The Open Session of the Research Group of the Standing Technical Committee of the EuFMD was held in Vienna, Austria, from 29 September to1 October 2010, with the theme “New tools and challenges for progressive control”. The Session was attended by over 240 participants from across the world, predominantly from Europe and Africa, but also with good participation from East Asia and South America. The program was organized into fourteen technical sessions, covering recent advances and ongoing technical constraints affecting progressive control of FMD.