Enforcement in Portugal — execução — is the procedure to collect a debt or compel performance once you hold a title (a judgment, an injunção made enforceable, a contract). The court’s 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 → on an execução comes from Tabela II of the Regulamento das Custas Processuais (RCP) under art. 7.º, a flat two-band scale rather than the value-banded Tabela I-A ladder: 2 UC up to €30.000 and 4 UC above. This is the court fee only; the agente de execução (enforcement agent) charges their own separate, tariffed fees, which Tarifo does not model. Portugal has no statutory lawyer tariff, so any lawyer’s involvement is agreed privately.
Patrimonial enforcement proceedings
Enforcement for a sum of money — execução para pagamento de quantia certa — to recover a fixed amount you are owed under an enforceable title.
You file it once you hold a title and the debtor has not paid; the enforcement agent then seizes assets, attaches accounts or garnishes wages up to the amount due.
State court fee — art. 7.º + Tabela II (execução). A flat two-band scale on the amount enforced: 2 UC = €204 up to €30.000, 4 UC = €408 above. (The enforcement agent’s own fees are separate and not modelled here.)
Non-patrimonial enforcement proceedings
Enforcement of a non-monetary obligation — execução para entrega de coisa ou prestação de facto — to compel delivery of a thing or performance of an act.
You file it to enforce a title that orders something other than payment — handing over goods, vacating a property, performing or refraining from an act.
State court fee — art. 7.º + Tabela II (execução). A non-monetary enforcement has no value band, so it is charged at the minimum execução band: 2 UC = €204.
These are the court fees (taxa de justiça) for enforcement in Portugal, fixed by Tabela II of the Regulamento das Custas Processuais (art. 7.º) — 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. The agente de execução’s own fees follow a separate tariff and are not modelled here. Portugal has no statutory lawyer tariff. See the methodology page for the full encoding rules.