The 2^nd symposium provided a platform to discuss a number of checklists worked out and presented by the STRENDA commission. These lists are intended to support the improvement of reporting enzyme data. The result of these discussions led to the adoption of the presented and discussed lists and to an agreement on their recommending character for future publications. Further aims were to collect ideas on organism-related definitions of experimental conditions as well as to discuss the demands of systems biology on the quality of data to be considered for the preparation of further checklists by the commission. And finally, this symposium provided the occasion to share STRENDA's experiences with other standardization initiatives with the medium-term aim of creating a joint standardization movement.

The aim of the 1^st ESCEC Symposium held in Rüdesheim/Rhein (Germany) from October 5^th to 8^th, 2003, was to discuss the need for standardization of common laboratory procedures in functional enzymology (see: Activities and Downloads).