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The pilot‐project lasted a total of 12 months and took place in five prisonestablishmentsspreadoverCasteloBranco,Leiria,SintraandBeja.The project was implemented for the first time in May 2006, involving 50professionals(Directors,HeadsofPrisonGuards,SubheadsandPrisonGuards,TechniciansandTeachers)and50prisoners.CurrentlyasecondeditionoftheprojectisbeingpreparedatThePilotPrisonEstablishmentsand,from2008,theprojectwillbeextendedtothewholePrisonSystem(52prisons).− Immigrant Population: At the end of 2006, a Nucleus of Support forEntrepreneurship (NAE) was opened in order to stimulate entrepreneurshipamong immigrants by supporting: i) entrepreneurial initiatives; ii) companystart‐up process and iii) existing products in the financial system. A SupportGuide for the Entrepreneur is being prepared; the aim of the HighCommissionerforImmigrationandInterculturalDialogue(ACIDI)istointensifythe articulation with the National Association for Credit so as to improve thesupportintheconcessionofmicrocredit.2.5. EnergymarketIntheenergydomain,alsoinlinewithoneofthe“FutureChallenges”dealtwithinthefirst part of this Report, the move has been towards a liberalised and competitivemarket, with the following legislative acts having been published regarding thefunctioningoftheIberianElectricityMarket:‐ Decree Law 264/2007, of 24 July, which alters Decree‐Laws 240/2004, of 27December, and 172/2006, of 23 August, putting in place a number of measuresaimedatimplementinganewstageintheconsolidationandfurtherexplorationofthe Iberian Electricity Market, dealing with the process for early stoppage of thePowerPurchaseAgreementsreferredtoinDecreeLaw240/2004,of27December,andalteredbyDecreeLaw199/2007,of18May,forthepurchaseofelectricitybythesupplieroflastresortandthecreationofapowerguaranteemechanism‐Ordernr.27332/2007,of4December,bytheEnergyServicesRegulatoryAuthorityapprovingthejointrulesforcontractingPortugal‐Spaininterconnectioncapacity;‐Governmentordernr.57/2008,of11January,whichdefinestherulesapplicabletothe sale of electrical energy via virtual capacity auctions of electrical energyproduction;‐Ordernr.2838/2008,of5February,regardingtheelectricityvirtualcapacityauctionsbythesellersactuatingwithintheIberianElectricityMarket.Thevirtualcapacityauctionshavecontributedtowardsincreasingtheliquidityofthemarket.FrominceptionuntilJune2008,theaccumulatedelectricalenergytradedhasbeen44458GWh,withatotalvalueof2,361.9M€.37