[5] Leadership is provided by the JRC-EUROCAT Management Committee, comprising elected members from the EUROCAT congenital anomaly registries and representatives from the JRC.
All EUROCAT member registries use multiple sources of information to ascertain cases in live births, late fetal deaths (>20 weeks gestational age) and terminations of pregnancy for fetal anomaly at any gestational age.
The Central Registry also provides data for research and surveillance purposes and supports the coordination and dissemination activities of the network.
One key function of EUROCAT is to publish annual statistics on prevalence[7] and prenatal detection rates[8] for a wide range of major congenital anomalies.
The JRC-EUROCAT Central Registry also performs a statistical analysis of temporal clusters and pan-European trends[9] in prevalence of congenital anomalies.