Useful Links Portugal
This website aggregates useful information about economic questions regarding Portugal
Address: Rua de São Bernardo 33 1249-082, Lisboa
Tel: +351 213924000 Fax +351 213924153
General E-mail: ppa.lisbon@fco.gov.uk
E-mail for inquiries related to Trade & Investment: uktradeinvest@fco.gov.uk
Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday: 09.00 – 13.00 and 14.30 – 17.30
Address: Rua de São Bernardo 33, 1249-082, Lisboa
Tel +351 213924000
Fax +351 213924153
Email: portugal.consulate@fco.gov.uk
Website: www.gov.uk
British Consul: Kirsty Hayes
Opening Hours
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9.30 to 14.00
Consular phone lines from 9.00 to 17.00
Apartado 609
Edificio A Fabrica
Avenida Guanaré
8501-915 Portimão
Tel +351 282490750
Fax +351 282414054
E-mail: portugal.consulate@fco.gov.uk
Website: www.gov.uk
Opening Hours
Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9.30 to 14.00
Consular phone lines are open from 9.00 to 17.00
Honorary Consulates
Faro, Oporto, Funchal (Madeira) and Ponta Delgada (Azores)
AFPOP specialises in providing a comprehensive range of information services and support to foreign residents and visitors to Portugal. They can assist in keeping you up-to-date with new and existing legislation, along with social events for all of their members.
Website: www.afpop.com
The official portal of the Portuguese Government includes information about the government cabinet, political program, activities, organisation, previous government cabinets, a search engine and links to all government departments and public services.
Website: www.portugal.gov.pt
This trade & Investment Agency is a government business entity focused in encouraging the best foreign companies to invest in Portugal and contribute to the success of Portuguese companies abroad in their internationalization processes or export activities.
Website: www.portugalglobal.pt
Other useful links in the portal:
Portugal Exporta (In this page you can learn how Aicep can help your company to export through a tailor-made action plan)
AICEP supports your company for export through a tailor-made action plan.
Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) is the national regulatory authority (NRA) in Portugal for communications, for the purposes of the law of the European Union (EU) and national legislation.
Website: www.anacom.pt
The Instituto Camões or the Camões Institute is an institution created in 1992 for the worldwide promotion of the Portuguese language and culture.
Website: www.instituto-camoes.pt
The Espaço Empresa network is a single desk aimed at the entrepreneurs who want to carry out services and/or obtain information inherent to performing an economic activity and to the life cycle of their companies.
Website: www.eportugal.gov.pt
The CMBM supervises and regulates securities and other financial instruments and activities of all those who operate within said markets.
Website: www.cmvm.pt
National association for PT-registered and licensed companies engaged in international freight forwarding activity – understood as the planning and organization of operations for the international transport of goods by all modes of transport (air, road, rail and sea), along with complementary logistics operations and distribution activities.
Website: www.apat.pt
SOLVIT helps people who encounter difficulties in another country when public authorities do not apply EU legislation correctly.
Website: www.ec.europa.eu/solvit
The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 190 economies and selected cities at the sub-national and regional level. To find out more about Portugal follow the link below.
Website: www.doingbusiness.org
All the relevant information to start a new company or expand your business in another EU country, including the rules that apply and the relevant national contact point to set up a company in that specific country.
Website: www.ec.europa.eu/youreurope
Link to Starting a business – Portugal: www.europa.eu/youreurope/business/running-business/start-ups/starting-business/portugal
The Summaries of EU legislation inform on the main aspects of the European legislation, policies and activities in a clear, easy-to-read and concise way.
Website: www.europa.eu/legislation_summaries
Travel Advice: www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/portugal
Living in portugal: www.gov.uk/guidance/living-in-portugal
The Agência de Gestão da Tesouraria e da Dívida Pública – IGCP, is the public entity responsible for the integrated management of cash, funding and the direct debt management, which includes, under the applicable law, the debt of public corporations whose financing is ensured through the state Budget.
Website: www.igcp.pt
LNEC s a public institute of Science and Technology (S&T), with the status of State Laboratory that carries out research in all fields of civil engineering, giving it a unique multidisciplinary perspective.
Website www.lnec.pt
Statistics Portugal produces and disseminates, in an effective, efficient and independent manner, high-quality official statistical information relevant for the whole society.
Website: www.ine.pt
Portuguese public organization that protects and promotes industrial property.
Website: www.inpi.justica.gov.pt
Website: https://www.turismodeportugal.pt/pt/Paginas/homepage.aspx
Other useful websites linked to Turismo de Portugal:
Promotes Portugal as a destination – www.visitportugal.com
Development and support for companies – http://www.business.turismodeportugal.pt
An R&D institution oriented to meet the needs of society and business. LNEG aim at a sustainable research in a sustainability frame through the generation of knowledge of the territory.
Website: www.lneg.pt
Euronext is the first pan-European stock exchange, spanning Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK.
Website: www.euronext.com
This initiative aims to help businesses to open a company in just one office (one-stop office) in a single day (36m).
Website: www.empresanahora.pt
Portugal Economy Probe is a content aggregation website containing economic and financial information about Portugal. Aims to provide all the existing reliable economic and financial information about Portugal, in a factual, independent and user-friendly manner.
Website: www.peprobe.com
DIT in Portugal helps companies in Britain increase their competitiveness through overseas trade in Portugal. We also offer professional, authoritative and personalised assistance to help companies in Portugal locate and expand in the UK.
Address:
British Embassy
Rua de São Bernardo, 33
1249-082 Lisboa
Portugal
Email: DIT.Portugal@fco.gov.uk
Investment Email: investuk.lisbon@fco.gov.uk
General Enquiries: 00351 213 924 000
Website: www.gov.uk
Through this website you can discover the skills of Portuguese industries and search for local products and services
Website: www.buyfromportugal.com
This website in Portuguese aims to help you assess the impacts of Brexit scenarios on your activity; identify the risks and opportunities inherent in each and define a plan of action that minimizes these risks and maximizes these opportunities.
Website: www.dgae.gov.pt/brexit
Healthcare services for patients travelling from abroad are most commonly provided in the most reputable private hospitals in Portugal.
Website: Portugal Health Passport