Technical Session on the Regime — 6 hours
Full coverage from scope to sanctions, with the consolidated timetable. The base for the other programmes.
Technical training
Training on Portugal's interest representation regime
A new regime needs staff who can apply it, not just directors who know it exists. Six programmes, calibrated by audience and responsibility, all revised following Act no. 37-A/2026.
Programmes revised in September 2026. Act no. 37-A/2026 of 28 July repealed Article 19 of Act no. 5-A/2026, created the RTRI Management Board and set a staggered entry into force. All training programmes and materials have been updated accordingly.
Why training matters in this particular regime
Some regimes are satisfied by a well-drafted document. This is not one of them. The central obligation — to register and keep the register truthful and current — rests on a qualification made case by case, every day, by people who are not lawyers: whoever books a meeting with a ministerial office, answers a public consultation, or organises an event attended by decision-makers.
Two of those judgements arise daily in any organisation dealing with the Portuguese public sector, and both are frequently got wrong. The first is treating participation in a procurement procedure — excluded by Article 2(3)(d) — as an act of interest representation. The second is the reverse: treating as routine commercial activity a contact that, occurring outside any procedure and seeking to influence a public decision, falls squarely within Article 2(1).
The six programmes
RTRI Registration Workshop — 4 hours
Hands-on, with a simulated item-by-item completion of the Article 5(1) disclosure and the evidence file.
Conduct and Legislative Footprint Workshop — 4 hours
How to conduct and document a compliant institutional contact, and how it links to the Article 10 mechanism.
Boundaries of the Regime Workshop — 3 hours
Hard qualification cases: public procurement, forensic mandate, social concertation, individualised requests and petitions.
In-Company Training
Closed groups, with cases built from the organisation's own interaction history where provided.
Documentary Toolkit
Teaching materials and templates for organisations training internally.
Timing
| Date | Milestone | Training that should be completed before |
|---|---|---|
| 01-01-2027 | RTRI fully operational; Management Board takes office. | Technical session for legal and compliance teams; registration workshop for those completing the filing. |
| 02-03-2027 | Deadline for professional representatives of third-party interests. | Conduct and legislative footprint workshop for public affairs teams. |
| 01-06-2027 | Sanctions regime enters into force; regime extends to municipalities. | All training completed and the internal framework consolidated. |
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