Professional Order (Portugal)
A Professional Order (Portuguese: Ordem), more generically known as a professional public association (Portuguese: associação pública profissional) is, in the Portuguese legal system, a public entity with an associative structure representing a profession that should be subject to control of access and exercise. The Order is also responsible for the elaboration of specific technical and deontological norms and has an autonomous disciplinary regime by imperative of tutelage, in the pursue of public interest.