Examine olive growing, olive products technology and environment protection needs, define activities/projects, plan, analyse, organise, implement, coordinate, manage and monitor, budget preparation and expenditure management, ensuring administrative and financial control. Protection and enhancement of genetic resources of the olive tree (identification, characterisation, authentication, conservation and utilisation). Olive germplasm collections/banks. Plant certification.Olive Growing. Good agricultural practices and conservation of natural resources. Olive technology, olive products quality improvement and by-products re-use. Integrated sustainable development of the olive industry. Circular Economy.Creation, dynamization and management of expert work groups in different aspects of the olive sector.Transfer of technology and technical cooperation. Management of PhD, master and specialisation scholarships.Creation, actualisation and follow-up of experts and institutions databases.Study and follow-up of origin denominations and geographical indications of olive products.Planning of annual, biennial and four-year rolling activities and respective budgets as well as preparing the correspondent reports. Preparation of activity reports, ensuring the availability of relevant technical and budgetary information, for the Technical Committee.Promote the dissemination of olive sector information. Ensure the flow of communication with Member, Non-members and stakeholders, strengthening the role of the IOC as an information centre for the sector collaborating with the IOC Observatory. Collaboration with other IOC Units, Departments, Sections, etc as well as with other Institutions and coordination of trainees. Organisation and support of visits to the Executive Secretariat.Carry out mission at the service of the IOC

Organizing olive training activities and olive technology transfer activities; drawing up improvement plans in the olive sector; foster the communication between Member States; strengthening the role of the International Olive Council as worldwide olive information center.

Voluntary work as Member of the board.

Search for solutions to sector, regional, local, organizational and business problems. Development of innovation programs for farmers' organizations; strategic planning for local, regional and sector development; analysis of production costs and comparative studies of the evolution of prices of base products. Planning, management, budgeting, monitoring and coordination of teams in opinion studies of farmers and in the organization of international and sector congresses as well as expenditure management.

Technician responsible for the Department of Market Policy and PricesFollow-up and analysis of various sectors and the evolution of their market and price policies. Member of several sector Advisory Committees, in particular Olive Oil. Member of the Technical Commission for the Standardization of Fats, Oils and Oilseeds (CT-39). Substitute member of the Olive Oil Working Group of COPA-COGECA (Brussels); Substitute member of the Portuguese cooperatives, under COGECA umbrella, at the Olive Oil Advisory Committee at the European Commission (Brussels); effective member of the Cotton Working Group and its Advisory Committee. Member of the Commission for the preparation of the Plan for the Promotion of the Portuguese Olive Oil Sector and of the working group on the situation of the olive oil sector with the Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries of the European Union Franz Fischler at the Commission Representation Office Portugal in 1997.Responsible for the technical support, in the scope of the EU support policies to the farmers (subsidies and aids), in the districts of Bragança, Vila Real and Viseu, through training of technicians and organization of meetings of information and diffusion for farmers. Programme, budget calculation, organisation, management, coordination, follow-up and management of expenditures of these activities.Coordination of different training centres, follow-up and verification of applications for Community support. Monitoring of technicians and management and control of work teams.