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Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR): what changes from 12 August 2026

Regulation (EU) 2025/40 has applied across the Union since today. Total scope, the PFAS ban already in force, documentary compliance now enforceable and a substantive timetable running to 2038.

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Wine Spirits of Portugal and Europe: history, identity and regulatory erosion

Wine and grape-marc spirits occupy a paradoxical place in the European and Portuguese framework: legally treated as secondary products, yet representing an invaluable historical and technical heritage.

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Wine tourism in Portugal: the law that has not yet arrived and the European money that is already waiting

Regulation (EU) 2026/471 changed everything. Portugal has not yet responded. And the money waits — an analysis of the regulatory void and what contracts must contain today.

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The EU-Mercosur Agreement and its implications for Portugal

Industrial property, geographical indications and the wine sector: an analysis of the implications of the largest free-trade agreement concluded by the European Union.

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The asset nobody sees burning — efficiency, industrial property and Portuguese wine

The difference between having value and capturing value. How designations of origin, trade marks and geographical indications become economic technology.

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Public Funding in the Vine and Wine Sector — 2026

A practical guide to the support available, eligibility, deadlines and application strategy under the CAP Strategic Plan (PEPAC) 2023-2027.

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