Approved Core Structure of the Regional Directorate for Commerce, Industry and Quality

Ordinance No. 415/2026 has been published, approving the core structure of the Regional Directorate for Commerce, Industry and Quality (DRCIQ), a service of the Regional Secretariat for the Economy. This decree revokes Ordinance No. 375/2020 and establishes the new internal organization of this regional directorate.

The DRCIQ will now be composed of five core organic units, all under the direct authority of the regional director:

• Management Services Directorate (DSG): Responsible for budgetary management, human resources, procurement, administrative and logistical support, and European affairs.
• Commerce Services Directorate (DSC): Competent to license, supervise, and monitor the commerce, services, and restaurant sector, manage POSEI, and license foreign trade.
• Industry Services Directorate (DSI): Operates in the licensing and supervision of the industrial sector and geological resources, including business parks, mineral extraction, and the use of explosives.
• Quality Services Directorate (DSQ): Implements the regional Quality policy, manages the DRCIQ's quality management system, coordinates the regional quality strategy, and promotes excellence.
• Madeira Metrology Laboratory Dr. José Agostinho Pereira de Gouveia (LMM): Ensures compliance with legal metrology regulations and licenses pressure vessels, pressure equipment, and tanks for transporting dangerous goods.

Each of these directorates is headed by a services director (a 1st-degree intermediate management position). The ordinance also includes a transitional provision that maintains the service commissions of the current heads of the Management, Commerce, and Industry Services Directorates in the corresponding new organic units.

The decree also establishes the existence of a flexible structure, composed of 5 second-degree intermediate management positions, the allocation of which is included in the attached map.