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Structured register of government actions in the geoeconomic space — export controls, tariffs, sanctions, FDI screening, subsidies, industrial-policy laws — cross-referenced into the country, minerals, and ETF surface. Charter: docs/IPTM_CHARTER.md.
Severity 1-5 is the qualitative impact rating (1=minor, 5=structural). The bilateral-trade-grounded quant scorer is the next IPTM milestone. RBI (Register Breadth Index) is a complementary structural-breadth indicator from scripts/py/iptm/breadth.py; divergence between RBI and severity is itself informative (high-sev / low-RBI = strategic chokepoint; low-sev / high-RBI = broad but shallow). Every action has at least one primary source URL. Verify-or-don't-file. See also themes, timeline, graph, sankey, map, country exposure, sector exposure, material exposure (+ graph), weekly briefs, portfolio scan, escalation monitor, trans-shipment hubs. Internal triage tools (RSS-poller candidate feed, source-feed health) live under /admin/candidates + /admin/sources. Subscribe via Atom feed (accepts ?country=CN, ?material=lithium, ?issuer=BIS, ?type=export_control, ?etf=SOXX, ?company=NVDA, ?minSeverity=4, ?year=2026, ?q=…) or pull /api/iptm/actions.
Portugal's Secretary of State for Energy (Jean Paulo Gil Barroca) declared public utility and constituted an administrative easement over 24 land parcels (~228 hectares) of private and communal land in the Barroso mining concession area (Boticas, Trás-os-Montes) in favour of Savannah Lithium, Lda. via Despacho n.º 7824/2025, published in the Diário da República 2.ª série n.º 131 on 10 July 2025. The easement, valid for one year from administrative possession, grants Savannah Lithium access rights to conduct geological surveys, geotechnical investigations, and preparatory exploratory works at the Mina do Barroso — the EU's largest known spodumene (hard-rock lithium) resource. The Barroso project was designated a Strategic Project under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) Regulation 2024/1252 in March 2025, making this despacho the first concrete member-state compulsory-easement instrument implementing CRMA Strategic Project status in Portugal.
Portugal's Council of Ministers adopted Resolution n.º 49/2024 on 26 March 2024, establishing the Sistema de Incentivos ao Investimento em Setores Estratégicos (Strategic Sectors Investment Incentive System) — a dedicated state-aid window anchored to the EU Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (TCTF, Commission Communication C(2023)1711) and routed through Portugal's Regime Contratual de Investimento (RCI, Decree-Law 191/2014). The scheme covers green-transition equipment manufacturing (batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps, electrolysers, CCUS) and upstream critical raw materials (lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper, rare earths, graphite, anode/cathode precursor chemistries), offering cumulative grant equivalents up to 35% of eligible investment for large enterprises and 45–55% for SMEs, Cohesion-Region operations, or strategic-priority categories. A hard 31 December 2025 approval-decision sunset tied to TCTF expiry drove a Q3–Q4 2025 project-decision rush. The scheme served as the primary domestic state-aid instrument underpinning Portugal's four EU CRMA-designated strategic projects (Savannah Barroso lithium, Lusorecursos Aguas Frias lithium, Lifthium Estarreja LiCO3/LiOH refinery, Bondalti Estarreja lithium-derivatives integration).
Portugal's Decreto-Lei n.º 138/2014, published in Diário da República 1.ª série N.º 177 of 15 September 2014, establishes Portugal's first horizontal FDI screening regime (Regime de Salvaguarda de Ativos Estratégicos Essenciais). It empowers the Council of Ministers, by reasoned resolution on proposal of the competent sectoral minister, to oppose — on an ex-officio basis — transactions resulting directly or indirectly in the acquisition of control by non-EU/non-EEA investors over strategic essential assets in the energy, transport, and communications sectors and over assets related to national defence and security. Transactions concluded against a Council of Ministers opposition decision are null and void.