Module I – Public Procurement – 59 hours

• Scope of application of the CCP (Public Contracts Code)
• Public Contracts and Administrative Contracts: general scope
• EU Public Procurement Law
• Special Measures in Public Procurement
• Public procurement planning
• Cybersecurity and personal data protection
• Strategic procurement
• In-house procurement
• Horizontal cooperation
• Contracts relating to the exercise of public powers
• Procurement in the Special Sectors (Utilities)
• The decision to contract, the criteria for choosing the procedure and the procurement documents
• Rules on impediments (impedimentos)
• Division into lots
• The tender, documents, variants and the principle of stability
• Grounds for exclusion of tenders
• Clarifications regime for applications and tenders
• Rules on the base price and on an abnormally low price or cost
• Award criteria: criterion, factors and evaluation models
• Award, grounds for non-award and lapse of the award decision
• Dynamic purchasing systems, central purchasing bodies and framework agreements
• Aggregation of contracts and limits on the use of restricted procedures
• Procedural stages – qualification, negotiation and dialogue
• Modification of public contracts: objective and subjective
• Termination (resolução) of public contracts
• The contract manager
• Price revision
• Risk in concession contracts
• Pre-contractual litigation and invalidity of public contracts
• Administrative offences (contraordenações)
• Public Procurement and the Court of Auditors (Tribunal de Contas)
• Arbitration in matters of administrative contracts
• Case law of the CJ and of national courts​

Module II – Administrative Procedure – 24 hours
 

• Scope of application of the CPA (Administrative Procedure Code)
• General principles
• Administrative procedure
• The decision within the procedure
• Dematerialisation of administrative procedure
• Collegial bodies and delegation
• Invalidity of the administrative act
• Procedural conferences and endo-procedural agreements
• Principle of good administration
• Effectiveness, revocation and annulment of the administrative act
• Enforcement of the administrative act
• Administrative challenges/appeals
• Regulations: procedure and substantive regime

Module III – Administrative Proceedings – 24 hours
 

• Scope of administrative jurisdiction
• General Part of the CPTA (Code of Procedure in Administrative Courts)
• Administrative action: commencement and development of proceedings
• Administrative action: procedural incidents
• Procedural streamlining mechanisms
• Selection of cases with priority processing
• Challenge of administrative acts
• Order to perform a due act (condenação à prática de ato devido)
• Enforcement proceedings
• Regulatory litigation
• Mass proceedings and application for protection of rights, freedoms and guarantees
• Judicial appeals
• Interim relief: measures and criteria for granting
• Interim relief: pre-interim protection and incidental matters
• Pre-contractual litigation
• Arbitration

Module IV – Urban Planning Law – 33 hours
 

• The “Simplex Urbanístico”
• Sources of Urban Planning Law
• Land status and administrative intervention
• Implementation instruments
• Expropriation as an instrument for implementing plans
• Compensation for restrictions on the right to property
• Administrative easements and restrictions in the public interest – cultural heritage
• Building regulations
• Prior control of urban planning operations
• The prior communication regime under the RJUE
• Measures to safeguard urban planning legality
• Urban planning implementation of tourism developments
• Spatial planning and forests
• Subdivisions (loteamentos)
• Urban planning contracting
• Urban rehabilitation
• Urban sustainability
• Urban planning offences
• Urban planning litigation