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Public-Private Partnership in Portugal – The Legal Structure of the Public-Private Partnership Contract and the Peripheral Contracts
I. Introduction Portugal is an independent country located on the south-eastern tip of the European continent. Together Portugal and Spain form the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal has a surface area of 91,906 km2, including Madeira and Azores Islands and has about 10 million inhabitants, 50 % of which are economically active. The most common and principal official language is Portuguese, however, in some regions it is used jointly with other dialects