Decree-Law No. 17/2018 establishing structure, organization and functioning of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Energy (MICE).

This Decree-Law, consisting of 29 articles divided into three Chapters, establishes structure, organization and functioning of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Energy (MICE). MICE is the government department whose attribution is to design, propose, coordinate, execute and evaluate government public policies in the fields of industrial, commercial and energy infrastructure, quality management, intellectual property protection, industrial property rights, trading system and network, renewable energies and desalination.
In particular MICE is entitled to perform the following activities: design, execute and evaluate industrial, commercial and energy policies, aiming at economic growth and the competitiveness of the economy; formulate and implement policy guidelines in the field of industry, in particular light industry, articulating with renewable energies, and other areas of the economy; elaborate, propose and implement a dynamic and sustainable energy policy, seeking synergies between renewable and conventional energies to reduce and optimize energy costs as an essential lever in improving the competitiveness of the national economy; contribute to the definition of the national quality policy, design and implement modernization, standardization, control and certification systems capable of promoting and guaranteeing the quality of products and services; to contribute to the development of an open and balanced competition regime, in order to guarantee fast and effective access by consumers to the goods and services produced, through the efficient regulation of markets, where the reinforcement of mechanisms, inspection and sanctioning are included; formulate and implement policy guidelines on domestic and foreign trade, with a view to developing the sector in accordance with international agreements to which the country is a party, etc.