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José Tavares takes office today as president of the TdC after being nominated on Tuesday night by the president of the Republic, at the proposal of the prime minister, who decided not to renew Vítor Caldeira in office, claiming to have noticed Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. non-renewal of mandates as a principle in appointments to judicial positions.
Before the name proposed by António Costa was known, the President of the Republic said that he expected a successor within “the same line” and “with exactly the same degree of demand” as the previous president, whose mandate he considered “excellent” .
Currently an advisory judge of Section 2, Area of Responsibility IV – Sovereignty Functions of the TdC, José Tavares was director general of the institution and, inherently, president of the respective Board of Directors and head of Vítor Caldeira’s office for 25 years. between February 1995 and February 2020.
Also due to the position of director general of the TdC, he was a member and general secretary of the Council for the Prevention of Corruption between 2008 and 2020.
According to the ‘curriculum vitae’ available on the website of the Court of Accounts, José Tavares’s relationship with the institution dates back to 1986, the year in which he assumed the direction of the Office of Studies of the Court, a position he held until 1995.
Between 1995 and 2020, already as director general of the TdC, he was coordinator of the institution’s magazine and, from 1986 to 2020, responsible for the relations of the Court of Accounts with the European Union and internationally, in particular with INTOSAI (Organization International of Supreme Audit Institutions), EUROSAI (European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions), OLACEFS (Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean), FEE (Foundation for Economic Education), EES (European Evaluation Society), CPLP (Community of Countries) Portuguese), World Bank, OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
Master in Law (Legal and Political Sciences) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, José Tavares is, since 1980, a university professor in the areas of Public Administration and Administrative Law and Public Finance and Financial Law.
Founder and director, from 1994 to 2013, of the Law Review of Urbanism and Environment, he is a member of the advisory boards of the Public Finance and Tax Law journals of the Institute of Economic, Financial and Tax Law (IDEFF-FDL) and of Regional and Local Law. from the University of Minho, being a member of the Scientific Council of the Revue Française de Finances Publique (RFFP).
José Tavares is also a collaborator of the Economic and Social Council (CES), member of the International Institute of Public Finance and associate member of the Societé Française de Finances Publiques, having been president and member of the tax councils of companies of the former BFE Group (1993- 1995) and member of the Supervisory Committee of the European University Institute (2002-2006).
Between 2008 and 2009 he was president and member of the Supervisory Board of the European Space Agency, having been part of the team of peers that carried out the ‘peer reviews’ at the French Court of Auditors (2011-2012 and 2016-2017) and at the Spanish Court of Accounts (2014-2015).
Among the decorations received by the new president of the TdC are the Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (Portuguese Republic), Commander of the Order of Rio Branco (Brazil) and the Grand Collar of Merit of the Court of Accounts of the Union of Brazil.
For his performance he carried out the functions of director general of the TdC, received a compliment from the advisor to the president of the Court (Order No. 25/2020-GP, of March 4), published on April 27 in the Diário da República .
