The application must be submitted within a maximum period of 12 months from the date on which it is impossible to carry out fishing for:

• Adverse weather conditions / bad sea conditions (Proven by the Maritime Authority);
• Interdiction for reasons of preservation or management of resources;
• Interdiction for reasons of public health or environmental protection;
• Impossibility of the work dictated by conditions resulting from the migratory nature of the species.

• Shipowners and fishermen, registered seafarers, holders of a valid maritime certificate, exercising their activity on an exclusive basis on board a licensed fishing vessel for ocean waters, inland maritime waters or non-maritime inland waters, which is temporarily immobilized in the context of situations inactivity provided for in the Fund;
• Workers who, on an exclusive basis, carry out onshore an activity linked to the immobilized vessel in the context of inactivity situations provided for in the Fund.

The application form is available at "Execute Service", and must be delivered to the Direção-Geral de Recursos Naturais, Segurança e Serviços Marítimos (DGRM), by hand, via CTT or by email to: mail.df@dgrm.mm.gov.pt.

• Statement of remuneration and/or equivalences registered in the name of the applicant with Social Security, valid for the year(s) in which the stoppage occurs;
• Photocopy of the IRS Declaration for the year of interruption or in the absence of this document, last Declaration delivered;
• Individual employment contract (except shipowners);
• Document proving the IBAN of the account to which the amount of support to be allocated will be transferred.

 

• Declaration of consent to DGRM, NIF 600084973, for access to the website of the Tax and Customs Authority to consult the tax situation and to the website of the Social Security Institute of Informatics and Statistics, I.P, to consult the contribution situation.

or

• Declaração atualizada comprovativa de situação regularizada perante a Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira;
• Declaração atualizada comprovativa de situação regularizada perante a Segurança Social;

 

• Crew List updated for the period of the stop, including embarkations and disembarks carried out, and certified by the Maritime Authority at the date of the application;

or

• Declaration issued by the Maritime Authority certifying that the applicant (fisherman) was part of the vessel's crew during the period of its immobilization, which must include all the identification elements included in the Crew List, including embarkations and disembarks related to the applicant;

no cost.

Decree-Law No. 311/99, of 10 August, in the version republished by Decree-Law No. 61/2014, of 23 April, combined with Decree-Law No. 52/2017, of 26 May.

Order No. 10051/2018, of 29 October, exceptionally foresees for 2018 the extension, up to a maximum of 90 days, of the period of payment of wage compensation, for applications whose vessels prove periods of impossibility to exercise their higher activity to 60 days during 2018, due to adverse natural conditions that led to a lack of safety in the bar or at sea.