EdLaw
Portugal — Lei n.º 58/2019 (GDPR execution law)
Portugal's GDPR execution act. The headline for EdTech: the lowest digital-consent age in our corpus.
Statute text is Portuguese (the authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- Digital-consent age is 13 (artigo 16.º) — Portugal took the GDPR Art. 8 derogation to the absolute floor; under 13, consent comes from legal representatives, "de preferência" via secure authentication (n.º 2). (Corpus map: PT 13 · IT/BG/AT 14 · CZ 15 · DE/PL 16.)
- Contraordenação tiers (artigo 37.º muito graves, 38.º graves): national fine grids implementing the GDPR Art. 83 scales, differentiated by company size (grande empresa / PME / pessoas singulares).
- Public entities and fines (artigo 59.º): the art. 44.º/2 possibility of not applying coimas to public entities (public schools included) was subject to a three-year re-evaluation — track CNPD practice rather than assuming immunity.
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| CONSENTIMENTO-E-COIMAS.md | artigos 16.º (consentimento de menores — 13 anos), 37.º–38.º (contraordenações), 59.º (coimas às entidades públicas) |
Enforcement
Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD, cnpd.pt).
Licence
The corpus reproduces selected articles of Lei n.º 58/2019 in the consolidated text of the PGDL database.
Portuguese copyright law gives no protection to the texts of laws gathered in compilations. Artigo 3.º, n.º 1, alínea c), of the Código do Direito de Autor e dos Direitos Conexos (PGDL — CDADC, read 2026-10-01) names "As compilações sistemáticas ou anotadas de textos de convenções, de leis, de regulamentos e de relatórios ou de decisões administrativas, judiciais ou de quaisquer órgãos ou autoridades do Estado ou da Administração", and artigo 8.º, n.º 1, provides: "Os textos compilados ou anotados a que se refere a alínea c) do n.º 1 do artigo 3.º, bem como as suas traduções oficiais, não beneficiam de protecção." The code has no separate article that names statutes as such; artigo 8.º is the provision that excludes their texts.
The corpus takes the text from the consolidated database of the Procuradoria-Geral Regional de Lisboa (pgdlisboa.pt), a public prosecution office. Its pages (pgdlisboa.pt, read 2026-10-01) carry the site-wide footer "© Copyright 2026. Todos os direitos reservados" and no terms of use; the consolidation contains only the legislator's words with the amendments applied, which is what artigo 8.º, n.º 1, excludes. The footer is therefore read as covering the website, not the legislation.
Conditions: none attach to the statute text, because no copyright subsists in it. The corpus still identifies its source: each fact document names its source in its opening citation line and in its Meta section, and Sources here links the official text (the PGDL database). The changes (the selection of provisions, the Markdown layout and the added anchors) are described in Meta. The corpus does not claim that the publisher endorses it, and only the officially promulgated text is authentic.
Related
- EU GDPR — directly applicable
- PT Lei 41/2004 — ePrivacy (cookies, marketing)
- PT DL 83/2018 — web accessibility