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What is it? What are the benefits?
This support consists of an extraordinary financial incentive to support the normalization of business activity, that is, after the end of an application of the so-called "simplified lay-off” or support for the progressive recovery.
The extraordinary incentive to normalize business activity is given in the following modalities:
- 50% reduction in contributions paid by the company, up to a maximum of 3 months;
- Total exemption from contributions to be borne by the company, during the 2-month period, when there are permanent employment contracts entered into in the 3 months following the end of the incentive grant, resulting in a net increase in the level of employment (year-on-year period).
Who may benefit?
Employers who have benefited from extraordinary support for the maintenance of an employment contract ("simplified lay-off”) or support for the progressive recovery.
How to access?
Companies can request the incentive before or after the end of the application of the "simplified lay-off” or support for the progressive recovery, through iefponline, but this is only granted after the end of the application of the aforementioned incentives.
For detailed information on the support and processing of applications see the relevant webpages of DGERT,IEFP and FAQs of IEFP.
Relevant legislation:
Decree-Law no. 27-B / 2020, of 19 June, amended by Decree-Law no. 37/2020, of 15 July, by Decree-Law no. 58-A / 2020, of 14 August and by Decree-Law no. 98/2020, of 18 November
Decree-Law n.º 10-G/2020, of 26 March
Decree-Law n.º 27-B/2020, of 19 June, art. 4
Law n.º 27-A/2020, of 24 July, art.19
Ordinance n.º 170-A/2020, of 13 July, amended by Ordinance n.º 294-B/2020, of 18 December
Decree-Law n.º 27-B/2020, of 19 June, amended by Decree-Law no. 37/2020, of 15 July, by Decree-Law no. 58-A / 2020, of 14 August and by Decree-Law n.º 98/2020, of 18 November
What is this? What are the benefits?
The extraordinary support for artists, authors, technicians and other culture professionals takes the form of a subsidy for the amount of €438.81 attributed to culture workers who are exclusively independent workers.
This support may be received in addition to the extraordinary support payments for the reduction in the turnover of freelance workers, the extraordinary incentive measure for professional activity and support for social coverage.
Who can benefit?
This support targets:
Freelance workers who are simultaneously in the employment of third parties, registered as such with the Social Security system, are not eligible for this support. Those under the employment of third parties are specifically covered by the extraordinary measures designed to maintain contracted employment (the simplified lay-off program).
The eligible CAE company codes are: 59110, 59120, 59130, 59140, 59200, 90010, 90020 or 90030. And the eligible IRS codes are: 1 (1314), 2 (2010, 2011, 2019, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015) or 3 (3010 and 3019).
How to apply?
Freelancers are to complete and submit a form via the website www.culturaportugal.gov.pt, separator "CRIAR”. In the form, you need to give your consent for the consultation of databases and the exchange of information with the Tax and Customs Authority and the Institute of Social Security. To access the support scheme, please submit the applications form.
To obtain further information on this support, you may visit the page on Cultura Portugal, the FAQs of support and the government publication documentation.
Relevant legislation:
What is it? What are the benefits?
Support for the maintenance of jobs, to be paid in two installments during the first half of 2021. This support is equivalent to two minimum national wages per worker.
Companies that benefit from this support are prohibited from dismissing workers, namely, through collective dismissal and extinction of jobs up to two months after the end of the support.
Since the support is exclusive for micro-companies, it can amount to a maximum of up to € 11,970 per beneficiary company, i.e. € 1,330 per worker (two minimum national wages).
Additional support corresponding to 1 national minimum wage, per job, is also planned for the third quarter of 2021.
Who can benefit?
This support is exclusive for micro-companies (up to 10 jobs) with revenue drop of above 25%.
It should also be noted that this support cannot be attributed simultaneously with the support for the progressive recovery. In other words, micro-companies that are covered by the simplified lay-off substitute and are interested in this new support, will have to give up the first to receive the second.
This support is still available for companies covered by simplified support in the 1st quarter of 2021 that remain in a business crisis situation in June 2021 and that have not benefited from a lay-off or Support for recovery in 2021.
How to access?
Not yet published by the government.
Relevant Legislation:
Notice of the Council of Ministers of 7 Jan. 2021
This is financial support for companies in a business crisis associated with a regime of temporary reduction of the normal working period, with a view to maintaining jobs, gradually resuming economic activity and the phased repayment of workers' pay. This support has differentiated solutions depending on the applicable business crisis scenarios. Thus, the support modalities vary depending on the intensity of the revenue drop suffered by companies and evolve over the last five months of 2020.
This measure was extended until the end of the first half of 2021.
What are the benefits?
Its operationalization consists of the following benefits:
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Until December |
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Eligibility |
≥ 25% and < 40% revenue drop |
≥ 40% and < 60% revenue drop |
≥ 60% and < 75% revenue drop |
≥ 75% revenue drop |
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Measure |
Reduced working hours up to 33% |
Reduced working hours up to 40% |
Reduced working hours up to 60% |
Reduced working hours up to 100% |
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Contributions to |
Large companies: no reduction |
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SME: 50% reduction |
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Remuneratory compensation |
Hours worked: 100% |
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Hours not worked: between 80% and 88% |
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Social security support |
Hours worked: 0% |
Hours worked: 35% |
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Hours not worked: 70% |
Hours not worked: 100% |
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Payment to the worker or manager |
100% up to 3 national minimum wages (no additional effort for companies, as before it would be 88%) Managers with permanent workers and social contributions made in the company are eligible. |
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Micro-enterprises with a revenue drop above 25% will also have access to "simplified" support, which provides for two national minimum wages per worker, paid in two tranches in the first half of 2021.
Conditions for the adoption of the mechanism:
Who can benefit?
The support covers employers of a private nature, including those in the social and solidarity sector, which have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and who are in a business crisis situation (revenue drop equal to or greater than 25%), have or have not benefited from the simplified lay-off scheme. The revenue drop must be verified in the full calendar month immediately preceding the calendar month the initial request for support or extension refers to, compared to the same month of the previous year or to the monthly average of the two months preceding that period, or for those who started the activity less than 12 months ago, compared to the average monthly revenue between the beginning of the activity and the penultimate full month prior to the calendar month the initial request for support or extension refers to.
How to access?
In order to access the extraordinary support for the gradual resumption of activity with temporary reduction of the normal working period, the employer must submit an electronic application, in its specific form, through direct social security portal, with the employer's statement and the statement of the certified accountant (Mod. 3058-DGSS) attesting to the situation of business crisis.
The amount to be received can also be estimated using the following Simulator.
For more information, please refer to the Social Security, DGERT and the official statement of the government for this incentive.
Relevant legislation:
Decree-Law No. 46-A/2020 of July 30
This measure constitutes a special system of support for hiring in the context of the direct costs associated with the jobs created, in particular the costsfor remuneration, plus the respective contributory expenses borne by the employer, for a maximum period of 36 months. The hiring support for remote working is part of the CO3SO Employment + Programme.
What are the benefits?
When up to three new jobs are created, support for each hired worker can reach €1,500 per month. After 36 months, this support totals 54,700 euros. The support can be increased, reaching 1,900 euros per month and totaling 68,400 euros after 36 months, in the following cases:
Who can benefit?
The support is intended for coastal companies that create jobs in the interior under a remote work scheme, allowing them to receive an additional 0.5 IAS (Indexante de Apoios Sociais), per job, for each month of support, regardless of the number of jobs created. The amount of support is 219 euros per person.
How to access?
The management of this measure will be up to local action groups (LAGs), entities committed to local work and the development of the territory based on local development strategies.
For more detailed information, please consult the Portugal 2020 contest website.
Relevant legislation:
"ATIVAR.PT” is an incentive measure financed by Portugal 2020 that grants financial support to employers who enter into permanent or fixed-term employment contracts, for a period equal to or greater than 12 months, with unemployed people enrolled in IEFP, with the obligation to provide professional training to hired workers.
The new notice provides for direct lump sum support with the following increases:
• 25% young people;
• 35% people with disabilities;
• 25% contracts with remuneration above 2 national minimum wages;
• 35% underrepresented gender;
Additionally, it provides for a 50% reduction in social contributions.
Please visit the IEFP portal for more information on employment incentives.
What is it? What are the benefits?
The PAAC – the Cultural Actor Support Program is designed to support the initiatives and projects of cultural actors, local or regional of a non-professional character and that, by their inherent nature, correspond to the specific needs or aptitudes of the Norte region, the territorial scope under the auspices of the DRCN – the Norte Regional Directorate of Culture.
Irrespective of the artistic area of expression, the areas of candidate application are the following:
Who can benefit?
The program is designed for all culture actors in the Norte region of Portugal, whether individual or collective entities, nonprofit organisations, not professional in character or, when professional, not benefiting from support awarded under the auspices of Culture. Entities holding the legal status of Foundation are not eligible for support.
How to apply?
Candidate applications are to be submitted prior to 15 March while any entity duly eligible to apply may submit one application per civil year. The projects and initiatives are to run throughout the civil year of the respective application.
The request for support should be submitted in the specific form for this purpose and available at the
DRCN website (www.culturanorte.gov.pt), duly completed and submitted online, here.
The candidate application form needs filling out in its entirety and submitted in conjunction with the following documentation:
a) Copy of the citizen card /taxation card;
b) Copy of the collective identification card (whenever a collective entity);
c) Copies of the minutes of the General Assembly electing the most recent management boards (whenever a collective entity);
d) Copies of the last management report and accounts and the activity plan for the year of support (whenever a collective entity);
e) Supplier file, available on the DRCN website, updated, completed and signed;
f) CVs of project participants, as project creatives, technical managers or artists;
g) Draft versions, editorials, pre-projects, programs, candidate project summaries or other documentation that the entity considers relevant to evaluating the project in terms of the respective criteria presented.
Further information may be obtained via the Norte Regional Directorate of Culture Website, the program regulationsand the respective FAQs.
What is it? What are the benefits?
The Improvement of Supply Support Line received another 300 million euros in financing for this company support instrument for the tourism sector.
The Improvement of Supply Support Line consists of medium and long term financing for tourism projects designed to:
To access the Improvement of Supply Support Line 2021, tourism companies should be planning to undertake investments in the fields of environmental management and accessibility. All projects are to receive a minimum global ranking in these two areas with companies wishing to ascertain whether their project meets this ranking, should go to SGPI and choose the option "Evaluation of Project Sustainability and Access”.
General operational conditions:
Maximum project total | The level of financing may not exceed 80% of the eligible investment. The Turismo de Portugal participation is capped at 1.5 million euros. | ||||
Financing structure | SMEs | Non-SMEs | |||
40% - Turismo de Portugal 60% - Credit institution | 30% - Turismo de Portugal 70% - Credit institution | ||||
Special projects (1) | |||||
SMEs | Non-SMEs | ||||
75% - Turismo de Portugal 25% - Credit institution | 30% - Turismo de Portugal 70% - Credit institution | ||||
Operating periods | SMEs | Non-SMEs | |||
| Maximum of 15 years, including a maximum interest-free period of four years | Maximum of 10 years, including a maximum interest-free period of three years | |||
Interest rate
| Proportion funded by Turismo de Portugal | Proportion funded by the credit institution | |||
No interest due | That resulting from the risk analysis carried out by the credit institution | ||||
Performance award | |||||
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Micro /small enterprises | Medium enterprises | Non-SMEs | |||
Up to 30% | Up to 15% | Up to 5% | |||
(1) Special projects
(2) Minimum amounts per CAE for the GVA/BT ratio
Who can benefit?
Tourism companies of any scale, type or legal form of registration that meet the respective overall conditions:
How to apply?
Access to this support line may be made through contacting any of the following participating Credit Institutions:
For further information, please consult the Turismo de Portugal website and the respective Information File.
Programme to support micro-enterprises and SMEs, from the secondary and tertiary sectors, to finance investments to adapt and modernise establishments and production units within the context of COVID-19.
Who can benefit?
Micro-enterprises and SMEs in the secondary and tertiary sectors.
What investments are eligible?
The programme will focus on investment expenditure related, for example, to:
How to access?
Application information can be found at the Balcão 2020.
For more information, please visit the websites of IAPMEI and Tourism of Portugal, as well as the website of the PEES and adaptar.pt.
Relevant legislation:
Digital Commerce is an ACEPI programme, co-financed by Compete 2020, Portugal 2020, and EU-ERDF, aimed at micro-enterprises and SMEs in the local retail and service sectors.
The program promotes the digital transition of companies that do not yet have an online presence, supporting:
Who can benefit?
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the local retail and service sectors.
How to access?
Access to this measure should be carried out directly through the official page of the Digital Commerce initiative.
For more information, please consult the official page of the Digital Commerce initiative and respective academy, as well as the Portugal 2020 page and the official promotional video of the initiative by the competent Secretary of State.
The Trade Modernisation Fund for micro and small enterprises of local retail and services will:
Who can benefit?
Micro and small enterprises in the retail and service sectors.
How to access?
Information on access to the measure can be found on the IAPMEI page.
Relevant legislation:
What is it? What are the benefits?
This support aims to reimburse the expenses demonstrably borne by beneficiaries in initiatives or actions cancelled or postponed for reasons related to COVID-19, provided for in approved projects. Where, for reasons not attributable to companies and other private beneficiaries of the programme, it is not possible to validate the payment request within 20 working days from the date of its submission by the beneficiary, the application shall be settled as an advance payment, up to a maximum of 70% of the public support corresponding to it.
If the applicant does not have sufficient financial means, a payment request may be submitted on the basis of an invoiced but not yet paid expenditure, which is considered as advance payment, provided that the sum of advance payments already made and not justified with expenditure submitted and validated does not exceed 50% of the public expenditure approved for each project.
How to access?
The request for payment of expenses in advance based on invoices may be made through the Mar2020 platform.
For more information, please see the new measures of Mar2020.
Relevant legislation:
What is it? What are the benefits?
The Ministry of the Sea has decided to adopt, under the Blue Fund, the following extraordinary measures, with effect from 8th May:
For more information, please see the page of the Directorate-General for Sea Policy.
Relevant legislation:
Who can benefit?
This Support Line is eligible for micro, small and medium sized companies, certified by an Electronic Declaration issued by IAPMEI, as well as Small Mid Cap and Mid Caps, in either case, in business in the national territory and undertaking activities in CAEs not belonging to section K, with a business turnover in 2019 that generated at least 30% from activities within the scope of event organisation, whether in terms of infrastructures or audiovisuals and that meet the following eligibility criteria (for additional information, please go to publication document).
Value of loan | Mutual guarantee - Up to 80% of the outstanding capital for each of the guaranteed loans with Medium, Small Mid Cap and Mid CapCompanies; - Maximum non-compliance coverage rate of 20% of the total reimbursed amounts in each period. | Interest free period | Period of duration |
How to apply?
Candidates may submit their applications through banking institutions up until 30 June 2021.
For further details on this support line, please consult the Turismo de Portugal website and the respective publication document.
Who can benefit?
Eligible to apply for this Support Line are small and medium sized companies (SMEs), certified by an Electronic Declaration issued by IAPMEI, as well as Small Mid Cap and Mid Caps, in either case, in business in the national territory and undertaking activities under CAE 79 (Travel agency and tourism operator activities), as their primary or secondary activity and that additionally comply with the remaining eligibility criteria.
Value of loan | Mutual guarantee - Up to 80% of the outstanding capital for each of the guaranteed loans with Medium, Small Mid Cap and Mid CapCompanies. | Interest free period | Period of duration |
How to apply?
Applications may be submitted through banking institutions before 30 June 2021.
For further details about this support line, please go to the Turismo de Portugal website.
What is this? What are the benefits?
The Guarantee Culture Program is a universal support (not subject to tender), non-repayable, that seeks to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on the cultural sector and nurture the gradual resumption of its activity through enabling the remuneration of artistic and technical labour. This program supports the presentation of creative projects or artistic programming that takes place in either physical or digital formats and contexts.
The program has the following funding limits for business entities:
• € 50,000 for micro companies;
• € 75,000 for small businesses;
• € 100,000 for medium-sized companies.
The program has the following funding limits for individual and collective artistic entities of a non-commercial nature:
• € 10,000 for individual persons;
• € 20,000 for informal groups;
• € 40,000 for legal persons.
Who can benefit?
The Guarantee Culture Program is designed for:
The artistic areas covered by the Guarantee Culture Program are the performance arts, the visual arts, disciplinary crossovers, books, cinema and museology.
How to apply?
By the end of March 2021, the notifications of the Guarantee Culture Program are to be published and thereby opening the application period.
For further information, please consult the preliminary program FAQs , as well as the Government publication document.
Relevant legislation:
What is it? What are the benefits?
Non-refundable support for the payment of 6 commercial rent and the transfer of a holding for companies that record large revenue drop.
How to access?
Applications are open from February 4, 2021, with payments starting in the second half of February.
Relevant legislation:
What is it? What are the benefits?
Exceptional and complementary support to those already in force, equivalent to 20% of the average drop in revenue recorded on the two weekends with more intense restrictions compared to the average of all weekends this year, to cover fixed costs not yet covered by other measures.
To access this measure, the restaurant must commit to:
Who can benefit?
Restaurants with:
How to access?
Business owners must, after 25th November, communicate in the portal 2020, on their honor, the revenue made on the two weekends of lockdown. New applications are accepted until 30 April.
For more details, please see the Estamoson page and the respective document which contains information on this incentive for restaurants.
What is it? What are the benefits?
The Apoiar.pt measure consists of a non-refundable grant to support micro and small enterprises with revenue drop, which act in the following sectors: (i) retail and services open to consumers with closure decreed in March 2020; (ii) cultural activities; (iii) accommodation; (iv) restaurant sector. (v) bakery and pastry; (vi) manufacture of pyrotechnic articles; (vii) others.
The amount to be given to each company will be 20% of revenue drop, when it is above 25%, up to a limit of:
Companies with a revenue drop of more than 50% have a limit of:
• Individual entrepreneurs (ENI): 7,500 €
• Micro-enterprises: € 18,750
• Small business: € 103,125
• Medium and large companies: € 253,125
Companies using this fund are therefore obliged to maintain employment and not to distribute profits or other funds to partners.
Companies whose establishments have been closed since March may have an increase in support, up to:
Additionally, a new modality was made available for ENI under simplified accounting regime, with dependent workers, which provides for the support (non-refundable) of 20% of the billing losses up to a limit of € 5,000 per ENI, including extraordinary support up to € 1,000. Applications for this support are available from January 28, with payments starting in the second half of February.
Who can benefit?
The eligibility criteria for this fund are as follows:
How to access?
The second installment of the payment, referring to the first three quarters of 2020, can be requested from January 18, 2021. New applications will be accepted until the end of March.
Applications for reinforcement and extension of support start on January 21, 2021 and the respective payments are available from the beginning of February.
New applications will be accepted until 30 April.
To access this fund please consult the Tourism of Portugal and the IAPMEI.
For more details, please see the information page of Tourism Of Portugal, the FAQs of the APOIAR Programme, and Notice No. 20/SI/2020 of COMPETE 2020.
This incentive will be available until the €600M budget allocation is exhausted.
NOTE: according to the List of Eligible Activity Codes of measure APOIAR.PT, the monitoring of the execution of projects in the sectors of Accommodation, Restaurant Sector and Similar, Tourist Activities (some Classification of Economic Activities - CAE) and other Cultural Activities (some CAE) is the responsibility of Tourism of Portugal. Projects in the remaining eligible sectors of activity are monitored by IAPMEI.
What is it? What are the benefits?
The Short-Term Export Credit Insurance Line is a COSEC export credit insurance line, guaranteed by the Portuguese State, for the coverage of export operations of goods and services, with national incorporation, for minimum amounts of 20,000.00 € and with a credit period up to 2 years.
In the form of Export Credit Insurance, a credit insurance policy is issued whereby the exporter Portuguese may cover the risks associated with the importing company (commercial risks) or the country of import (political/extraordinary risks), whether they occur in the preparation phase of the order, or after dispatch of the goods/service.
In the case of State Guaranteed Credit Insurance, the coverage of political and extraordinary risks associated with the importing country is at stake, such as acts or decision of the Government of the country of import, expropriation, nationalization, confiscation, difficulties in transferring, conversion, and general moratorium, wars, riots, and catastrophic events.
State Guaranteed Credit Insurance may assume different modalities, such as Export Credit Insurance; Financial Credit Insurance (in individual operation or credit line); Secure Deposit; Portuguese Investment Abroad Insurance.
Who can benefit?
Companies with export business in all markets, except countries with negotiable risks, namely:
How to access?
The application must be formalised by completing the online form.
For more information, please see the insurance promoter's page (Cosec) and AICEP page.
Relevant legislation:
Relevant Legislation:
Decree-Law
no. 10-J/2020, of March 26th
Decree-Law
no. 26/2020, of June 16th
OpenCall202020 makes available to companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the liquidity in the real estate investment funds it manages. It will be implemented through a financial instrument characterized by the sale and subsequent long-term lease of a property, safeguarding the right to buy back the property.
| Maximum amount per operation |
Purchase price | Lease term | Rent | Guarantees |
| 5,000,000€ | Corresponds to a maximum of 90% of the average value of the valuations of the property |
up to 15 years |
Annual, paid monthly, corresponds to a fee on the value of the operation (between 2.5%, for the case of real estate operations located in low-density territories, and 4% for the remaining operations). | To be defined by TourismFunds according to the characteristics of each operation and proposing entity. |
This measure has as main targets, companies that own real estate properties for tourist or industrial activity. Other targets include companies that, whether or not they own the property subject to the operation, develop or intend to develop tourist activity.
Conditions of eligibility of companies:
Conditions of eligibility of real estate properties:
What are the conditions of the operation?
How to access?
To access this fund please submit the application through the dedicated page of Tourism of Portugal.
For more information, please consult the Tourism of Portugal page.
Relevant legislation:
Who can benefit?
| Maximum amount Medium-sized enterprises: 1.500.00€ Small Mid-Caps and Mid-Caps: €2,000,000 |
Mutual Guarantee up to 80% of the outstanding capital |
Grace period up to 18 months |
Deadline for operations up to 6 years |
Who can benefit?
Micro and Small Enterprises, with SME Certification, (includes Individual Entrepreneurs (ENI), with and without organized accounting, with SME Certification).
General conditions:
Maximum amount
Micro-enterprises: 50,000€ Small businesses: 250,000€ |
Mutual Guarantee up to 90% of the outstanding capital |
Grace period up to 18 months |
Deadline for operations up to 6 years |
How to access?
Please consult the information mentioned above, which applies to all credit lines.
For more information, please see the IAPMEI page on the various credit lines and the specific page of this incentive, as well as the Tourism of Portugal.
Who can benefit?
Micro-enterprises in the tourism sector and other economic activities with an emphasis on tourism, with up to 10 employees and annual turnover or total annual balance sheet of not more than 2 M€.
Of the € 100m of endowment, € 90m is earmarked for micro-enterprises and € 10m for small companies.
Loan amount
750€/month/job existing in the company on 29th February 2020, in the case of micro-enterprises, or on November 30, 2020, in the case of small companies, multiplied by the period of three months, maximum of 20,000€ for microenterprises and € 30,000 for small companies. Of the amount of the support granted, 20% of it can be converted into a non-reimbursable incentive, provided that, as of 30th September 2021, the maintenance of the number of existing jobs in the company on 29th February 2020 for microenterprises and on 30 November 2020 for small companies is demonstrated.
How to access?
Applications are submitted through the form available in the SGPI. To access it please refer to Tourism of Portugal.
Relevant legislation:
Normative Order No. 10/2020, which changes Normative Order No. 4/2020, of 20 March
Who can benefit?
This Support Line is eligible for micro, small and medium sized companies, certified by an Electronic Declaration issued by IAPMEI, as well as Small Mid Cap and Mid Caps, in either case, in business in the national territory and undertaking activities under the auspices of the CAEs identified in the publication document, and that meet the following eligibility criteria.
Value of loan | Mutual guarantee - Up to 80% of the outstanding capital for each of the guaranteed loans with Medium, Small Mid Cap and Mid CapCompanies. | Interest free period | Period of duration |
How to apply?
Candidates may submit their applications through banking institutions up until 30 June 2021.
For further details on this support line, please consult the Turismo de Portugal website and the respective publication document.
What is it? What are the benefits?
Measure to change the exceptional regime for situations of late payment of non-residential rent.
Tenants may now defer payment of overdue rent under the following conditions:
However, the following conditions still apply:
Tenants who wish to defer rent payment should inform the landlords of such intention within 20 days after 30 December 2020.
Who can benefit?
For non-residential tenants, the following eligibility conditions apply:
How to access?
The tenant wishing to benefit from this scheme must communicate his intention to the landlord, in writing and up to five days before the maturity of the first rent in which he wishes to benefit from this scheme, by registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt, sent to the respective address contained in the lease contract.
Relevant legislation:
Law No. 45/2020 of 20th August, which amends Articles 8, 10 and 14 of the Law No. 4-C/2020 of 6th April
The counting of lease contract terms for their termination is suspended until June 30th 2021.
For those closed since March, the beginning of the payment of rent for 2020 and 2021, was deferred until January 2022. This payment can be made in 24 monthly installments. Also for tenants with establishments closed since March, lease contracts must be extended for a period equal to the duration of the closure, with a minimum duration of 6 months after reopening.
The extraordinary and transitory regime for the protection of residential and non-residential tenants provides for the maintenance of the lease agreements in force, even those that the landlord may have refused to renew.
Relevant Legislation:
Law no. 1-A/2020, of March 19th
Law no. 4-A/2020, of April 6th
