Law No. 99/2019 on the National Programme for Territorial Planning Policy.

This Law approves the first revision of the National Programme for Territorial Planning Policy (PNPOT), approved by Law No. 58/2007 of 4 September. The PNPOT is the top instrument of the territorial management system, defines objectives and strategic options for territorial development and establishes the model of organization of the national territory. The PNPOT is the reference framework for other territorial programmes and plans as a guiding instrument for strategies with territorial impact. The PNPOT was created by the Basic Law of the Territorial and Urban Planning Policy of 1998, with the aim of providing the country with a competent instrument for the definition of a prospective, complete and integrated vision of the organization and development of the territory, promoting the coordination and articulation of public policies on a territorial basis. Climate change causes impacts in the intensity and territorial incidence of the risks associated with floods and floods, coastal overgrowths, heat waves and the occurrence of fires, with a strong impact on forest territories, generally aggravating their frequency and intensity. . Urban areas will be in a more vulnerable situation. Other environmental hazards, such as mass movement in slopes, can be aggravated in severity or frequency. Climate change is also a factor of social injustice, with consequences for intra- and inter-generational inequalities.
This National Programme also aims at ensuring competitiveness based on food security, responding to food and nutritional needs of citizens, deepening market integration, rationalizing distribution channels (production-consumption), ability to leverage innovation and technologies to shorten distances from global markets and value chains and fostering good practices in reducing food waste. Meeting this challenge involves reducing levels of poverty and social exclusion, increasing equal opportunities and equal rights for citizens (housing, health, food, education and employment), regardless of their socioeconomic and geographical status, nationality, age, gender, ethnicity or disability.
Optimizing energy and environmental infrastructure networks is critical. Water and sanitation networks are essential infrastructures for the population's quality of life. Having witnessed widespread infrastructure in recent decades, it is now important to optimize them, ensuring greater efficiency and economic rationality in a climate change and pressure on water resources. It is vital to promote a strategy for the prevention and mitigation of multiple risks arising from disasters, effects of climate change or continuous and slow degradation of heritage, in conjunction with the National Strategy for Preventive Civil Protection and management plans. emergency.