The ''Diário da República'' (DR) is the official gazette of

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. Between 1869 and 1976, it was called the ''Diário do Governo''. It is published by the National Printing House and comprises two series.

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, decree-laws, decisions by the Constitutional Court and other relevant texts are published in the I Series.

Regulation Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the term has slightly different meanings according to context. Fo ...

s, public contracts, etc. are published in the II Series. As in many countries, legislative texts are only binding after publication (article 119 of the Portuguese Constitution). Since July 1, 2006, the gazette is published in electronic form, with only a handful of authenticated printed copies (for deposit in the National Archive, the

Presidency A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified b ...

, the Assembleia da República, the high courts, etc.). There were other changes, such as the end of the III Series. It is possible to buy the printed version of the I Series. ''Diário da República Electrónico'' is the public service of universal and free access. It requires a PDF viewer. Users can search and access entire editions or a particular act, from 1910, in the case of the I Series, or 2000, in the case of the II Series. There are no known plans to backscan older copies. Added value services are also available, which allow Boolean search, alerts on new legislation regarding subjects defined by the user, etc.

Other official newspapers in Portugal

The Autonomous Regions of

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and

Madeira Madeira ( ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (), is an autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under north of ...

each have a gazette, the ''Jornal Oficial da Região Autónoma dos Açores'' (JORAA) and the ''Jornal Oficial da Região Autónoma da Madeira'' (JORAM). These are also available online, but in the case of ''JORAM'' only the printed version is considered authentic. Being a member of the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...

, there is also a Portuguese version of the '' Official Journal of the European Union''.

External links

Official website of the electronic Diário da República

History of the DRE

JORAM

JORAA
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