{"id":1486,"date":"2025-02-06T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2025-02-12T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:00:39","slug":"united-for-the-future-of-optics-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/2025\/02\/06\/united-for-the-future-of-optics-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"United for the future of optics in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Optics Professionals,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our activity has a direct impact on the health and well-being of the population, but it continues to operate in a scenario without clear regulations, without consistent rules and without the appreciation it deserves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the time to join forces, discuss strategic alignment and work together to ensure the activity is regulated and respected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The absence of a regulatory framework opens the door to inequalities, unfair practices and the devaluation of our role as eye care professionals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only with cohesion and a strong, united voice will we be able to make the competent authorities aware of the urgent need to create clear, fair and beneficial rules for everyone: professionals, retail companies, manufacturers, distributors and, above all, consumers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full opinion article is part of the next issue of \u00d3pticaPro magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time to join forces, discuss strategic alignment and work together to ensure the activity is regulated and respected.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opticapro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}