Internet & Online Safety - Portugal

The DSA (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065) applies directly in Portugal, imposing tiered due-diligence, notice-and-action, transparency and risk-mitigation duties on intermediary services, online platforms and VLOPs/VLOSEs, layered over the e-Commerce liability framework (mere conduit, caching, hosting).

Law No. 12-A/2026, published in the Diário da República on 15 April 2026 and in force shortly after, sets out Portugal's institutional framework for DSA supervision, enforcement powers and the applicable sanctions regime for intermediary service providers.

ANACOM (the national communications regulator) is designated both competent administrative authority and Digital Services Coordinator, acting as single point of contact for the European Commission, the European Board for Digital Services and other Member States' DSCs, and handling platform identification, supervision and complaints.

Alongside ANACOM, ERC oversees protection of minors and advertising rules, IGAC handles copyright/related rights, and CNPD covers prohibitions on profiling-based and minor-targeted advertising; breaches can attract DSA-level fines of up to 6% of global annual turnover.

A PSD bill setting a digital minimum age of 16 for autonomous social-media use (ban under 13; verified parental consent for 13-16 via the Chave Móvel Digital) passed a first parliamentary reading on 12 February 2026 but remains in committee stage and is not yet enacted; oversight would fall to ANACOM and CNPD.

Liability follows the DSA's harmonised conditional-immunity model for intermediaries plus mandatory notice-and-action, statement-of-reasons, internal complaint handling and out-of-court dispute settlement; the EU's age-verification blueprint (feature-ready 15 April 2026) is available for national customisation.