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Name
of the institution : Supreme Administrative Court (Supremo Tribunal
Administrativo )
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President :
Mr. Manuel Fernando DOS SANTOS SERRA
Address
:
Rua de San Pedro de Alcântara 75
12 69-137 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
Phone
number :
(351) 21. 321. 62. 00 (Jurisdiction)
(351)
21. 321. 62. 79 (Presidency/secretary)
Fax
:
(351) 21. 342. 43. 69
E-mail:
correio@lisboa.sta.mj.pt
Web
site:
http://www.sta.mj.pt
Composition and structure
Number
of members :
The President and 38 members.
Recruitment
procedures and incompatibilities :
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of the Supreme Administrative Court are appointed from the judges
of the first instance administrative and fiscal, tribunals from
the magistrates of the department of public prosecutions
and from jurists of aknowledged merit. The members of the Court
elect their president for a renewable mandate of three years.
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Total incompatibility with any other activity, public or
private, with the exception of the function of teacher and
researcher.
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Internal
organization :
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Plenary section : President, vice-presidents, 7 senior judges
of each section (in order to solve the contradictions between
the sections and to settle the conflicts of jurisidiction
between the administrative tribunals, the administration and
the fiscal courts).
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| Section
of administrative contentions : this section is qualified to
take knowledge of the decisions of administrative courts and
of appeals against some administrative acts. |
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Section of fiscal contentions: this section is to take knowledge
of the decisions of fiscal tribunals and of appeals against
some administrative decisions regarding fiscal and customs matter.
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Publications
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The decisions of the Court are published in the Offical Bulletin.
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Court
functions
Jurisdiction
:
- Appeals against decisions in administrative, fiscal and customs
matters ;
- Declaration of illegality of regulation norms;
- Disputes concerning administrative contracts and civil liability
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- Enforcement of judgments.
Organization
of the courts system :
The Court is entitled to decide:
- in first and last resort the actions against administrative acts
of national scope and against regulation norms issued by regional
authorities ;
- in appeal the actions against the decisions of the district admininstrative
tribunals (if the tribunal of second instance is not qualified to
take knowledge of these decisions );
- in cassation the appeals against the decisions of the fiscal tribunals
of first instance (if their object is a matter of law) and of the
tribunal of second instance.
Powers of
the judge :
Annulment, declaration of illegality, injunctions, enforcement of
judgments and compensation.
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Advisory
functions
The Supreme
Administrative court has no advisory functions.
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