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Court of Justice of the EU Rules Against Portugal's IMT on Corporate Restructuring in the Nova Iberomoldes Reference — Directive 2008/7/EC Trumps the CIMT Levy

Court of Justice of the EU Rules Against Portugal's IMT on Corporate Restructuring in the Nova Iberomoldes Reference — Directive 2008/7/EC Trumps the CIMT Levy

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU, Tribunal de Justiça da União Europeia) handed down a reading on Thursday 4 June 2026 that Portuguese tax law cannot levy IMT (Imposto Municipal sobre Transmissões Onerosas de Imóveis, Municipal...

The Portugal Brief 05 Jun 2026

Portugal Approaches the 7 June 2026 EU Pay-Transparency Directive Deadline Without a Published Lei de Transposição — Diretiva 2023/970 Tilts the Country Into Article 258 TFEU Infringement-Risk Territory

Portugal Approaches the 7 June 2026 EU Pay-Transparency Directive Deadline Without a Published Lei de Transposição — Diretiva 2023/970 Tilts the Country Into Article 258 TFEU Infringement-Risk Territory

Directive (EU) 2023/970 — the EU Pay-Transparency Directive — must be transposed into Portuguese law by Sunday 7 June 2026. Lisbon has not yet tabled a diploma. ACT is already enforcing on Directive spirit; Article 258 TFEU infringement-risk territory opens on Monday.

The Portugal Brief 05 Jun 2026

BCP Launches a €407.5 Million Share Buyback Covering 2.84% of Capital — Six-Month 4 June–4 December Window Anchors the 90%-of-Profits Distribution Pledge

BCP Launches a €407.5 Million Share Buyback Covering 2.84% of Capital — Six-Month 4 June–4 December Window Anchors the 90%-of-Profits Distribution Pledge

Banco Comercial Português (BCP, Millennium BCP) opened on Wednesday 4 June 2026 the share-buyback programme that the Conselho de Administração approved at its session of 27 May, marking the first time the bank deploys the recompra (buyback) leg of...

The Portugal Brief 04 Jun 2026

Galp Sees Rodrigo Vilanova Step Down From the Energy Management Vertical on Family Health Grounds — Executive Commission Shrinks to Five as Jorge Fernandez Vidal Joins the Non-Executive Bench

Galp Sees Rodrigo Vilanova Step Down From the Energy Management Vertical on Family Health Grounds — Executive Commission Shrinks to Five as Jorge Fernandez Vidal Joins the Non-Executive Bench

Galp Energia SGPS has confirmed the departure of Rodrigo Vilanova, the executive administrator who built and ran the group's Energy Management vertical — the trading-and-portfolio function that monetises Galp's upstream gas, refined-products and...

The Portugal Brief 04 Jun 2026

Air France-KLM Calls TAP the "Final Piece" of Its Southern Strategy as Parpública's End-July Privatisation Window Closes With Lufthansa and IAG in the Frame

Air France-KLM Calls TAP the "Final Piece" of Its Southern Strategy as Parpública's End-July Privatisation Window Closes With Lufthansa and IAG in the Frame

Air France-KLM has stepped further into the open with the TAP Air Portugal bid, telling investors and Jornal de Negócios on 3 June that the Lisbon flag carrier represents the "última peça do puzzle" — the final piece of the puzzle — for the group's...

The Portugal Brief 04 Jun 2026

Autoridade da Concorrência Fines Grupo Multimoto €729,000 for Coordinating Resale Prices and Blocking Dealers From Selling Rival Motorcycle Brands

Autoridade da Concorrência Fines Grupo Multimoto €729,000 for Coordinating Resale Prices and Blocking Dealers From Selling Rival Motorcycle Brands

The Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC, Portuguese Competition Authority) has imposed a coima (administrative fine) of €729,000 on Grupo Multimoto for two parallel infringements of the Lei da Concorrência (Competition Act, Lei 19/2012): resale price...

The Portugal Brief 04 Jun 2026

Tekever Doubles Its French Investment to €200 Million Over Five Years at Choose France 2026 — Cahors Excellence Centre Hits Summer Opening as 200 Skilled Jobs Land Across Occitânia and Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Tekever Doubles Its French Investment to €200 Million Over Five Years at Choose France 2026 — Cahors Excellence Centre Hits Summer Opening as 200 Skilled Jobs Land Across Occitânia and Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Portuguese drone unicorn Tekever doubles its France investment to €200 million over five years at the Choose France 2026 summit in Versailles — adding 200 highly skilled jobs across Occitânia and Nouvelle-Aquitaine and bringing the Cahors industrial centre online this summer.

The Portugal Brief 03 Jun 2026

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