A/HRC/42/7/Add.1 1. Portugal welcomes the recommendations made during its third universal periodic review on 8 May 2019. 2. A total of 245 recommendations were formulated during the interactive dialogue. Portugal immediately accepted 229 (Recommendations 136.1 and 137.1–137.228.)  228 of which were considered to have already been implemented or in the process of implementation  and took note of 10 (Recommendations 139.1–139.10). 3. Portugal deferred consideration on 6 recommendations (Recommendations 138.1– 138.6). The latter have been examined within the framework of the Portuguese National Human Rights Committee and Portugal would like to provide the following responses. Recommendations enjoying the support of Portugal which considers that they are already implemented or in the process of implementation 138.3  Continue to combat racial discrimination and hate speech, and safeguard the rights of ethnic minorities 138.4  Ensure that its policies, legislation, regulations and enforcement measures effectively serve to prevent and address the heightened risk of business involvement in abuses in conflict situations, which include situations of foreign occupation 4. Businesses operating in Portugal must respect and ensure compliance with national law, human rights, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. 5. Portugal is finalizing its National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct and Human Rights and is planning to adopt it before the end of 2019. 6. Portugal is committed to preventing involvement of any Portuguese company in human rights abuses and we discourage investment or joint ventures with companies that are known to do so. Recommendations noted by Portugal 138.1  Ratify the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity 7. The Portuguese criminal legislation already foresees the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity. 8. In fact, Portuguese legislation establishes that criminal proceedings and the penalties imposed with respect not only to war crimes and crimes against humanity but also to crimes of genocide and crimes of aggression shall not be subject to any statute of limitations. 9. Therefore, the purpose aimed by the Convention on the non-applicability of statutory limitations to war crimes and crimes against humanity is already addressed, with a wider scope of application, by the Portuguese criminal legislation. 138.2  Take legal measures to adopt a definition of child pornography in line with the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 10. The crime of child pornography foreseen in article 176 of the Criminal Code encompasses a wide range of conducts in line with the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 11. Although the Criminal Code does not define “child pornography”, it should be noted that the reception of the rules enshrined in international conventions in the Portuguese legal order is automatic, which means that the definition of the Optional Protocol to the 2