Comission for the Efficiency of Enforcement Procedures

The Commission for the Efficiency of Enforcement Procedures (CPEE) was created in Portugal after a rigorous and in-depth analysis, made from 2005 to 2007, of all legal constraints found in enforcement procedures after the reform of 2003 entered into force, and is based on a legal resolution after a wide spread political and parliamentary consensus, thus originating Decree-Law nr. 226/2008, November 20th, approved in the use of the legal authorization granted by the Parliament, through Law nr 18/2008, of 21st of April. On 31st March of 2009 the CPEE started it’s activity as a new independent, pluralisticand democratic public body to serve the civil Justice, based on democratic principles, which works as a Plenary and Executive Board, and is responsible, among others, for (article 69.º-C of the Statute of the Chamber of Solicitors, as amended by Decree-Law nr. 226/2008, November 20th:

1. Issuing recommendations towards the training of Enforcement Agents (an independent professionals working as bailiffs);
3. The increasing of the quality of the access and final evaluation demands and procedures of training period to become Enforcement Agents;
4. Analyzing the fulfilment of legal rules and upholding of the incompatibilities and impeachments of Enforcement Agents;
5. The initiation of disciplinary proceedings and the application of proper penalties/ sanctions to Enforcement Agents;
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