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Employment, Social Policy, Health And Consumer Affairs Council

Volume 402: debated on Tuesday 1 April 2003

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Mr. Bellingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will make a statement on the agenda of the European Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council meeting on 6 March 2003. [105931]

Alan Johnson

The agenda for the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council consisted of:

  • 1. preparation of the Spring European Council;
  • 2. proposal for a Council Decision establishing a Tripartite Social Summit for Growth and Employment;
  • 3. Employment Committee Work Programme 2003;
  • 4. Social Protection Committee Work Programme 2003;
  • 5. follow-up to the Commission action plan for skills and mobility;
  • 6. amended proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on working conditions for temporary workers;
  • 7. gender mainstreaming; and
  • 8. European Year of People with Disabilities.