In this paper we give the necessary and sufficient conditions for null curves in E41 to be osculating curves in terms of their curvature functions. In particular, we obtain some relations between null normal curves and null osculating curves as well as between null rectifying curves and null osculating curves. Finally, we give some examples of the null osculating curves in E41.
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