OECD regulation / merger-control evidence desk

Portugal Competition Policy Systems Dossier

What evidence do the two OECD systems publish for Portugal?

Compare OECD regulatory indicators with reported authority activity. Different dates, definitions, and institutional responsibilities remain separate; these measures are not a single competition score.

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Economy locatorPRT / PortugalNatural Earth 1:110m / identity, not a metric

Source lanes: 2 / 2; PMR + annual activity
Overall PMR: 1.534; lower-barrier rank 32 / 55 / 2023-01-01
Decisions: 85; activity rank 23 / 56 / 2024
Profile coverage: 89 / 89; 9/9 current PMR + 80/80 annual activity

Exact identityCode and published name must agree

Separate clocksPMR reference date / annual activity year

Visible gapsOne-sided packets remain researchable

No performance, effectiveness, welfare, or enforcement score is calculated.

PRTPortugalJoined evidence / 2 / 2 source lanes

CompareOpen shared workspace Evidence briefOpen research note

Exact OECD economy-code bridge

Read regulation and enforcement activity in separate coordinate systems

47 exact joined economies, 8 PMR-only economies, and 10 enforcement-only economies.

Active economyExact shared code or a disclosed one-sided row.PMR measureOECD-published economy-wide aggregate on a 0-6 scale; lower values encode a more competition-friendly regulatory framework.Enforcement measureMerger decisions reported by competition authorities.

Enforcement time machineFrame 10 / 10

2024

56 published economy valuesPMR remains on economy-specific snapshot dates.

Linked annual reading

2024 evidence brief

Decisions / reported counts

01 / Published field

56 of 65 economy records

publish a numeric value for merger decisions. The reported total is 8,926 and the same-year median is 58.

02 / Active economy

PRT

Portugal

Joined economy

Reports 85 decisions in 2024, rank 23 / 56, +3 from 2023.

Activity packet: 2024
PMR snapshot: 2023-01-01

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03 / Annual movement

2023 to 2024

56 exact same-economy numeric pairs; changes describe reported activity or reporting, not effectiveness.

Largest reported count increase+222USA United States / 1,712 to 1,934 Largest reported count decrease-128KOR Korea / 929 to 801

Metric-specific peer context

Who sits nearest on each published measure?

Two independent cohorts / no blended similarity score

01 / Regulatory framework neighborhood

Closest Overall PMR values

Absolute difference on the selected PMR measure; each economy keeps its own source reference date.

Active recordPRTPortugal1.534rank 32 / 55 / 2023-01-01

02 / Authority activity neighborhood

Closest 2024 decisions counts

Absolute difference on exact 2024 reported counts; missing values never enter the cohort.

Active recordPRTPortugal85rank 23 / 56 / 2024

Joined47exact code and name

PMR only8regulatory packet only

Enforcement only10activity packet only

Regional authorities2kept outside economy ranks

Preserved cross-release gaps

One-sided economy packets stay in the research universe

18 of 65 economies

PMR onlyNo Competition Trends economy-jurisdiction packet

ARMArmenia CHNChina CYPCyprus LUXLuxembourg MDAMoldova MARMorocco ZAFSouth Africa THAThailand

Enforcement onlyNo current PMR economy packet

ALBAlbania BRBBarbados ECUEcuador SLVEl Salvador MUSMauritius PANPanama PRYParaguay SAUSaudi Arabia SGPSingapore TUNTunisia

Regional authority boundary

Regional authorities remain outside economy ranks

2 CompStats jurisdictions

COMESA

COMESA70 numeric rows / Middle East and Africa

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European Union80 numeric rows / Europe

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Source custody

Two OECD releases, no blended vintage

Every measure keeps its publisher, period, and source dossier.

Regulatory frameworkProduct Market Regulation Indicators, 2023 methodology

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / current reference years 2023, 2024, 2025 / recalculated 2018 / reviewed 2026-07-24

Source dossier

Authority activityA Decade of OECD Competition Trends, Data and Insights

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development / 2015-2024 / reviewed 2026-07-24

Source dossier

Cross-system interpretation boundary

This bridge aligns OECD Product Market Regulation economy codes with OECD Competition Trends economy-jurisdiction codes for navigation across two separate releases. PMR values describe encoded regulatory frameworks on a 0-6 scale at economy-specific reference dates. Competition Trends values count reported merger-control activity in 2015-2024. Positions, ranks, gaps, changes, and co-movement do not measure market concentration, enforcement quality, deterrence, welfare, institutional effectiveness, legal correctness, or causation.

Economies join only when the two OECD releases publish the same exact economy code and name. No fuzzy name matching, imputation, forward filling, or composite score is used. Forty-seven economies join across both releases; PMR-only and enforcement-only economies remain visible as one-sided evidence records. EU and COMESA are retained separately as regional authorities and are not treated as economies in the bridge.

Cross-system interpretation boundary

Two OECD statistical systems, one exact-code navigation layer.

Product Market Regulation indicators encode regulatory frameworks on a 0-6 scale at economy-specific dates. Competition Trends records reported authority activity by year. The bridge preserves both releases in full, computes ranks only inside each source system, and exposes missing packets instead of filling them.