Portuguese Government has decreed (as an annexe) the legal regime for the prevention of corruption. Decree-Law nº. 109-E/2021 was very recently officially published (last 9 December), and the said new regime was published as an annexe of the law that creates the Anti-Corruption Nacional Mechanism (“Mecanismo Nacional Anticorrupção”).

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Andersen in Portugal, José Mota Soares, Pedro Mota Soares and Tiago Ponces de Carvalho were nominated in the Best Lawyers list for Portugal 2022, in Labor and Employment Law, Litigation and Criminal Defense.

The Portuguese legislator will have until next December 17 – about a month, therefore – to transpose into the national legal system Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of October 23, 2019 (“Directive”), relating to the protection of persons who report EU law breaches. The Directive’s main purpose is to define a set of common minimum standards that ensure effective protection of whistleblowers that in a professional context, in the public or private sectors, become aware of infractions or situations detrimental to the public interest.