Código da Estrada
Published 4 November 2026, 18:37
Código da Estrada (Highway Code)
The country's main set of road rules: how to drive, where to park, who may be carried and how, and what happens if you break the rules. It was adopted by Decree-Law 114/94 and has been amended many times since; the last major revision was Decree-Law 102-B/2020, which came into force on 8 January 2021.
Where you come across it. Fines, the MOT, carrying children, seat belts, speed, parking: it all comes from here.
Read the official consolidated version on the ANSR website rather than the first summary you come across: over thirty years the articles have been amended dozens of times, and outdated versions circulate online as if they were still in force.
Official website: ansr.pt/legislacao/codigo-da-estrada