The activities of the EFLA are diverse, but the same idea underlies all of them: to contribute to the development and to a better knowledge of Food Law, considered as a specific sector of general law. From working groups to congresses, from seminars to information meetings, the different activities of the EFLA are all means to achieve these goals.

The ad hoc working groups occasionally bring together members of the Association who want to examine specific subjects such as the relationships between foodstuffs and pharmaceutical products, industrial and commercial property rights, etc.

The EFLA also mobilises for limited work. A recent example was furnished by the preparation, in the name of the Association, of an official document related to the Green Paper on the General Principles of Food Legislation in the European Union, on which subject the opinion of the actors concerned was solicited. In a few months - the time period granted was quite short - the EFLA was able to prepare an official position submitted to the European Commission at the end of August 1997. the quality of this document was emphasised several times.

However, what has made the reputation of the EFLA is above all its major International Congresses. The General Assembly, which meets every two years, is the occasion for a Congress devoted to a topical theme of Food Law. Most often these Congresses are prepared under the aegis of a national section which takes care of the material organisation. The theme, however, the subjects approached and the speakers who approach them are left to the Board of Directors, which appoints an Organising Committee to assist it. These Congresses (for which a list is attached below) take place in the working languages of the Association - French and English - to which are sometimes added, according to the number and the requirements of the participants, German, Spanish or Italian. Their high level of quality and the success achieved each time have contributed to a great extent to make the Association known within interested circles.