Law No. 7/2020 establishing exceptional and temporary response regimes to the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, and makes the 1st amendment to Decree-Law No. 10-I/2020 of 26 March, and the 4th amendment to Law No. 27/2007 of 30 July.

This law establishes exceptional and temporary response regimes for the SARS-CoV -2 epidemic, in the following matters: Definition of the rules applicable to the teaching activity of higher education institutions; Non-interruption of essential services; Suspension, in specific circumstances, of the collection of commissions on payment transactions through digital platforms of payment service providers; Matching registered nurses with social security to day care centers, for the purposes of applying articles 23 and 24 of Decree-Law No. 10-A/2020 of 13 March; Admissibility of redemption, under specific conditions, of Retirement Savings Plans; etc. During the state of emergency and in the following month, it is not allowed to suspend the supply of the following essential services, as provided for in paragraph 2 of article 1 of Law No. 23/96 of 26 July: a) Water supply; b) Electricity supply; c) Natural gas supply; d) Electronic communications. The non-suspension provided for in letter d) applies when motivated by unemployment, a drop in household income or by infection by COVID-19. Consumers who are facing the above mentioned situation may request the termination of telecommunications contracts, without any compensation to the service supplier.