First meeting

ECDC and Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) hosted a meeting of the newly founded network of European Union Reference Laboratories for Public Health (EURLs) in Luxembourg on 22-23 May 2025. The network is currently composed of the first nine EURLs designated by the European Commission in collaboration with ECDC.

EURL-PH-AMR coordinators participated in this network meeting and met their counterparts from the other eight EURLs and exchanged experiences of their first five months of active service. The coordinators of the nine EURL-PHs were eager to define common priorities and establish coordination practices of similar project tasks.

See also ECDC News Item: The first meeting of the European Union Reference Laboratories network is a milestone for the Health Union.