The Netherlands Corrosion Centre is busy organising EUROCORR2006 (www.eurocorr2006.nl), an European congress in the field of corrosion. The congress will be held in Maastricht in the Netherlands from 25 – 28 September 2006. The central theme is the “reliability management of technical systems” with ‘corrosion of polymer materials’ as the hot topic. This will be the third time this event will take place in the Netherlands. In their fiftieth year, the Netherlands Corrosion Centre in Zoetermeer has the honour of organising EUROCORR 2006.