ENGL

The European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL) is a consortium of official enforcement laboratories designated by the EU Member States plus Norway, Switzerland and Turkey.

The primary purpose of the ENGL is to assist the EURL GMFF in its tasks laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and to help solving the challenges of detection, identification and quantification of GMOs.

This objective is achieved through various activities:

• Organisation of plenary meetings for the exchange of experience;
• Preparation of guidance documents on topics of interest to the enforcement laboratories;
• Co-operative research, exchange of scientists, training;
• Technology transfer between ENGL members;
• Exchange of scientific literature.

The network was inaugurated in Brussels on December 4th 2002 and is governed by the ENGL Consortium Agreement (PDF). The EURL GMFF chairs the ENGL and provides its secretariat.

Members

ENGL CIRCABC

Associated laboratories

Publications

Working groups

Meetings

Since its establishment in 2002, the European Network of GMO Laboratories (ENGL) has normally held two plenary meetings and two meetings of its Steering Committee each year. More recently, the two plenary meetings are substituted by an Annual Meeting. Until 2013 the reports of the ENGL meetings were not published but made available to ENGL members only. Since June 2013, however, they are made available via this ENGL site.