
scientific culture and will encourage the following measures:
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● Strengthening of the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture-Living Science,
including the creation and dynamization of science clubs in all groupings of
schools, public and private, of basic and secondary education;
● Strengthening the scientific culture and teaching of the sciences, by means of funding
competitive with peer evaluation;
● Reinforcement of museums and interactive science centres, by mobilizing the
national and local supports, as well as new actions to attract new audiences,
including the most elderly;
● Launch of a systematic programme of support for intergenerational projects between
researchers, students of higher education and youth associations, with the aim of
strengthen the scientific culture of young people and the intergenerational debate around the
knowledge.
Broadening the scope and strengthening technological centres as intermediary institutions
between the production and dissemination of knowledge by the companies, is central to improve the
access to markets and value Portuguese strategic positioning, as well as
to strengthen trust in the distributed network of higher education institutions. In this context,
on the basis of international best practices, the Government will:
● Promote regional actions that promote a close association between
local partners and higher education institutions for the support of technology units
applied.
To stimulate the growth and creation of institutions and networks that act on consolidation and
appreciation of knowledge, creating qualified employment, increasing competitiveness
external and the valorisation of our resources, territory and relationship with lusophonia and the
Atlantic.
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21. REACT TO THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE
The demographic challenge has economic, social and cultural causes and worsened with the crisis
and with the massive emigration of young people, which has contributed to further weakening the
active population and natality. Thus, it matters to favor the birth and the parenthood,
as well as proper management of migration policy, specifically at the level of the
return of the workers and their families who came out of the Country.
Public policies in the fields of birth, parenthood, and migrations must have
by central aim to contribute to the demographic sustainability of the Country, ensuring
conditions for national citizens to be able to make, in these plans, individual choices
truly free. In this sense, the Government advocates that to cope with the challenges
demographics, public policies must act in the various fields that may contribute
for the enhancement of the quality of life of the resident population in Portugal.
This action shall cover:
● The mastery of birthrate and parenthood, in which the policies are to create
public conditions for the exercise of a responsible parenthood, promote the
reconciliation between work and personal and family life, promoting equality in the
family responsibilities and remove legal obstacles to natality and parenthood;
● The field of emigration, where the main goals of the policies will be elimination
of obstacles to the return and circulation of emigrated Portuguese, the stimulus of the
relations between emigrants and the national society and the dispositions of emigrants to
Portugal;
● The area of immigration, whose policies will have as fundamental goals the attraction
of immigrants, of the legality of immigration, the development of a society
intercultural and the deepening of integration of immigrants.
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Creating public conditions for the exercise of a responsible parenthood,
promoting the reconciliation between work and personal and family life
The Government considers that for the promotion of natality it is critical to create conditions
public for the exercise of a responsible parenthood and, at the same time, to promote the
reconciliation between work and personal and family life in a way to:
● Extending the network of crèches in the large urban centres, increasing the number of
places in daycare and bringing the degree of coverage to the European average values,
betting in particular on the network of crèches in articulation of the municipalities;
● Stimulating the provision of services that allow for reconciliation between work and life
personal and family, at the local level and support the companies so that these can
make more mechanisms of conciliation available;
● Promoting the creation of local crèches shared by groupings of companies,
being desirable to conclude agreements at headquarters of collective bargaining, contributing
the workers covered with a tuition proportional to the respect
income;
● Propose in the headquarters of Social Concertation that, for workers and workers with
children under the age of 12 years, the application of time-adaptability regimes of
work and bank of hours, individual or collectives, require your express authorization;
● Create a stamp of good practices to be awarded to companies that demonstrate to practice policies
of promotion of conciliation, in which men and women are in a balanced manner
to use shared parental leave, time flexibility and telework.
Remove legal obstacles to natality and parenthood
The Government considers that for the promotion of natality it is critical to remove
legal obstacles within the framework of parenthood, namely:
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● Clarify that the phalts motivated by treatments in the scope of reproduction
medically assisted are justified and do not imply the loss of retribution;
● Clarify that all measures of support for parenthood are intended for parents and mothers
with children, regardless of the marital status of the parents;
● Clarify that all measures of support for parenthood are intended for parents and mothers
with children residing in Portugal, regardless of their nationality;
● Extend to grandparents and grandparents, or to other relatives with the legal guardia of minors, new
legal mechanisms for reduction, adaptation of schedules or justification of phalds to
assistance to grandchildren;
● Remove obstacles to the return of emigrants and their movement;
● Dynamising relations between emigrants and the national society;
● Promoting the quality of life;
● A new generation of housing policies.
Reconciliation between work and personal life
The Government advocates that, in order to cope with the demographic challenges, public policies
shall act in the various areas that may contribute to the strengthening of the population that
lives in Portugal, specifically by the creation of public conditions for the exercise of
a responsible parenthood, promoting the reconciliation between work and personal life.
Economic independence and the organization of professional, family and personal life are
essential assumptions for the consolidation of an effective equality between women and
men. It is necessary, therefore, in accordance with a concerted action between various areas
government, in particular with the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Security
Social and the Ministry of Education, deepen the policies of reconciliation between life
family and professional life for men and women, specifically through the
following actions:
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● Creating public conditions for the exercise of a responsible parenthood,
promoting reconciliation between work and family as well as equality in the
family responsibilities and removing the legal obstacles to natality and the
parenthood;
● Promoting with the social partners a commitment to introduce into the
tools of contracting collective bargaining provisions concerning the conciliation between work
and family life, and the prevention and combating of gender inequalities and harassment
sexual and moral in the workplace;
● To ensure the operation of the full-time public school up to the age of 14, to
that the public system ensures a response for parents whose work schedules
are not compatible with staying in school only for a part of the day;
● Create a stamp of good practices to be awarded to companies that demonstrate to practice policies
of the promotion of conciliation, in which men and women are, in a way
balanced, using shared parental leave, flexibility of time and telework;
● Clarify that the phalts motivated by treatments in the scope of reproduction
medically assisted are justified and do not imply the loss of retribution, and that
all measures of support for parenthood are intended for parents and mothers with children,
regardless of the marital status of the progenitors;
● Clarify that all measures of support for parenthood are intended for parents and mothers
with children residing in Portugal, regardless of their nationality.
Dynamising relations between emigrants and national society
With the aim of creating an effective relationship to the emigrant communities, which will allow
include all Portuguese in the Country's economic and social development strategy,
in addition to the promotion of Portuguese language and culture to our communities
emigrants:
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● Support the link between such networks of emigrants and the universities, R&D centres,
companies and central and local public bodies.
Policy for immigration, reception of refugees and integration of groups
ethnic
Public policies in the area of immigration, reception of refugees and integration of
ethnic groups must have by central goal contribute to sustainability
demographic of the Country, its growth and the development of a society
intercultural. It is necessary, therefore, in accordance with a concerted action between various areas
government, in particular the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of
Science, Technology and Higher Education and the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and
Social Security, promote legal immigration channels, the development of a
cross-cultural society and deepen the integration of immigrants, for which the
Government intends to implement, specifically the following measures
● Create a visa for demand for employment in Portugal, valid for six months;
● Promoting intercultural education since the three years of age, including the thematic of the
interculturality in teacher training and valuing schools with good practice
(continuation of the allocation of the intercultural seal);
● Streamline procedures on nationality, so that those interested
can, with the rapidity required, obtain a response to their claim;
● To promote, through the authorities, initiatives that value diversity and promote
the interculturality, the similarity of what has been going on with the Fund of
Integration of Nationals of Third Countries;
● Adopt an active policy of solidarity in the installation in Portugal of refugees;
● Ensuring the portability of social rights, in particular of pensions, through the
realization of agreements with the host states;
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● Support the creation of networks of emigrants, in particular among skilled emigrants and
entrepreneurs;
● To stimulate the institutional valorisation of the emigrant and its sense of belonging to the
national community and nurture relations with the Portuguese diaspora while
facilitation mechanism of internationalization of the national economy and promotion
of the image of Portugal in the world;
● Create an annual award for emigrants who have excelled for their contribution to their
community and the Country;
● Encouraging, with the universities, the promotion of Portugal as a student destination
Portuguese emigrated in Erasmus and the Study Abroad .
Promoting an agenda for the quality of life of all
The quality of life begins for the physical, mental and emotional well-being of each of us.
Individual responsibility with health and the prevention of the disease and its treatment
can be facilitated and potentiated by initiative actions or public support. In a country
much aged, the policies must adapt to that reality. The digital networks of
contact and information, active ageing programmes and sport are
crucial instruments of the quality of life of each, and therefore the Government proposes:
● Launch, in close connection with local authorities, of programs of cities and towns
friends of the elderly and citizens with reduced mobility (urban renewal,
domtics and transport);
● Promoting inclusive mobility for all citizens by creating systems of
affordable and self-sustainable mobility economically for the population with more
of 65 years;
● Enter the elderly population into community service programs with the goal of
support and assist the teaching of disadvantaged young people;
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● A programme of application and valorisation of digital applications that improve life
in cities, such as monitoring the quality of water and air " online "; b ) Ticket of
single intermodal transport on the mobile phone; c ) Useful municipal information by
georreferencing; d ) purchase of tickets by mobile phone for cultural and lucid offer
or through the municipal portal; and ) the ubiquitan Municipal Services; f ) Internet in us
public transport and in parks and gardens; g ) the virtual shopping centers in the
traditional trade zones;
● Proceed with the removal of barriers to mobility in the public space, promote
Portugal as a friendly tourist destination of people with limited mobility.
Promoting sport as a form of filmmaking and for a life
healthy
The Government proposes a new agenda for the national sport capable of giving a new
boost to the development of sport and significantly increase its practice.
It is bets on a strategy of development of sport based on a perspetive of
quality of life, which promotes the generalisation of sporting practice by reconciling the
motor development with physical fitness. A strategy that unseen in the bid
Proximity sports and guarantee a real accessibility of citizens to the practice of the
sport and physical activity, through more efficient use of infrastructure and
existing equipment.
This model is aimed at promoting more and better sport for more citizens,
starting school training, in active partnership with the authorities and the policies of the
health, education, the environment, tourism and development and planning
territory.
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It is also intended to ensure equal access to sports activities without
social, physical or gender discrimination. This new agenda for national sport is
framed by four essential factors: the available resources, the lasting guarantee of
sustainability, a new contract of trust and autonomy between the state and the
sports agents and the ambition to achieve more and better sport.
For this purpose, the following measures will be adopted:
● Support and publicize projects and initiatives that promote the generalization of activity
physics and sport, covering the diversity of the Portuguese population, aiming to create
lifelong habits that are passed on in direct benefits to the quality of
life and health. The measure will be carried out in cooperation and partnership with the authorities,
sports associativism, higher education and private initiative;
● Articulating sports policy with the school, strengthening physical education and activity
sports in schools and higher education institutions, compatibilizing the
sport activity with the school and academic pathway and by valorising and supporting the
resurgence of a framework of sports competitions in schools;
● To promote the qualification of technicians and actors who intervene in sport, increase the
technical qualification of the trainers, and update the diagnostic instruments of the
sports reality, in cooperation and partnership with the education system and training
professional;
● Supporting the high-throughput athletes and technicians, the Olympic and Paralympic projects and the
high-throughput sports participation;
● Implementing a talent detetment programme, promoting the international dimension
of Portuguese sport, and strengthen cooperation with the countries of the CPLP, Ibero-
Americans and the EU;
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● Simplifying the state's contractual relationship in support of sport, modernising and
reforming the services of the Public Administration of sport, and valuing the intervention
of the agents and sports institutions in the National Council of Sport;
● Implement the sports ethics programme and take public responsibility for the
management of sports heritage. Create a program that allows you to profiify all the
public spaces or with public funding of the Country with potential for the practice
of sports activities, allowing any citizen to be able to make a reservation
online of any of these spaces for sports practice;
● Rehabilitating and modernising sports infrastructure, improving the management of the Centre
National Sports of Jamor, high-throughput centres and infrastructure
public sports, invest in the construction of equipment and infrastructure
grassroots and proximity sports, and update the Project Good Practice Manual
and the National Desportive Charter;
● Define a new framework of commitment and relationship with the entities that
constitute the sports system, which improves the affectation of resources from the
State budget, social games, and games and betting online , taxation, mecenact and
European funds, and increase the investment of the private initiative through the
corporate social responsibility;
● Valuing the sporting associative movement and the local grassroots collectivities in the
promotion of sport for all.
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Promoting the quality of consumer protection
The Government will guide its performance in ensuring a high level of protection
of the consumer in all the subject areas of public policies, specifically through the
review and reinforcement of the legislative framework and other susceptible initiatives to ensure a
effective and proper protection of consumers, considering in particular the most
vulnerable, such as children, young people and seniors. This acting will have as main
goal the enhancement of the information available to the consumer, so that this can
play a more active role in the market by exercising their rights more
informed and responsible and contributing to the promotion of the competitiveness of companies.
The quality of life of the Portuguese will be better if these are consumers more
informed, more demanding and more active.
The governing action will aim to still facilitate access to justice by consumers, through the
promotion of the consolidation and dissemination of the means of alternative conflict of conflict of
consumption, and encouraging consumers ' recourse to affordable, simple justice,
fast and at very low costs, as well as adherence to these mechanisms by the
companies.
Finally, new tools will be developed that allow to promote contact
of the consumers with the competent public authorities and, simultaneously, expedite the
processing of the complaints and requests for information submitted, in an optics of
administrative modernization that allows for greater speed and effectiveness in the resolution of
conflicts and that promote the denunciation of infractions.
The consumer protection policy will be defined around three major axes of
acting.
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● The first, concerning the enhancement of information available to consumers, will take over
as a priority to provide consumers with the necessary information and knowledge to the
acquisition of goods and services in the enlightened exercise of their rights, encouraging the
use of the appropriate instruments to the respects needs, preferences and
availabilities, listening especially to vulnerable consumers-among
others, children, adolescents, seniors, immigrants, people with disabilities-and the
economic sectors in which a greater degree of conflicting is recorded, such as the
essential public services (energy, water, waste and electronical communications),
financial services (credit to housing and consumers, banking commissions) and the
digital economy (Electrophic trade, electronic payments, content products
digital and protection of personal data);
● The second, concerning the strengthening of consumer protection in the legal system
portuguese, will be realized through the review and reinforcement of the normative framework in
vigour, as well as implementation of measures that allow an effective application
of the same by the competent public authorities, not least in crucial matters
for consumers, such as access to justice, the rights of consumers in the
framework of regulated services (electronical communications services, payments and
credit, energy and tourism), and support for indebted consumers;
● The third, concerning cooperation and network operation, within the framework of the
renovated and strengthened National Consumption Council, will allow to ensure the
promotion of a more determinant share of consumers in society and
in the market.
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The pursuit of these axes of acting requires permanent monitoring and
active participation of the EU instances responsible for the discussion of topics of the policy of the
consumer in the different strands, as well as from other international organisations as
the OECD and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
presupposing yet a close relationship with third countries that constitute
privileged partners of Portugal.
Within the framework of the consumer protection policy, they will be adopted, specifically, the
following measures:
● To strengthen the protection of consumers of essential public services, so as to
safeguard the rights of families who, placed in a situation of vulnerability,
they lack the economic capacity to fulfil their contractual obligations;
● Enshrine the necessary arbitration for disputes relating to certain sectors,
with the creation of specialized sections with one or more centres of arbitration,
or from the regulators of the sectors;
● Modernising the legal regime concerning the book of complaints, in order to expedite
procedures and to optimize this instrument in the perspetive of regulatory bodies
sector and market surveillance entities;
● Launch the Consumer Single Platform as the single point of entry of the
complaints and requests for information from consumers, initially restricted to the
essential public services, so as to make the response more speedier and effective
consumers, to ensure the effective handling of their complaints, to promote the
resolution of conflicts, and to improve the operationality and coordination of the different
entities of the Consumer Protection System;
● Pursue the support, advice and monitoring of consumers
indebted and strengthen financial training initiatives in the framework of the activity of the
Endivided Consumer Support Network;
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● Approve and integrate the Referential for Consumer Education in the curricula of the
basic and secondary education for the awareness and information of children and
adolescents in this matter with a view to responsible and sustainable consumption;
● Assess and regulate contractual allegiance, and simplify the use of contracts of
accession;
● Assess and review the legal regime applicable to the unlocking of equipment
furniture;
● Amend the legal regime applicable to advertising, with particular attention to the scheme
legal relating to the provision of promotion, information and support services to the
consumers and users through call centers, in order to establish list creation
of consumers who do not want to be contacted for the purpose of
promotion / advertising to products or services;
● Improve consumer confidence in the resource to the interactive and digital medium,
ensuring the effective application of consumer protection legislation.
22. A NEW GENERATION OF HOUSING POLICIES
Housing is a fundamental right of prime importance. Constitutes the basis of a
stable and cohesive society, as well as the bedrock from which the citizens build the
conditions to access other rights, such as education, health, work or
personal achievement. Currently, however, it is assists with a paradigm shift, which generates the
opportunity to streamline the renting market and urban rehabilitation, but if not
is accompanied by the necessary policy measures, it can generate a new crisis
housing, which obliges to reequate this theme as a national priority. A
new generation of policy is priority.
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The Government will carry out a strong and determined bet on urban rehabilitation, both
buildings, as from the public space. This bet will focus primarily on the centres
histories and in degraded urban or periurban areas, lacking a serious effort of
requalification and with a deficit of essential equipment or services. But the bet on the
urban rehabilitation will not cinges to these areas, before it will assume a universal vocation,
should pass from exception to rule. That is, instead of new construction, we need
not least of renewing the edited heritage. This guidance serves, at the same time, several
purposes: it favors the restocking of urban centres; improves the quality of life of
fragilized socio-economic segments and at risk of exclusion; promotes a greater
energy efficiency; and stimulates the civil construction sector, creating employment in an area
quite affected by the crisis.
Urban rehabilitation and housing
Urban rehabilitation
In the search for a new generation of housing policies, the period 2016-2019 will be
marked by a focus on urban rehabilitation, both buildings, and space
public.
With that aim, the Government will define and implement a National Rehabilitation Fund
of the Edification, funded by appropriations from the Security Financial Stabilization Fund
Social, without prejudice to other sources and forms of funding.
Priority in urban rehabilitation will focus on historical centres and urban areas and
degraded periurban, lacked with a serious effort of requalification and with a deficit
of essential equipment or services. Rehabilitation actions must occur in a way
disseminated, meeting criteria such as the state of conservation and the occupation of the
real estate. With this guidance seeks to favour the restocking of urban centres,
improve the quality of life of fragilized socio-economic segments, promote a
higher energy efficiency and stimulate the civil construction sector, creating employment, so
the Government will:
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● To promote the rehabilitation of the degraded buildings and the reoccupation of buildings and fires
returns, specifically applying the incentives and tax benefits to rehabilitation to
any urban territories;
● Associate with investment in urban rehabilitation an increase in seismic resistance of the
edited and a strong energy efficiency component, fostering the use of
insulating and intelligent materials, as well as equipment enabling a
energy saving, solar harnessing for thermal effects and / or the
electric microgeneration, with a view to reducing the ecological footprint;
● Create a "National Eco-Rehabilitation Fund" with capital and management
public (being that part of the initial capital can be incorporated through the delivery of
public buildings to need rehabilitation), but to which private ones can access
upon delivery of your building / fraction. This fund will be in charge of rehabilitation and
management of its edified park, putting it on the market after the rehabilitation,
being directed in particular to the tenancy of "affordable housing",
reclaiming by this via its initial investment in the medium term;
● Financing, by concursal procedure, at least 25 Plans of Local Action
for the rehabilitation of urban areas, with a view to the implementation of physical interventions in
historical centres and disadvantaged urban areas or illegal genesis. These plans
will consist of a medium term commitment (8 years) with the rehabilitation of a given
area, and should be endowed with the resources necessary to operate a processing
effective in the territories in which they act, reversing trends of decline and promoting
a sustained local development, which continues after the intervention;
● Inventariate available buildings (municipal or private) and create conditions, upon
cooperation between local government, owners and entrepreneurs, for the installation of
anchor business, shared services and / or urban amenities of proximity,
promoting the local economy and, at the same time, the conversion of aged areas
or degraded;
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● Consolidate the Urban Areas of Legal Génese, favoring, in close articulation
with local authorities, their conversion and legalization;
● Give emphasis to conservation. The regulation of construction and urbanism has been
over long decades oriented towards new construction and not for the conservation of
buildings. Recently, this imbalance was partially collkilling upon
approval of "excecional regimes" concerning urban rehabilitation, which treat it as
a particular and temporary case. However, the new reality imposes not only that the
rehabilitation cease to be seen as "the exception", but also that interventions
of conservation are treated in a priority manner;
● Strengthen the capacity of municipalities if they replace the defaulting owners
and carry out coercive and conditioned works on devoluted or in-ruin buildings in
result of indivistic heritages, predicting yet mechanisms of ressaration of the
works that make these operations financially viable by the municipalities;
● Review the renting regime, in a way to suit the value of rents to the state of
conservation of buildings, thus stimulating the respect of rehabilitation;
● Simplify rules and procedures, so as to speed up the realization of works of
conservation and urban rehabilitation planning operations;
● Simplify and reduce context costs related to the eviction process;
● Promoting decarbonisation as a measure of realization of environmental targets
with which Portugal has committed internationally.
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Social and affordable housing
The construction of the cities has a strong housing component, a
public policy that compensates for real estate logic and that allows for fixation in the centers
urban of young families and other aggregates with average incomes. Perspetive-if the
reinforcement of the concept of "affordable housing", public or private promotion, to give
response to the new housing needs of the population. In this way, it is intended
extend the offer of housing for lease, in which landlords are expected to practise
moderate rents values directed to the middle class, i.e. with a lucrative aim, but
below the normal market price in the areas concerned. The offer of social housing
directed at low-income families, with rents calculated on the basis of their
income and not in the characteristics of the accommodation, will be stepped up.
● Provision of bank guarantees for loans for rehabilitation works targeted
the leasing in regime of "affordable housing";
● Provision of public buildings / fractions for sale at reduced costs, with the
commitment of real estate to be rehabilitated and intended for renting in
regime of "affordable housing", specifically by young people, during a number
minimum of years;
● Creation of "affordable housing" scholarships, particularly through the mobilization of
monies-in amount not more than 10%-of the Financial Stabilization Fund of the
Social Security for investment in yield buildings (acquisition and rehabilitation
of firecrackers with a view to renting in regime "affordable housing"), which
guarantee not only a rate of return in line with the average profitability of that
fund (eventually combining affordable rents with rents at prices of
market), how they can contribute to other important goals at the national level,
how urban rehabilitation and restocking and rejuvenation of centres
histories;
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● Creation of rents insurance, intended to protect landlords from " housing
accessible " against the risk of default;
● Revision and deepening of the Port 65 Program by expressly associating it with
concept of "affordable housing", so as to facilitate and broaden young people's access to
renting market, preferably real estate rehabilitated, and extending
this programme also on commercial leasing, with a view to favouring the opening
of new stores and the launch of entrepreneurial projects by young people;
● Elimination of the tax incentive scheme allocated to the Investment Funds
Real estate, keeping only the benefits assigned to the remaining promoters of
urban rehabilitation;
● Ensure the extension of the rental upgrade period so as to guarantee the
right to housing, in particular from the retired, retired and larger 65-year-old,
without prejudice to the regulation of the renting allowance.
Incentives and tax benefits to urban rehabilitation
With regard to incentives and tax benefits, it is intended to prioritise rehabilitation
urban at the expense of new construction, not least when it is present the goal
of the later lease by rents values that allow for the access of the middle class.
Structural and investment European funds
The governance model for structural and investment funds (national and
european), for the period of 2016-2019, it aims to ensure greater efficiency in integration
of environmental policies and the progressive decarbonization of the economy, by fostering a
fairer society and a more sustainable growth.
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Considering that structural and investment funds constitute an instrument
privileged financial to achieve national challenges in the field of the environment,
highlight the following commitments of the XXI Constitutional Government in this matter:
● Create an aggregator "Environmental Superfund" of the environmental funds of scope
currently existing national (Portuguese Carbon Fund, Protection Fund of
Water Resources, Environmental Intervention Fund and Fund for Conservation of
Nature and Biodiversity and, eventually, the Energy Efficiency Fund) and
integrator of new measures that come out to reveal necessary, so as to obtain a
instrument with greater financial capacity to act in the mitigation and adaptation of the
climate change, in the preservation of natural resources, in the prevention of risks and in the
repair of ecological damage;
● Developing the Community Research & Innovation Framework Programme
(Horizon 2020), which aims at financial support for research, development
technology and demonstration in the field of environment, energy and transport.
The Government will ensure the correct transition between the currently existing funds, and that
will be integrated into the "Environmental Superfund", in a perspetive of transparency and
mobilization of the available financial resources, which aim at the realization of projects and
programs in all environmental thematics.
Preventing housing pendants
In recent years and by the strength of the crisis, it has grown, and continues to grow, the number of families
in non-compliance with your credit to housing. The Government considers it urgent to acautelate
these situations, preventing and combating the homelinness of families resulting from
pentimes whose debts cannot be satisfied. To this end, the Government will mobilize a
wide set of instruments:
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● Ban on tax runs on the family home for relatively a
value debts of less than the value of the well-executed and suspension of the house-penhour
of family abode in the remaining cases;
● Institution of an Ethical Bank, in collaboration with the solidary sector and the authorities
interested, who can contribute to alleviating the situation of over-indebtedness of the
families, supporting structured renegotiation with creditors and granting
small loans at low interest to cope with punctual difficulties and
temporary aggregates of households at risk of losing their homes;
● Local counselling service in the face of homeldness: provision of local services from
integrated counselling (financial, legal and social) for support for families in
dramatic situation of impending loss of your home;
● Excecional regime of protection of the debtor in the face of guaranteed real estate execution
by mortgage, stipulating that, in situations of substantial reduction of income
of the household and regardless of consent of the creditor, the delivery of the
real estate (dation in payment) extinguish the debt up to the limit of the bank valuation
effected (assuming the unit of all credits granted for completion
of the purchase and sale);
● Modification of the rules applicable to the determination of the base value of the sale of real estate
in the process of execution.
Relaunching the social housing policy
In recent years, the pursuit of a social housing policy has stagnated, in the
moment in which the social conditions, the risk of poverty and unemployment, are worsened,
accompanied by a significant reduction in social supports. The new housing crisis
that one lives justifies the need to undertake the revival of the housing policy
social, adept at the new needs and perfecting their responses, so the
Government intends to:
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● Complete the implementation of the Medium-Term Intervention Plan programmes
(PIMP) () and Special Rehousing Program (PER), resume the PER Families and
create a similar program for the consolidated and degraded edified;
● To strengthen investment, through European funds, rehabilitation and improvement
of the energy efficiency of the existing social housing park, as well as in the
rehabilitation of devoluted buildings for the purposes of social housing;
● Creating a network of supported dwellings (preferably in existing buildings to
rehabilitate), in regime of "family pensions", for people with low level of
resources, in a situation of isolation or exclusion (in particular elderly) and whose situation
social and psychological or psychiatric or psychiatric makes it unlikely your access to a dwelling
common;
● To promote a participative management of social neighbourhoods by a strengthening of the
participation and the involvement of social tenants.
23. MAR: A BET OF FUTURE
The political dismay of the Ministry of the Sea undergoes cross-sectional coordination of the subjects
from the sea, by strengthening inter-ministerial cooperation in the definition and monitoring
of a National Strategy for the Sea.
In a medium-and long-term perspetive, the promotion of knowledge is assumed
scientific, of innovation and technological development in the area of the sea, the definition and
coordination of the implementation of the policies for protection, planning, planning, management and
exploitation of resources, contributing to an effective presence in the sea, promoting the
its uses and a sustainable economy of the sea, fisheries, shipping and the
ports, potentiating the management of national and European funds concerning the sea, in a
progressive logic of simplification of administrative procedures, which ensure a
greater security and clarity in relations with the Public Administration, decreasing costs
of context and increasing competitiveness.
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The maritime spaces under sovereignty or national jurisdiction-the Territorial Sea, the Zone
Exclusive Economic (ZEE) of 200 miles and the extended continental shelf in scope
of the proposal submitted by the Portuguese Government to the United Nations-, constitute one of the
key assets for the future development of the country. The extension of the platform
continental will convert the Portuguese territory by about 4,000,000 km². The resources that
these waxed spaces-biological, genetic, mineral, energetic, etc. -, open
exploitation perspetives that can transform the future of Portugal.
The realization of this derision must be based on a medium-and long-term strategy,
directed at the prospetion and exploitation of the new spaces and resources, sustained in the
scientific knowledge and in technological development and aiming to give body to a
Technological base business fabric that has as a centre of its activity the sea. By
other side, it matters to consolidate the traditional maritime activities (fishing, processing
of the fish, aquaculture, shipping industry, tourism, recreational nautics) and valuing the position
strategic of Portugal in the Atlantic, strengthening and modernizing national ports and
linking them to the trans-European transport network in response to intensification of transport
maritime. Finally, faced with the implications of climate change (which is
manifest in particular at the elevation of the average sea water level and the increase in the
number and intensity of thunderstorms and other climate risks), action has to be taken
that mitigate the negative impacts that we have already ample demonstration in our area
coastal. This is a program that responds with clarity to the challenges of the blue economy and the
green economy, while affirsof our sovereignty and reinforces the position of
Portugal in the World, taking advantage of its Euro-Atlantic centrality. The Government assumes
a bet on the economic activities traditionally linked to the sea, but also in the
search for new areas of excellence and creation of business opportunities leading to
generation of qualified employment, increase in exports and conversion of areas in
decline in emerging maritime industries. We retire in a bold way in the
knowledge, in innovation and in the conservation of the marine environment as motors of the
economic development. We face the challenge of simplification without facilitism.
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We cross the sustainable use of sea resources with the enhancement of the geostrategic position
national, capturing more wealth in the concretization of the "Portuguese Sea".
Establish an effective presence in our sea
To this end, the Government will:
● Implement a coherent monitoring and intervention device, which integrs ships,
aircraft and modern surveillance systems so as to ensure compliance with the law,
of order and human security in the spaces under national sovereignty and jurisdiction.
It shall, inter alia, ensure the surveillance of the EEZ, in the Azores, for there from 100
miles, so as to prevent the abusive capture of fish resources by the
foreign vessels;
● Ensure an adequate defence and safety capability of our sea,
sufficiently deterrent to the external claim of antagonistic interests to those of
Portugal;
● Uncompromisingly defend the public interest in the contrarian relations to
undertake.
Promoting better sea planning
The Government will promote a review of the normative framework applicable to the
sea landscaping, ensuring their compatibilization with other sectoral programmes and
special, clarifying and conferring stability to the planning options effectuated,
safeguarding regional autonomies and setting priorities of action that affirm
Portugal as a maritime country that preserves its natural capital, values the services of the
marine ecosystems, betting on business and value-added industries and
technologically evolved, creating the necessary conditions for the valorisation of the
economic, environmental and social dimensions.
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'Blue Fund' for the development of the sea economy
The Government will create a "Blue Fund" for the development of the economy of the sea, the
scientific research and the protection and monitoring of the marine environment. This instrument
will be financed by the affectation of part of the revenue from the utilization rate of the maritime space
and upon other alternative resources generated from the private initiative at the level
national and international, as well as through the State Budget and funds
Europeans.
Dynamic programme of the Sciences and Technologies of the Sea
The Government will launch a dynamic programme of the Sea Sciences and Technologies,
centered on the recovery and enhancement of R&D investment in the sea and the creation of
scientific employment and incentives for business R&D. This program will allow:
● Qualify the national R&D in science and technology from the sea, in the priority areas for the
country;
● Install in the Azores an Oceanic Observation Centre, with fixed valences and
furniture, supported in existing international partnerships and to develop in scope
of Horizon 2020, in particular its component for the Atlantic. From this
investment will be structured programmes and research sub-programmes, in
cooperation with international (specifically of Atlantic scope) networks dedicated
to the sea sciences, which will help to respond to various lines of research
scientific in the area of the sea, including in the domains of robotics, biology, oceanography and
volcanology;
● Recreate specific and dedicated formative mechanisms for the superior empowerment of
assets in sea sciences;
● Increase the number of PhDs in sea sciences in research centres and
of training, supporting programs of teaming and potentiating their insertion into the
companies and in industry;
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● Increasing national scientific output and R&D in the sea sciences, creating a
specific program of R&D projects that includes the participation of companies;
● Establish incentives for technological companies, creating units of knowledge
with the potential to be exploited economically, specifically through registration
of patents;
● Promoting employment in the naval industry (construction of equipment and ships of
support for O&G and Mining Offshore -engineering and qualified technicians);
● Fostering the production of skills, the development of technologies and new
materials indispensable to intervention in offshore .
Take advantage of marine genetic resources
The growth of the exploitation of marine genetic resources and the potential that they
waxed, especially for the pharmaceutical, agrofood and cosmetic industries, reveals
an area of future. In Portuguese maritime space there are very promising perspetives
relatively to these resources. The leadership of this process should fit the public sector and be
affirmative. Thus, the State should surpass the passive position, of recipient of applications
of authorising marine scientific research, for a position of promoter of
dynamics between investment-holding companies and scientific community, potentiating participation
Portuguese in the emerging marine activities.
Technology Cluster Deep Sea Oil and Mining Portugal
To take advantage of all the potential that opens up with the enlargement of the platform
continental Portuguese and the scientific and technological potential that the Country has developed
particularly in the areas of the engineers, we should bet on the creation of a cluster technological
and applied research in the areas of oil fields and digital minerals and the
offshore and submarine naval engineering, aiming for the emergence of start-ups in these areas.
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Protecting natural capital and valuing the services of marine ecosystems
Ensure effective protection of natural capital and the services of marine ecosystems
is essential for its valorisation in the framework of the blue economy. In this framework, the Government
will:
● To promote the introduction of sustainability stamps in the different areas, including
fisheries, vessels, ports, marinas, biotechnology, extractive activity, etc.;
● Define an ecologically coherent national network of marine protected areas,
taking as a base and broadening the experience of the Autonomous Region of the Azores;
● Implement management plans of marine protected areas, map the services of the
respect marine ecosystems and ensure monitoring of marine fauna and the
accidental catches caused by the fishing industry;
● Raising awareness of all those involved in the activities of the sea economy and society in
general for the importance of blue natural capital and for the necessity of its valorisation.
Promoting simplification measures, within the framework of the Simplex programme
Also relatively to the sea there is to eliminate bureaucracy, under the programme
Simplex, making the state more agile and facilitating the exercise of economic activities.
It is intended for greater speed, but with a guarantee of quality and responsibility of the
decision process, ensuring greater security and clarity in relations with the
Public administration, decreasing the costs of context and increasing competitiveness.
Thus, the Government will:
● Simplify the Maritime Enrollment Regulation, specifically with a view to agilise
training of seafarers;
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● Implement the Logistic Single Window, as an extension of the Single Window system
Port, currently in operation at all national ports, extending it to
all means of land transport, lorry and train, in all ports
Portuguese and on the connection to the national and Spanish dry ports to Madrid;
● Create the Single Invoice by Scale of Ship, passing to be single the representation of
all state entities in the ports (AP, AM, AT, SEF, and SM), implying a
direct reduction of costs by ship scale and an economy of about 600,000
sheets of paper / year for every 3,000 vessels;
● Introduce the legal concept of "dry port", aiming to facilitate concentration and the
disembark of the goods moving between temporary deposits in regime
simplified, increasing the competitiveness of ports and the exporting sector
national;
● Create the "Platform Mar", single guichet for licensing of the activities
economic to be carried out in a marine environment;
● Simplify the licensing, surveys and inspections of the pleasure craft and the
fishing and relating to nautical letters, as well as procedures and requirements
excessive associated with the practices of nautical sports.
Promoting maritime transport
Attending to its geographical position, Portugal can and must assert itself as a power,
not only in port and logistical terms, but also at the level of shipping.
Thus, the Government will:
● Supporting the development of the national Merchant Navy, upon a benchmarking
european to allow to replicate in Portugal the most favourable legal and tax conditions
found, in the respect of the applicable European and international rules.
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By this route, it is intended to increase the number of ships with national pavilion and provide the
Country of an offer of cargo capacity, decreasing almost absolute dependence
currently existing of the shipping international and simultaneously increasing the offer of
employment for Portuguese crewmembers;
● To improve conditions for access to insular cabotage and inter-island transport,
eliminating the constraints on access by companies to the market, strengthening the
control mechanisms and ensuring the scales and delivery times of the
goods;
● Support the short-distance shipping and the "Sea Autoroads". This
dynamisation should be done with the services between national and certain ports
ports of Europe in determined segments of goods and in articulation with
road hauliers so that they constitute themselves as a sustainable alternative.
Valuing fisheries and economic activities linked to fishing
One of the most important and relevant maritime resources is its pestered, importing
value this economic activity as a competitive business project, given the
our traditions in this sector. To this end, the Government defends:
● A sustainable management of the fisheries resources of the EEZ, taking into account the
economic, social and environmental components;
● The development of the fish processing sector, reinforcing the bet on the
repairing activity and in innovative industries related to the row of the
processing of fisheries and aquaculture products, specifically through
technological and knowledge partnerships between universities, the sector and the
companies;
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● The creation of a brand for the national fish, as well as of a system of
traceability and consumer information that identifies the national fish, from the
production to the final consumer;
● The support for the acquisition of the first vessel by young fishermen with the creation of
a line of credit "Young fishermen", aimed at the sustainable financing of the
investment supported in the scope of the MAR 2014-2020 OP, through the drafting of
protocols with banking entities;
● The creation of partnerships between fishing organisations and scientific bodies
independents, aimed at the valorisation of the fish and the sustainability of resources,
within the framework of the Local Fisheries Action Groups;
● The reinforcement of Producers ' Organizations, with greater integration in the value chain
agri-food, by means of an increased scale and a clear orientation to the market;
● The certification and promotion of fisheries and aquaculture products;
● The restructuring of the 1ª sale, through greater involvement of the organisations of
producers and associations of traders, specifically with a view to enabling the
direct sale of local fishing;
● The possibility of exercise, at the same time, of maritime activity-tourism and fishing
professional, as a way to improve the profitability of the fleet;
● The priority in the hierarchization of applications to OP MAR 2014-2020,
specifically in the improvement of safety conditions on board and increase in
energy efficiency of vessels, through the conversion / acquisition of engines
with lower pollutant emissions;
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● The creation of a "Small Fisheries" Line of credit earmarked for financing
sustainable investment supported in the scope of OP MAR 2014-2020, through the
drafting of protocols with banking entities;
● Support for the long-liners / industrial fishing fleet operating in international waters,
through the strengthening of bilateral agreements with third countries, specifically of the
negotiated in the framework of the EU;
● The improvement of the conditions of safety and operationality of infrastructure
fishing port;
● The deepening of bilateral fisheries relations with Spain, Norway and Canada.
Adopt measures in the field of animal welfare
● Revision of the legal status of animals, adept at the evolution of the Civil Law of
how to differentiate it from the legal regime of things and to ensure greater
conscientiousness in animal welfare;
● Complete the legal framework of the crime of mistreatment of companion animals,
improving the framework of ancillary sanctions by clarifying the existing criminal types;
● To review the scheme for slaughtering companion animals in the canis and municipal gatis, in the
sense of its gradual eradication by introducing population control measures and
of preventing abandonment;
● Valuing, in the framework of citizenship education, the components concerning the
social, environmental and the promotion of animal welfare;
● Reviewing the legal regime of the sale and detention of wild animals, with a view to their
restriction and suitability to best practices.
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Bet on aquaculture
It is important to favour the increase in aquaculture production and its diversification, both for
internal consumption as for export, setting concrete objectives of quantities of
production. Thus, the Government will:
● Carry out the definition and planning of areas aimed at the practice of aquaculture;
● Resuming semi-intensive and extensive aquaculture of bivalves in estuaries and rias,
upon simplified licensing procedures;
● Launching an aquaculture programme offshore ;
● Create a common platform for information management of establishments of
aquaculture;
● Support the introduction, with the appropriate cautionary, of new species;
● Promoting the consumption of species from aquaculture produced in
Portugal;
● Develop products with value-added source certification in the market;
● Fostering innovative technologies and equipment and the use of energies
renewables;
● Implement aquaculture insurance and create financial instruments for collateral
mutual and venture capital, so as to leverage the investment and facilitate access to
bank credit in more advantageous conditions.
Defend and potentiate the seaside
One of the great most-worth of Portuguese territory is the extent of its coastline, whether of the
continent, both of the islands, as well as the multiple uses and opportunities that the same
potency. In this area, the Government will:
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● Exploring the surface-to-sea interactions, aiming to transform the Portuguese coastline into a
maritime region of international reference, in terms of quality and innovation;
● Effecing the coordination between planning and planning tools
territory in the terrestrial and maritime spaces, compatibilizing and dynamising the
multiple coastal activities, so as to potentiate the value chains of value;
● Adopt measures that would counter the growing erosion of the vulnerable areas of the area
coastal, seriously studying their causes and involving in the decision process the
populations, regional governments, coastal municipalities, centres of research
and other interested parties;
● Adopt a firm stance of reposition of legality and combat constructions
demonstrably unauthorized in maritime public domain, intervening
priority in the most risk areas, with the requalification and preservation of the
environmental values and safeguarding the first dwellings in residential nuclei
piscatories;
● To recover and cherish the natural and cultural heritage of riparian communities.
Explore the sea-air interaction
It is necessary, yet, to adopt an integrated vision that articulates the maritime space and space
air in its different potentials, turning away at a time, not only the dichotomy surface-to-sea,
as the terra/mar-ar dichotomy. To this end, the Government will:
● Strengthen the means of regulating the air sector by way of ensuring that the activity
airport and air transport find themselves aligned with the strategy of
national development and the requirements of competitiveness for air transport
in European and intercontinental space.
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24. AFFIRM THE INTERIOR
Mission unit for the valorisation of the interior
The interior of mainland Portugal enjoys a privileged position in the Iberian context
that has not been properly valued at all of its potential to connect with the rest
of the Peninsula and, since soon, in the cross-border territories. The "interior" is, after all, in the
center of the Iberian market, a market with about 60 million consumers and a
gigantic volume of exchanges.
In this way, the Government argues that it takes a new look at the "interior", a new
vision that identifies the border regions as a new centrality in the market
Iberian and, for this, promoted:
● The creation of a mission unit for the valorisation of the interior, in dependence
direct from the Prime Minister, having as responsibilities to create, implement and
overseeing a national programme for territorial cohesion, as well as promoting the
development of the territory of the interior.
Valorisation of production spaces
In recent decades, a great deal of effort and investment has been made in valorisation and
qualification of consumption spaces, increasing the attractiveness of cities, spaces
public and riparian areas, among others. Without denying the added value of these actions in the improvement
of the quality of life of citizens and the growth of tourism, becomes strategic
redirect these valorization efforts to the country's production spaces, in
particular those of the interior, which in many cases note a strong decline and
underutilisation of resources, with potential for job creation and wealth. The
Government intends, in this way, to prioritize the qualification and promotion of the attractiveness of the
production spaces, whether from the primary sector as well as from the secondary, with a view to increasing the
employment, the attractiveness for investment, the harnessing of resources, the
modernization and the fixation of the population, specifically within. Priority will be given
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to investment in the modernization of endogenous production products and infrastructure,
regional and, often traditional, in such a way as to equil them with the necessary requirements
to be attractive and competitive these days, at the same time they give rise to
unique and value-added products in the global world.
Entrepreneurial concelhos networked
The Government will be launching a package of incentives for sharing co-working spaces and the
incubation of companies within, promoting the exchange of information, cooperation and
mobility of ideas and people between different regions, contributing also to the
occupation, refunctionalization and requalification of abandoned buildings and industrial spaces
or obsolete.
Regional platforms for employability
The Government intends to promote an enhanced articulation of the formative offers of the
institutions of higher education and vocational training with the needs of the
companies installed in the different territories of the interior, through the constitution of
platforms for dialogue and partnership.
Exchange of knowledge applied between the I&DT centres and the
rural communities
Innovation and technological development are essential for economic growth
and competitiveness. Research centres are getting more and more at the heart of the economy
and are the engines of innovation. However, these are mostly located in the
large urban areas and sometimes little back to the issues, challenges,
knowledge and potential of the most peripheral regions, particularly of the interior and areas
rural. It is also in these more isolated regions that persist sabers and products of cariz
location, with natural processes, techniques and expressions at risk of losing themselves, either by
are disappearing the bearers of that same knowledge, either for lack of
competitiveness and upgrading of the goods produced. Thus, by encouraging an exchange
of knowledge, with a strong applied strand, between the centres of I&DT and the
rural communities, the Government intends to:
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● Preserving and transmitting knowledge, sabers and traditional products, not
letting it be lost a fundamental wealth of the country;
● Capitalizing on the diversity and uniqueness of regional productions, which are
increasingly an added value in the globalized world and a factor of competitiveness and
differentiation;
● To study and develop new products that relieve tradition and innovation by creating a
type of wealth rooted in the territories and that promote the materials, resources,
national culture and image;
● Create products that rely essentially on endogenous resources for your
production and with great export potential;
● Promoting the creation of employment and wealth in declining areas, fighting the exodus
rural and the territorial asymmetries.
Valuing and promoting regional products
The Government will launch an integrated programme of certification and promotion of products
regional, specifically combining artisanal techniques with factors of innovation,
evidencing their differentiating elements and increasing their competitiveness in the
markets external to the territories of origin.
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Urban-Rural Partnerships
Cities and urban centres of small and medium size play a role
essential in the balanced development of the territory, as well as in the promotion of cohesion
territorial. The connections and interdependencies of these centres with the surrounding areas, in
particular rural, are key to both territories and to sedimentary the
regional development, in particular from the interior. In these terms, the options and policies of
development of the Government in these areas should be thought of integrated mode and
located, particularly in terms of functions, public transport, acessibilities,
quality of life, economic revitalization, competitiveness and increased productivity,
safeguarding and enhancement of cultural and natural heritage and increased attractiveness
touristy. For this, it is important to create urban-rural partnerships that can develop and
to implement in an integrated manner a regional or local development programme, which
capitalize on the complementarities and synergies between the territories and coordinate the various
sectoral policies for the sake of a development strategy for the area concerned.
Urban-Rural Partnerships thus aim at the conception and implementation of strategies of
territorial development, on the basis of a specific model of governance, that defines
clearly the responsibilities and competencies of the various actors actors, for a
two-year minimum multiannual horizon, allowing for programming and financing of
medium-specific actions, in particular in the dimensions of mobility, networks of
equipment, short circuits of food supply and integrated system management
blue (water) and green infrastructure.
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Encouragement of the fixation and attraction of young people
The Government will launch a package of measures that will favour the attraction and fixation of young people in the
interior, specifically through support for technological basic entrepreneurial projects,
of the rehabilitation of abandoned constructions in the villages and villages, of the installation of young people
farmers and young rural entrepreneurs and of positive discrimination actions in support of
natality. A national network will also be launched hotspots in low territories
density.
Stepping up cross-border cooperation
In order to achieve a closer cross-border cooperation, the Government will:
● Negotiating with the Spanish authorities a set of common measures that
allow to improve the quality of life of people living in border regions
and reduce costs for Portuguese and Spanish companies, specifically through
of the elimination of tariffs from roaming and of the suppression of rates of use of cards of
debit and credit between the two countries;
● Adopt a common commercial register, accessible online , which allows for a greater
integration and tax recognition by the two countries, eliminating dual factors
bureaucracy and ensuring that citizens and businesses do not need to be registered and
make successive tax declarations in the two countries;
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● Regulating and harmonizing academic entitlements in training ambit
specialized, which allow to share resources between universities and other
institutions of higher education in the border areas (including programme of study
sets and doubles degrees), creating incentives for faculty mobility, students and
employees;
● Ensure integrated planning and an effective articulation of the supply network of
health services (as well as in other areas deemed to be given priority by the
municipalities) on both sides of the border, avoiding this mode redundancies and
waste.
Fostering production and employment in the border territories
The Government will implement an incentive system for the installation of companies and the increase
of production in the frontier territories, specifically through a tax benefit, in
IRC, modulated by the regional distribution of employment. In this way, the amount of the
incentive for interiority will depend on the percentage of employees of the company with
tax domicile in disadvantaged or low-density regions. This criterion reveals itself
especially suitable for multi-establishment companies, avoids fraud arising from the
fictional location of the legal headquarters of the companies in inland areas and is easily
comprobable upon available information.
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25. PROMOTING TERRITORIAL COHESION AND SUSTAINABILITY
ENVIRONMENTAL
Land use planning and rural and urban planning are tools that should
be in the service of territorial development, ensuring a coordination of the various
setorial policies. Of the rest, the valorisation of the territorial dimension of public policies
constitutes an important challenge, so that the new cycle of use of European funds
allow to develop the Country in balanced and inclusive terms by promoting an effective
territorial cohesion. It is so on the national territory as a whole, but very much in particular
in cities, which play a decisive role as drivers of competitiveness
territorial, economic-social progress and innovation associated with demanding standards of
environmental sustainability. In this context it acquires special relevance, on par with the fruition of
green spaces and air quality, the provision of the essential public services of
provision of water and sanitation, the one that further comes up with the collection, treatment and
valorisation of waste. These constitute, without a doubt, sectors of relevant interest
public and pivotal pieces for the quality of life of citizens. As such, it imposes itself on
these important functions under title and / or public control, in a delicate and virtuous
balance between the Central Administration and local power, and there should be decisions
unspotlighted and quite damaging taken in the past. But environmental concerns do not
to cingem to the urban cycle of water or waste management, nor do they circumscribe
to the citadino universe. In fact, the main environmental threats of actuality are the
climate change and the loss of biodiversity. For both you need to find a
solid response, which contributes solidarily to the protection of the planet, but do not let from
meet the national specificities.
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On climate change, it is to act in two strands: in the mitigation of the
emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and in adapting to a more unstable climate.
Being that, as to the mitigation of global warming, the EU has taken a position of
leadership and Portugal has especially propitious conditions to be at the forefront of this
movement. Still, it matters to have present that, as much as we do to stop the
greenhouse effect, some of its effects will always make itself feel, probably with
plenty of intensity. In this measure, and in particular with a view to our broad
coastal exhibition, we need to become more resilient to the impacts of the changes
climate. It will be necessary to identify, in the various sectoral domains, what changes
structural and behavioural to adopt in order to deal with a more violent climate and
unpredictable. Regarding biodiversity, it is important to promote appropriate management and
a broad fruition of the natural parks, but not only. Biological diversity must be
seized as a strategic asset, including liable to economic valuations,
even to there from the protected areas or the Natura 2000 Network sites. That is what it justifies,
for example, the need for a determined action for the requalification of the
ecosystems of rivers and wetlands. Such an initiative should be designed in close
cooperation with the Spanish authorities, in the case of international rivers.
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Integrating territorial development and spatial planning The planning of the
territory and rural and urban planning are tools that must be in the service of the
territorial development which, by definition, is a more comprehensive concept and implies the
coordination of various sectoral policies. However, the integration and interdependence between the
planning / planning and territorial development has not been a reality in
Portugal. The two domains have been separate, which has originated a situation
contradicting and counterproductive: on the one hand, the instruments of territorial management (IGT)
hold a strategic schedule in the medium term, but it lacs a schedule
really effective operational. On the other hand, territorial development is
often reduced to the application of European funds, residing here the instruments
of operational programming of the interventions on the territories, but without close connection
with IGT and almost always obliging a doubling and overlapping of plans and
strategies. It is thus necessary and urgent to integrate these two domains, which have to be
perfectly attuned and in interdependence, promoting by this via a
true strategic planning of development and an effective operationalisation of the
same. It is still necessary to provide the regional programmes with a real perspetive
regional, upon its realization by organs that have greater political legitimacy of
representation of the territories and citizens of the region, rather than to reduce themselves, as
currently, the mere programming instruments of the Administration's sectoral policies
Central with incidence on the territory.
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Promoting territorial strategies anchored in local development
The importance and impact that local development initiatives can have on the
territorial development (regional and even national) are recognized today by the most
various international entities, such as the EU and the OECD. In this context, the EU has strengthened
even the tools for promoting local development initiatives and
territorialization of public policies. However, the transposition of these instruments was
made deficient for the national framework, particularly as regards the
promotion of local development initiatives and in recognition of their potential
to catapult the development to superior territorial scales.
The Government will correct these problems and adopt truly territorial strategies
anchored in local development, which will pass by:
● To strengthen the role and autonomy of municipalities in planning matters
territory and local development, specifically by strengthening the
instruments of concertation, consultation and hearing of municipalities in the face of the implications
sites of the Central Administration's programmes and the strengthening of the autonomy of the
municipalities in the drawing up of the plans for urbanization and detail;
● To strengthen inclusiveness, strategic capacity, territorial representativeness and means
financing of the tools to support the local basic development;
● Creating incentives for social innovation and territorial animation;
● Counteract the spontaneous non-emergence of initiative and local self-organization,
upon the empowerment of local actors and the creation of supports to this type of
initiatives.
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Program "Territories of the Future"
The Government will foster the realization of applied research partnerships between units
of higher education, authorities, companies and other entities, in decisive fields for the
future of cities and regions that are particularly demanding in knowledge,
innovation and internationalization (circular economy, electric mobility, domotics,
information technologies, new urban infrastructure, etc.).
"Smart Cities" Program
Fruit of the recognition that cities can play a central role in the
creation of employment and growth, the Government will provide for and encourage interventions
integrated sustainable urban development, managed by the municipalities, which
respond to the energetic-environmental challenges of actuality: less pollution, more
energy efficiency, higher renewable energy production, less GHG emissions,
better mobility, more employment, more inclusion and greater proximity among citizens.
Such interventions will fundamentally assist in the use of new technologies,
enabling leveraging of private investment and the emergence of new forms of
business in cities, based on the information generated by the application of the integrated solutions.
Decarbonisation of the economy
Portugal must become progressively less dependent on fuel consumption
fossil. So the Government will act with the comprehensive and diversified set of measures
in the various sectors (residential and services, transport and agriculture). For each one
of these sectors, and departing from the measures provided for in this Plan, the Government will approve plans
calendarized decarbonization.
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Adaptation to new climatic contexts
Regardless of the results obtained at the level of the reduction of GHG emissions, the
climate change will manifest itself in progressively more intense fashion, requiring
concrete adaptation measures. Among other effects, our territory-in particular in the
shoreline and in the largest cities-it is subject to the occurrence of meteorological phenomena
extremes, increasingly frequent, unpredictable and of greater danosity. It matters, therefore, to the
light of the recently approved Sendai Strategy 20152025, identify and map such
risks, reduce exposure and mitigate the major vulnerabilities loomed, as well as
strengthen preparedness and capacity to respond to disasters.
To this end, the Government will:
● Reviewing, updating and raising the ambition level of the National Adaptation Strategy
Climate change, in cross-sectional and sectoral terms;
● To provide for the mandatory definition of municipal and / or intermunicipal strategies
of adaptation to climate change, depending on local realities, with
translocation required for spatial planning plans, specifically
in the seat of Municipal Director Plan;
● Draw up a national letter of risks derived from climate change, predicting the
its development, in detail, through municipal and / or intermunicipal letters of
risks, as well as emergency plans on the part of local authorities;
● To increase the resilience of essential infrastructure in the event of disasters,
specifically of health equipment;
● Implementing early warning systems and reinforcing the mechanisms of rapid reaction
to disasters.
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Protecting nature and preventing the loss of biodiversity
Biodiversity and nature conservation constitute strategic desicrations that do not
can, as it has succeeded, be continuously subalternated in the name of other values
conflicting. It is, therefore, fundamental to ensure public investment in this sector,
reinforcing human, technical and knowledge means.
In this field, the Government will:
● To ensure the effectiveness of special spatial planning programmes that
establish regimes of safeguarding resources and natural values, ensuring the
planning and integrated and coherent management of protected areas, as well as the orla
maritime, estuaries and albufairs;
● Promoting the fixation of resident populations in protected areas, stimulating
sustainable development practices, specifically in the agricultural and animal husbandry sector,
and rehabilitating the edited according to its original moth, but with greater
comodity and energy efficiency;
● Institute dynamics of participation in the life of protected areas, facilitating their visit
by citizens, notably through the elimination of excessive restrictions and
disproportionate to make it difficult, from medium and long stay programs
duration, of visits by students and senior citizens, from "experiences" of
interiorization of the value of fauna and flora and the provision of new means of
dissemination of natural parks;
● Improving systems for communication and management of natural values, specifically
through small investments in real estate, pernoite sites, infrastructure of
support, wildlife observation spaces, circuits and leisure equipment
intended for the visitor of protected areas, specifically of the natural parks, with
a view to the promotion of environmental values and the comfort and quality of the visit;
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● Making more and better information, in various languages, about heritage
natural of protected areas, as well as the coverage of mobile data networks,
allowing for the progressive replacement of information in physical support by information
digital;
● Promoting biodiversity conservation initiatives in urban context, in
articulation with the municipalities, disseminating the leisure and enjoyment spaces
public, retrieving riparian zones and creating new green areas with functions
specific, which contribute, simultaneously, to the quality of the air and the sequestration of
carbon;
● Assigning to the Metropolitan Authorities of Lisbon and Porto the responsibility to define
and protect the Metropolitan Ecological Structures ' respects.
Ensure access and quality of public water services, sanitation and
waste
Access to safe water and sanitation, as well as the collection and treatment of garbage
constitute basic necessities of first order, in some cases already recognized
internationally as long as human rights, the realization of which matters to guarantee, not only
in terms of universal availability, such as economic accessibility, quality of
service and environmental integrity, but also of financial sustainability. Exists in this
sector, however, an accumulation of erratic decisions, deficient contracts and poor practices of
management that urge to correct, for the benefit of citizens. As such, the Government will:
● Lock in the process of privatization of the General Company of Fomento, S. A., with
foundation in respect of lawlessness and as long as this does not imply the payment of
compensation to the chosen competitor, so as to reverse the excessive concentration
and the strong distortion of existing competition in the waste sector;
● Reversal of mergers of water companies that have been imposed on municipalities;
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● Integrating the urban water cycle, in the sense of an articulation between supply
of water and drainage networks valuing the role of the authorities in the collection of
management models that allow for further rationalization in the allocation of resources;
● Define a recycled water harnessing program, which will proceed to the closure of the
cycle of water, integrating the authorities into the process;
● Renegotiate, in conjunction with the authorities, the concession contracts of first
generation celebrated over the past few decades, on a high and low, whose
performance leaves much to be desired as to the level of service provided and that,
paradoxically, provide dealers with concessionary rates of profitability
absolutely disproportionate and unacceptable in the light of the rules of a market
healthy, with high financial burden for the citizen;
● Define equal principles at the national level for the promotion of a social tariff of the
water, specifically by paying attention to households with minors
income and the numerous families;
● Set up and make effective a guarantee of minimal services, considered essential
to the dignity of the human person, concerning access to certain basic services or of
general interest, such as water, sanitation, collection of waste, among others;
● Developing the luster-Spanish cooperation in the water sector, notably through the
review of the actions and measures provided for in the Albufeira Convention, targeting, among
other purposes, the concretization of joint management plans for the basins
shared hydrographs, ensuring the goal of ensuring environmental requirements and
national interests;
● Promoting the use of the biological waste from cities, from cleaning
of public and private gardens, in the creation of areas of planting with high
potential for carbon sequestration, in central urban areas;
● Valuing and stimulating the composting of organic waste;
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● Promoting waste reduction as an active priority in the policy of 3R ' s,
specifically penalizing the use of packaging, in the framework of the mechanisms in
vigour.
Simplification measures, in the framework of the Simplex programme
The resumé of the Simplex programme is a commitment of this Government, realized in the
environment through the dismal of the administrative simplification of procedures, the better
regulation and enhancement of the effectiveness of implementing environmental legislation results in a
enhanced commitment from this Government.
In this framework, it appears to be fundamental to mobilize supports for administrative modernization and
empowerment of the Public Administration, with a view to the adoption of facilitative solutions of the
compliance with obligations on the part of citizens and businesses, aiming at the reduction of
costs of the context of economic activity.
It matters thus, ensuring the effective dematerialization of processes and services, driven
by legislative, regulatory and other changes that come to be implemented.
It is considered to be pressing to consolidate, integrate and operationalize information systems
on Environment, ensuring facilitated access to the citizen, and promoting the provision
of information and sharing of knowledge in good time.
For this purpose, the measures to be implemented are as follows:
● In the field of environmental licensing, streamline and simplify the articulation between the
environmental impact assessment regime and other setorial legal regimes of
prior administrative control of polluting activities, eliminating charges
disproportionate bureaucrats. In this perspetive, the unique environmental licensing
(LUA) should be consolidated, in the sense of:
-Proceed to the effective articulation of the multiple administrative procedures of
prior administrative control in environmental matters;
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-Enshrine zero industrial licensing, for the facilities that already meet all
the necessary environmental and sanitary permits;
-Eliminate excessive bureaucratic demands and burdens on environmental matters, well
as disproportionate context costs.
Ensure greater effectiveness of environmental policy
In order to achieve, in a cross-sectional manner, a greater effectiveness of the environment policy and the
effective realization of ecological benefits, the Government will:
● Creating an "Environmental Superfund", concentrating the different environmental funds
currently existing (specifically the Portuguese Carbon Fund, the Fund of
Environmental Intervention, the Water Resources Protection Fund, the Fund for the
Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity and, eventually, the Fund of Efficiency
Energy), so as to obtain an instrument with greater financial capacity to
acting in the preservation of natural resources, the prevention of risks and the repair of
ecological damage;
● To gather, integrate and systematically make available information about the environment and
the use of natural resources, integrating it with the tools of management and
monitoring of the use of the territory and with the communication obligations of
information to international institutions;
● Disseminate the good practices of green public procurement ( green public procurement );
● Internalize the costs associated with the use and degradation of natural resources,
specifically forecasting mechanisms for payment by environmental services,
defining an environmental compensation scheme and regulating insurance
mandatory liability for civil liability for damage to the environment;
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● Reduce the use of fossil fuels and air pollution through promotion
of neighborhoods with mixed uses (housing, commerce, work, school and leisure), reducing
daily displacements and creating solid roots in the lives of citizens, through sharing
and of the local production of goods and services;
● Launch a national program for recovery of environmental and treatment liabilities
of contaminated soils ( brownfields );
● Launch a programme of revitalization of Portuguese rivers. This program shall, by
one side, recover the quality of the waters of rivers and value their size
landscapes and, on the other hand, make these areas a qualified leisure space and
attractive for people and tourism, thus promoting the uniqueness of the
ecosystems and the socio-economic relief of major watercourses;
● To develop a policy of education for sustainability and awareness raising
the adoption of environmentally appropriate practices.
26. VALUING AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY ACTIVITY AND SPACE
RURAL
The Government's action will assay on three main axes: the exploitation of the potential
economic of agriculture, the promotion of rural development and the fostering of a
sustainable forest management, searching for effectiveness in results, efficiency in
cost and equity in respect of positive discrimination for areas
disadvantaged, small agriculture or young farmers.
For this, the Government intends to:
● Improve the quality of products, the guarantee of food safety and to increment the
productivity of the production factors, with a view to the internationalization of the
agroforestry and agroforestry rows and the replacement of imports on the market
national;
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● Strengthen support for small agriculture, the rejuvenation of the social fabric of
rural areas, with a highlight for the agricultural and rural business, and promotion and
enhancement of local strategies and partnerships.
● Strengthen forest planning and productivity of the main silvo ranks-
industrial;
● Support the improvement of producer organisations and inter-professional management,
ensuring the primacy of forest protection in the face of fires and agents
harmful biotics, the environmental and economic dynamisation of forest spaces under the
management of the State, the stimulus for the certification of productive processes and the
promotion of the multiple-use forest (particularly of agrossilvopastoris systems
and of the mountain forest).
Political weirdship is Valuing agricultural and forestry activity and rural space:
In the regard to agricultural activity and the rural world, the Great Options settled in three
main axes:
● The exploitation of the economic potential of agriculture;
● The promotion of rural development;
● The fostering of sustainable forest management.
It is aimed at general in these three axes effectiveness in the matter of results, the efficiency in matter
of costs and the equity in respect of positive decrimination for disadvantaged areas, the
small agriculture and young farmers.
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On the economic enhancement of agricultural and forestry activities and respect
piping to the market, the fundamental guidelines are aimed at the improvement of the
quality of products, the guarantee of food safety and the increment of
productivity of production factors, with a view to the internationalization of the ranks
agroforestry and agroforestry and the replacement of imports in the national market, in the
line of the specific objective macro, from achieving balance in the agricultural trade balance
on the extended horizon of two legislatures.
The broad guidelines are:
● Promoting rural development and territorial cohesion, notably by enhancing the
support for small agriculture, the rejuvenation of the social fabric of rural areas,
with a highlight for the agricultural and rural entrepreneurship, and the promotion and reinforcement of
local strategies and partnerships;
● To stimulate diversification of the economic base and job creation in rural areas,
the valorisation of traditional products and the production of leisure and recreation amenities
and environmental services;
● Encouraging and promoting multi-fund management, involving the municipalities, the
local development associations and the devoltioned administration of the State;
● Valuing forest resources, strengthening forest planning and productivity
of the main silvo-industrial ranks. Support the improvement of organizations of
producers and interprofessional management, as well as the primacy of protection of the
forests in the face of fires and harmful biotic agents;
● Dynamising environmental and economically the forest spaces under the management of the State
and promote the multiple-use forest, particularly of agrosilvopastoris systems and
of the mountain forest;
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● Creating stimuli for certification of productive processes and promotion of forest
of multiple use.
They will be pursued in the development of the following policies:
● To ensure efficiency in the transfer of public supports;
● Promoting the fairness of aid by increasing supports for small and young people
farmers;
● Ensure animal health and food safety;
● Stimulation of the forms of organisation of the sector, marketing, distribution and the
internationalization;
● Promoting the competitiveness of the agrofood and forestry sector ranks by the
transfer of knowledge, experimentation, research and innovation in these
domains;
● Expand and make the regadio more attractive;
● Encouraging rural entrepreneurship, facilitating access to factors of production
essential;
● Promoting the reform of the forest sector:
-Promoting the protection of resources what constitutes a priority national desicration
for the sustainability of the Portuguese forest, mitigating forest fires and the
incidence of pests and diseases, notably by reviewing and improving the program
of Forest Shoes, creating a National Controlled Fire Program,
reviewing the Forest Sanity Operational Program and creating subprograms
operational for the control and eradication of major pests and diseases;
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-Promote forest management by encouraging and supporting and developing different
forest management models, namely the Forest Intervention Zones
(ZIF), the Estate Investment Funds Forests, the Management societies
Forest, good how to support the forest associative movement, as well as
encouraging and stimulating the certification of sustainable forest management and creation
of new business areas in the forest market;
-Transforming national mats into reference areas, safeguarding the values
natural and maximizing the value obtained with their active management;
-Promoting the increase in the particular production of the pine bravo, overlap and
azinheira supporting the development of the ranks, creating stimuli for the
certification of forest management, with a view to increasing the profitability of the
forest owners and ensure the sustainability of the supply of matter-
national cousin to the forest base industry;
-Revising the prevailing legal framework of plantation with fast forest species
growth;
-Promote, in articulation with Single-Predicical Information, the progressive elaboration
of the Roustic Property Cadaster, notably in the territories under management of the
ZIF;
-Promote and support the development and installation of forest systems of use
multiple that promote an orderly management of resources, and promote the
increased contribution of hunting, fishing, forestry, apiculture,
production of wild mushrooms, dried fruit and other products not
woody such as resin, as well as recreation and tourism in rural space, as
how to stimulate the generation of wealth within the country;
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-Supporting applied research for the increase in productivity and new
forestry models, contributing to the valorisation of silvo services-
environmental provided by forest spaces, and the development of the ranks and the
increased profitability of forest owners;
-Ensuring the review of the Regional Forest Planning Plans, instrument
of sector policy essential for territorial management and forest planning
national.
27. LEAD THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Energy performance has a very important impact on the competitiveness of
economy, which is why it is essential to continue investing in this sector in a way to,
notably, make it more competitive and sustainable.
The central desiccation of energy policy should thus be the reduction of energy costs,
approaching-those of the European averages, for domestic companies and consumers,
notably through the promotion of energy efficiency, combating dependence
external, the diversification of primary sources and the continuation of the reduction of " rents
excessive " of its main operators.
All these measures should be strongly supported by technological development and
innovation.
Affirming Portugal as an energy supplier of Europe
To be able to fully exploit its potential for production of renewable energy,
particularly of solar origin, Portugal must go on to face the latter as a good
transactionable, in an export logic. From a certain scale, however, it is
necessary to strengthen the electrical interconnections with Europe, which will allow to profiten the
fact that we have the highest number of hours of solar exposure in the EU, stating us as
a clean energy supplier for the entire European economic area.
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On the other hand, in the face of recent geopolitical instabilities, the Natural Gas terminal
Liquids (LNG) of Sines could come to work as natural gas input port
to the centre of Europe, constituting as well as a relevant alternative to others
supplies. For this, it will be necessary to invest in connecting pipelines with Spain and
of this with the centre of Europe.
In this framework, the Government will:
● Giving priority, in the European negotiations, to the development of the European networks of
energy and the enhancement of interconnections, specifically between the Iberian Peninsula and the
rest of Europe;
● Ensure that the corridors defined for the trans-European electrical connections
allow runoff to Europe of solar energy produced in territory
national;
● In the framework of the set of projects included in the Co program nnecting European Facility ,
promote the interconnection of the natural gas network in the two senses with Spain and
develop an Iberian network connecting to LNG receiving ports,
specifically Sines, and the main centres of consumption;
● To insist on the implementation of natural gas corridors for connection with Europe
other-Pyrenees, so as to reduce the dependence on energy resources
from east to about 20% of its current imports of natural gas.
Incentive for renewables
Portugal, listening to its natural conditions, can and should be at the forefront of
promotion of renewable sources in final energy consumption. For this, the Government
intends to:
● Reassess the National Barrages Plan, with regard to dams whose works
have not started;
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● Encouraging the development of mini-water (with little environmental impact and
plenty of potential to, in a disseminated way through the territory, revitalize the sector of
construction), preferentially endowed with reversible pumping systems (for
energy storage);
● Take advantage of the fact that Portugal has the territory of the EU with greater number of hours of
solar exposure and plenty of wind, attracting projects from solar and / or wind power plants
whose share of renewables is due exclusively to other Member States
(specifically by way of the enhancement of the interconnections);
● Launching, in partnership between the state and local authorities, a programme of
microgeneration in public establishments (schools, health centres, equipment
sports, barracks, squads, markets, etc.), specifically from energy
solar. The initial investment will, to a large extent, become the job of companies of
energy services (ESE), to which they will be remunerated over several years, in
function of the recipes obtained with the sale of the produced electricity. Will be negotiated
with banking dedicated credit lines, with special conditions, to which ESE
will be able to use to finance the installation of the microgeneration equipment;
● Fostering decentralized production of renewable energy, with no need for
subsidisation, be it for self-consumption, be for sale to the network at market prices. The
end to make this option more attractive, but still without costs to the system, will
conceded the possibility of, in the self-consumption regime, the excess energy injected
on the network compensate for the electricity consumes in hours of emptiness;
● Promote aggregation ( pooling ) virtual of producers-energy consumers,
relatively to dedicated mini-generation electricity plants from sources
renewables, without any tariff subsidisation and therefore without burdening the system
electrical;
● Nurturing the installation of solar panels for water heating (thermal solar);
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● Encouraging the use of forest biomass, specifically from waste,
cleanses or debasements, not only to diversify energy sources, but also
as a way to contribute to the sustainability of the Portuguese forest and prevention
of fires;
● Evaluate and test the potential for renewable energy production (particularly wind)
in areas offshore .
Cleaner and cheaper energy
Contrary to the propalate idea, clean energy (produced from renewable sources)
is not, necessarily, synonymous with more expensive fares. A considerable part of the Costs
of General Economic Interest, which incarcerates the tariff of electricity, is unrelated
with the production of electricity from renewable sources.
Incidmore, a policy hostile to renewable energy has not led to the reduction in the price of the
electricity, nor is it-little to the reduction of the tariff deficit. On the contrary, notwithstanding the
austere rhetoric and cost reduction, the tariff deficit has increased in the last four
years, surpassing already the 5000 million euros. The Government will demonstrate that it is possible
take advantage of the huge endogenous potential of renewable energy production without increasing
the tariffs paid by consumers and, in addition, progressively reducing the deficit
tariff.
To this end, the Government will:
● Contain the costs arising from the tariff deficit, bringing them closer to the actual costs of
financing in the financial markets;
● Take advantage of the end of the Equilibrium Maintenance Costs reviewer scheme
Contractual, in 2017, to increase the share of renewables without running the risk of such
imply an increase in compensations to be paid to the producers already installed;
● Limiting the remuneration of hydroelectric energy in years of drought, the similarity of which
has done in Spain;
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● Renegotiate the concessions in the energy sector, to ensure equitable sharing,
between the state (conceder) and private dealers, of the gains though
obtained;
● Ensure a gradual and progressive transition of the current model of bonification of the
fees ( feed-in ) for a system of remuneration for renewable energy at prices of
market, eventually accompanied by a certificate transaction mechanism
green (which represent the value of the environmental component of renewable electricity);
● Redesigning social tariff in the sense of making it automatic for households
of low resources and beneficiaries of social benefits subject to the condition of resources;
in the case of consumers who, failing to earn benefits with the previous nature, if
find in vulnerable situation, the income note issued by the Authority
Tax and Customs (AT) will allow the fulfilment of the requirements for the assignment
of the social tariff; the consumers who, by their level of income, are today
dispensed from submitting income statement, should move to do so
get the income note from the AT and thereby access the social fare; access to
social fare gives automatic access to Extraordinary Social Support to the Consumer of
Energy;
● Remove from the electric power bill the contribution of the audiovisual and incorporate it into the
universe of communications without loss of revenue for the Radio and Television of Portugal,
S. A..
Stimulating competition and energy competitiveness
The energy sector has been chronically averse to competition. Albeit in the latter
years there have been successive waves of liberalisation of this sector, these have never produced
fully the expected effects, which is demonstrated by the fact that this market continues
dominated by a small number of large companies, in rules the operators
histories (or incumbents). Urge, for, to counteract this state of affairs by introducing
increased competition in this market, for the benefit of consumers, businesses and, in
general, of the competitiveness of the Portuguese economy.
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Stimulating competition and energy competitiveness
The energy sector has been chronically averse to competition. Albeit in the latter
years there have been successive waves of liberalisation of this sector, these have never produced
fully the expected effects, which is demonstrated by the fact that this market continues
dominated by a small number of large companies, in rules the operators
histories (or incumbents). Urge, for, to counteract this state of affairs by introducing
increased competition in this market, for the benefit of consumers, businesses and, in
general, of the competitiveness of the Portuguese economy. With this aim, the Government will:
● To stimulate greater competition in the marketing of electricity and gas,
specifically fostering the emergence of new economic actors and of
differential, innovative commercial offers and adjusted to different types of consumption;
● Increase, in the optics of the domestic consumer, the perceiveness and comparability of the
fares, consumes and energy billing.
Boost to energy efficiency
For the example that must be given by the State-responsible for high waste of
energy, with harmful consequences not only for the environment, but in terms of expenditure
public-the Government intends to implement active energy efficiency measures.
Additionally, it matters to make the whole economy much more efficient from the point of view
energy, with obvious advantages for companies and citizens. For such, and with a view to
achieve an energetically more efficient paradigm, the Government will:
● Define objectives, methodologies and ways to award efficiency gains by part
of intensively energy-consuming facilities (such as factories, warehouses,
large commercial surfaces, hospitals, hotels, etc.);
● Promote initiatives of fuel switching , in particular by companies
producers of transactionable goods, thus generating energy savings and
increasing the respect competitiveness;
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● Elevate the energy efficiency parameters of the edified, by way of the bet on
urban rehabilitation, with concerns at the level of the choice of the materials used, of the
thermal and insulation solutions adopted and the installation of equipment of
savings and / or efficient energy production;
● Adopt, in articulation with the municipalities, a set of actions specifically
directed to the promotion of energy efficiency in the transport sector;
● To promote the conversion of vehicles and fleets, so that they will be used as
fuel the natural gas, of lower carbonic intensity, specifically by
solutions flexfuel for heavy vehicles;
● Establish, in the Central State Administration, a prioritization and a calendar
detailed energy efficiency actions-at the level of buildings, fleets and the
public procurement-decomposed at the level of each ministry;
● Institute mandatory interior lighting replacement targets in the Administration
Public for more efficient solutions (LED, for example);
● Recover, amplify and, most of all, expedite the Energy Efficiency Program
in the Public Administration-ECO.AP. This programme should be simplified and pass the
incorporate other potential for reduction and savings associated with consumables of
fuels, consumes of electricity, water consumes, paper consumables and
waste produced;
● Dedicate a financial envelope of 5 million €/year for the launch of a
annual energy efficiency competition, in which it wants the entities themselves
administrative, wants ESE will be invited to submit efficiency projects
energy in the Public Administration;
● To integrate the management of state transport fleets, under the point of view of reduction
of consumes and the adoption of efficiency strategies;
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● Exploring the potentialities of the kinetic energy of traffic and heavy infrastructure
of transport, as well as from the energy obtained from the water transport networks
or existing ventilation and cooling systems in large infrastructure
urban;
● Establish a partnership with the municipalities for the conversion of lighting
public, specifically by replacing the current systems with solutions more
efficient (LED, for example). The execution of this program will be associated with the term
of the current municipal concessions of electric power distribution in low voltage and to the
its renewal through compulsorily competitive procedures, upon
public tenders of municipal or intercity scale, in which the adoption of
more efficient public lighting solutions will work as the criterion of choice;
● Launch a vast program of lamp replacement in the residential and the
services, taking on the basis of the model and broadening the scope of some
projects supported by the Efficiency Promotion Plan in Consumption, da
liability of the Energy Services Regulatory Entity;
● Impose a discouraging tribute from the acquisition of home appliances or others
electro equipment with energy rating equal to or less than B;
● Employing alternative financing strategies of active efficiency measures
energy, notably through the contractualization with ESE, which conceives,
finance and execute energy consummate reduction projects, being
remunerated for the value of the savings thus obtained.
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Promoting a public transport of quality
It is necessary to provide citizens with quality public transport services,
comodes, fast, integrated, easy and intelligible access (in the matter of pathways,
timetables, costs, etc.) for the user. On the other hand, through a mobility more
inclusive aims to foster social cohesion by maximizing the accessibility of all the
citizens, without exception, thus reducing the inequalities of opportunities at work, in the
education and access to culture. To achieve these goals, the Government will:
● Promote the operation throughout the country of public transport services of
quality (road and rail, collective and individual, with or without driver), with
schedules and frequencies adjusted to the needs of users;
● Stimulating the creation of intermodal hub stations that facilitate the linkage of different
modes of transport and mobility services, and that are in themselves centralities that
contribute to local development;
● Encouraging modal integration in terms of bilhtics, tariff, pathways and schedules and
cost management by the user, increasing the comodity of the displacements with
resource to various modes of transport, including not only public transport
heavy as the soft mobility systems ( sharing , pedonal, bicycle, electric,
elevators);
● Encouraging the development of digital platforms that simplify and integrate
on a common and accessible basis on the mobile phone all information to the user,
particularly with respect to the simulation of the pathway, to the times in real time and
at the effective cost of the trip. In the same way, it will seek to stimulate the
dematerialization of the billetic systems;
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● Promoting the development of a universal and integrated system of payment of
mobility (Card of Mobility), through which the citizen can access all the
public transport services, parking, tolls, rental of vehicles in
shared systems or loading of electric vehicles;
● Create a "family pass" for urban public transport, as well as tickets from
group (for 5 or more people);
● To strengthen and standardize discounts on public transport for students up to the
25 years;
● Contribute to the development of social responsibility policies by
large employers and search generators, which encourage adoption and promotion
of public transport solutions where this is efficient;
● Promoting experimental periods of the public transport system for people who
usually opt for the car in their pendulous displacements.
Implement new mobility concepts
Alongside public transport there are to be considered, nowadays, other concepts and formats of
urban mobility, which allow to reduce the pressure of road traffic by combatting the
pollution, propitiating greater speed and flexibility of displacement and, simultaneously,
promoting the well-being and quality of life of populations. In this area, the Government
will:
● Stimulate smooth modes of transport such as bicycle and pedonal;
● Develop and apply a Bicycle Promotion Plan and other modes of
smooth mobility;
● Favouring soft mobility not only in the interior of each concelho, but also the
inter-municipal level, reducing the distance between city and suburbs through sharing
of soft mobility infrastructure and the creation of communicant green areas;
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● Fostering the construction of cyclable infrastructure, taking into account three profiles of
users and three different functions: sports practice, the practice of tourism and leisure
and urban mobility;
● Allow the transport of bicycles in public transport (specifically in the
train and on the metro);
● Reduce the area occupied by individual transport, in the tracks and in the parking lot,
favoring the use of public transport and soft mobility, in particular the
pedonal and cyclable mobility, as a form of promoting young mobility and the
accessibility by senior citizens;
● Encouraging service operators of car sharing and bike sharing ;
● Encouraging the implementation of services of Bus Rapid Transit , which combine the
capacity and speed of the lightweight meter at a much lower cost;
● Promote flexible transport services and on demand , where this is appropriate,
particularly in regions and low demand times.
Boosting and expanding electric mobility
Having been waged the project of electric mobility, which thus made it impossible to train
of a cluster industrial in our Country around this technology.
It matters, now, to resume the discling of electric mobility, vital to replace
progressively the dependence on fossil fuels in road transport, with the
inherent GHG emissions, by a greater consumption of renewable electricity.
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Developing the technological cluster of energy
The next Government must ensure the maintenance of the cluster eolic created in our Country and
foster the emergence of a cluster equivalent around photovoltaic energy. The pair
of this, electric mobility constitutes a unique opportunity for development dum
new cluster technological and industrial-abarching charging points, network management
cargo smart, as well as batteries and other components for the vehicle industry
electrical-that we can't waste. Thus, the Government will draw on, in the framework of the
Portugal 2020, programmes and lines of support that allow to stimulate:
● Applied scientific research as to clean technologies and new methods of
production of electricity from renewable sources;
● The articulation between industry and R&D institutions for the production of solutions of
energy storage;
● The component industry for electric vehicles, electric motors and batteries,
as well as of the loading infrastructure;
● The upgrade of the production and assembly industry of two-wheelers-bikes,
scooters and bicycles-for the electric segment;
● The training of technicians for the manufacturing and repair industries of electric vehicles and
its components;
● The creation of live demonstration laboratories of new solutions in mobility
electric: at the level of the vehicles, with highlight for new applications of mobility
electric, such as public transport, transport of goods or logistics
urban; and intelligent loading, integrated with the smart grids and generation of
decentralized renewable energy, with highlight for the V2G ( vehicle to grid ) and V2H
( vehicle to home ).
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28. INVESTING IN CULTURE
Culture is, by excellence, a pillar of democracy, the national identitarian factor, and reflects
expressively the way in which communities relate to their heritage
cultural, with the arts, and with intellectual creation. Democratizing access and engagement
of the population with all the areas of Culture constitutes a greater desicration of governance,
which is to be assumed in its sectoral cross-sectional. Such means counting on the
active involvement of all government departments as key factor and
decisive of the policies of national cohesion, of reduction of territorial asymmetries,
by fostering the development and territorial stability of populations. Culture and
quality of life are inseparable.
In that sense, and in such a way to make the results of the governing action tangible, it imposes itself
privilege and actively stimulate networking, developed at the various levels of the
central, regional and local administration, with the necessary involvement by the
diverse actors and cultural creators, potentiating and optimizing existing resources, from
mode to ensure an effective access of communities to culture and cultural production.
The deepening of administrative decentralization, with greater accountability
of the territorial structures, endowed progressively with technical and investment means
reinforced, with greater approximation to local realities, will be inductive of a progressive
growth of cultural activity, in the framework of the economic and social growth of the country.
Cultural heritage, especially in its strands of conservation, recovery,
rehabilitation, valorisation and dissemination, should be understood and assumed as a resource
economic essential to the sustainable development of the territory, as a factor of
employability and cohesion, in close articulation with the different areas of the economy
national.
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The arts, training of audiences, creative production and performative arts should
also be stimulated by the fostering of national and territorial networks, disseminating the
its action of closeness to the populations and thus multiplying the supply and demand,
as well as the importance of their service in the life of communities, in close articulation
with the municipalities, schools and the remaining regional and local actors.
The Portuguese language, the luscious culture and the Portuguese speaking heritage in the world,
constitute also strategic assets that should be politically assumed, and
duly framed in the cultural policy of the Government.
Cultural heritage
● Strengthen regional decision poles, giving greater territorial proximity to action
cultural.
● Create and operationalize of interministerial funds that allow to articulate access to
investments of a cultural and heritage nature, extensive to the private initiative.
● Instituting free access to museums and monuments for young people up to the 30
years, during the weekends and holidays.
● Revitalizing existing heritage networks, such as the network of Portuguese Monasteries
Heritage of Humanity, the Route of World Heritage and the Route of the Cathedrals.
● Developing the public offering of museums and national monuments, and relaxing their
model of management, with greater autonomy.
● Consolidate and increase the contemporary art hits, in the frame of the model
existing, with a better articulation of the actors.
● Laying the foundations and developing the project of creating a National Sonoro Archive.
● To intensify and systematize the digitization of national archives and documentary sources.
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● Promoting strategies and methodologies for the treatment and dissemination of heritage
archival common archival to the CPLP countries.
● Valorising the archival acquis of the RTP, by its articulation with the National Archive
of the Images on the Move.
● Launch a phased programme of recovery of the classified heritage, based on the
mobilization of community funds and the simplification of procedures for the
implementation of interventions, which will also pass through the investment in the formation of
skilled labour, in articulation with the different sectors of rehabilitation of the
edited.
● Creating mechanisms of active cooperation between tourism and culture, in the framework of a
growing demand in the cultural tourism sector.
Economic enhancement of Cultural and Artistic Activity
● Collaboration with areas such as education, youth and tourism, in an approach
cross-sectional of the arts, articulated between the central, regional and local administration,
promoters and private producers, for deepening the relationship of creation
artistic and cultural and creative industries with other fields, in a logic of
mutual benefit.
● Elaboration of a plan that integrates the various sectors involved, for the
consolidation of a training strategy, access to finance,
internationalization and protection of intellectual property appropriate to the potential
economic of creativity.
● Creation of a national brand for certification, valorisation and national promotion and
international of traditional arts and crafts.
● Fostering of means and digital content for greater access to information on the
cultural and creative sector, from the dissemination of artistic initiatives to programs of
national and international funding.
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● Dynamization of the artistic sector, searching for proximity and dialogue with agents
cultural, proposing solutions of transparency and simplification of the procedures of
access to finance and trying to strengthen and, where necessary, readjust the process
of evaluation and monitoring of these entities.
● Analysing the normative framework of support for the arts, in a collaborative environment and
auscultation, aiming at its updating to the national and international context in which the
cultural agents operate and seek the simplification of access procedures.
● Encouraging the professional internships, both from the artistic area and the technical area, in the
a sense of facilitating the insertion of young people into the labour market.
● Valorisation of National Theatres as poles of national creation, encouraging the
pursuing multi-annual projects with the necessary trust, which is essential for
your mission. It aims to combine institutions with an important historical legacy,
placing them equally at the service of fruition and national and international creation
contemporary, decentralizing their action by the national territory;
● Continue to promote investment in cinema and the national audiovisual,
by encouraging their production, the discovery of new talents, the ability to
production, innovation and national potentials.
● Simplify and make public support for cinema more accessible.
● Promotion of projects and measures aimed at capactivation of public for the rooms of
cinema, as is the case with the Festa of Cinema.
● Deepening the National Cinema Plan, created with the aim of forming audiences
school for cinema, broadening its scope, progressive and sustainably, to
national territory, with a view to the addition of the number of schools and pupils involved,
of teachers covered by the training actions, the moments of visioning and
of the available films.
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● With the aim of bridging the lack of cinematic supply in the country's interior,
promote new editions of the "Portuguese Cinema on the Move".
Disseminate national creators in the Foreigner
● Strengthening the policy of internationalization of the arts by supporting actors
cultural, host of programmers and foreign curators, and of the
institutional representation in the major international events of the various areas
artistic.
● Establishment of cross-sectoral strategic partnerships with a view to strengthening
mechanisms of circulation and extension of the life cycle of the expositive projects in the
participations and Portuguese representations in some of the major events
international architecture, plastic arts and design.
● Develop actions that promote the visibility of cinema and audiovisual
portuguese, improve their competitiveness in the international landscape and above all the
recognition of their quality and uniqueness.
● Privileging the affirmation of Portuguese cinema and audiovisual at the festivals and fairs of the
sector, such as Berlin and Cannes, with the aim of strengthening the international promotion of the
cinema and the Portuguese audiovisual, and reinforce initiatives that aim to attract the interest of
distributors and exhibitors and too many foreign partners, such as the CPLP Program
Audiovisual and the 1. The International Market of Audiovisual of the Countries of Language
Portuguese.
● Analysing mechanisms and instruments that potentiate the internationalization of Portugal
as a destination for both sustaining and audiovisual filmmaking and audiovisual production
long term.
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Social Communication
● To ensure the freedoms of expression and information of media bodies.
● In the framework of the fundamental freedoms and guarantees that it is incumbent upon the State to ensure,
special attention will be paid to critical domains such as terrestrial digital offering, the
concentration and the transfer of the property, and the policy of incentives to the organs of
media.
Print a transversal character to cultural policy and develop the work in
network between central and local administration
The Government takes as a priority in this area the restoration of the Ministry of
Culture as the first promoter of a coherent and sustained cultural policy and how
Privileged interlocutor with the remaining tubs, promoting, simultaneously, the work
in network with local and regional decision-making centres and strengthening their initiative and
capacity. For this, the Government intends to:
● Transfer to the level of regional decision-making skills of tutelage and of
support for the creation of local territorial scope;
● To strengthen the articulation and better operationalisation of financing lines and
supports for culture, notably by establishing interministerial funds that allow
articulate the cultural incidence investments of the various ministries and create
transparent mechanisms of cofinancing of cultural projects between the
Central, regional and local administration and promoters and private producers.
29. ENSURING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF SOCIAL SECURITY
In this framework, the Government's acting takes on the commitment to defend and strengthen the
State Social, to implement a strategy to combat poverty and social exclusion, from
implement policies that promote dignified employment and fair pay, to ensure
sustainability of Social Security and the reposition of social minimums.
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The Government will take on as a priority the achievement of a rigorous assessment of the situation
of the Social Security system, seeking to improve the respect of sustainability
(financial, economic and social), finding new sources of funding, their justice,
combating fraud and evasion and completing the convergence between the public sector and the
private sector and, finally, the transparency of the system.
Promoting sustainable and transparent management of Social Security by means of
rigorous evaluation of the evolution of the system
By building trust in public policies and in the Social Security system-a
valuable asset that it intends to preserve-the Government proposes to simplify, approximate and facilitate
the citizens ' access to information, as well as to strengthen solidarity between the generations.
But trust requires, equally, stability and predictability in the rules and guarantee of
sustainability so that future generations can access rights and opportunities
identical. In this sense, the Government understands that any reform should result from
transparent prior studies by making accurate and clear statistical information available.
In this way, the Government will:
● To rigorously assess the evolution of the Social Security system in recent years, the
impact of the measures taken and the effects of the economic crisis on equilibria
financial of pension systems, as well as the new challenges arising from the
demographic transformations and the labour market;
● Promoting transparent and proactive studies and prospearders-making available
up-to-date, rigorous and clear information for the scrutiny of all;
● To monitor and permanently monitor the social and state policies of the
Social Security, contributing to an evaluation of the policies and definition of
recommendations;
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● Create a Social Security Statistics System, which will allow for disclosure
timely of the relevant, contributory and prestationable data, allowing to evaluate the
evolution of policies in the face of their goals and assess social impacts, as well as
evaluate the procedures of the entities and services that promote the policies in the
terrain;
● Promote a caregiver and judicious public management of the Stabilization Fund
Financial Security, as well as its reinforcement.
To manage in a reformist manner the Social Security system aiming to strengthen its
sustainability, equity and redistributive effectiveness
The improvement of the conditions of sustainability (financial, economic and social) of the system of
Social Security should take into consideration: the age of retirement and life expectancy, the
demographic change of the country, the changes in the labour market and the replacement rate of the
income, as well as the effectiveness of contributory systems in terms of equity and
combat evasion and fraud.
In this framework, the Government is proposed to:
● To study the strengthening of funding and sustainability of Social Security, through
of the diversification of its sources of funding;
● Ensure the non-change of the rules for calculating benefits already awarded in title
definitive;
● Reassessing the sustainability factor in the face of the occurring changes, whether of context,
wants legislative;
● Reassess the exemptions and reductions in the contributory rate for Social Security;
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Fighting fraud and contributory and prestational evasion
In this area, it is defined as a priority the establishment of combat plans to
fraud and the avoidance of contributory and prestationable, potentiating effectiveness and efficiency in the
collection of the contributory revenue, through the debureaucratization of procedures, improvement
of the methodologies of acting and increasing use of new technologies, with a view to
decrease the stock of debt and to increase the financial resources of Social Security. The
Government will:
● Amend the process of declaration of remuneration to Social Security, through the
implementation of official remuneration statements, enhancing the effectiveness in
detetion of understatement behaviors and minimizing the risk of avoidance
contributor;
● Repose of the relevance of the supervisory actions and the respective results, in a manner
direct the surveillance actions for zones and groups more susceptible to generate
situations of default;
● Easing and strengthening debt collection mechanisms, by way of the
improvement of the debt participation process, the agilization of the
procedures for payment and celebration of payment plans, with particular
focus on the viabilization of companies;
● Streamline and make the recovery process of undue payments more effective
and reduce the volume of social benefits assigned improperly through the
development of automatic procedures for periodic quality control
of data, of the enrichment of the information system, of the reinforcement of the crossing
automatic data and streamlining in the procedures for the celebration of plans of
payment, as well as the improvement of the clearing process between debits and
credits in the previdential system.
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Ensuring harmonisation in the progress of the CGA regime with the general regime of
Social Security
The resumption of a convergence pathway of the General Box Regime of Retirees
(CGA) with the General Social Security Regime (RGSS), started more than a decade ago,
allows the assumption of a total convergence, passing the treatment of the same as the
future pensioners of both schemes. The Government is proposing to adopt a scheme
fully convergent between the CGA and the RGSS, ensuring progressive harmonisation
of the different schemes with regard to the formation and the rules for calculating pensions, of
way to ensure more equal treatment and to eliminate discrepancies that still
remain.
Simplify and make the social benefit system more transparent
The trust of citizens in a Social Security regime is based largely on the
quality, proximity, accessibility and the ease of relationship, on the basis of
access to information on rights and duties, ensuring a permanent interaction between
the taxpayers and beneficiaries and social security. The relationship channels with the
Social Security- online , telephone and presential-they should be integrated and complementary
of each other, so as to ensure adequate coverage and sizing.
Thus, the pursuit of these goals leads the Government to:
● Carry out a comprehensive assessment of the previdential and social protection systems of
citizenship, studying options for institutional simplification and simplification of the
mesh of social benefits, always ensuring in the measures that it results in
protection of current benefit recipients and the enhancement of the overall effectiveness of the
systems;
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● Promoting the dematerialization of care processes, privileging the
listening online , but reconciling it with a telephone service with a
effective responsiveness and with timetables tailored to the needs of citizens,
and with a presential care with adequate territorial cover, focused on
particular in those who have the greatest difficulty in accessing the remaining channels of
service (by ex., through the provision of public services in balconies
specifically addressed to senior citizens);
● Implement new functionalities that allow for the consultation of the contributory career and
the history of earned benefits, the forecast of the value of the pension to be received and the
submission online of applications, as well as the exploitation of the potential of the
mobile devices while emerging channels of communication, ensuring the
possibility of a permanent interaction between taxpayers and beneficiaries and the
Social Security.
30. BETTER TAX FAIRNESS
A fair tax system should treat differently who has the most incomes and
contribute to the correction of unjustifiable inequalities that prevent who has less
income from benefiting from effective opportunities for development and social evolution.
In addition, a fair tax treatment implies stability and predictability in the rules
relating to taxes, so that people and companies can have confidence to take
decisions. The lives of people and the success of business projects depends on a certain
stability and predictability. It is not possible to plan and program life projects and take
decisions regarding personal and business investments without a tax framework
minimally stable meant to ensure that a good decision made in a certain context
tax does not turn into a bad decision by that context has changed.
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A fair tax treatment still requires unlevering combat on the drain on payment of the
taxes and the effectiveness in its collection. In a situation where more is required of the people and the
companies it is especially unacceptable that some try to evade their obligations to
citizenship, being the payment of taxes one of them. Fiscal justice implies, for, that all
take on your duties to the extent of your possibilities, without a few stay
isentations of doing so.
But collection and payment of taxes cannot be done at all costs, without looking at the
means. There has to be proportionality in the requirements and means employed by the machine
tax, as well as a reinforcement and streamlining of the means at the disposal of the citizen to react to the
injustice in the settlement and collection of taxes. With exaggerations that bring more seating
immediate, but that provokes injustices that cannot be accepted, there is no system
tax itself of a rule of law.
For the Government, a fair tax treatment goes through by adopting rules that reduce
unacceptable inequalities, for ensuring the stability and predictability of the fiscal framework, by the
combat with no leagues on leakage to paying taxes and eliminating demands
excessive and disproportionate tax. For this, the Government will adopt the following
measures:
● Increase the progressivity of the IRS, notably by increasing the number
of scales;
● Improvement of deductions for collection for low and medium income;
● Creating a tax on inheritances of high value, contributing to a society
more just and inclusive listening to the high level of taxation on the income of the
work, the high inequality of income and heritage and the fact that the current
absence of taxation of the successions lead to the unrealised gains in life
of the holder totally escapes taxation. This tax must take into account the
need to avoid phenomena of multiple international taxation of successions;
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● Eliminate the familiar quotient introduced in the 2015 State Budget, which has
a regressive nature, and its replacement by a deduction for each child who does not
have the regressive character of the current formulation, with neutral effect from the point of view
of the tax revenue;
● Review of municipal heritage taxation, considering the introduction of the
progressiveness in IMI;
● Introduction of a safeguard clause that limit to 75 € / year the increases in
IMI in reassessment of real estate, which is permanent, low-value housing;
● Extension of the system of fiscal stimulus to SMEs at IRC headquarters;
● Creating a system of incentives for installation of companies and increasing production
in the border territories, specifically through a tax benefit, in IRC,
modulated by the regional distribution of employment;
● Reverse, in what touches the recent reform of the IRC, the " participation exemption " (returning
to the minimum of 10% social participation), and the deadline for reporting of tax damages
(reducing from 12 to 5 years);
● Recognizing the importance of ensuring stable and fair policies for the resumption of the
private investment, create a framework of stability in tax legislation,
particularly ensuring that changes to the fundamental aspements of the schemes
tax is done only once in the legislature (by proposal of the Act to be submitted by the
final of the 1 th semester of 2016);
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● Allow anyone who has a credit before the State or other public entities
can compensate you with credits that the tax administration and Social Security
have for with that person or company. The measure is intended for natural persons
with incomes below a value to be fixed and to small and medium-sized enterprises with
recipes lower than a certain value. The tax / security amounts
Social dispenser of payment will be taken down to transfers that come
effected for the public entities that had the values in debt, in the frame of the
your funding through the State Budget;
● Ban on tax runs on the family home for relatively a
value debts lower than the value of the well executed, and suspension of the house attachment
of family abode in the remaining cases;
● Eliminate demands for submission of documents and duplicate information, useless or
excessive for tax purposes, as well as eliminating declarative obligations and obligations
of preservation of information, where possible;
● Review of disproportionate and excessive values of fines and interest by
non-compliance with tax obligations and introduction of accumulation mechanisms
maximum in the fines applied by counterordinations practiced by natural persons
and micro and small entrepreneurs, specifically by default of obligations
declarative;
● Limit the excessive achievement of successive and permanent tax inspections to
natural persons and SMEs;
● Reduction of costs associated with tax arbitrage, so that taxpayers with
smaller resources or with reduced value tax issues may also
benefit from this fast, agile and effective conflict resolution form in tax matters;
● Expedite the situations and conditions in which you can be negotiated and accept a plan of
payments for tax debts and Social Security.
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31. FIGHTING POVERTY
The Government's strategy for combating poverty by adopting an integrative approach
and articulated of various sectoral measures, which are to be complementary, potentiating
synergies and betting on measures of proximity, focusing on children and their
families, proposes to settle on two axes, specifically
● The design of a national strategy to combat the poverty of children and young people
that, in an integrated manner, recovers the centrality of the family allowance as support
reference public to households; and
● The reposition of supports that guarantee social minimums to citizens in a situation of
increased vulnerability (such as the Insertion Social Throughput and the Complement
Sympathetic to Elderly).
With respect to the first axis , with a definite time horizon and targets to be achieved,
proposes to articulate a set of targeted measures for children and young people with
measures that will enable the addition of the resources of the households ' respective households. The
measures directed towards the reduction of monetary poverty should be complemented with
others directed at the promotion of equal opportunities, particularly in terms of
access to quality education and combating school unsuccessful, as well as care
of adequate health. The strategy to be defined should be centered on the territory, privileging the
areas most marked by critical situations of child poverty.
Among the measures to be considered, in this area, the following are highlighted:
● Increase the amounts of the family allowance, the prenatal allowance and the majoration to
the monoparental families benefiting from these benefits;
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● Reshapes the income classes of access to the family allowance so that the
children in poverty, in particular, those who are in a situation of
extreme poverty have access to resources that allow to improve their standard of living,
resetting the family allowance in such a way as to allow conjugation with measures
supplementary on the side of public services (education and health);
● Mobilizing School Social Action to improve and deepen supports for children and
young people in a situation of greater social and economic fragility;
● Constructing a system of warning indicators of situations of social precariousness, the
from the follow-up of the child benefit of family allowance,
enabling more integrated action of the social protection system, in cases of
triggering.
In the framework of the second axis, stands out the restitution of the level of protection of the
Solid complement for Elderly (CSI) and its re-establishment as an element
central to combating poverty among seniors, taking on the Government the following
appointments:
● Repose of the reference value of the CSI in the annual amount of EUR 5022, restoring the
annual values previously in force and allowing, in this way, to return to
benefit from this elderly benefit that were excluded, as well as the upgrading of the
provision to the elderly who have suffered a reduction in their nominal value;
● Assess the hypothesis of whether to simplify the mesh of minimum benefits that compete
to the same end of poverty reduction among seniors, ensuring a
positive differentiation for longer careers.
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It is still relegated, on this axis, the dignified of the Social Insertion of Insertion (RSI). The RSI
aims to ensure social minimums by protecting the groups of greatest fragility and vulnerability,
distinguishing itself from other supports and social benefits by including a component of
integration and inclusion, which concretes itself upon the conclusion of insertion agreements with
the beneficiaries of the provision. In the most recent years, the RSI has been subject to a set
significant of legislative changes, not only in the reference values and capitation
applicable, which determine the amount of the provision, but also in the conditions of access
to the provision and maintenance of it. In addition, the insertion programmes were
disposathering.
In order to dignify the RSI, reposing its effectiveness as a measure of combating poverty
extreme, the Government will repose the levels of protection to Portuguese families, so as to
reintroduce, consistently, adequate coverage levels, thereby strengthening the
integrative and inclusive capacity of this provision. It will further reassess the effectiveness of the
insertion programmes, in the sense of promoting an adequacy of the measures to
characteristics of the beneficiaries and the households in which they are ineligible, so that
promote an effective social inclusion.
Dignify the work by effectively reducing the percentage of workers in
poverty risk situation, through the wage supplement
With the aim of fighting poverty situations among workers, the government will create
a new provision, the Annual Wage Supplement, which constitutes a tax credit, which
aims to protect the income of workers who, by virtue of low wages and the
high job rotation throughout the year, do not earn income earners put them
above the poverty line.
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Stabilize and develop cooperation with the solidary sector
Attentive to the important role developed by the area's nongovernmental organizations
social, the Government should pay particular attention to the cooperation with the sympathetic sector in
areas such as combating poverty, acting for proximity in support of families and the
communities, and the integration of groups subject to marginalization risks.
In this sense, it will propose as a matter of urgency the renewal of the Covenant for Cooperation
and Solidarity, which should be paued by the following principles:
● Mid-term stability of the state's relationship with social institutions;
● Definition of an effective operative framework of the regulatory role of public institutions
in matters of cooperation;
● Prioritisation of positive differentiation as a pillar of the model of
cooperation;
● Ensuring the reconciliation between institutional sustainability and accessibility to the
social services.
32. BUILD A MORE EQUAL SOCIETY
The promotion of equality and non-discrimination is viewed as an ethical imperative,
legal and constitutional in the defence and the guarantee of fundamental rights, requiring the
challenges in this area a model of social organisation based on a new paradigm of the
social relations between people and their interaction in the territory.
In the field of equality policies, the agenda is ambitious and seeks to sustain the
integration of immigrant and refugee communities, the guarantee of religious freedom, and the
combating discrimination depending on sexual orientation or gender orientation. However, the
elimination of legal discrimination implies that there is continuity in cultural combat
against prejudice and the livelihood of de facto discrimination.
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The Government's strategy proposes to pursue an action that ensures a vision of the future
and who retires in citizenship, valuing social responsibility and business ethics and
structuring public policies directed towards social and territorial cohesion.
Ensure an integrated approach to the various factors of discrimination
One of the main findings of the European Year of Equal Opportunities for
All emphasized the need for clear strategies of public policies for reality
of the multiple discriminations. In this sense, it matters to promote the existence of
legislative instruments that systematize and update the legislation produced in the framework
of the policies of equality and non-discrimination, in the sense of their consolidation and greater
effectiveness in its specific and transversal implementation. In parallel, it imports to strengthen the
coordination of public entities with responsibilities in this field, so as to
articulate with greater effectiveness the repurposing and implementation of the sectoral plans and actions.
Thus, the Government intends to strengthen this integrated approach through the following
measures:
● White Paper elaboration with a view to the passage of an Equality Act and Not
Discrimination;
● Institution of a National Equality Council and Non-Discrimination, as
instance of coordination of the services and bodies of the Public Administration with
competencies in the area of Equality and Non-Discrimination (v.g. IGC, INR, ACM, CITE,
Committee on Religious Freedom, etc.);
● Drafting of an Action Plan for Multiple Discriminations, which allows for
close articulation of the plans of each area of promotion of equality and combat to
discrimination;
● Integration of issues concerning multiple discrimination in the drafting of legislation and
in the monitoring and evaluation of support policies and programs.
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Promoting equality between men and women
The challenges that today arise for the promotion of equality between women and men
frame themselves in a new paradigm of social relations between people and their interaction
with the territory, a world that gives us back the place of the community, valuing life
everyday and proximity. In this context, the Government will develop a policy of
guarantee of equality between women and men, through the promotion of specific actions and
integrating, in all policies, the gender dimension, since the discrimination of the
women are multifaceted and aggravate other forms of discrimination. In the achievement of these
goals, and according to a concerted action among various government areas the
Government will promote the development of the following actions:
● Promoting gender balance at the 33% level in the directing positions for the
listed listed companies, public sector companies and direct administration and
indirect from the state and too many public collective people.
● Promoting with the social partners a commitment to introduce into the
instruments of contracting collective provisions relating to the reconciliation of life
familiar with working life, the prevention of gender inequalities and harassment
in the workplace.
● To promote effective and effective combat inequalities between women and
men at work in such a way as to counter the trend of aggravation that this
indicator has been registering in recent years;
● Evolve into a minimum exercise benchmark of 33% of the total license time
effectively enjoyed by each of the persons who exercise parental responsibility,
replicating from rest other instruments of promoting gender equality. This
measure implies, in the current regime, increase the time of leave enjoyed by man
for 3 weeks, given that the time of unrelinquishable leave by the woman is 6
weeks. In the remainder of time, the proportion of sharing of the right to leave must be
encouraged, without prejudice to individual freedom in the shared organisation of the
license times.
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Women, Peace and Security
The Government recognizes the close connection between the issues of peace, security,
development and the promotion of women's rights in the context of conflicts
armed. The United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 1325 (2000) on
Women, Peace and Security was the first Resolution of this body to warn of impact
unequal that armed conflicts have on women and men and for necessity
of promoting the transversality of the dimension of gender equality in prevention, management
and resolution of armed conflicts and at all stages of the peace building processes,
with application both to countries in processes of armed conflict and recovery of
conflicts, as in countries in peace. In that sense will implement a set of measures,
through a National Action Plan for the implementation of the Resolution of the Council of
Security of the United Nations No. 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security.
Promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities
In the area of promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities, priority is emphasized
giving it to its inclusion, which imposes a cross-sectional action, from an inclusive school to a
barriques without barriers, undergoing the improvement of mechanisms of social support and
by a decent employment strategy for all. The inclusion of people with disabilities
it thus constitutes a central priority of the agenda for equality, which it will have as
priority objectives the identification and recognition of different situations of
disability, with differentiated degrees of dependence, that lack answers and of
distinct supports, as the challenges facing their integration are of a nature
diversion.
Among the measures to be developed, they refer to those intended for:
● Fighting violence and discrimination, in particular against children, young people, adults
and seniors with disabilities or disability;
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● Define from a job strategy and work for everyone, involving the different
actors, who bet on professional training actions in the regular system of training,
on increasing the supply of professional internships in companies and sector organisations
public and supportive;
● Assess and reformulate social benefits by studying the advantages and disadvantages of
implementation of a single benefit model for disability / disability;
● Develop, in articulation with the municipalities, of a programme " Territories
Inclusive ", which ensures physical and communicational acessibilities, developing
a program of pedonal accessibility and communicational accessibility;
● Betting on an inclusive school of 2 th generation that should intervene in the framework of the
special education and the organisation of educational supports for children and young people who
of them will require;
● Ensure access to life-long learning.
Discrimination in the function of sexual orientation and gender identity
The model of social organisation is, in today's days, structured in new
gender social relations, competing for the Government to ensure that men and women
live, in fact, in equality either in the public sphere or in the private, taking in
consideration of the different ways in which each and others suffer discrimination. In this
framework, it is important to complete the legislative changes triggered in the last decade having
in view of the placement of Portugal, once again, on the front line of the committed countries
on equality. Thus, according to a concerted action between various areas
government, in particular the Ministry of Justice, the Government is proposing to implement
measures in the sense of:
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● Eliminating the access restrictions, which still remain in law, to procreation techniques
medically assisted by same-sex couples and single women,
mandating that sexual orientation and marital status are not conditioner to the
constitution of family and access to scientific methods open to the rest
population.
● Improving the regime of gender identity, particularly in what concerne a
need for prediction of civil recognition of intersex people and improve
the legislative framework relating to transgender and transgender persons.
● Valuing public policies directed at eradicating discrimination on the basis of
sexual orientation, expressly allocating to the Commission for Citizenship and Equality
of Gender the mission of the promotion of public, transversal and comprehensive policies for
all the Public Administration, in particular in the field of training and awareness raising.
Promoting the conditions for the realization of religious freedom
The Portuguese State is bound by international commitments and guidelines of the Union
European, the Council of Europe and the United Nations aiming to secure the exercise
of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the promotion of the principle of
equality and non-discrimination. The field of religious freedom convene a debate
central and demanding public with regard to the guarantee of the conditions of exercise of the
religious freedom, in a framework of a secular state and capable of promoting Dialogue
Interfaith and Interconfessional. The government is proposing to realize such commitments
through the following measures:
● Reconfiguration of the Committee on Religious Freedom, increasing its comprehensiveness and
operativity, strengthening the pluralism of its composition (in such a way as to integrate
representatives of other confessions with increasing expression) and their mission of
promotion of coexistence and dialogue between confessions and, between these and non-believers;
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● The introduction of a national initiative for the Inter-Religious Dialogue, taking advantage of the
excecional conditions of good relationship between confessions and communities that
Portugal presents, preventing the occurrence of discriminatory phenomena, waging
the risk of growth of radical, extremist or fundamentalist approaches (such as
those we have assisted in other contexts), and promoting efficient channels of dialogue
between believers and non-believers, the state and too many pudic powers, and the various
radicalized communities in the Country.
33. A GLOBAL PORTUGAL
The Government will confer on foreign policy a constant attention in these next four
years of governance stating Portugal in Europe and the World. It is essential for so much
an acting and enhanced presence of Portugal in the broad fabric of external relations.
Being that the national identity is, in the first instance, European, luscious, ibero-
American and Atlantic, Portugal must privilege in its external relations the participation in
multilateral organizations and forums of these priority spaces of acting.
Complementarily, the Country has specific and strategic interests in other geographies and
must potentiate the fact that it is a country that is open to the world, cultivating economic relations,
cultural, scientific and political with all regions and valuing participation in other
relevant international organizations, such as the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the OECD, the
WTO, among others. In the plan of these multilateral relations, Portugal will have as it traves-
master's of its foreign policy the defence of democratic values and human rights, the
combat terrorism and armed conflicts, and the promotion of a development
sustainable, in particular with respect to the fight against climate change. Your
active participation in the United Nations system, through a qualified intervention
in the major bodies, specialized agencies, funds and programmes, is an essential element
for affirmation in the World.
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Portugal should also promote, with a view to pursuing the Objectives of
Sustainable Development, models of sustained development, both in terms of
environmental as economic and social, tackling trends of global competitiveness
that are based on the erosion of social rights or the over-exploitation of resources. In
consonance, Portugal should set an example in the development cooperation, in
special with the countries and regions of the globe with whom we have historical ties, whether in the form
of development cooperation with institutional capacity-building policies,
socio-economic development, governance and security, be it in the form of aid
humanitarian and emergency, whether in the form of technical-military cooperation programs.
In the plan of bilateral relations, in addition to the importance of the luster-Spanish dialogue, of the
articulation with our European partners and of the obvious links to the luscious world,
should be strengthened the Atlantic relations and with the countries of Latin America, as well as
narrowed down the links with the emerging powers, not forgetting the links to several
states, specifically from the Maghreb and Asia-Pacific.
One of the lines of acting of this Government to potentiate economic diplomacy, the
internationalization of Portuguese companies and the promotion of foreign trade is, by
one side, cultivate the relationships of excellence with our usual trading partners,
how they are, the European countries, and, on the other, look for new relationship networks
economic, i.e., open new channels of export and investment. It matters still in this
context facing the Portuguese communities abroad as a lever of the
internationalisation of the Portuguese economy, intending the Government to foster, by a
side, the investment of emigrants and lusodescendants in Portugal in priority sectors
(tourism, trade and industry, culture), and, on the other hand, valuing and supporting the companies of
Portuguese and lusodescendants abroad, specifically through the
development of strategic international partnerships between companies.
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The recognition of lusophonia as an economic, educational and identitarian space,
implies a political acting capable of fulfilling the defined desicrations that pass through the
language valorisation and the promotion of a stronger CPLP through the bet on the
diplomatic cooperation, with a view to political, economic, scientific development,
cultural and social of the luscious space.
Being the Portuguese Language one of the great assets of Portugal and the communities
Portuguese scattered around the world, it is important to recognize it as a factor of
identity and as an added cultural, scientific, political and economic worth. Thus, the
valorisation of the Portuguese language takes over as a strategy that involves the whole
Government, owing to cover different areas such as citizenship, economy, culture, the
teaching and heritage.
With respect to the Portuguese communities abroad, it matters to value their strength,
wants economic, both cultural and political. It is thus crucial to stimulate the connection of the
emigrants with their motherland, support them in the host countries and safeguard their
rights as national citizens. Portuguese emigrants in the world are the
best ambassadors of Portugal, so by valuing this diaspora is-if
automatically to value Portugal. Thus, and with respect to the vector of communities
of Portuguese abroad, the Government has as the main lines of acting the
Following: (i) Facilitating the connection of the Portuguese resident abroad to the entities
national public; (ii) Potentiating the exercise of citizenship and the representativeness of the
Communities; (iii) Reinforce solidarity with the Communities; (iv) Maintaining living a
culture, the arts and the Portuguese memory; and (v) Dinamize the associative network and youth.
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Promoting the Portuguese language and luscious citizenship
The affirmation of the Portuguese Language as a factor of identity and cultural worthless,
scientific, political and economic is one of the desicons of this Government in its external action.
Associate is also the definition of a joint and concerted strategy to consolidate
the Portuguese in the world, which reinforces its use either in the education systems of several
countries, both in international organizations. The recognition of the Portuguese Language
as an official language of work and the cultural and touristic valorisation of linguistic heritage
common should be a priority that will only have repercussion if there is an adjusted strategy
with the remaining Portuguese-speaking countries. The promotion of Portuguese culture is another
of the objectives of this Government in the framework of its external action. Thus, in this scope, the
Government will seek to streamline, in partnership with the states in the CPLP, and in the framework of its own
of the cooperative partnerships instituted, the following measures:
● Orthographic harmonisation of the Portuguese language and technical and scientific terminology,
under the terms of the established agreements;
● Establishment of partnerships with the specialized academic bodies and with the
institutions congeners of the remaining luscious countries to perfect the instruments
monitoring of the evolution of the Portuguese language;
● Creation of an economic space of the Portuguese Language that favours the exercise of the
trade and investment;
● Creation of the status of the Portuguese Language Space Company;
● Development of a multifaceted cooperation space of the CPLP in the framework of the
scientific research around the sea, international trade, valorisation of the
orla coastal, from the promotion of fishing and economic and environmentally sound exploitation
sustainable marine resources;
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● Development of a vocationally led university exchange program
specifically for the circulation of Portuguese-speaking students, instituting themselves
an Erasmus in the CPLP, aimed at students and teachers;
● Development of a common space for distance learning based on the use of the
information and communication technologies and in the use of social networks, in
collaboration with public entities and the social sector;
● Development of mechanisms for interoperability between public services of the
different countries of the CPLP, the similarity of what already happens between Cape Verde and
Portugal;
● To potentiate the presence of Portuguese in the education systems of several European countries,
Africans and Americans, specifically through digital support platforms for
e-learning , in a partnership between the universities and the Camões Institute;
● Potentiate the use of the Portuguese as an official language in organisations
international, in particular in the United Nations system
● Valorisation, classification and promotion of common or shared heritage,
notably in the framework of the World Heritage Site of UNESCO;
● Resume the Program of the Bibliographic Network of Lusofonia and the presence of Portugal in the
top international certames from the book, in the double strand of cooperation with the
Portuguese-speaking communities and intensification of the internationalization of literature
portuguese;
● To foster the profiling of touristic-cultural itineraries, with local, national and
international, aimed at the definition of a Common Heritage Route of the CPLP;
● The promotion of common language policies involving cultural content and
identitaries.
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The promotion of luscious citizenship is also a priority. The Government intends
in this scope to deepen the dimension of political and social cooperation what will pass through
broaden the range of citizenship rights by fostering dialogue and diplomatic cooperation.
For this the government will seek to streamline the following measures:
● The creation of the "Lusófono Citizen Charter", as a legal instrument of
recognition to all citizens of various rights in the luscious space, such as
the freedom of travel and residence fixation, the recognition of
academic and professional qualifications, the exercise of political rights and the
portability of social rights;
● The signing of the CPLP's Multilateral Social Security Convention, as well as its
effective application;
● The creation of a network of centres of arbitration, conciliation and mediation in space
economic of the Portuguese Language;
● The creation of Lusophone-based pan-African banking platforms;
● The development of a programme of cooperation in the framework of energy in space
economic of the Portuguese Language;
● The dissemination of agreements on movement and citizenship covering subjects
relevant to the luscious citizen and who are often unknown by the
citizens and not applied in the CPLP.
Policies in the framework of the development cooperation policy
The policy of international cooperation is a key instrument of foreign policy
national, but its model has to be rethought so as to make it more effective and
coherent, having present the new conceptual framework and priorities introduced by the
Agenda 2030, as well as limited public resources for Public Aid to the
Development (ODA). The new model of cooperation will require:
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● The strengthening of coordination between the various actors-public and private-da
cooperation, for the sake of a set of geographical and thematic areas defined as
priority for national intervention;
● The maintenance of the privileged partnership with the countries of the Portuguese language, aware of
that language and culture are tools of our cooperation that must be
valued;
● The diversification of the sources of financing cooperation, strengthening and
valuing the ability to run by the Union project Camps of projects
European in delegated cooperation scheme using Portuguese APD as
instrument catalyst for other public and private financing for projects
deemed to be given priority, and promoting projects in partnership with other actors
public and private;
● Increased efficiency in the implementation of cooperation programs, through reinforcement
of the means of decentralized management, regular monitoring and evaluation of the
execution of the projects;
● The enhancement of the capacity and effectiveness of public institutions of cooperation,
notably through the simplification of administrative procedures and the bet
in the valorisation of human resources;
● The promotion and monitoring of implementation efforts, at the national level and
International, of the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the Agenda
2030.
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A Policy for Emigration
The valorisation of people should count on all the Portuguese who work and live
out of the country, taking advantage of your qualifications, your percourses and the connection that
Portuguese and descendants of emigrants from the various generations maintain with Portugal.
Historically, Portugal has conferred on foreign policy a constant attention in the area of
luster and in the relevant policies for the Portuguese communities, going on today,
in the face of the new wave of emigration, the need for a policy also focussed on the
return. Such priorities must now guide the Government, with a focus on the affirmation of the
portuguese language, for the implantation of a luscious citizenship and for the narrowing of the
connection to Portuguese communities abroad. In this context, and according to a
concerted action between various government areas, in particular the Ministry of Business
Foreigners and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, the Government intends
proceed to the implementation of the following measures:
● The removal of obstacles to the return and movement of emigrated Portuguese;
● The stimulus of relations between emigrants and the national society;
● The promotion of the displacements of emigrants to Portugal;
● Support the creation of networks of emigrants, in particular among skilled emigrants and
entrepreneurs.
● To stimulate the institutional valorisation of the emigrant and its sense of belonging to the
national community and nurture relations with the Portuguese diaspora while
facilitation mechanism of internationalization of the national economy and promotion
of the image of Portugal in the world;
● Create an annual award for emigrants who have excelled for their contribution to their
community and the Country;
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● Encouraging, with the universities, the promotion of Portugal as a student destination
Portuguese emigrated in programmes Erasmus and from Study Abroad .
Policies in the context of the valorisation of relations with the Portuguese communities
Every emigrated national citizen represents our country. It is thus essential to value this
active foreign policy, by means of various measures in the various dimensions of its
vivences. The Government will seek in these next four years of governance to implement
in its relations with the Portuguese communities the following measures:
● To facilitate the connection of Portuguese residents abroad to public entities
national:
- Modernising the consular network, particularly through the development of access
to online services or mobile services, in a concern for simplification and
proximity to users;
- Create a Consular e-Ballet, to be integrated into the Citizen's Portal and Communities,
dematerializing many consular acts, ensuring their access by citizens in
any part of the world and reducing the need for travel to posts
consulars;
- Proceed to a wider dissemination of the rights of the Portuguese emigrants in
tax, labour or pension terms of retirement.
● To potentiate the exercise of citizenship and the representativeness of communities;
- To provide for the adoption of new voting modalities that encourage participation of the
citizens residing abroad;
- Simplify and expedite the enrollment in the electoral rolls in the consular services;
- Allow the renewal of the Citizen Card in Portugal by holding the residence in the
foreign, that is, without loss of enrollment in the country's electoral notebooks of
residence;
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- Promoting actions for the sake of citizenship among elected and Portuguese life actors in the
diaspora, notably actions directed at youth.
● To strengthen solidarity with the Communities;
- Ensure sustained support for the structures that are concerned with the aid to emigrants
more in need;
- Perfecting mechanisms for surveillance of working conditions and accommodation
of the emigrants in a situation of greater precariousness, acting decisively to
safeguard basic conditions of human dignity;
- To propose and promote the revision of international Social Security agreements in
vigour, with a view to strengthening the social protection of migrant workers and their
families;
- Extending the network of international Social Security instruments, through the
celebration of new agreements with countries with which there is no
international instrument, meeting the migratory contingent with these countries.
● Keeping alive the Portuguese culture, arts and memory
- To intensify exchange between Portugal and communities in the field of arts and
of culture, either through the itinerancy of exhibitions and spectacles, or
recognizing and valuing the Portuguese and luscious artists-descendents;
- Appropriate the offer of teachers and courses looking for lessons in the teaching of
Portuguese abroad, in such a way as to expand this modality of teaching and
cover all regions with large concentrations of Portuguese;
- Ensure the access of communities to modern media and
updated, in particular betting on the online and in programme services
international radio and public television.
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● Dynamising the associative network and youth
- Streamlining the associative network, notably through support for collectives and
federations of associations and the development of interassociative cooperation,
with the aim of developing integration into the host country;
- Create a youth exchange programme between Portugal and the communities,
inspired by the INOV-Contacto and INOV-Arts models, aimed at young people
Portuguese residents abroad, aiming to provide them with experiences
professionals in national territory;
- Facilitate the validation and recognition of qualifications, diplomas and skills,
valuing training abroad.
Continue Portugal in the Portuguese communities
The possibilities of economic development in connection with the diaspora have not been
still fully explored and the margin of manoeuvre is very significant. An effort
serious and committed in this area will bring considerable results for the growth of the Country
the very short but also in the long term, with lasting results. For this, the Government
intends to:
● Facing communities as a lever of the internationalization of the economy
Portuguese, resorting to the effect to local structures such as chambers of commerce,
themed associations, cooperation between cities, among others.
Policies in the framework of foreign policy
Multilateralism is one of the basic principles of Portuguese foreign political orientation.
In the period from 2016 a to 2019, Portugal will develop this principle through the
commitment to the United Nations system and the multilateral organizations to which
belongs. They will be important:
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● The participation in the different dimensions and structures of the work of the United Nations,
with a highlight of the mandate as a member of the Human Rights Council
(2015 -2017), for Portuguese Applications to different places of the Organization,
for the Alliance of Civilizations and for the promotion of human rights, education
and of culture, specifically as an elected member of the World Heritage Committee
of UNESCO (2013-2017);
● The action in the framework of the Council of Europe and, in particular, at its North-South Centre,
seated in Lisbon, as well as in the Organization for Cooperation and Security
European;
● The completion of the New Strategic Vision of the CPLP, to be approved in 2016, and the
submission of the application to the place of Executive Secretary, for the next
mandate, as well as, in general the consolidation and increment of the activities of the
Community;
● The participation in the organization of Ibero-Americanasis Summits;
● The commitment in the regional forums for cooperation, development and security,
taking the whole party out of the national interlocution capacity with different spaces
regional and with special relief for the initiatives around the Mediterranean (5 + 5), in the
relationship with Africa, the African Union, and African regional organizations, as well
as with regional organizations in Latin America.
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Policies in the framework of bilateral relations
Portuguese foreign policy is founded on a double capacity: on the one hand, assume a
privileged bilateral relationship with countries to which bind us together with particular geoisorical links,
as is the case with the United States, Spain and Brazil, among others; and, on the other hand,
developing bilateral, political, economic and cultural relations, with countries located in
all regions of the world. This is one of the core assets of our foreign policy, which
must be preserved and reinforced. Thus it should be given special emphasis, in the period of
2016 a 2019, to the development of the following bilateral relations:
● With the United States, aiming at, in the framework of existing agreements, and having
mainly in view of the construction of a solution for the Lajes Base, and in the frame
of the programmes for economic, scientific, technological and higher education cooperation,
in progress and to develop;
● With Spain, attentive to the geographical neighbourhood and shared interests, the common
participation in the EU and the EMU and the level of economic integration achieved in the space
Iberian;
● With Brazil, considered the deep historical ties, the responsibility
shared in the diffusion and promotion of the Portuguese language, solid economic relations and
the possibilities of partnership in cooperation with other luscious countries;
● With Portuguese-speaking African countries and East Timor, valuing also in the
bilateral plan the resources and possibility of cooperation and partnership;
● With African countries in West, East and South Africa, considered to want the
historical relations, whether the common interests in economic, security and
of institutional stabilization, whether, being the case, the presence of communities
Portuguese;
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● With the countries of the Maghreb, the Middle East and the Arab World in general, having in
tells the security challenges in the South neighbourhood and the possibilities of
deepening of the bilateral relationship either in the economic or cultural level;
● With Latin American countries, diversifying and deepening relationships
diplomatic, cultural and economic, attests to the historical affinities and the potential of
development of such countries;
● With the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, specifically in view
common interests in strategic and economic relationship terms and
commercial;
● With South and Southeast Asian countries, as well as those in the greater Asia-
Pacific, including China, India, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia, in
relations to which it is necessary to take advantage of recent diplomatic impulses,
deepening existing economic ties susceptible to launching more
opportunities for the national economy in the context of globalization.
Policies in the framework of economic diplomacy and support for the internationalization of the
economics
To promote foreign trade, foreign direct investment and investment
portuguese abroad, as well as to develop existing partnerships and search
new export markets will be, in addition to the measures already referred to, developed the
following:
● The development of the work of the public entity responsible for the promotion of the
investment and foreign trade of Portugal with the aim of enhancing effectiveness
of the external and internal network of support for companies, integrating human resources with
greater international experience that can function as true agents of
commercial support of Portuguese SMEs;
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● The articulation, creating synergies and gains of scale, between the commercial and tourism network
and the Portuguese diplomatic and consular network;
● The dynamisation of the diversification of the Portuguese economy, creating conditions for the
investment, innovation and internationalization, through the promotion of projects
innovators, establishment of strategic collaboration partnerships, and dissemination of
Portugal at international fairs in the various sectors of the economy;
● The dynamisation of relations with the Portuguese diaspora as a mechanism of
facilitation of internationalisation and promotion of the image of Portugal in the world;
● The development of the work of the current Joint Committees in the context of the
bilateral relations and potentiate new contexts of cooperation;
● The assessment of conditions for a more cost-friendly taxation and
investments with international promotion;
● The catchment of foreign entrepreneurs, carriers of talent, technology and
access to international markets, notably by re-evaluating the current tax regime,
including the applicable to non-customary tax residents, so as to privilege the areas
strategic investment, net job creation and internationalization of the
economics;
● The articulation between the innovation policies with those of export and
internationalization, aiming to accelerate the arrival on the international market of the
innovative results, with a view to maximizing Portugal's position in the value chain
productive and, simultaneously, helping to change the external image of the economy
national with reflections on the valorisation of exports from all sectors;
● The participation of the Country in the international business R&D cooperation networks;
● The dynamisation of possibilities for access to regional credit mechanisms and
international by parts of Portuguese companies;
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● The promotion of the investment of emigrants and lusodescendants in Portugal;
● The valorisation and support for companies of Portuguese and lusodescendants abroad,
specifically through the development of strategic international partnerships
between companies.
34. A NEW POLICY FOR EUROPE
Despite the developments verified in recent years, they feel still strongly the
effects of the European option on pro-cyclical austerity. Unemployment galloped, the
economic and social divergence accentuated and the risk of deflation settled. It wasn't the
stiffness of labour markets or products and services that caused the brutal rise of the
unemployment and divergences in the Euro Zone. It was a global and later financial crisis
economic policy mistakes, particularly the option for austerity policies across the
Europe, which have caused significant backlash in investment and more globally in the
search. But the structural cause of this crisis results from the monetary union having not been
accompanied by the strengthening of cohesion, which accentuated the economic divergences and the
asymmetric effects within the Euro Zone.
Defending a new budget policy
In the EU, priority should be given to the reduction of economic and social imbalances. Thus,
the budget position should be viewed as a whole. One needs to take into account and act
effectively as far as the Member States with deficit, as well as those with
have over-avoid, as both phenomena cause imbalances in the economy of the
European Union that is reflected in the quality of life of people. This approach
will decisively favour the combating of deflation in Europe.
Tools should be created that really favour the cohesion of economies
european, involving in its creation and scrutiny the European Parliament and parliaments
national. In the framework of policy coordination should be still taken steps that
combats tax and social dumping.
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The decisions in the Euro Zone, which transcend in a lot of financial matters and options of
fundamental European policy, should be adopted in the framework of the main bodies of the
European Union: European Commission, Council and European Parliament.
Macroeconomic, Budgetary and Monetary Policy
Attention should be paid to the periods of investment realization tendant to favour the
conditions of competitiveness of the European economies, particularly as to the
consideration of the national comity of investments supported by funds
coming from the European Union itself.
Still in the framework of policy coordination, even in the context of improvement and
normalization of debt refinancing conditions, should all be explored
opportunities for, in a co-operative mode between states and institutions, reduce weight
of the service of debts in national budgets.
It is important to consolidate the verified developments, in recent years, in the view of the ECB while
funder of last resort in Europe.
Deepening Social Cohesion in the EU
Europe needs more economic convergence but also social cohesion and the
enhancement of the living conditions of the European peoples, seriously hit in recent years.
One needs to define with rigour and legal force the labour and social protection standards a
guarantee in the space of the European Union and in the Euro Zone, supported by the instruments
financial and political needed.
Therefore, the European Union should resume large mobilizing projects that create
advantages and improvements in the lives of citizens, starting with the social area, for example:
● The creation of Eurogroup of Social Cohesion and Employment, which comes to put
again the combating of poverty and unemployment and the promotion of quality of life
for all at the heart of the action of European leaders;
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● The concertation of measures at the European level to combat unemployment, including in the
guarantee and financing of social benefits;
● The creation of precise measures at European level in the social field, which are reflected by
positive, expressive form and as direct as possible in the lives of European citizens.
Institutional framework of the European Union
The current European institutional framework has often been overtaken or replaced by
mechanisms ad hoc , which secondarize some Member States.
With a view to ensuring a sympathetic and cohesive Europe, which allows to exit austerity,
Portugal will seek to advocate for policies that allow to respond effectively and in a timely manner
challenges of cooperation and integration. In this sense, measures will be undertaken that are aimed at
ensure:
● The defence of national interests in the review of Financial Perspetives 2014-2020 and
in the preparation of the subsequent perspetives;
● Explore all avenues to ensure budget space and to finance investment,
with a view to ensuring the competitiveness of economies;
● The maximization of the potentials of structural and investment funds, as it is
the case of the European Strategic Investment Fund;
● The strengthening of the budget of the European Union with a view to supporting efforts of
convergence.
Policies in the framework of European policy
Within the framework of European policy, in addition to the already elussed measures, they will be undertaken
policy measures that ensure:
● The defence of European and national interests in the development of the Union
Economic and Monetary;
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● The consolidation of the EU as a space of free movement and the enhancement of the
principles and mechanisms that substantiate it;
● The promotion of combating terrorism, in its multiple strands;
● The development of a balanced policy in the face of migrations and promotion of
joint responses to humanitarian crises and, in particular, with regard to the
hosting of refugees and asylum seekers;
● The development of a policy of cooperation and peace, both the South and the East,
with the specific attention, from the part of Portugal, to the relationship with the regional space of the
Mediterranean.
