This Regional Decree adopts to the Autonomous Region of Azores Decree-Law No. 219/94 (concerning the coastal zone management plan). It consists of 3 articles specifying that for the Autonomous Region of Azores the competent authority entitled for the management, exploitation and conservation of…

This Decree regulates the Regional Management Plan for Algarve (PROT-Algarve). It consists of 6 chapters and 1 table establishing the objectives of the said Plan, which shall be drawn-up in order to: a) establish a strategy for the natural resource development and explotation within this area; b…

This Resolution of the Council of Ministers amends the Regional Management Plan for Algarve (PROT-Algarve). It consists of 7 articles establishing the following objectives to be satisfied in order to perform the management of the Region of Algarve: a) territorial sustainable exploitation; b)…

These Regulations define types of environmental impact assessment; the projects that require environmental impact assessment, the procedures of such assessment and review of assessment, and tasks of public bodies with respect to environmental impact assessment. Furthermore they provide for a…

This Decree-Law amends Decree-Law No. 120/2000 on the Statutes of the Ministry of Environment and Territory Management. Amended articles establish the reorganization of the aforementioned Ministry by the fusion of four organisms in two (Institution of Environment; and Portuguese Institution of…

This Resolution of Council of Ministers establishes the Coastal Zone Plan (POOC) of Alcobaça-Mafra. The Regulation is composed by 5 parts and 3 annexes specifying the requirements to be satisfied, such as: authorised activities, pollution control, urban land management and all the sectors…

This Resolution establishes the Regulation of the Environmental Planning of Régua e do Carrapatelo Dam (POARC). This Regulation consists of 5 chapters, and is a special environmental plan (PEOT), according with Decree-Law No. 380/99 regulating actions and activities for the management, use and…

The purpose of these Regulations is to regulate the use of sewage sludge (defined in reg. 2) in agriculture (defined) in such a way as to prevent harmful effects on soil, vegetation, animals and man and to promote the correct use of such sludge. No sludge shall be used in agriculture unless it…

These Regulations make provision for the reconsideration of Decisions (made) by the Authority or Commission as the case may be. An applicant may make application for reconsideration and a reply shall be prepared by the Director. The applicant may refer in his application for a development plan…

For the purposes of subarticle (9) of article 31 of the Development Planning Act, the development referred to in sub-paragraph (ix) of paragraph 2 of Class 1 of the Development Notification Order, 2001 shall be deemed for all intents and purposes of law to be a new development which shall be…

The Regional Act makes provision on environment conservation and on the protection of the coastal zone of the territories listed in article 1. For the achievement of these aims, the Region encourages cultivation of the abandoned lands specified by article 2. Within six months from the entry into…

The Regional Act regulates the reclamation of lands in order to: (a) protect the soil and the hydrogeological balance; (b) encourage the rational use of agricultural surfaces. Article 2 gives the definition, on the one hand, of uncultivated or abandoned lands and, on the other hand, of lands…