The Government is working on a diploma, called Legal Regime for Explosives and Dangerous Substances, which includes the criminalisation of the use of pyrotechnic devices in sports venues, a source from the Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI) told Lusa on Sunday.

This diploma includes a chapter on criminal liability and administrative offences, as well as a section on criminal liability and crimes of a common danger.

The new framework proposes a prison sentence of up to five years, or a fine of up to 600 days, for anyone who "transports, holds, uses, distributes or is in possession of explosives, articles or devices" defined in the same diploma, doing so in " sports venues or when travelling to or from them when performing a sports show".

The statute provides as prohibited articles improvised explosive devices or "pyrotechnic articles", which includes any device containing explosive substances or "an explosive mixture of substances designed to produce a heating, lighting, sound, gaseous or smoking effect, or a combination of these effects", including the use of flares.