Portuguese Association of Liberal Professionals
Budget
€10 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.1 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Represent Portuguese liberal professionals nationally and internationally. Define the Portuguese Liberal Professionals Statute. Defend legal, economic, labor, intellectual and social rights in contracting, taxation, intellectual property, social protection, namely in health, maternity, employment, unemployment, underemployment and retirement. Develop and promote quality and adequate remuneration in the provision of services. Support the continuous training of liberal professionals. Monitor the mobility of self-employed professionals within and outside the European Economic Area. Support entrepreneurship, innovation and digital in the exercise of liberal professions. Foster adaptation to the challenges of digital, artificial intelligence, robotics, new ways of making work available. Disseminate and promote access to effective community funds and support. Promote use of arbitration mechanisms. Promote administrative simplification.
EU Legislative Interests
The State of Liberal Professions Concerning their Functions and Relevance to European Civil Society Entrepreneurs Policies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship NEXT Generation EU Social Security Policies Fiscal Policies regarding Liberal Professions Work Policies, Digital, Hybrid, traditional face-to-face Trade Union EU legislation regarding Qualifications and Services Continuing Education Academic Training
Communication Activities
Our mission is to improve the promotion and defense of interests and needs of liberal professionals and freelancers in Portugal and the European Union, in order to achieve a high qualification of its services, an adequate level of appreciation of their professional activities, greater value creation and the strengthening of their importance in the societies in which we live. For this purposes, we are active in: E-newsletters; Articles; Institucional Lobbying; Social media networking ; Continuing Education; Seminars, Congress and Webinars; Observatory of Liberal Professions. Under the motto, Promotion and Defense of Liberal Professionals, ANPL aims to reflect and intervene in the socio-professional universe of those who hold proven qualifications of an intellectual nature, including professionals in artistic and cultural activities, promoting their responsibility, autonomy and independence in the best interest of consumers and the community at large. Regardless of whether they are individual promoters of their own job or exercise their professional activity under another type of contract, and in different sectors, public, private and social. ANPL thus assumes itself as a unique project, emanating from civil society, independent and under construction.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
- SEDES | Association for Economic and Social Development: https://www.sedes.pt/ - CIP | Confederation of Portuguese Business : https://cip.org.pt/en/history/ - CEPLIS | European Council of Liberal Professions : https://ceplis.org/
Organisation Members
- SEDES | Association for Economic and Social Development: https://www.sedes.pt/ - CIP | Confederation of Portuguese Business : https://cip.org.pt/en/history/ - CEPLIS | European Council of Liberal Professions : https://ceplis.org/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.