Sentencia 484/2022 del Pleno del Tribunal Constitucional de Portugal, de 13 de julio de 2022 (Ponente: Assunção Raimundo).

Judgment 484/2022 of the Constitutional Court of Portugal declared the unconstitutionality of certain articles of Law No. 1/2021, which transferred powers to the autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira in the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf. The Court argued that these powers belong to the State and not to the autonomous regions, and that the latter cannot affect the integrity of national sovereignty. The President of the Republic issued a political veto, but it was overridden by the majority of the Members of Parliament. There was controversy among the judges of the Court, with some arguing that the issue was the attribution of power to the Autonomous Regions over the maritime public domain. [Extracted from the article]