Fees at CML's Markets and Fairs to be reduced in 2026

The measure - already approved on January 14 at a municipal meeting - will have an estimated financial impact of more than 358,000 euros and includes:

• a 20% reduction in occupancy fees at the Galinheiras, Ladra (with the exception of the sale of second-hand items) and Relógio (permanent and occasional places) markets
• a 20% reduction in occupancy fees for markets (stores and places) under CML management; the following are excluded from this reduction
  spaces occupied by concessionaires are excluded from this reduction

In 2023, Councillor Diogo Moura recalled today, the 15% reduction applied "only to market traders, so nothing applied to markets for the non-food sector".

At the end of 2024, he added, the reduction was 30%: "We had the year 2024 without any reduction, neither for the non-food sector, nor for any other trader in the fairs or markets. In 2025, we approved 30%, 15% of the previous year, but applied to all traders in the markets managed by CML, both in the three food fairs and the non-food sector, and the same for 2025. And hence the 30%".

That's why, he concluded, "this year's increase is effectively an increase because we're going back to the 2023 figure, which was 15%.

In order to boost the markets and fairs, the proposal calls for "temporarily adapting the fees to the economic and social reality of the city", in order to create the conditions for "market traders to be able to sell their products, despite the application of other measures".

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