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:
Luciano Vilhena Pereira

Vice-Chairmen:
George Thomas David Sandeman
António Luís da Costa Januário

Port Wine Section:

Representing the producers:

Manuel António Araújo dos Santos
Altino José Moreira Duarte
Fernando Adriano Pinto
Joaquim Olindo Magalhães Monteiro
Luís António Sampaio Matos Sousa Arnaldo
José Monteiro Maria

Representing the trade:

Acácio Manuel Poças Maia
Manuel Ângelo de Almeida Barros
António Fernando da Cunha Saraiva
Hillary Phillipe Reader
José Teles Dias da Silva
Maria Isabel Magalhães Queirós de Sousa Cardoso Fernandes Marrana

Douro Wine Section:

Representing the producers:

António Luís Rodrigues Breia
António Matias Pereira Moreira
Jorge Manuel Monteiro Almeida
José Augusto Serafim Carvalho
José Carlos Carvalho Nóbrega Faria
José Monteiro Ribeiro

Representing the trade:

Manuel Sousa Pinto
Pedro Mansilha Branco
Pedro Silva Reis
Manuel Pinheiro
António Pinto Bastos Bissaia Barreto
António de Oliveira Bessa

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