Response measures for Algarve’s ongoing drought

Key aspects

Council of Ministers Resolution 80/2024 of June 21 (the “Resolution”):

• maintains the drought warning for the Algarve region;
• eases certain restrictions imposed by Council of Ministers Resolution 26-A/2024 of February 20;
• boosts anti-water shortage and contingency measures;
• creates a tariff component for the supply service;
• establishes restrictions on the public water supply, tourism, and agriculture, as well as on issuing water resource use permits (“TURH”); and
• introduces new financing and incentive measures.

It will be effective until December 2024 and is scheduled for review in August 2024.