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Friday's Conselho de Ministros Wraps Three Consumer-Facing Decrees Into One Sitting — Diretiva 2020/2184 Drinking-Water Transposition, Cross-Modal Passenger-Rights Statute and the New DGDCCS Replace the DG do Consumidor in a Single Agenda Block

Friday's Conselho de Ministros Wraps Three Consumer-Facing Decrees Into One Sitting — Diretiva 2020/2184 Drinking-Water Transposition, Cross-Modal Passenger-Rights Statute and the New DGDCCS Replace the DG do Consumidor in a Single Agenda Block

Friday 29 May's Conselho de Ministros wrapped three consumer-facing decrees into one sitting: a complementary Diretiva 2020/2184 water-quality transposition, a cross-modal passenger-rights statute and the merger of the DGC into the new Direção-Geral da Defesa do Consumidor (DGDCCS).
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Setting Up Water (Contrato de Água Doméstica) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Municipal Concession Map, the EPAL/Águas do Norte/SMAS Operators, the Fixed and Variável Tarifário, the Caução and the Counter-Reading Calendar

Setting Up Water (Contrato de Água Doméstica) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Municipal Concession Map, the EPAL/Águas do Norte/SMAS Operators, the Fixed and Variável Tarifário, the Caução and the Counter-Reading Calendar

Water service in Portugal is the most fragmented of the four residential utilities. Unlike electricity — where any Portuguese resident anywhere in the country picks a comercializador in the Mibel liberalised market and signs a single national...
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