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ENGENHEIROS
DECLARATION
ORDEM DOS ENGENHEIROS (OE), is the Portuguese national public institution of professional
engineers. In Portugal the engineering profession is regulated by law. Under Portuguese law, and
namely the provisions of Decree-Law no. 119/92, of 30th June 1992, OE is duly empowered to
attribute the title of Engineer and regulates the practice of the engineering profession.
Under the provisions of Law no. 9/2009, of 4 March 2009, which transposes Directive no.
2005/36/CE, of 7 September 2005, of the Parliament and the Council, and the provisions of the
same Directive relative to a system of recognition of professional qualifications, the
aforementioned ORDEM is empowered as Portugal's COMPETENTAUTHORITYto the effect.
Therefore, in my capacity as Secretary General of ORDEM DOS ENGENHEIROS, competent authority
for the engineering profession in Portugal, hereby CERTIFY, at his own request and in order to
practice the Mechanical Engineering profession in Germany, that Mr. Filipe Orlando Cardoso
Martins Quintas obtained a 5 year degree in Mechanical Engineering and is an Effective Member of
Portugal's ORDEM DOS ENGENHEIROS since January 1999, being licensed to practice Mechanical
Engineering in Portugal, holder of Professional License no. 37245.
I further CERTIFY that the Mechanical Engineering profession is a regulated activity in Portugal, and
that, by law, the attribution of the respective professional title and the regulation and disciplinary
control of the practice of the engineering profession fall under the jurisdiction of the ORDEM,
which is the profession's regulatory authority.
Mr. Filipe Orlando Cardoso Martins Quintas is certified to practice the Mechanical Engineering as a
profession in compliance with all requirements as set out under the provisions of Directives
2005/36/CE for purposes of practicing Mechanical Engineering as a profession in the European Union.
Thus done and signed at the headquarters of Portugal's ORDEM DOS ENGENHEIROS, in Lisbon, on
this day iz'" June, 2014.
Joäo Vaz Lopes
Secretary General