Clinical Trials in Portugal
PLMJ, April 2021

Research and development ("R&D") of medicinal products is fundamentally important in peoples’ daily lives. This is true both from an individual perspective – when considering the objective of identifying and treating pathologies (with a consequent increase in the quality of life of patients) – and from a collective perspective, when considering the role of R&D in controlling the spread of diseases and in eradicating them altogether...

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Extension of the Deadline for Integration of Special Plans and Suspension of Construction on Developable Land (?)
PLMJ, March 2021

In recent months, the need to conclude the procedures to adapt/amend/revise the municipal and inter-municipal plans for spatial planning has been widely discussed by the municipalities, the Government, economic agents and civil society. This discussion has focused on: i) The integration into in those plans of the rules contained in special plans concerning the arrangements to safeguard territorial resources and natural values that directly bind private individuals. The obligation is contained in the General Bases of Public Policy on Land, Spatial Planning and Development – Law 31/2014 of 30 May...

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Coronavirus: Business Interruption Insurance and COVID-19
PLMJ, February 2021

The judgment of the United Kingdom Supreme Court On 1 May 2020, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), the body that oversees the insurance industry in the United Kingdom, announced that it wanted to obtain a ruling from the English courts on the meaning and effect of the sample of business interruption clauses that it selected from eight insurers in particular. The case was brought under the Financial Market Test Case Scheme and the court of first instance was asked to consider the clauses of 21 business interruption policies...

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Coronavirus: Employment Support Measures
PLMJ, February 2021

Following the renewal of the state of emergency, Decree 3-A/2021 of14January of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, determines the closure of various types of establishments. Inthiscontext, the employment support measures were amended by Decree-Law 6-C/2021 of 15 January and Decree-Law 6-E/2021 of15January, which we summarised below. 1. Framework At the beginning of the pandemic, the Scheme for Granting Support to Workers and Companies Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic was created under Decree-Law No. 10-G/2020 of 26 March 1. This scheme essentially provided for what is known as the simplified layoff...

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Coronavirus: Restrictions on Exports of Vaccines against COVID-19
PLMJ, February 2021

Brief notes on Commission Regulation 2021/111 of 29 January 2021 Following the differences that came to light with AstraZeneca at the end of last week, the European Commission approved Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/111 of 29 January 2021, which came into force on Saturday, 30 January. The Regulation prohibits the unauthorised exportation of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 outside the European Union. Regulation 2021/111 raises a number of important practical questions, from the point of view of administrative law – and in particular from the point of view of the procedural and litigation guarantees for private parties...

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