Five disease-specific working groups were created: Ticks and Tick Borne Diseases, Classical Swine Fever and Avian Influenza (first meetings in 2009), Salmonellosis (first meeting in 2010) and Rabies (no meeting organized yet). Since 2011, the last two working groups have been gathered in a new working group of veterinary public health           

Each disease-specific working group shares similar general objectives, which are to:

- Provide a regional expertise on the disease they deal with;

- Work out harmonized regional disease surveillance and control protocols and strategies;

- Settle regional communication system or data management;

- Improve diagnosis capacities (training, inter-laboratories assays);

- Define regional emergency plans, etc.