The Council of Ministers this Thursday, January 21, approved the decree that proceeds to a set of changes to measures that regulate the extension of the state of emergency decreed by the President of the Republic.
These new measures were presented by Prime Minister António Costa, earlier this afternoon, as Sul Informação did the trick.
The Government states, in a statement, that the measures were determined "in view of the worsening situation of the Covid-19 disease pandemic, and after analyzing the information shared by epidemiologists and public health specialists."
Here are the new measures (which complement those approved on the 18th):
1 - a suspension of academic and non-teaching activities and social support, from January 22 and for a period of 15 days, comprising:
> Teaching and non-teaching and training activities in public, private and cooperative educational establishments and in the social and solidarity sector of pre-school and primary and secondary education;
>The early childhood support activities of day care centers, family day care centers and childminders, social support activities developed in the Occupational Activities Center, Day Center, Social Centers, Free Time Activities Center and senior universities.
- the adoption of the necessary measures for the provision of food support for students benefiting from grade A and B of school social action;
– the identification, in each grouping of schools, of an educational establishment and in each district of crèche, family crèche or nanny that promotes the childcare or other dependents dependent on essential service workers, whose mobilization for service or readiness prevents them from providing assistance to them;
- Or closure of all leisure activities, all dance and music establishments, as well as school sports activities;
- and suspension of professional training activities developed on a face-to-face basis carried out by training bodies of a public, private, cooperative or social nature, and may exceptionally be replaced by distance training, whenever conditions are met;
- Or closure of Citizen Shops, maintaining face-to-face assistance by appointment, at the branch network of the different services, as well as the provision of these services through digital means and contact centers with citizens and companies;
2 – A decree-law that creates a exceptional and temporary regime of justified absences motivated by assistance to the family resulting from the suspension of academic and non-teaching activities, within the scope of the COVID-19 disease pandemic. Thus:
>justified absences, without loss of rights, except for compensation, are considered absences from work motivated by urgent care for a child or other dependent under 12 years of age, or, regardless of age, with a disability or chronic illness;
>Employees, self-employed workers and those under the convergent social protection regime are entitled to exceptional family support in the event of absences outside the fixed periods of school interruption (school holidays);
>clarifies that the mutual exclusion between access to the support provided for in the decree-law that creates extraordinary support for the progressive resumption of activity in companies in a situation of business crisis with a temporary reduction in the normal working period, and access to the extraordinary incentive to normalization of business activity until January 2021, inclusive;
>It is clarified that the amounts in addition to the retributive compensation do not imply additional charges for the employers.
3 – A draft law was also approved, to be submitted to the Assembly of the Republic, which approves a set of measures relating to the suspension of deadlines for the practice of procedural and procedural acts which must be practiced within the scope of processes and procedures that run under the terms of the judicial courts, administrative and tax courts, Constitutional Court, Court of Auditors and other jurisdictional bodies, arbitral courts, Public Ministry, justices of the peace, alternative dispute resolution entities and tax enforcement agencies.
4 – The decree-law that amends the administrative offense regime in the context of the calamity situation, contingency and alert and proceeds to the administrative offense qualification of the duties imposed by the state of emergencya.
Among the changes now approved:
>the aggravation of the fines is determined in case of recurrence (the fine is increased in its minimum and maximum limit by one third), applicable to whoever commits an offense committed intentionally after having been notified of another offense for breach of same legal provision;
>with regard to the processing of the administrative proceedings, the application, with adaptations, of some of the rules contained in the Highway Code is established (namely regarding voluntary compliance, communication of the infringement and the defendant's right to be heard and defended, notifications, decision, resource and prescription);
>it is foreseen that the voluntary payment at the moment of the verification of the infraction of the infraction can be made by all means legally admitted as a form of payment, and the available electronic payment means should be privileged.
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