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Session 1 | Introduction and birth of EURLs
- Welcome and opening of the workshop (Laurent LALOUX, Director, Laboratory for food safety)
- Why did the European Commission establish the EU Reference Laboratories? (Eric POUDELET, former DG SANCO director)
- History of EURLs: from birth to implementation (Bertrand LOMBARD, former director of EURLs for Lm and CPS, ANSES)

Session 2 | Trends and achievements
- Monitoring trends and emerging risks related to Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus (Valentina RIZZI, EFSA, Parma, IT)
- ECDC surveillance of listeriosis trends in the EU since 2006 (Taina NIKSANEN, ECDC, Stockholm, SE) online
- New EURL for Food and water-borne bacteria covering Listeria (Eva MØLLER NIELSEN, EURL PH FWB, SSI, DK)
- Catalyse, a project to extend the networks (Daniela BASSI, University of Cremona, IT)
- From agar to algorithm: Rewiring the DNA of Food Microbiology Standardisation (Alexandre LECLERCQ, CEN TC463 chair, Pasteur Institute, FR)
- 20 years of highlights (EURLs for Lm and CPS teams)
- EURL for Lm and CPS: future challenges (Martial PLANTADY, DG SANTE)

Session 3 | Networking and Building the future together
- Investigation of the source and actions undertaken to manage the outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes IVb ST6 related to frozen corn (Zsuzsanna Lancz, NEBIH, Budapest, HU-NRL)
- RS activities - Sharing experience of collaboration with Anses (Branko VELEBIT, IMNES, Belgrade, RS)
- MALDI-TOF MS identification of different Listeria monocytogenes strains in the same sample (Lucija HLEBIC, CVI, Zagreb, HR-NRL)
- Development of CRM (Reinhard ZELENY, EC-JRC)
- Round table: strategic orientations and future needs of NRLs networks and stakeholders
- Evaluation of National Reference Laboratories (Quizz)

Session 4 | Examples of collaborations with EU partners
- Use of WGS to support the investigation of foodborne outbreaks (V. RIZZI, EFSA, Parma, IT)
- Joint EURL working group on WGS (Maroua SAYEB and Marina CAVAIUOLO, ANSES)
- Joint EURL working group on Measurement uncertainty (Léna BARRE and Abdelrahim ABAKABIR, ANSES)

Session 5 | Guidance documents and Training
- Guidance documents drafted by EURLs: SFPO, Shelf-life, Surface sampling, PT organisation (Adrien ASSÉRÉ and Jacques-Antoine HENNEKINNE) 
- Outcomes of data from typing training sessions (Benjamin FÉLIX, ANSES)

Closure
- Closure (Gilles SALVAT, Managing Director General of the Research & Reference Division)