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Infarmed hires legal services to review licensing projects
On December 23, 2020, Infarmed signed a public contract with the law firm Gouveia Pereira, Costa Freitas & Associados, for the provision of legal advisory services in the re-examination of processes of the Inspection and Licensing Directorate. The contract was published on the 21st of January, on the base.gov.pt and has a global value of 53 thousand and 500 euros.
O contract was awarded to the Society Gouveia Pereira, Costa Freitas & Associados, selected among several competitors, including ABBC-Azevedo Neves, Benjamim Mendes, Carvalho e Associados, BAS – Sociedade de Advogados and Eduardo Serra Jorge & Maria José Garcia Sociedade de Advogados, and refers to “legal advisory services in different areas of law, for the re-examination of several processes of the Inspection and Licensing Directorate / Licensing Unit of INFARMED, IP”
The execution period is 120 days and the contract manager, on behalf of Infarmed, is the Director of the Licensing Unit, Vasco Bettencourt do Espírito Santo Nunes, who is also lawyer and directs the Infarmed's Office of Cannabis for Medicinal Purposes. The contract is incumbent upon the contracting entity to strictly comply with the orders, directives or instructions transmitted by the representatives of Infarmed IP, in the exercise of management power on matters relating to the execution of the contractual services.
“For the provision of the services object of this contract, as well as for the fulfillment of
of the other obligations contained in the respective specifications, the first
grantor will pay to the second grantor, in the 2020 and 2021 financial years, the
maximum global price of €53.500,00 (fifty-three thousand five hundred euros), plus
of VAT at the legal rate in force, currently 23%”, can be read in Clause 6 of the contract.
Under the terms of the contract, the Company Gouveia Pereira, Costa Freitas & Associates has the following main obligations:
a) Provide the services, under the terms of Part II of the Specifications;
b) Find out about all the specific aspects and the various legal, regulatory and operational constraints relating to the area covered by the object of the contract, with a view to its proper execution, and it is also responsible for carrying out all the ancillary works that are deemed necessary, in accordance with the specific requirements of the specifications;
c) Ensure all auxiliary means, travel, contacts with other entities and any actions for collecting and processing information aimed at the proper execution of the work.
Cannareporter asked Infarmed if the provision of legal advice services also applies to the review of processes for licensing in the cannabis area.
Hugo Grilo, Infarmed's Press Officer, replied that “the contracting of legal services does not affect processes related to the licensing of activities or products within the scope of cannabis for medical purposes. The contracting of legal services is a common practice in the various public administration services, as can be confirmed by consulting the base.gov.pt . In the specific case, the contracting focuses on the reconsideration of a set of complex processes, to be run in court, exclusively in the area of community pharmacies.”
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I am one of the directors of CannaReporter, which I founded together with Laura Ramos. I am from the unique Island of Madeira, where I currently reside. While I was in Lisbon at FCUL studying Physical Engineering, I became involved in the national hemp and cannabis scene and participated in several associations, some of which I am still a member of. I follow the global industry and especially legislative advances regarding the different uses of cannabis.
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