Portugal: : Fees for private copying approved after President’s veto

• Autores: Mariana Lameiras, Helena Sousa
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 6, 2015, págs. 29-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Law Decree no. 320/XII extending the private copying fees to a range of electronic equipment was approved on 8 May 2015 with 120 votes in favour from the bipartisan coalition (PSD and CDS). After the President's veto in March 2014, the law proposal returned to the Assembly of the Republic to be appreciated for the second time and its approval forces the promulgation. Bearing in mind legal requirements and since the President has eight days for this procedure, the law will most likely come into force after 20 June 2015. The law was prepared and voted on in the Assembly of the Republic, although it originated in a governmental proposal. It alters the Copyright Code with the aim of broadening the provisions on private copying compensation fees.