Compliance with legal guidelines

*2022 Consolidated Annual Report excerpts

Shareholder’s recommendations

Implementation of a system to enable the automated obtaining and validation of the budget statements.

Application of the provisions in articles 32 and 33 of the public manager statute

There were no reimbursements of expenses made for personal representation purposes.

Non-documented or confidential expenses

ML complied with the provisions set out in Article 16(2) of Decree-Law no. 133/2013 of 3 October, in the Legal Framework for the Public Enterprise Sector (RJSPE) and in Article 11 of the Public Manager Statute (EGP), and no non- documented expenses were incurred.

Report on remunerations paid to women and men

ML is committed to promoting a transparent remuneration policy based on the assessment of job components and based on objective criteria. At the same time, it repudiates the widespread and structural disadvantage of women in the labour market with regard to remunerations based on a broader context of gender inequality.

Annual report on corruption prevention

The Plan for Preventing Risks of Corruption and Related Offences (PPR) is included in this Programme, and consequently its Annual and Interim Assessment Reports.

Public procurement

ML has a platform for recording and management of procurement procedures. Such platform enables an effective monitoring of the status and registration of relevant information on the procurement procedures processed by ML (excluding small acquisitions).

National public procurement system

It should be mentioned that, in the context of the new organisation model, the Corporate Management area responsible for Logistics began to centralise procurement procedures, seeking, where possible, to obtain the best purchase conditions regarding goods and services, entering into agreements by resorting to the method of aggregating contracting entities.

Measures to optimise the operating expenses structure

Costs related to procurement of studies, opinions, projects and consulting showed a positive variation of 1 million euros, arising from the network expansion in course, and deviation of -714 thousand euros in relation to that estimated in the Activities and Budget Plan.

Principle of the state treasury unity

The document 0293/2022 issued by the IGCP exempts ML from complying with State Treasury Unity for the years 2022 and 2023, only for the amounts inherent to financing operations contracted with banks.