Foreign Associations and Cooperatives - Alteration of the legal representative

The purpose of this procedure is to change the identity of the person who can represent a certain legal person before the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (SGPCM) in the context of the instruction of any process of granting or renewal of the public utility status and also for the purposes of the annual rendering of accounts or the transmission of information of mandatory legal communication. Each entity has only one representative (a natural person) for this purpose.

Service channels

  • Change online

    Request to change the legal representative

Procedure and requirements

Procedure

  • submission of the request in the gov.pt portal
  • analysis of the request by the SGPCM     
  • alteration of the database
  • communication to the interested party.

Additional Data

Territorial Scope
Foreign associations and cooperatives with a national, regional or local scope. Excludes permanent representations of foreign associations and cooperatives that carry out their activity exclusively in one of the Autonomous Regions.