Two opinions on Chega's Projeto de Lei 697/XVII/1 reached the Constitutional Affairs Committee this week. The lawyers cite 61,798 cyber incidents in 2025, 78 percent of them account takeovers. The CNPD found paragraphs that repeat themselves and a numbering scheme with holes in it.
PSP is investigating an overnight break-in at the Chaves registry office in which 500 citizen cards, 200 passports, two safes, 500 euros and two official dry seals were taken. Nobody has said whether the documents were blank stock or finished cards awaiting collection, and that is the whole story.
How to see, correct, or delete the personal data held about you in Portugal, the one-month reply rule, camera limits, and how to complain to the CNPD.
The judicial holidays fixed by Article 28 of Lei 62/2013 end on 31 August, so the courts reopen in full on Tuesday, 1 September. Civil procedural deadlines that suspended on 16 July start running again, and September's calendar already holds Marques, BES, Tutti Frutti and the Rato torture trial.
Draft Resolution 1216, tabled on 28 August, buys the government until late October to deliver the report Law 142/85 demands. Fátima's parish bodies are in favour, Ourém has reserved its position, and Portugal has not created a municipality since 1998.
Lei 47/2026 takes effect on 1 September, and the printed text is far more specific than the summary that circulated in August. Six months to decide, a provisional permit from day one, and a rule turning three months of foreign silence into a presumption of statelessness.
How firearm licensing works in Portugal: the PSP licence classes, the medical, course, and exam, the safe rule, limits, renewals, and inherited guns.
