Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes
Applies the ruleThe Portuguese transport regulator's own description of driver licensing, one page per situation, including the three classes of foreign licence and the documents each needs.
The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.
www.imt-ip.ptCannot be cited for
Guidance, not law: the regulation behind it is the Regulamento da Habilitação Legal para Conduzir, published in the gazette. The site splits a single regime across pages whose landing page carries only a menu, so a fetch of the obvious address returns nothing of substance.
Re-check every
90 days
Publication rhythm
Updated when the licensing rules change.
Re-check triggers
an amendment to Decreto-Lei n.º 46/2022 · a change to the list of states whose licences are recognised