Government of Timor-Leste

Media Releases

• 19 of February of 2025Meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 19th, 2025

  Approved:
  
  1 - Statutory Auditor of the National Press of Timor-Leste, IP
  
  2 - negotiation of a convention for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with regard to income taxes;
  
  3 - expenditure for the signing of the Subsidy Contract between the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and TIMOR GAP, EP in the amount of 16 million US dollars for the year 2025.

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• 12 of February of 2025Meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 12th, 2025

  Approved:
  
  1 - Industrial Property Code;
  
  2 - Expenditure for the subsidy contract for the transfer of a provision from the General State Budget (OGE), in the Ministry of Public Works Program “802 Electricity”, to EDTL, EP.
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - Informative presentation on the cases of successive abstract review of unconstitutionality requested to the Court of Appeal by the PDHJ.

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• 05 of February of 2025Meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 5th, 2025

  Approved:
  
  1 - fees due under the environmental licensing procedure;
  
  2 - dismissal of the Regional Secretary for Finance of the RAEOA Authority;
  
  3 - definition of the recruitment needs for 2025 of the PNTL and to authorize the opening of a public competition for admission to the Agents ‘Training Course and the Officers’ Training Course;
  
  4 - authorisation of expenditure for 8 public works projects.
  
  5 - creation of the Interministerial Working Group responsible for drawing up Timor-Leste's Initial Report on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - presentation on the national commitment to eliminating violence against children.

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• 30 of January of 2025Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 30th, 2025

  Approved:
  
  1 - Special Economic Development Zone in Oe-Cusse Ambeno;
  
  2 - instruct the Minister of State Administration, representing the State, to notify the contractors in public contracts LCB/006/MAE/2020 and LCB/007/MAE/2020, relating to urban solid waste management and the Tibar dump, to fulfill their contractual obligations within a maximum of 15 days;
  
  3 - rules of implementation of legal measures regarding the registration of the data of national liberation combatants and martyrs, resulting from the publication of the notice of the second registration-2009.

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• 28 of January of 2025Day-Off on January 29th 2025 on the Occasion of the Chinese New Year Celebration

  Day-Off on January 29th 2025 on the Occasion of the Chinese New Year Celebration

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• 22 of January of 2025National holidays in 2025

  The public holidays with a fixed date and variable date for 2025, determined by the Law n.10/2005 of 10th of August

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• 22 of January of 2025Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 22th, 2025

  Approved:
  
  1 - renews the mandate of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Press of Timor-Leste, I.P.
  
  2 - day off on January 29th, 2025, on the occasion of the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
  
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - presentation on the Rules of Procedure of the Council of Ministers;
  
  2 - presentation on Digital Health.

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• 15 of January of 2025Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 15th, 2025

  Aproved:
  
  1 - Organic Structure of the SECOMS;
  
  2 - implementation of the Strategy for Administrative Decentralization and the Installation of Local Government Representative Bodies 2025-2028.

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