3/6/2026 2:58:48 PM Digital Services Act (DSA): Portugal Approves Implementation Law By Ricardo Henriques Marta Boura On 27 February 2026, the Draft Law ensuring the implementation, within the domestic legal order, of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the...
3/6/2026 2:53:38 PM Consumer Agenda 2030 and the Right to Repair Directive: What changes for businesses? By Ricardo Henriques Marta Boura The European Commission presented, in November 2025, the Consumer Agenda 2030, setting out the direction of European consumer protection...
11/5/2025 5:02:35 PM Master, Adjust, Prevail:The Proposed Amendments to the Regulatory Framework for Online Gambling Advertising By Ricardo Henriques Leonor de Sá e Frade All available data indicates the online gambling market continues to grow exponentially. According to Turismo de Portugal, I.P., between...
5/7/2025 3:23:01 PM Transparency in Pricing: The Case of 'From €X' By Ricardo Henriques Leonor de Sá e Frade Catarina Rodrigues Rocha On March 5th, 2025, the Ethics’ Jury [the first instance decision-making body of the Portuguese Advertising Self-Regulator (ARP –...
12/11/2024 1:46:35 PM Reform of Principles and Rules for Advertising Financial Products and Services By Ricardo Henriques Leonor de Sá e Frade Due to the importance that Advertising assumes in building the reputation and opinion of the public regarding products and services...
11/4/2024 2:47:19 PM The 1st Portuguese Digital Influencer Advertising Guide: Mommies and Social Media By Ricardo Henriques Leonor de Sá e Frade On October 25th, 2024, the Portuguese General Directorship for Consumer Affairs (DGC) and the Portuguese General-Directorship for Health...
1/10/2024 2:55:56 PM A Commission with a Mission By Ricardo Henriques Leonor de Sá e Frade In May 2021, Law n. 32/2021, of May 27th, was adopted, prescribing the creation of an administrative system for the control and...
12/19/2022 6:34:42 PM The Milky Way Debate – Can “Not Milk” Compete Against the Real Thing? By Ricardo Henriques Pedro Hemsworth In the past 12th of December, the Ethics Juri (EJ) of the Advertising Self-Regulation Association deliberated in yet another request,...
11/15/2022 5:49:17 PM Supermarkets Fight for an Inch in Advertising By Ricardo Henriques Pedro Hemsworth The Ethics Juri (EJ) of the Advertising Self-Regulation Association (Auto-Regulação Publicitária) has decided yet again about comparative...
2/9/2022 2:18:28 PM New CNPD Guidelines on Direct Marketing Electronic Communications By Ricardo Henriques Jose Maria Alves Pereria Matilde O. Bettencourt This year's first guidelines from the Portuguese Data Protection Supervisory Authority (“CNPD”) are on direct marketing electronic...
12/13/2021 6:29:14 PM New Regime for Prevention and Combat of Unauthorized Financial Activity and Consumer Protection By Ricardo Henriques Sofia Agostinho A new regime for preventing and fighting unauthorized financial activity and consumer protection was approved with the aim of creating a...
12/6/2021 4:10:14 PM New Law on Monitoring, Control, Removal and Prevention of Access to Protected Content in a Digital Environment By Ricardo Henriques Matilde O. Bettencourt A new law providing procedures for monitoring, control, removal and prevention of access to protected content in a digital environment...
11/9/2021 9:47:39 PM New Guide on Environmental Claims By Ricardo Henriques Madalena Bernardes Coelho Marketing communications using environmental claims, also known as Green Claims, has been a growing trend and, as a consequence, has had...
8/3/2021 1:12:38 PM New Law on the Portuguese Customer Service Lines By Ricardo Henriques Sofia Agostinho In Portugal, Article 9-D of the Consumer Protection Law used to impose on economic operators, the obligation to refrain from charging...
6/18/2021 2:06:08 PM Portuguese Football Federation and Advertising Self-Regulation Entity Cautions Against Ambush Marketing During Euro 2020 By Ricardo Henriques On the 8th June 2021, the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) issued a statement to flag situations of abusive use of the National...
2/4/2021 5:39:11 PM Transfer of Competences to Authorize Advertising Contests, Sweepstakes and Other Gambling Related Activities By Ricardo Henriques Jose Maria Alves Pereria Margarida Castillo Silva Sofia Agostinho +1 more... Show less Decree-Law 98/2018 reformulated the Gaming Law (Decree-Law 422/89), in what concerns the legal regime applicable to gambling related...