The Azorean Government has granted the Azorean Wine Commission a financial support, the amount being of 46,000, to “reinforce their technical assistance skills, with special emphasis in the area of promotion and dissemination.

With this subsidisation, allocated by an ordinance of the regional Secretary for Agriculture and Forestry, the Governments intends to strengthen the support to that commission in “technical areas such as plant health associated to cultivation and the management of the wine registration, as well as to monitor the performance of its duties.”

The support to the Wine Commission of the Azores is justified by the Government by the fact that the aforementioned commission plays “an important role in the maintenance of the prestige of the “indicação de proveniência regulamentada” (indication of regulated origin) in the regional, national and international markets in order to combat their misuse.”

According to ordinance published in Official Journal on Thursday, the Wine Committee is also “in charge of representing and defending the interests of the “indicação de proveniência regulamentada” as well as of promoting and disseminating the wine products of the Region at its highest level.”

Based on the town of Vila da Madalena, on Pico Island, the Wine Commission of the Azores is non-profitable private organisation that was founded on September 5, 1995 with the purpose of ensuring the authenticity and quality of the “indicação de proveniência regulamentada” of “Biscoitos,” “Pico,” “Graciosa” and the “Regional Açores” wine.