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REPORTS OF THE NATIONAL MEMBERS 57

REPORT OF THE PORTUGUESE FEANI
NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Ordem dos Engenheiros
Year of Adhesion: 1954
Declared engineers: 56.138
Number of EUR INGs: 128
Member associations: The Portuguese FEANI committee was created in 1993,
following an agreement signed between the Ordem Dos Engenheiros and the Ordem
dos Engenheiros Técnicos. There is no formal coordination of the two institutions.
Ordem Dos Engenheiros - Av. Antonio Augusto de Aguiar, 3-D - 1069-030 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 313 26 00 - Fax: +351 21 313 26 15
tafonseca@ordemdosengenheiros.pt
ordemdosengenheiros.pt

Activities in 2018 and 2019 concerned:
• interventions in the legislative process on Higher Educa-
tion titles and degrees, regarding its effects in Engineer-
ing Education, in engineers activities and in their profes-
sional mobility

• follow-up to the OECD study carried out in Portugal on
the regulated professions, regarding the risks associated
with increasing deregulation

• interventions towards other professionals in the sense
of access to engineering activities, examples of which
are (Architects/Direction of Work) and (Nutritionists /
Portuguese delegation at FEANI ABM 2019
Food Engineering)
Ordem Dos Engenheiros
• legal diplomas impacting some relevant legal regimes: a • National Engineer’s Day 2018, annual meeting day, hon-
decree-law on buildings rehabilitation (July 2019), regu- ouring personalities and relevant Institutions and with
latory order regarding euro structural codes national use public delivery of diplomas and other symbolic materials
(September 2019), a law introducing changes in build- for the granting of degrees and professional titles
ings fire safety proceedings (October 2019)
• closure of 2018 Year Program on Climate Change and
• preparatory activities for the Committee’s contributions 2019 Year Program on Material Efficiency
to the three reports to be produced under the E4E-Engi-
neers for Europe project • elections and inauguration of the associative bodies for
the term 2019-2022 (March 2019)