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PARLIAMENTARY ASSESSMENT No. 33 /XI/1ª
DECREE-LAW NO. 26/2010, OF March 30, WHICH " PROCEDE À
TENTH AMENDMENT TO DECREE-LAW NO. 555/99, OF 16 OF
DECEMBER, WHICH ESTABLISHES THE LEGAL REGIME OF URBANIZATION
And EDIFICATION, AND PROCEEDS TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE DECREE-LAW
No. 107/2009, OF May 15 "
The Decree-Law No. 26/2010, of March 30, published in the Journal of the Republic, 1 th
series, paragraph 62, of March 30, 2010 proceeds to the tenth amendment to the Decree-
Law No. 555/99 of December 16 laying down the legal regime for urbanization and
edification, and proceeds to the first amendment to Decree-Law 107/2009 of May 15.
The contents of the Decree-Law No. 26/2010 concretely in the numbers 8 and 9 of the
Article 13º, it introduces profound changes in the municipal licensing process of
technical facilities (where the gas and electricity installations are included). Among these
changes highlights the end of the mandatory evaluation of the " projects of the
specialties and other studies (...) when the project is accompanied by term of
liability underwritten by legally entitled project author technician ", well
as the end of the mandatory " survey, certification, approval or
opinion (...) on the compliance of the implementation of the projects of the specialties and other
studies ".
The procedures for the evaluation of gas and electricity projects and installations
achieved a degree of maturity that resulted in a clear increase in safety, well
as in a strengthening of the trust of citizens. Thus, the changes provided for in the Decree-
Law No. 26/2010 put into question Security and Trust currently achieved by
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withdrawing mandatory assessment, by an external entity, of the
projects and their implementation.
In these terms, under the provisions of Article 162 (c) and Article 169 (c)
of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and still of Article 189 of the Rules of the
Assembly of the Republic, the Deputies and the Deputies below signed, of the Group
MP from the Left Bloc, come apply for Parliamentary Appreciation of the
Decree-Law No. 26/2010, of March 30, which " proceeds to the tenth amendment to the
Decree-Law No. 555/99 of December 16 laying down the legal regime of the
urbanization and edification, and proceeds to the first amendment to the Decree-Law
107/2009, of May 15 " .
Assembly of the Republic, October 20, 2013
The Deputies and the Deputies,