Interprofessional Council

The Interprofessional Council, on which producers and trade are represented in equal proportions, is fully responsible for managing and coordinating Douro viticulture.  Accordingly, it is responsible for executing most of the IVDP’s responsibilities in all matters relating to wines entitled to the Port and Douro denominations of origin and to the Terras Durienses geographic descriptor.  These duties include promoting the interests of the professions, adopting strategic plans and better coordinating the distribution of these products on the market, publishing the vintage communiqué, proposing rules for launching products on the market, setting annual adjustments to the maximum yield per hectare and to the amount of Port Wine that may be produced each year under license (benefício), as well as regulating the production and trade of these products.

The Interprofessional Council is composed of:

Chairman:
Manuel de Novaes Cabral

Vice-Chairmen:
António Fernando da Cunha Saraiva
António Manuel Araújo dos Santos

Port Wine Section:

Representing the producers:

António Luís Costa Januário
Joaquim Olindo Magalhães Monteiro
Jorge Manuel Monteiro Almeida
José Monteiro Maria
Paulo Correia Oliveira Dolores

Representing the trade:

George Thomas David Sandeman
António Jorge Marquez Filipe
Francisco Carlos de Azeredo Pinto Barata de Tovar
José Eduardo Ribeiro Alves
Maria Isabel Magalhães Queirós de Sousa Cardoso Fernandes Marrana

Douro Wine Section:

Representing the producers:

João Manuel Lopes Leonardo
José Manuel Costa Pereira
António Manuel Sousa Pinto
José Miguel Campos Monteiro Braga
José Monteiro Ribeiro

Representing the trade:

José Teles da Silva
António de Oliveira Bessa
Carlos Alberto Costa
Pedro Mansilha Branco
Pedro Silva Reis

(Decree n.º 12 554/2004 of 26 June 2004, as amended by Decree n.º 14 342/2004 of 20 July 2004).