IRV-CIP today
Honorary Presidency: Italy – Erika BUSETTI
PRESIDENCY: Austria – Franz BACKKNECHT
MEMBER- Countries
AUSTRIA
FRANCE
GERMANY
GREECE
HUNGARY
ITALY
ITALY
LUXEMBURG
PORTUGAL
SPAIN
SWITZERLAND
VÖR Verband Österreichischer Rebveredler
FFPV Fédération Française de la Pépinière Viticole
VDR Verband Deutscher Rebpflanzguterzeuger e.V.
UNG – Union des Pépinières en Grèce
MSTS Magyar Szőlőszaporítóanyag-termesztők Szövetsége
MIVA Moltiplicatori Italiani Viticoli Associati
FVG Associazione Vivaisti Viticoli Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Institut Viti-Vinicole
VITICERT Associação Nacional de Viveiristas Vitícolas Produtores de Material Certificado
FEPEX Federación Española de Asociaciones de Productores Exportadores de Frutas, Hortalizas, Flores y Plantas vivas
PVS –Pépinières Viticoles Suisses
President: David AMBLEVERT
President: Edwin SCHRANK
President:Sotirios SALIS
President: Ákos MOLNÁR
President: Claudio COLLA
President: Bruno Augusto PINAT
President: Christopher SIMON
President: Ricardo Andrade
President: José Maria ZALBIDEA
President: Christian DUTRUY
Secretary's Office
General Secretary
Interpreter
Mario PECILE, Italy
Sonja SCHNITZER, Austria, sonja.schnitzer@bmnt.gv.at
Secretaries of the Member Organizations
AUSTRIA
FRANCE
GERMANY
GREECE
HUNGARY
ITALY
ITALY
LUXEMBURG
PORTUGAL
SPAIN
SWITZERLAND
VÖR Verband Österreichischer Rebveredler (Hans GRASSL)
FFPV Fédération Française de la Pépinière Viticole (Fanny MEY)
VDR Verband Deutscher Rebpflanzguterzeuger e.V. (Rudolf EIBACH)
UNG – Union des Pépinières en Grèce (Konstantinos BAKASIETAS)
Teleki-Kober Hungary (Agnes SÜLE)
MIVA Moltiplicatori Italiani Viticoli Associati (Stefano SADERI)
FVG Associazione Vivaisti Viticoli Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Marta COLAUTTI)
Institut Viti-Vinicole (Christopher SIMON)
VITICERT Associação Nacional de Viveiristas Vitícolas Produtores de Material Certificado(Ricardo ANDADE)
FEPEX Federación Española de Asociaciones de Productores Exportadores de Frutas, Hortalizas, Flores y Plantas vivas (josé Maria ZALBIDEA)
FPVS – Fédération des Pépiniéristes Viticulteurs Suisses (Nora VIRET)
Franz Backknecht, born on May 8th, 1957, Winegrower and Nurserymen in Rohrendorf, Viticulture and cellar master, 20 years local politics including 5 years Mayor in Rohrendorf, 1993-2020 President of the Lower Austrian Winegrower Association 1995-2021 Vice President of the Austrian Winegrower Association ÖWbV Since 1987 President of the Austrian vinegrower nurserymen association VÖR Member of the ÖWbV Board Widowed, living with Inge, a son and a daughter.
Education: degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Padova. Work experience: after a short experience at the Ministry of Agriculture in Rome, from 1989 to 2020 in Conegliano for the Service that deals with the controls and certification of propagating material of vine. In this sector from 1991 to 1992: expert seconded to the EU Commission for 15 months for updating the legislation relating to the marketing of seeds and other propagation materials; since 1992 member of ministerial committees for matters relating to the legislation on the marketing of propagating material of vine. Currently retired.
Translation and Interpretation Studies (1984 – 1991) at the University of Vienna, Austria, Master’s Degree in Conference Interpreting and Translation in 1991 (German – French – Spanish). Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism since 1994, Deputy Director (since 2016) – protocol, language services, information security. Freelance conference interpreter (since 1991) - consecutive and simultaneous interpretation.
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Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology (CREA VE)
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ITALY
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