Members and representation

Renewal of the Control Board Plenary

The Control Board Plenary renewed its composition on 21 June 2017, the result of the automatic transposition of the appointment of the new Board of Directors of the Rioja Wine Interprofessional Organization with the same date. In the same way, the election of Fernando Salamero Laorden as president of the said Interprofessional, also makes him president of the Control Board of the Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja, as provided in Article 7 of its Articles, approved by Order APM/544/2017 of 5 June 2017.

Following are the wine industry organisations represented and their representatives for the 2017-2021 mandate:

Wineries (100 votes and 16 members):

• GRUPO RIOJA – Grupo de Empresas Vinícolas de Rioja (78 votes and 11 members):
  Fernando Salamero Laorden, Raquel Pérez Cuevas, Víctor Pascual Zárate, Alexander Tomé Santaolalla, Rafael Vivanco Sáenz, Jaime Boville García de Vinuesa, Eduardo Romero Álvarez, Manuel Rivero Romanos, Borja Eguizábal Pérez, Santiago Frías Monge e Iñigo Torres Andrés.
• F.R.-PROVIR – Bodegas Familiares de Rioja-PROVIR (8 votes and 2 members):
  Juan Carlos Sancha González and Eduardo Hernáiz López.
• ABCTR – Agrupación de Bodegas Centenarias y Tradicionales de Rioja (8 votes and 1 member):
  Begoña Jiménez Díaz.
• ABRA – Asociación de Bodegas de Rioja Alavesa (4 votes and 1 member):
  Inés Baigorri Uribe.
• ARAEX – Asociación Profesional ARAEX (2 votes and 1 member):
  José Javier Ruiz de Galarreta San Vicente.

Grape Growers (100 votes and 16 members):

Cooperatives:

• FECOAR – Federación de Cooperativas de La Rioja (36 votes and 5 members):
  Fernando Ezquerro Cuevas, Juan Luis González Najarro, Raúl Leza Leza, Abel Torres Sáenz and Antonio José Benito Esteban.
• UCAN – Unión de Cooperativas de Navarra (4 votes and 1 member):
  Juan Carlos Berrio Fernández de Manzanos.
• DOLARE – Cooperativas de Rioja Alavesa (3 votes and 1 member):
  Ramón Emilio Muro Aguirrebeña.

Agricultural organisations:

• ARAG-ASAJA – Asociación Riojana de Agricultores y Ganaderos-Asociación Agraria de Jóvenes Agricultores (29 votes and 4 members):
  Igor Fonseca Santaolalla, Alejandro Las Heras Pérez, Ignacio Orive Gil y Gonzalo Pastor Díaz.
• UAGR – Unión de Agricultores y Ganaderos de La Rioja (9 votes and 1 member):
  José Luis Pisón Martínez.
• UAGA – Unión de Agricultores y Ganaderos de Álava (8 votes and 1 member):
  Jesús Bauza Nuin.
• UPA – Unión de Pequeños Agricultores (7 votes and 1 member):
  Eusebio Fernández García.
• UAGN – Unión de Agricultores y Ganaderos de Navarra (2 votes and 1 member):
  Jorge González Sáinz.
• EHNE – Euskal Herriko Nekazarien Elkartasuna-Nafarroa (2 votes and 1 member):
  Alberto Sáenz Sáinz.