Fiscal year 2024 represents a turning point for companies due to the implementation of the new European rules on corporate sustainability reporting, established by the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), which replaces the old NFRD (Non-Financial Reporting Directive).
The Decent Work Agenda is a set of measures aimed at improving working conditions and the conciliation of workers’ personal, family, and professional life.
On the 14th of April, 2023, the Portuguese Government presented the legislative proposal no. 71/XV/1.ª to the Parliament, which determines the end of the Golden Visa Program (ARI). We draw your attention to the following amendments:
• The current ARI programme will only end on the day the new legislation comes into effect. Applications for ARI will not be admitted as from the entry into force of the new law. Therefore, applications submitted before the said date are safeguarded.
• ARI granted under the legal regime applicable before the new law entries into force may be renewed (including for a family reunion applicants).
• The ARI renewals that have already been granted will be converted into residence permits for entrepreneurial immigrants (D2 Visa). Such holders must comply with the minimum period of stay in national territory of 7 days (consecutive or interpolated), in the first year and of 14 days (consecutive or interpolated), in the subsequent two-year periods.
• Finally, ARI applications (new applications and renewals) which are still waiting for a decision by the competent authorities will remain valid.
We note that the legislative proposal must now be discussed in Parliament.
Transparency, accuracy and responsibility are the pillars of the legal activity developed by Boutique Law firm ATLAW. The face and Managing Partner of this law firm is Patrícia Azevedo Lopes. An Inspiring Woman whose work we got to know better.
In order to facilitate the entrance of foreign workers into Portugal and the establishment of foreign citizens in the country to provide remote work from Portugal, Law no. 18/2022, of 25th August 2022, was published, it amends the regime for the entry, stay, exit and expulsion of foreigners from national territory and creates conditions for the implementation of the Agreement on Mobility between Member States of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries, signed in Luanda on 17th July 2021.
Patrícia Azevedo Lopes, Managing Partner of ATLAW, Azevedo Lopes Lawyers, in an interview with the Business Portugal Magazine, defends the use of new technologies, considering the constant simplification and digitalization to be an added value for the legal practice, as it allows a greater approximation between Lawyer and Client.
The Law 8/2022 of January 10, was the most recent amendment to the regime of the horizontal property, which came into force today, April 10, 2022.
Personal data is legally protected in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic. It is also one of the fundamental rights of freedom and principles recognized in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Teleworking is defined in the Labor Code as “work done with legal subordination, usually outside the company and through the use of information and communication technologies”, provided that the nature of the functions allows it.
From 1 January 2022, rules will come into force that will increase the minimum values of capital transfers for foreign investment.