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The EU Services Directive (SD) is a centrepiece for the realisation of the Internal Market in the services sector aiming at considerably lowering the barriers for service provision in the EU. This chapter therefore analyses the transposition and implementation of the requirements of the SD into the national (administrative) law system of Portugal. The chapter treats all relevant requirements of the SD, such as the Point of Single Contact (POSC), the screening of national law according to the requirements of the SD, the adaption of authorisation schemes for service provision, the requirement of ‘tacit authorisation’, and the need for new rules on administrative cooperation. Finally an assessment of the impact of the SD on the national (administrative) law system is provided.
The author is Assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at Coimbra University. He is also Partner of Sérvulo & Associados Law Firm.
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I expressly wish to thank Mestre Bernardo Azevedo of the Faculty of Law of the Coimbra University for his most valuable comments on the draft report. I would also like to thank my Colleagues of Sérvulo & Associados and, particularly, Professor Sérvulo Correia, for the confidence and support. I would also like to thank Mr. Ângelo Seiça Neves, coordinator of the implementation in Portugal of the SD in the Directorate-General of Economic Activities, Mr. António Maia, also of the same Directorate-General and task force, and Mrs. Sónia Santos, of AMA, I.P., for their kind availability. Any error is of course of mine responsibility.
The present report was done prior to the 2011 general elections that caused a major change in the Portuguese Government, now ruled by a Social Democrats/Christian Democrats coalition—the current structure of the XIX Constitutional Government may be found in DL 86-A/2011 of July 17.
Some major changes ocurred after the completion of the present report and are worth mentioning, although not analysed in the present report, e.g. (a) Law 17/2010, of August 4 (“exercício da actividade de agente da propriedade industrial”), (b) DL 32/2011, of March 7 (“acesso e de exercício da actividade de organização de campos de férias”), (c) DL 37/2011, of March 10 (“contratos de utilização periódica de bens, de aquisição de produtos de férias de longa duração, de revenda e de troca (time sharing)”), (d) DL 48/2011, of April 1st (the omnibus law, so to speak); (e) DL 61/2011, of May 6 (“agências de viagens e turismo”); (f) DL 69/2001, of June 15 (“actividades de construção, mediação e angariação imobiliária”) and (g) DL 84/2011 (“simplificação dos regimes jurídicos da deposição de resíduos em aterro, da produção cartográfica e do licenciamento do exercício das actividades de pesquisa e captação de águas subterrâneas”).
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Constitutional Law 1/2004 of July 24 allowed for Directives to be implemented in the autonomous regions of Azores or Madeira through a “decreto legislativo regional” in some cases.
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Prior to DL 92/2010, there were available references in the Directorate-General of Economic Activities website, at http://www.dgae.min-economia.pt/, including the draft Decree-Law implementing the Directive (hereinafter, the Draft Decree-Law Implementing the SD, e.g., ‘Draft SDIL’) and an ‘Explanatory Note’ (Nota Explicativa). DL 92/2010 is available at DL 92/2010, July 26.
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The diploma is still available at DL 49/2010—May 19.
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Cf. fn. 1.
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Under article 228 of the Constitution, the Regions have legislative powers in the matters provided for in the “estatutos politico-administrativos” that are not reserved to the sovereign powers of the Republic.
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For legislation, jurisprudence and websites please refer to 1.1 of the report and footnotes directly
Commission Handbook on the Implementation of the Services Directive (2007) Available at http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/services/docs/services-dir/guides/handbook_pt.pdf
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Gorjão-Henriques, M. (2012). The Implementation of the Services Directive in Portugal. In: Stelkens, U., Weiß, W., Mirschberger, M. (eds) The Implementation of the EU Services Directive. T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-840-8_21
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