STCP passes to municipalities-January 2 – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

The State and the Metropolitan Area of the Port will formalize in the next Monday, the 2nd of January, the passage of the management of the STCP for the municipalities.

according To a note of the agenda of the public transport company of Porto, will be signed on this day the agreement on operational management of STCP, through which the State transfers the management of the company for a set of municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of Porto, in a ceremony that will be presided over by the prime minister, António Costa.

The management agreement, through which the State delegates in the six municipalities covered by the network of the STCP (Porto, Matosinhos, vila nova de Gaia, Gondomar, Valongo and Maia) must still be sent to the Court of Auditors for the visa prior, before you formally enter into force.

The decree-law approved in September by the Executive determines that the new management model in the STCP has a temporary nature and transient in force for a maximum period of seven years until the ultimate accomplishment of decentralization. The State will appoint one of five directors of the company, which has the function of approving management decisions that involve the increase of the indebtedness.

In Lisbon, the transfer of the Rails to the municipality is awaiting the promulgation of the President of the Republic of the decree that stipulates the transmission of all of the shares of the company.

Only after the enacted and published in the Diário da República is that the municipality of the capital shall ensure the management of the public transport company.

The obligations of the State in the Rail will finish on the 31st December, being also foreseen that the 1 January the various companies that were until now gathered under the brand Transport for Lisbon to return to have autonomy and the boards separated.

After the promulgation of the diploma by the President of the Republic and its publication in the official Gazette of the Republic, it must be concluded a public service contract between the city of Lisboa and Carris, replacing the one that currently exists between the State and the company.