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MIL OSI-C. Mediterranean Region: Portugal

1. The Council of Ministers today approved a new package of diplomas as part of the process of transfer of competences for local authorities and for inter-municipal entities, provided for in the Framework Law on Decentralization, published on 16 August.

The approved skills transfer process is gradual and local authorities can take on new competencies in a phased way by 2021.

After a consensual process with the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities and the National Association of Parishes, the four approved decrees cover the following areas:

– on the roads, transfer to the municipalities the competence to manage road sections and the equipment and infrastructure integrated therein located in the urban perimeters;

– the management of unused public real estate assets is transferred to the municipalities with a view to avoiding the deterioration of the unused, abandoned or abandoned property of the State, promoting their recovery, retention and re-use, allowing the enjoyment and public use and more efficient use of these resources;

– at the level of culture, management, valuation and conservation skills are transferred to a part of the cultural heritage which, if it is classified, is considered to be of local scope and of museums which are not classified as national museums (in general);

– in the area of ​​social action, municipalities and inter-municipal entities will have responsibilities in terms of strategic planning instruments, social development programs and housing comfort, and social assistance, monitoring and support services (in general).

2. Decree-laws transposing the following directives into the national legal order:

– Establishment of the Legal Regime for Payment Services and Electronic Currency (Directive 2015/2366), with a view to creating a European payment market, allowing access to third-party banking information in real time, with the consent of the respective holder;

– Definition of accessibility requirements for websites and mobile applications of public administration bodies and services (Directive 2016/2102). This Decree-Law stipulates that entities, services and bodies of public administration and other organizations should undertake forms of organization and presentation of digital information, both for their websites and for their mobile applications, in order to facilitate access by citizens, especially people with disabilities, by focusing on technical implementations that maximize interoperability with existing support technologies

– Reduction of emissions of certain air pollutants (Directive 2016/2284 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016), including sulfur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), non-methane volatile organic compounds ( NMVOC), ammonia (NH3) and fine particles (PM2.5). The decree-law establishes the obligation to elaborate, adopt and execute the National Program for the Control of Atmospheric Pollution and to monitor the effects of air pollution on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to communicate their results.

3. The establishment of preventive measures to ensure the elaboration of the Espichel-Odeceixe Coastal Coastal Program was approved.

This resolution approves, for two years, preventive measures for areas of frontal dunes of Poc Espichel-Odeceixe.

4. The Government has approved a Resolution of the Council of Ministers which provides financial support for the construction and supervision of the contract, as well as for the acquisition of medical and hospital structural equipment for the future Central Hospital of Madeira. Said financial support is in accordance with the programming provided for in the framework of the multiannual projects and is determined in cooperation with the Government of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, in accordance with the principle of national solidarity and in accordance with the Law of Finance of the Autonomous Regions, safeguarding the public interest.

The support to be provided corresponds to 50% of the expenditure related to the construction work of the Central Hospital of Madeira, up to an amount greater than € 132m, and will be made available as the work is ready to be paid.

5. The Government decided to nominate, on the proposal of the Minister of Planning and Infrastructures, Natércia Marília Magalhães Rêgo Cabral to the position of president of the Superior Council of Public Works. The term of office begins on October 1, 2018.

With the representation of the main professional, scientific and economic organizations of national scope, the Superior Council of Public Works will assist the Government in making decisions on investment programs and projects of great relevance to the country.

6. It was authorized to incur expenses, by the Tax and Customs Authority, regarding the acquisition of software licensing and maintenance.

7. Expenditure relating to support for the conclusion of program contracts in the field of vocational education for the 2018/2021 training cycle was also authorized, following the commitment to strengthen training provision and to enhance vocational education.

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MIL OSI-C. Mediterranean Region: Portugal

1. The Council of Ministers today approved a new package of diplomas as part of the process of transfer of competences for local authorities and for inter-municipal entities, provided for in the Framework Law on Decentralization, published on 16 August.

The approved skills transfer process is gradual and local authorities can take on new competencies in a phased way by 2021.

After a consensual process with the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities and the National Association of Parishes, the four approved decrees cover the following areas:

– on the roads, transfer to the municipalities the competence to manage road sections and the equipment and infrastructure integrated therein located in the urban perimeters;

– the management of unused public real estate assets is transferred to the municipalities with a view to avoiding the deterioration of the unused, abandoned or abandoned property of the State, promoting their recovery, retention and re-use, allowing the enjoyment and public use and more efficient use of these resources;

– at the level of culture, management, valuation and conservation skills are transferred to a part of the cultural heritage which, if it is classified, is considered to be of local scope and of museums which are not classified as national museums (in general);

– in the area of ​​social action, municipalities and inter-municipal entities will have responsibilities in terms of strategic planning instruments, social development programs and housing comfort, and social assistance, monitoring and support services (in general).

2. Decree-laws transposing the following directives into the national legal order:

– Establishment of the Legal Regime for Payment Services and Electronic Currency (Directive 2015/2366), with a view to creating a European payment market, allowing access to third-party banking information in real time, with the consent of the respective holder;

– Definition of accessibility requirements for websites and mobile applications of public administration bodies and services (Directive 2016/2102). This Decree-Law stipulates that entities, services and bodies of public administration and other organizations should undertake forms of organization and presentation of digital information, both for their websites and for their mobile applications, in order to facilitate access by citizens, especially people with disabilities, by focusing on technical implementations that maximize interoperability with existing support technologies

– Reduction of emissions of certain air pollutants (Directive 2016/2284 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016), including sulfur dioxide (SO2), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), non-methane volatile organic compounds ( NMVOC), ammonia (NH3) and fine particles (PM2.5). The decree-law establishes the obligation to elaborate, adopt and execute the National Program for the Control of Atmospheric Pollution and to monitor the effects of air pollution on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to communicate their results.

3. The establishment of preventive measures to ensure the elaboration of the Espichel-Odeceixe Coastal Coastal Program was approved.

This resolution approves, for two years, preventive measures for areas of frontal dunes of Poc Espichel-Odeceixe.

4. The Government has approved a Resolution of the Council of Ministers which provides financial support for the construction and supervision of the contract, as well as for the acquisition of medical and hospital structural equipment for the future Central Hospital of Madeira. Said financial support is in accordance with the programming provided for in the framework of the multiannual projects and is determined in cooperation with the Government of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, in accordance with the principle of national solidarity and in accordance with the Law of Finance of the Autonomous Regions, safeguarding the public interest.

The support to be provided corresponds to 50% of the expenditure related to the construction work of the Central Hospital of Madeira, up to an amount greater than € 132m, and will be made available as the work is ready to be paid.

5. The Government decided to nominate, on the proposal of the Minister of Planning and Infrastructures, Natércia Marília Magalhães Rêgo Cabral to the position of president of the Superior Council of Public Works. The term of office begins on October 1, 2018.

With the representation of the main professional, scientific and economic organizations of national scope, the Superior Council of Public Works will assist the Government in making decisions on investment programs and projects of great relevance to the country.

6. It was authorized to incur expenses, by the Tax and Customs Authority, regarding the acquisition of software licensing and maintenance.

7. Expenditure relating to support for the conclusion of program contracts in the field of vocational education for the 2018/2021 training cycle was also authorized, following the commitment to strengthen training provision and to enhance vocational education.

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MIL OSI-C. Mediterranean Region: Portugal

1. The Council of Ministers approved five diplomas in the scope of administrative and tax justice reform, aiming at the modernization and rationalization of the system:

– The draft law amending the Statute of Administrative and Tax Courts was approved. In a logic of streamlining procedures and increasing the efficiency and speed of the system, the proposed intervention is based on three key elements: the specialization of the courts of first instance; the establishment of a new management model for administrative and tax courts; and reviewing the model of court support offices;

– A proposal for a law amending procedural rules in administrative and fiscal jurisdiction was also adopted. The compulsory electronic filing of judicial proceedings in the administrative and fiscal jurisdiction and several other measures of simplification and procedural aggregation, especially at the level of the tax process, are foreseen;

– By decree-law, teams of judicial magistrates whose task is to recover pending cases in administrative and tax courts, seeking, in a short period of time, to improve the quality of the system's response; with the same objective, this law also establishes incentives for the abandonment of proceedings, the review of tax acts and the use of arbitration;

– The decree-law amending the Procedural Costs Regulation was approved, with the purpose of updating and adapting the legal provisions related to the administrative and tax proceedings. The proposed changes include a reduction in the rate of fairness due to the parties in administrative proceedings where the parties fill out forms established for the production of procedural documents in order to shorten the duration of proceedings, also reducing procedural costs and reinforcing good administration of justice;

– The bill was approved that establishes the application of the tax enforcement process to the coercive collection of costs, fines, fines and other amounts collected in court proceedings. The aim is to increase the efficiency of the collection of amounts owed to the State, with significant functional gains and maintaining the guarantee of effective judicial protection of debtors.

2. The National Irrigation Program (PNRegadios) was approved to expand, rehabilitate and modernize existing irrigation systems and to create new irrigated areas with the objective of promoting irrigation and other collective infrastructure.

PNRegadios makes it possible to increase the resilience and robustness of agricultural systems, also contributing to adaptation to climate change, as well as to the settlement of populations, particularly in areas weakened by the dynamics of depopulation.

To manage the projects covered by the financing agreements between the Portuguese Republic, the European Investment Bank and the Development Bank of the Council of Europe, for a total amount of 560 million euros, a project group is created called the Implementation Unit from the program.

In line with the principles of subsidiarity, administrative decentralization and local self-government, the transfer of competences is now established in the areas of civil protection, animal protection and health and food safety, housing and health care structures. citizen.

The approved skills transfer process is gradual, in line with what the Decentralization Framework Law already provides for, and local authorities can take over the new competencies in a phased way until 2021.

After a consensual process with the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities and with the National Association of Parishes, this second package of diplomas covers the following areas:

– In civil protection, the institutional and operational framework is defined in the autarchic scope, establishes the organization of municipal civil protection services and creates the municipal operational coordination center and the municipal civil protection coordinator;

– in the area of ​​animal health and food safety, the municipalities will be empowered to exercise powers over livestock, veterinary and food safety;

– in the housing, transfer of the competences related to the management of programs to support urban rental and rehabilitation, as well as to the ownership and management of the real estate destined to social housing that integrate the housing stock of the State administration;

– At the level of citizen service, the municipalities are entrusted with the installation and management skills of Citizen Stores and Citizen Spaces, Employee Support Offices and Local Migrant Support Centers and Integration Centers, and to the parishes the competences for the installation and management of Citizen Spaces.

4. The bill was approved authorizing the Government to establish the norms for the realization of Census 2021, which includes the 16th General Census of Population and the 6th General Census of Housing. The diploma defines responsibilities for its implementation and establishes specific arrangements to ensure the financial and human resources required for its success in the established ways and timetables.

The designation, direction and execution of Censuses 2021 is ensured by INE, with municipal councils responsible for organizing, coordinating and controlling the registration tasks in the area of ​​jurisdiction of the respective municipality. The parish councils, in turn, cooperate with the services of the respective town hall in the execution of the operations.

The involvement and cooperation of local authorities will be decisive for the success of the Census 2021, due to its proximity to the population and the possibility of providing the means and the support infrastructures necessary to carry out the operation. A pilot survey will be conducted in 2020 to test the operation.

5. The motion for a resolution on the Extradition Treaty between the Portuguese Republic and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, signed in Lisbon on 25 October 2017, was approved.

The purpose of the Treaty is to strengthen bilateral cooperation with Uruguay in the judicial field in order to enable the extradition of persons for criminal prosecution or for the execution of a custodial sentence.

6. The Government shall submit to the Assembly of the Republic motions for resolutions approving the Third and Fourth Additional Protocols to the European Convention on Extradition.

The two Protocols which are now ratified are broadly complementary and modernized to certain provisions of that Convention, adopted in 1957, bearing in mind the development of international judicial cooperation in criminal matters with a view to speeding up extradition procedures.

Portugal thus completes the ratification of all the Council of Europe's specific legal instruments on extradition.

7. The Government appointed the members of the new board of directors of the Western Hospital Center. Francisco de Oliveira and Maria de Lurdes dos Santos Luís Ponciano respectively assume the positions of president and executive vowels of that Hospital Center, which succeeded to the Hospital Center of the West.

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MIL OSI Translation. Region: Japan – Government of Japan – Japanese –

"Relationship Ministerial Meeting on the 1993 Hokkaido Ballistic Eastern Earthquake and Typhoon No. 21 in 1990" and "Joint Conference on the Tourism Strategy Promotion Conference"

The Ministerial Conference on Hokkaido Ballistic Eastern Earthquake and Typhoon No. 21 was held under the Prime Minister's attendance earlier and the 24 th Tourism Strategy Promotion Ministerial Conference was jointly held. At the conference, we first decided on emergency measures to ensure the safety and security of foreign travelers in emergencies. We will promptly implement 24-hour multilingual call center, enriching English in-vehicle broadcasting of Shinkansen bullet train and arranging staff capable of responding to Chinese and Korean in airport. On that basis, we will carry out emergency response to large-scale hillside collapse, support to farmers such as dairy farming, and Hokkaido Fukutokura for the whole area of ​​Hokkaido against the damage caused by the Hokkaido Ball Earth Earthquake. For the damage caused by Typhoon No. 21, the relevant ministries and agencies and airport officials are working together to restore the Kansai International Airport at an early stage, but further restoration of ports such as Kobe Port, support for farmers, etc. I will do it. Regarding Hokkaido prefecture etc., we will decide the reserve cost of 15.3 billion yen today from the cabinet turn around. Going forward, as a government, we will stick closely to the afflicted area, and we will do our utmost to help victims return to their original lives as soon as possible.

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