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Government business entity focused on promoting the expansion of Portuguese companies into foreign markets and on encouraging foreign companies to invest in Portugal AICEP is your "one-stop-shop" Agency, with a wide range of capabilities and a very professional team ready to assist our partners whenever they are looking to invest or buy Portuguese services or products.

O IAPMEI actua sob a tutela do Ministro da Economia e tem como missão facilitar e assistir as PME nas suas estratégias de crescimento inovador e internacional, de aumento da produtividade e da competitividade, de reforço de competências e da capacidade de gestão e de acesso aos mercados financeiros, a par da promoção do empreendedorismo. ________________ IAPMEI is a specialised public agency within the Portuguese Ministry for the Economy, created to provide technical and financial support to enterprises, in particular to SMEs. Along its 40 years’ experience, IAPMEI has developed into a stable, efficient and well-known organisation with a staff of around 350, 12 regional offices and a wide range of controlling interests in associate organisations (both private and state-owned) involved in SME support schemes in Portugal. IAPMEI’s main mission is to actively participate in the design and implementation of integrated strategies for the support of Portuguese corporate activity, with a special focus on SMEs and with a view to modernisation, innovation and international competitivity in the industrial, trade and services sectors.

Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) is the national regulatory authority (NRA) in Portugal for communications, for the purposes of the law of the European Union (EU) and national legislation; it also inherits the assignments, powers and responsibilities of the Comissão de Planeamento de Emergência das Comunicações (Emergency Communications Planning Committee). ANACOM is a legal person governed by public law, construed as an independent administrative entity with administrative, financial and managerial autonomy and its own assets. ANACOM is organisationally, operationally and technically independent in the performance of its functions and is not subject to government direction or supervision in the exercise thereof, as established in its Statutes - Decree-Law no. 39/2015 of 16 March - in force since 1 April 2015. This does not, however, stand in the way of ANACOM providing assistance to the Government in the area of communications and is without prejudice to the development of guidelines by the Government where ANACOM acts in representation of the Portuguese State or to the requirement for prior approval of acts provided for in these statutes.