ESGARS is permanently represented in the Advisory Board of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS). EARSS, funded by DG SANCO of the European Commission and coordinated by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), is a European network of national surveillance systems, which collects comparable and validated antimicrobial resistance data for public health purposes.

The present ESGARS representative is its President, Fernando Baquero.

Further ESGARS Officers sitting in the EARSS Advisory Board have been Giuseppe Cornaglia (still present, acting as the ESCMID EC representative), Waleria Hryniewicz (Warsaw, Poland) and Helmut Mittermayer (Linz, Austria).

Vincent Jarlier (Paris) and Alkiviadis Vatopoulos (Athens, Greece) joined the EARSS Advisory Board during 2006.