Due to financial difficulties and other problems with ANOP, the government decides to abolish it in 1982, and support the creation of another agency, this time in the private sector, the NP - Notícias de Portugal.
Although abolished in December 1986, a decree signed by then Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and promulgated by the President, Mario Soares, the order that determines the "closing by liquidation" of ANOP, was published in the Official Gazette only in March 2014.