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The present charter follows on the formulation of the Training Charter in Movement Disorders Surgery Added Competence by J.K. Krauss, G. Broggi, H.J. Reulen, T. Trojanowski and Y. Lazorthes [5], the Training Charter in Pain Surgery Added Competence by Y. Lazorthes, B. Nuttin, T. Trojanowski, G. Broggi, D.E. Sakas, K.W. Lindsay and J.K. Krauss [6], and the Training Charter in Epilepsy Surgery by D.E. Sakas, J.K. Krauss, J. Schramm, M. Scerrati, H. Reulen, M. Cunha E Sá, J. van Loon, B. Nuttin, A. Gonçalves-Ferreira, J. Regis and D. Van Roost [12]. The Training Charter on Spasticity Neurosurgery Added Competence constitutes the fourth set of a program of ESSFN in collaboration with EANS and UEMS, aiming to raise the standards of clinical practice by guiding education and quality control concepts in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. Furthermore, the present document continues a policy of EANS and UEMS in producing Charters of Added Competence in important fields of neurosurgical practice including endovascular neurointerventional therapy [11] and radiosurgery [4]. The Training Charter on Spasticity Neurosurgery is similar in many aspects to the abovementioned charters that have been developed for other subspecialties in neurosurgery, that is, it specifies institutional requirements and training program director requirements in order not only to improve the harmonization and the quality of spasticity surgery practice in the EU but also to reinforce the existing centers. For that purpose, wording in the training charter may be similar or even identical to other training charters concerning the general outlines.