I. EDITORIAL – «IVAUCHER» PROGRAMME
The month of June was marked, at the legislative level, by the approval and publication, on the one hand, of the Ordinance no. 119/2021, of June 7, determined the starting date and duration of each phase of the “IVAucher” programme, created by Implementing Decree no. 2-A/2021, of May 28, in compliance with the provisions of no. 14 of article 405 of Law no. 75-B/2020, of December 31 and, on the other hand, of Law no. 36/2021, of June 14, which approved the Framework Law on Public Utility Status.
On the legislative sphere, reference should also be made to:
I) Decree-Law no. 50/2021, of June 15, which established the legal regime applicable to the formation and execution of energy efficiency management contracts to be signed between the services and organisms of the direct, indirect and autonomous Public Administration and energy service companies;
II) Decree-Law no. 53-B/2021, of June 23, which established the exceptional regime of budget execution and simplification of procedures for projects approved under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
In the scope of case law, we highlight the Judgement of the Justice Court of June 3, Case C‑182/20, which clarified that articles 184 to 186 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax must be interpreted as precluding national legislation or practice whereby the initiation of insolvency proceedings in respect of an economic operator, entailing the liquidation of its assets for the benefit of its creditors, automatically places an obligation on that operator to adjust the value added tax deductions which it has made in respect of goods and services acquired before it was declared insolvent, where the initiation of those proceedings is not such as to prevent that operator’s economic activity, within the meaning of Article 9 of that directive, from being continued, in particular for the purposes of the liquidation of the undertaking concerned.
Finally, in Miscellaneous, it is worth highlighting the approval by the Council of Ministers, on June 24, of the decree-law which implements in internal legal order the European Union COVID Digital Certificate Regulations and of the decree-law that establishes the regime and defines the governance model for the promotion of technology-based innovation through the creation of Technology Free Zones (TFZ).
II. LEGISLATION
Decree-Law no. 40/2021, of June 1: Ensures the implementation in the internal legal order of Regulation (EEC) No. 2919/85 laying down the conditions of access to the regime reserved by the Revised Convention for Rhine Navigation for vessels belonging to the Rhine navigation.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164501451
Decree-Law no. 41/2021, of June 1: Establishes the sanctioning regime applicable to the infringement of the provisions of Regulation (EC) No. 2271/96 protecting against the effects of the extra-territorial application of third-country legislation and actions based thereon or resulting therefrom.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164501452
Ordinance no. 117/2021, of June 1: Approves the regulation for the classification and evaluation of information produced during the performance of duties by the entities integrated in the governmental area of agriculture, and the respective selection table, as well as the elimination record and delivery record forms.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164501455
Ordinance no. 118/2021, of June 2: Approves the regulation for the classification and evaluation of information produced during the performance of duties by the entities integrated in the governmental areas of agriculture and sea and the respective selection table, as well as the forms for the elimination report and the delivery report.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164586283
Organic Law no. 1/2021, of June 4: Amends the Electoral Law for the President of the Republic, clarifies and simplifies the presentation of candidacies by groups of voting citizens and ensures adequate procedures for the holding of elections for local authority bodies in the context of the COVID-19 disease pandemic, amending several laws.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164590039
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 68/2021, of June 4: Approves the National Strategy for the Sea 2021-2030.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164590045
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 70/2021, of June 4: Establishes the commemorations for the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April 1974 Revolution and creates the mission structure that promotes and organises them.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164590047
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 70-A/2021, of June 4: Amends the measures applicable to certain municipalities within the framework of the calamity situation.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164712103
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 70-B/2021, of June 4: Continues the strategy of lifting containment measures in the framework of the fight against the pandemic disease COVID-19.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164712104
Decree-Law no. 42/2021, of June 7: Undertakes the second amendment to Decree-Law nr. 138/2009, of June 15th, which creates the Fund for Safeguarding Cultural Heritage.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164712109
Decree-Law no. 43/2021, of June 7: Creates the Saber Fazer (Know How) Association.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164712110
Decree-Law no. 44/2021, of June 7: Undertakes the first amendment to Decree-Law no. 45/2018, of 19 June, which creates the Support Fund for Tourism and Cinema.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164712111
Decree-Law no. 45/2021, of June 7: Creates and regulates the programme of support to the programming of the theatres and cinetheatres of the Network of Portuguese Theatres and Cinetheatres (RTCP).
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164712112
Ordinance no. 119/2021, of June 7: Determines the starting date and duration of each phase of the “IVAucher” programme, created by Regulatory Decree no. 2-A/2021, of 28 May, in compliance with the provisions of no. 14 of article 405 of Law no. 75-B/2020, of December 31.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164712120
Law no. 34/2021, of June 8: Amends Decree-Law no. 25/2019, of February 11, which establishes the remuneration regime applicable to the special career of senior technician in the diagnosis and therapeutic areas, as well as the rules of transition of workers to this career, and Decree-Law no. 111/2017, of August 31, which establishes the regime of the special career of senior technician in the diagnosis and therapeutic areas.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164798789
Law no. 35/2021, of June 8: Approves support measures for public higher education students and amends Law no. 38/2020, of August 18.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164798790
Ordinance no. 120/2021, of June 8: Defines the operation and management model of the National Urgent and Temporary Accommodation Stock Exchange, created under Decree-Law no. 26/2021, of March 31.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164798793
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 71-A/2021, of June 8: Approves the National Action Programme of the National Plan for Integrated Management of Rural Fires.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164798802
Decree no. 16/2021, of June 9: Approves the Amendment to the Protocol to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution relating to Heavy Metals, signed in Aarhus, Denmark, on 24 June 1998, adopted in Geneva on 13 December 2012.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164870233
Ordinance no. 121/2021, of June 9: Regulates: a) The electronic archiving of documents drawn up by notaries and other documents filed at the registry offices and their respective availability through a permanent notarial certificate; b) The electronic communication, by notaries, of acts to the Central Registry Office.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164870237
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 74-A/2021, of June 9: Amends the measures applicable in situations of calamity, in the context of the pandemic of the disease COVID-19.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164955319
Decree-Law no. 46/2021, of June 11: Amends the organic structures of the Agency for the Integrated Management of Rural Fires, I. P., the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests, I. P., and the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164955304
Decree-Law no. 47/2021, of June 11: Undertakes the second amendment to Decree-Law no. 103/2017, of August 24, which establishes the regime for the allocation of State financial support to the visual and performing arts.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164955305
Ordinance no. 122/2021, of June 11: Undertakes the first amendment to Ordinance no. 200/2020, of 19 August, and the Regulation of the Accessibility Programme for Public Services and the Public Road.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164955308
Law no. 36/2021, of June 14: Approves the Framework Law of the Public Utility Status.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165036155
Decree-Law no. 48/2021, of June 14: Establishes the safety of toys with regard to aluminium and formaldehyde by transposing Directives (EU) 2019/1922, 2019/1929, 2020/2088 and 2020/2089.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165036158
Decree-Law no. 49/2021, of June 14: Establishes the sanctioning regime applicable to the violation of the rules on cross-border parcel delivery services.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165036159
Regional Legislative Decree no. 16/2021/A, of June 14: Amends the transitional periods provided for in Law no. 76/2019, of September 2, and determines the approval of measures for the reduction of the consumption of single-use products and the promotion of reuse and recycling.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165036162
Ordinance no. 122-A/2021, of June 14: Undertakes the first amendment to Ordinance no. 206/2020, of August 27, which regulates the ATIVAR.PT Internships measure, and the first amendment to Ordinance no. 207/2020, of August 27, which regulates the ATIVAR.PT Incentives measure.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/164955365
Law no. 36-A/2021, of June 14: Determines the renewal of the transitory imposition of the obligation to wear a mask when accessing, circulating or remaining in public spaces and public roads, extending, for the third time, the validity of Law no. 62-A/2020, of October 27.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165095962
Law no. 37/2021, of June 15: Creates a measure to support electricity costs in the activities of production, storage, preservation and marketing of agricultural and livestock products, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/316 of the Commission of 21 February 2019.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165129786
Decree-Law no. 50/2021, of June 15: Establishes the legal regime applicable to the formation and execution of energy efficiency management contracts to be signed between the services and organisms of the direct, indirect and autonomous Public Administration and energy service companies.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165129789
Decree-Law no. 51/2021, of June 15: Approves the Consular Regulation.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165129790
Decree-Law no. 52/2021, of June 15: Proceeds with the third amendment to Law no. 31/2014, of May 30, which establishes the general bases of public policy for soil, spatial planning and urbanism; b) Approves the legal regime for the forced lease of rural properties that are the subject of an integrated landscape management operation.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165129791
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 76/2021, of June 16: Approves the Plan Reactivate Tourism | Build the Future.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165228578
Decree-Law no. 53-A/2021, of June 16: It amends several measures in the framework of the pandemic disease COVID-19.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165228627
Regional Legislative Decree no. 17/2021/A, of June 17: Medium Term Guidelines 2021-2024.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165228634
Regional Legislative Decree no. 18/2021/A, of June 17: Annual Regional Plan for 2021.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165228635
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 76-A/2021, of June 17: Amends the measures applicable to certain municipalities within the framework of the calamity situation.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165373331
Declaration of Rectification no. 18-B/2021, of June 18: Rectifies the Council of Ministers Resolution no. 70-B/2021, of June 4, which pursues the strategy of raising containment measures in the context of the struggle against the pandemic disease COVID-19.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165459125
Decree-Law no. 53-B/2021, of June 23: Establishes the exceptional regime of budget execution and simplification of procedures for projects approved under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165721068
Ordinance no. 126/2021, of June 24: Regulates the direct consultation, by judicial administrators, of the databases of the tax administration, social security, Caixa Geral de Aposentações, Salary Guarantee Fund, land registry, commercial registry, automobile registry, civil registry and other similar registries or archives.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165723202
Ordinance no. 128/2021, of June 24: Amends Ordinance no. 82-C/2020 of March 31, amended by Ordinances no. 162/2020 of June 30, 218/2020 of September 16, and 302/2020 of December 24.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165723204
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 77-A/2021, of June 24: Amends the measures applicable to certain municipalities within the framework of the calamity situation.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165797150
Decree-Law no. 54/2021, of June 25: Amends the organization and functioning regime of the 22nd Constitutional Government.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165797123
Regional Legislative Decree no. 3/2021, of June 25: Creates the Animal Provider with the mission of guaranteeing the defence and promotion of animal welfare.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165797124
Council of Ministers Resolution no. 78/2021, of June 25: It approves a set of measures for autonomous and enhanced treatment in the field of pet animal welfare.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165797125
Ordinance no. 129/2021, of June 25: Fifth amendment to the regulation of the Entrepreneurship and Employment Incentive System, approved by Ordinance no. 105/2017, of March 10.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165797127
Ordinance no. 130/2021, of June 25: Eighth amendment to the Specific Regulations of the Human Capital Domain, approved in annex to Ordinance no. 60-C/2015, of March 2.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165797128
Decree-Law n.º 54-A/2021, of June 25: It implements in national law Regulation (EU) 2021/953 on the EU Digital Certificate COVID.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165865578
Declaration of Rectification no. 9/2021/A, of June 28: Rectifies Regional Legislative Decree no. 15-A/2021/A, of May 31, Budget of the Autonomous Region of the Azores for the year 2021.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165865622
Regional Legislative Decree no. 10-A/2021/A, of June 28: Execution of the Budget of the Autonomous Region of the Azores for 2021.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165865626
Ordinance no. 135/2021, of June 29: Establishes the temporary cash compensation to be granted to workers covered by the incentive programme for the setting up of State employees in the interior of the State.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165950847
Ordinance no. 20/2021/A, of June 29: Creation of the figure of the Regional Animal Provider.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/165950849
Decree-Law no. 56/2021, of June 30: Transposes Directive (EU) 2019/2177 on insurance and reinsurance activity and Directive (EU) 2020/1504 on collaborative finance providers.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/166099792
Ordinance no. 136/2021, of June 30: Undertakes the first amendment to Ordinance no. 166/2019, of May 29, which approved the statutes of the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests, I. P.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/166099797
Ordinance no. 137/2021, of June 30: Undertakes the first amendment to Ordinance no. 358/2019, of October 8, regulating electronic communications between the enforcement agent and the Social Security, the Salary Guarantee Fund and the General Retirement Fund when (Caixa Geral de Aposentações) carrying out adjudications and between the judicial courts and these entities when obtaining information from the databases of these entities and when making deductions of amounts in social benefits and pensions.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/166099798
Ordinance no. 138/2021, of June 30: Defines the methodology to calculate the remuneration rate to be applied to the intertemporal transfer of allowed revenues regarding the over costs with the acquisition of electricity from producers in special regime.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/166099799
Ordinance no. 138-A/2021, of June 30: Regulates the Framework Law of the Public Utility Status, approved in annex to Law no. 36/2021, of 14 June.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/166025458
Ordinance no. 138-B/2021, of June 30: Establishes the exceptional co-payment scheme for rapid antigen tests (TRAg) for professional use carried out on National Health Service (NHS) users.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/166158054
Ordinance no. 138-C/2021, of June 30: Defines the model and complementary elements that applications must obey in order to finance the Support Programme for Access to Housing and the National Urgent and Temporary Accommodation Fund.
https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/166158055
III.1. Court of Justice of the European Union
Judgement of the Justice Court of June 3, Case C-931/19: Reference for a preliminary ruling. Taxation. Value added tax (VAT). Directive 2006/112/EC. Articles 43 and 45. Directive 2006/112/EC, as amended by Directive 2008/8/EC. Articles 44, 45 and 47. Provision of services. Point of reference for tax purposes. Concept of a ‘fixed establishment’. Letting a property in a Member State. Owner of a property with its registered office on the island of Jersey.
Summary:
“A property which is let in a Member State, in the circumstance where the owner of that property does not have his or her own staff to perform services relating to the letting does not constitute a fixed establishment within the meaning of Article 43 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax and of Articles 44 and 45 of Directive 2006/112, as amended by Council Directive 2008/8/EC of 12 February 2008.”.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62019CJ0931
Judgement of the Justice Court of June 3, Case C-182/20: Reference for a preliminary ruling. Value added tax (VAT). Directive 2006/112/EC. Right to deduct. Adjustment of deductions. Insolvency proceedings. National legislation providing for automatic refusal to allow deduction of VAT in respect of taxable transactions that occurred prior to the initiation of those proceedings.
Summary:
“Articles 184 to 186 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax must be interpreted as precluding national legislation or practice whereby the initiation of insolvency proceedings in respect of an economic operator, entailing the liquidation of its assets for the benefit of its creditors, automatically places an obligation on that operator to adjust the value added tax deductions which it has made in respect of goods and services acquired before it was declared insolvent, where the initiation of those proceedings is not such as to prevent that operator’s economic activity, within the meaning of Article 9 of that directive, from being continued, in particular for the purposes of the liquidation of the undertaking concerned.”.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62020CJ0182
III.2 Constitutional Court
Judgement of the Constitutional Court no. 418/2021 of June 15, Case no. 1101/2020:
The Public Prosecutor’s Office filed an appeal to the Constitutional Court, requesting the assessment of the rule contained in article 248(4) of the Insolvency and Corporate Recovery Code (CIRE), in the part that it prevents debtors who, having been discharged of their remaining liabilities and whose insolvent estate and disposable income were insufficient to fully pay the costs and expenses of the discharge proceedings, from obtaining legal aid in the form of a waiver of the court fee and other procedural costs, without taking into account their specific economic situation, and the Constitutional Court decided:
“To declare, with mandatory general force, the unconstitutionality, due to the violation of Articles 20(1) and 13(2) of the Constitution, of the rule set out in Article 248(4) of the Insolvency and Company Recovery Code, in the part in which it prevents debtors who, having obtained exoneration of the remaining liabilities and whose insolvent estate and disposable income were insufficient to fully pay the costs and expenses of the exoneration proceedings, without taking into account their specific economic situation, from obtaining legal aid in the form of a waiver of the judicial fee and other procedural costs.”
https://www.tribunalconstitucional.pt/tc/acordaos/20210418.html
III.3. Courts of Justice
Judgement of the Coimbra Court of Appeal, of June 1, Case no. 3553/20.3T8CBR.C1: Suspension of corporate resolutions. Precautionary procedure. Presuppositions. Burden of allegation and proof. Periculum in mora.
Judgement of the Lisboa Court of Appeal, of June 17, Case no. 25713/19.0T8LSB.L1-2: Lease contract. Penalty clause. Prohibited clauses. Early termination of contract.
III.4. Administrative and Tax Court
Judgement of the Supreme Administrative Court, of June 9, Case no. 0953/16.7BEBRG: Social Security contributions. Prescription. Citation. Lasting effect.
Judgement of South Administrative Central Court, of June 9, Case no. 1162/16.0BESNT: IRC – Company in liquidation. Economic activity.
IV. BRIEFS
IV.1. DOCTRINE
IV.1.1. Monographs and Periodic Publications
Paula Quintas, Hélder Quintas, Código do Trabalho – Anotado e Comentado, 6ª Edição, Almedina, junho 2021
Cristina M. Araújo Dias, Responsabilidade por Dívidas do Casal – Volume 1, Almedina, junho 2021
Tiago Serrão (Coord.), José Duarte Coimbra (Coord.), Contencioso Administrativo Especial, Almedina, junho 2021
José Manuel Sérvulo Correia, Francisco Paes Marques, Noções de Direito Administrativo – Volume 1, 2ª Edição, Almedina, junho 2021
Ana Perestrelo de Oliveira, Desvinculação Programada do Contrato, Almedina, junho 2021
Cristina Araújo Dias (Coord.), João Nuno Barros (Coord.), Rossana Martingo Cruz (Coord.), Regime Geral do Processo Tutelar Cível – Anotado, Almedina, junho 2021
António Paulo Santos, Victor Castro Rosa, Os Direitos dos Produtores Audiovisuais Independentes em Portugal e na Europa, Almedina, junho 2021
Cristina M. Araújo Dias, Responsabilidade por Dívidas do Casal – Volume 2, Almedina, junho 2021
Mário Aroso de Almeida, Carlos Alberto Fernandes Cadilha, Comentário ao Código de Processo nos Tribunais Administrativos, 5ª Edição, Almedina, junho 2021
IV.1.2. Generic Guidelines & Cia
Order no. 191, of 15.06.2021, by order of the Deputy Secretary of State of the Tax Affairs
Subject: Adjustment of the fiscal calendar of 2021. https://info.portaldasfinancas.gov.pt/pt/informacao_fiscal/legislacao/Despachos_SEAF/Documents/Despacho_SEAAF_191_2021_XXII.pdf
Circulate Letter no. 30237, of 22.06.2021, by order of the Deputy Director-General of the Tax Management Area – IVA
Subject: IVA – alteration of the rates applicable to operations regarded as having been carried out in the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
Circulate Letter no. 30238, of 25.06.2021, by order of the Deputy Director-General of the Tax Management Area – IVA
Subject: IVA – new rules applicable to e-commerce: distance selling.
Circulate Letter no. 30239, of 25.06.2021, by order of the Deputy Director-General of the Tax Management Area – IVA
Subject: IVA – new rules on the IVA treatment of e-commerce via electronic interfaces.
Circulate Letter no. 30240, of 25.06.2021, by order of the Deputy Director-General of the Tax Management Area – IVA
Subject: IVA – new one-stop shop scheme.
IV.2. Miscellaneous
IV.2.1. Economy, Finance and Taxation
The Council of Ministers approved, on June 24, the resolution that extends the situation of calamity in all continental national territory until 11:59 pm on July 11, 2021, changing the measures applicable to certain municipalities under the disaster situation.
The Council of Ministers also approved, on the same date, the decree-law that implements in the internal legal order the Regulations relating to the Digital Certificate COVID of the European Union, an interoperable certificate that contains information about the vaccination, test results or recovery of the holder, issued in the context of the pandemic COVID-19 disease.
Finally, it was approved the decree-law that establishes the regime and defines the governance model for the promotion of technology-based innovation through the creation of Technology Free Zones (TFZ). The implementation of TFZs aims to boost innovation and the creation of a true digital society, enabling the speeding up of research, demonstration and testing processes in the country and, consequently, its competitiveness and attractiveness for research and innovation projects.
https://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc22/governo/comunicado-de-conselho-de-ministros?i=428
V. INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
According to the study “Cidadãos Europeus e Propriedade Intelectual” (PI), conducted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) between 1 June and 6 July 2020, a decrease in IP infringements in the European Union was observed from 7% in 2017 to 5% in 2020 for the intentional purchase of counterfeits, and from 10% in 2017 to 8% in 2020 for intentional piracy.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Cidadaos-Europeus-e-a-Propriedade-Intelectual
World Anti-Counterfeiting Day was celebrated on June 5, with the aim of raising society’s awareness of the phenomenon of counterfeiting and piracy and the economic damage caused by this type of illicit activity.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Dia-Mundial-Anti-Contrafacao-3
June 9 was International Archives Day, established by the General Assembly of the International Council on Archives (CIA), held in Quebec in November 2007. This date was chosen because it was on June 9, 1948, that UNESCO created the CIA.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Dia-Internacional-dos-Arquivos
The new Table of Industrial Property Fees was published in the Official Journal of the Republic on June 8, updating the fees for the various types of Industrial Property for the year 2021.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Tabela-de-Taxas-2021
The data of IPR applications and grants registered in the month of May 2021 were published, with highlight to the growth trend in the number of grants for Trade Marks and Other Distinctive Signs of Commerce (OSDC) compared to the same period in the previous year, with an increase of 33.2% compared to the first five months of 2020.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Direitos-de-Propriedade-Industrial-de-maio-de-2021
Through Notice no. 10859/2021, of 14 June, the competition for the aptitude test for recognition and/or acquisition of the quality of official industrial property agent (AOPI) was opened until 15 October.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Concurso-para-novos-AOPI-2
The University of Lisbon Law School (FDUL), in partnership with the Portuguese Intellectual Property Association (APDI), will hold the Lisbon International Summer Course on Intellectual Property from 5 to 9 July, online, with the theme “The State of the Issues in 2021”.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Curso-Internacional-de-Verao-online-de-PI-de-Lisboa
The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced the winners of the European Inventor Award 2021, with several contributions recognised in the areas of nasal medicines, DNA-based data storage, nano materials in dentistry, solar cells for self-charging devices, organic semiconductors and advances in tissue engineering.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Premio-Inventor-Europeu-2021
The conclusions on Intellectual Property (IP) policy that the Council of the EU adopted were published, addressing: (i) the role that IP plays in helping to fight the pandemic of COVID-19; (ii) the importance of IP for SMEs and their economic recovery, as well as for the green and digital transitions; (iii) the need for further action against IP infringements, in particular counterfeiting and piracy; and (iv) strengthening support for European SMEs and the protection and valorisation of their IPR and trade secrets as an essential factor for their competitiveness, innovation, value creation and sustainability.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Papel-da-PI-na-luta-contra-a-pandemia-Covid-19
As of 1 July 2021, SMEs will be able to apply for the 4th funding window to the European SME Fund, which will close on 31 July. The Fund offers financial support in the form of reimbursement of 50% of the expenses incurred in filing one or more applications for the registration of trademarks and designs (application fees), up to a maximum amount of €1,500.00 per company.
https://inpi.justica.gov.pt/Noticias-do-INPI/Fundo-Europeu-para-as-PME-Abertas-as-Candidaturas
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