Legal Framework and Statutes of A3ES:

• Decree-Law 369/2007, of 5 November, establishing the Agency for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education and approving its Statutes.

Legal Framework for the assessment and accreditation of higher education institutions and their study programmes:

• Law no. 38/2007, of 16 August, which approved the legal framework for assessment in higher education;
• Law no. 94/2019, of 4 September, amending Law no. 38/2007;
• Decree-Law no. 133/2019, of 3 September, approving the legal framework for higher education at distance learning;
• Decree-Law no. 74/2006, of 24 March, ammended and republished by Decree-Law no. 65/2018, of 16 of August which approves the requirements for accrediting study programmes;
• Law no.  62/2007, of 10 september, which establishes the legal framework for higher education institutions.