The Public Prosecutor's Office contests the decision by the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) to rule out the need for an environmental impact assessment in the first phase of the investment plan to improve that infrastructure.

The intervention in Humberto Delgado was awarded at the end of last year to the Mota-Engil and Vinci consortium and includes the expansion of terminal 1, changes to the runway with the construction of multiple fast entrances and exits and the creation of a parking apron at the Figo Maduro Aerodrome, whose perimeter will become part of the ANA concession, subject to compensation to be paid to the State.

ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal followed the decision of the APA, which considered that it would not be necessary to carry out any environmental impact assessment at this stage of the works, given that the intervention carried out would not alter, at this stage, the increase in the capacity of that infrastructure.

However, the Public Prosecutor's Office does not have the same understanding and decided to file an appeal arguing that an environmental impact assessment has not been carried out at Lisbon airport for a long time.