Partner experience / Public affairs
José Miguel Medeiros, Secretary of State for Internal Affairs and Civil Protection, 2008 to 2009; Civil Governor of Leiria, 2005 to 2008; Member of Parliament for Leiria.
Stage: Public office held
Over two decades José Miguel Medeiros held office in Portuguese government and Parliament, from his district’s civil government to the national civil protection system.
The first work to commission.The public offices behind his institutional work: aide to and then Civil Governor of Leiria District, Secretary of State for Internal Affairs and Civil Protection in the XVII Constitutional Government, and Member of Parliament for Leiria in the VIII, IX, X, XI and XIII legislatures.
As Secretary of State for Internal Affairs and Civil Protection, from 1 February 2008 to October 2009, he held ministerial powers over the National Civil Protection Authority, the National Road Safety Authority and the state firefighting aircraft company, and ran the 2008 and 2009 forest-fire seasons. As Civil Governor of Leiria he led the district’s civil protection and a road-safety campaign in every school. In Parliament he sat on the ad hoc forest-fire committee, tabled a bill for a national forest management agency, and from 2015 to 2018 coordinated his group on the National Defense committee.
From the official record and the press of the time. Figures given in interviews are his own statements and are marked as such.
Ministry of Internal Affairs · 2008 to 2009
Sworn in on 1 February 2008. By delegation of the Minister of Internal Affairs he held ministerial powers over the National Civil Protection Authority, the National Road Safety Authority and the state firefighting aircraft company, and over the civil protection work of the GNR and PSP.
XVII Government composition, government archive; Despacho 5282/2008 (opens in a new tab)
Lisbon metropolitan area · 2009
As chair of the National Civil Protection Commission he signed the resolution of 15 September 2009 approving the special seismic emergency plan for the Lisbon area. He describes the international exercise held to test it: 1,600 responders from Portugal, Spain, France and Greece across three districts.
National · 2008 and 2009
He oversaw the national firefighting force for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. For 2009 he reported about 10,000 people, 2,500 vehicles and 56 aircraft, with the critical period brought forward from 15 June to 15 May.
Lusa, via Agroportal, 25 March 2009; As Beiras, 19 June 2008 (opens in a new tab)
National · 2009
He held the road-safety brief while the National Road Safety Strategy 2008 to 2015 went to public consultation and was approved by the Council of Ministers. He announced more speed cameras in towns and a review of alcohol limits for new and professional drivers.
Sol, 17 January 2009; Resolution of the Council of Ministers 54/2009 (opens in a new tab)
Sardinia, Italy · April 2008
Portugal took part with France, Italy, Spain and Greece in the European Union’s 2008 field exercise, which tested a rapid joint response to large forest fires.
European Commission exercise records; photograph on the Media page
Lisbon and Setúbal · 2008 to 2009
He opened a new degree in security and civil protection management in Lisbon in September 2008 and spoke on firefighters’ readiness and a new funding model for the volunteer firefighter associations.
Alto Risco, October 2008 and June 2009; Bombeiros de Portugal, April 2009
Leiria District · 2005 to 2008
Ran a district road-safety campaign that reached every school and more than 20,000 pupils. Leiria was cited as a model district for fire prevention and the coordination of civil protection resources.
Jornal de Notícias, 6 April 2007; TVI, 1 February 2008 (opens in a new tab)
Assembleia da República · from 2003
Sat on Parliament’s ad hoc committee on forest fires and tabled a bill for a national forest management agency, a forest conversion fund and forest management units, years before FlorestGal existed.
Assembleia da República, activity in the IX legislature (opens in a new tab)
Assembleia da República · 2015 to 2018
Coordinated his group on the National Defense committee and was Parliament’s rapporteur on the European Union’s military mobility plan and the revision of the EU firearms directive. He completed the National Defense Auditor course in 2017.
Assembleia da República, activity in the XIII legislature (opens in a new tab)
OSCE and European Union · as a Member of Parliament
Represented the Portuguese Parliament at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in Vienna in 2017 and in plenary at the Bundestag in Berlin, and at an interparliamentary meeting in Bratislava on the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy. He observed the 2016 parliamentary elections in Moscow for the OSCE/ODIHR.
José Miguel Medeiros; photographs on the Media page
Assembleia da República · 2017 to 2018
Spoke in the debates on forest management after the October 2017 fires and on the independent technical report into them, and tabled a resolution for the recovery of the Mata Nacional de Leiria, the national pine forest that burned.
Assembleia da República; Parliament films on the Media page
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legislatures as Member of Parliament for Leiria, between 1999 and 2018
About 10,000
people in the 2009 national forest-fire force, with 2,500 vehicles and 56 aircraft, as he reported to Lusa in March 2009
Projects that depend on public land, permits or funding move at the speed of the institutions behind them. José Miguel knows how those institutions decide, from a district civil government to a ministry and to Parliament, and brings that to the stakeholder strategy and institutional positioning a General Value client can commission.
Led by: José Miguel Medeiros
The questionWho decides, in what order, and what evidence does each institution require?
The outputA municipal and national stakeholder map and engagement plan, with the sequence, evidence requirements and responsibilities defined.
Led by: José Miguel Medeiros
The questionHow should the project present itself to investment and trade bodies?
The outputAn institutional positioning case for investment promotion and international trade, with relevant interlocutors and engagement material identified.
Led by: José Miguel Medeiros
The questionWhat does each regulatory or licensing process require?
The outputA process map and preparation and coordination of the required files, with responsibilities and decision points identified; the authority decides.
Institutional strategy, public affairs and forestry project structuring.
Meet the people: José Miguel Medeiros
