T&R:
Yes, Tom Tashey sold EGL LA branch and now he's the owner of PGS Lab-Professional Gem Science... I've been told they're very strict and even better than GIA...
Scorpion:
As I said in a post, I have here in front of me a nice small diamond, EGL NY graded in December 2002 as H VS 2... Well, VS 2 is correct, but the color is definitely J-K!
But EGL Antwerp is faaaaaaaaar worse!!!!!!!!!!!!! They don't plot all the inclusions??!! They forget fluorescence pretty easily, put VG finish on almost all stones and, if possible they wrongly grade proportions.
They use HRD standards, which tells that a diamond with a thick girdle has 'good' prop... Well, let me tell you that I've seen several reports that stated 'Proportions: very good, table xx%, crown xx%, pavilion xx%, girdle thickness: thick'... I don't know what to say!