Kontakten med de andre decentraliserede EU- agenturer øgedes i 1998 - bl. a. deltog EMEA sammen med Det Europæiske Overvågningscenter for Narkotika og Narkotikaovervågning i udarbejdelsen af en vejledning vedrørende risikovurdering af nye former for syntetisk narkotika.
Contact with other EU decentralised bodies was increased through participation by the EMEA with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction in the development of a guideline on risk assessment of new synthetic drugs.