Administrative litigation in Portugal runs in the tribunais administrativos e fiscais, and there is no separate court-fee statute for them: the Regulamento das Custas Processuais (RCP) governs the taxa de justiçaPortugal's court fee — the mandatory charge payable to the State to file or proceed with a case, fixed by the Regulamento das Custas Processuais (DL 34/2008). Each fee is a multiple of the unidade de conta, read off the RCP value tables (Tabela I/II). It is a court cost, not a lawyer fee — Portugal has no statutory lawyer tariff.Glossary → in the administrative courts too. An administrative action is charged on the ordinary value-banded Tabela I-A (art. 6.º n.º 1) when it has a quantifiable value; where the value is not determinable (a typical challenge to an administrative act), it takes the statutory indeterminate default — €30.000,01 → band 6 → 6 UC = €612. These are court fees only — Portugal has no statutory lawyer tariff, so advogados’ honorários are agreed privately.
Administrative-court action
An administrative-court action — ação administrativa — against a public body, for example to obtain a decision, enforce a public-law right, or claim damages from the administration.
You file it in the administrative court against the relevant public entity; the value of the action drives the fee where it can be quantified.
State court fee — art. 6.º n.º 1 + Tabela I-A. The ordinary value-banded scale applies. With a determinable value the fee follows the band (e.g. €50.000 → 7 UC = €714); an indeterminate administrative action takes the default value and is charged 6 UC = €612.
Statutory appeal to a court
A challenge to an administrative act — impugnação / recurso contencioso — asking the court to annul or review a decision of the administration.
You file it within the statutory deadline to contest an act you say is unlawful; most such challenges are of non-quantifiable value.
State court fee — art. 6.º n.º 1 + Tabela I-A. The same Tabela I-A scale as an administrative action. An indeterminate-value challenge takes the statutory default — 6 UC = €612; where a value can be determined, the matching band applies.
These are the court fees (taxa de justiça) for administrative litigation in Portugal, charged under the same Regulamento das Custas Processuais and Tabela I-A as civil actions (there is no separate administrative-court fee statute) — exact statutory amounts, not reference valuesA tariff figure that is advisory, not mandatory — a guide to what a fee customarily is, which the lawyer and client remain free to depart from. Every number Tarifo shows is a reference value.Glossary →, and not lawyer fees. Portugal has no statutory lawyer tariff. See the methodology page for the full encoding rules.