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CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut has a wide experience accumulated throughout decades in Public Law, an area of practice in which it detains a leading position.

The practice area of Public Law, other than the special focus it gives to the issue of public procurement and of administrative contracts, intervenes in the main economic areas with strategic relevancy, in projects of big infrastructures embracing the most different areas, as well as in regulated sectors (e.g. water, energy, health and pharmaceutical, transport and telecommunications).

Our legal assistance services include, among others, the following issues:

  • General Administrative Law
  • Public Procurement
  • Administrative Contracts, in particular, Public Works under Contract and Concessions of Works and Services
  • Public-Private Partnerships (PPP)
  • Regulated Sectors
  • Expropriations and Easements
  • Urbanism
  • Environment
  • Litigation and Arbitration

CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut's Public Law team has an extensive professional path, being composed of lawyers of high prestige with several works published in issues connected with the area of practice.

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09 February 2021
BAT con­clu­sions for large com­bus­tion plants an­nulled – What next?
On 27 Janu­ary 2021 the Gen­er­al Court of the European Uni­on de­clared the so-called BAT con­clu­sions for large com­bus­tion plants an­nulled. It is worth con­sid­er­ing what this rul­ing really means and what it...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
15 December 2020
Five years after Hua­wei ZTE FRAND li­cens­ing ob­lig­a­tions again be­fore the...
On 26 Novem­ber 2020, the Düs­sel­dorf Re­gion­al Court an­nounced that it would sus­pend a pat­ent in­fringe­ment pro­ceed­ing and refer key ques­tions on com­puls­ory li­cens­ing of stand­ard es­sen­tial pat­ents (SEP)...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
18 June 2020
Meet the Law | Im­port­ant Pro­jects of Com­mon European In­terest Hy­dro­gen
Or­der no. 6403-A/2020 of June 17, which es­tab­lishes the open­ing of a peri­od for ex­pres­sion of in­terest for par­ti­cip­a­tion in the fu­ture Im­port­ant Pro­jects of Com­mon European In­terest (here­in­after “IP­CEI”)...
Newsletter Public Law
01 June 2020
Meet the Law | Sol­ar Ca­pa­city Auc­tion 2020
Min­is­teri­al Or­der No. 5921/2020, of 29 May, from the En­ergy Sec­ret­ary of State de­term­ined the open­ing of a com­pet­it­ive pro­ced­ure, in the form of an elec­tron­ic auc­tion, for the al­loc­a­tion of in­jec­tion...
Newsletter Energy & Climate Change
29 May 2020
Meet the Law | New Rules on Dead­lines and Pro­ced­ur­al Mat­ters
From June 3, 2020, new rules will come in­to force re­gard­ing the dead­lines and steps to be taken in pro­ceed­ings and pro­ced­ur­al mat­ters be­fore ju­di­cial courts, ad­min­is­trat­ive and tax courts, the Con­sti­tu­tion­al...
Newsletter Dispute Resolution
05 May 2020
Coronavir­us crisis: More flex­ib­il­ity for European struc­tur­al and in­vest­ment...
On 23 April 2020, the European Uni­on ad­op­ted Reg­u­la­tion (EU) N° 2020/558 on spe­cif­ic meas­ures to provide ex­cep­tion­al flex­ib­il­ity in the use of European Struc­tur­al and In­vest­ment Funds in re­sponse to...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
04 May 2020
In­ter­na­tion­al Law in times of crisis: COV­ID-19 and For­eign In­vest­ments
As the COV­ID-19 pan­dem­ic con­tin­ues to un­ravel without re­gard to na­tion­al bor­ders, coun­tries around the world are faced with both pub­lic health and eco­nom­ic is­sues on a scale not pre­vi­ously seen. In this...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
07 April 2020
Meet the Law | Amend­ments and cla­ri­fic­a­tions to Law No. 1-A/2020
Ques­tions and An­swers on re­cent amend­ments and cla­ri­fic­a­tions to Law No. 1-A/2020 and De­cree-Law No. 10-A/2020, with re­spect to some meas­ures taken in the con­text of Ad­min­is­trat­ive Lit­ig­a­tion and Pub­lic...
Newsletter Public Law
03 April 2020
Meet the Law | Ques­tions and an­swers on the im­ple­ment­a­tion by the Gov­ern­ment...
The Pres­id­ent of the Re­pub­lic of Por­tugal de­clared a State of Emer­gency in Por­tugal through De­cree no. 14-A/2020, pub­lished on March 18, 2020. Also, the Por­tuguese Gov­ern­ment es­tab­lished a set of ex­cep­tion­al...
Newsletter Coronavirus (COVID-19)
27 March 2020
Man­aging clin­ic­al tri­als un­der COV­ID-19: New EU guid­ance is­sued for spon­sors...
The COV­ID-19 pan­dem­ic has had a dra­mat­ic im­pact on European health sys­tems, whose pri­or­ity first and fore­most is the treat­ment of pa­tients suf­fer­ing from this dis­ease both in the in-pa­tient and out-pa­tient...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
12 September 2019
UK food and cos­met­ic pro­du­cers to the EU to face new reg­u­la­tions after...
As Brexit draws near­er and with the like­li­hood of an un­reg­u­lated exit still not off the table, EU-27 com­pan­ies im­port­ing or selling food or cos­met­ics from Great Bri­tain face li­ab­il­ity risks if they con­tin­ue...
Law-Now Commercial
5/2/2019
CMS Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment Guide
In this CMS guide to pub­lic pro­cure­ment we set out the key rules, thresholds, and pro­ced­ures for con­tract­ing au­thor­it­ies and sup­pli­ers, in­dic­ate wheth­er it is man­dat­ory or vol­un­tary to use e-pro­cure­ment...
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