QUALIFICA - A National Association which has Municipalities as partners but also the producers and their groups, experts, traditional stores and others is developing a useful work in an integrated manner, with a very light structure, enhancing the available resources at all levels and able to generate value  all over the production chain, qualifying and adding value to traditional products and producers and  improving production and trade conditions, promoting touristic and cultural events. Qualifica aims to promote knowledge, use and respect for Portuguese Traditional Products, highlighting its economic role and its social and cultural dimensions and meeting consumers' expectations, without detriment to innovation, particularly in terms of trade presentation and use of these products. Qualifica owns collective marks in order to qualify products as farm, monasterial and or traditional methods of production