Within the framework of the 12th National Congress of the Romanian Association of Endoscopic Surgery and Other Interventional Techniques, in Bucharest, October 31-November 3, were held several scientific events:  The 12th National Congress of the Romanian Association of Endoscopic Surgery and Other Interventional Techniques; The 25th Annual Meeting of the European Surgical Society; The 14th Romanian Symposium on Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery; The 14th Romanian Symposium on Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. A professor of David Aghmashenebeli University of Georgia, Tamaz Gvenetadze together with foreign colleagues Dorin-Evgen Popa (Linköping, Sweden) and Adrian Hotineanu (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova) held a panel, and Ph.D. student Elguja Ardia presented the research topic “Treatment of Perineal Hernia after Kenny-Miles Operation, which drew great attention from the side of foreign colleagues.