Our main aim is to share information, to promote awareness of and to stimulate research into Galactosaemia within Europe.

Our aims and objectives in detail are

• to promote the educational and social welfare of persons affected by Galactosaemia ,
• to lobby for changes in European law which affect the galactosaemic patient and the careers of the galactosaemic patient,
• to promote awareness of the disease within the medical and teaching professions and within the food and pharmaceutical industries,
• to lobby for better disclosure in the labeling of foods and pharmaceuticals,
• to stimulate scientific and medical research into Galactosaemia,
• to co-ordinate European research into and studies of Galactosaemia,
• to give and to distribute information to its members and other interested parties.
• to install a data bank and a library with all studies and information about Galactosaemia, with national food lists, national newsletters and similar documentation,
• to give information to affected persons travelling in a European country (food lists, addresses for emergency and similar information),
• to co-ordinate methods of treatment in Europe,

• to organise meetings,
• to edit periodicals,
• to promote the establishment of national societies,
• to organize holiday-exchanges for affected children,
• to undertake projects and co-operate in undertakings that promote the aims of the society, and
• to undertake activities in support of the aims of its members and the interest of the society as a whole.