Press Release: Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council, Brussels, 8-9 December 2005

Items debated include: Informal summit (Hampton Court, London, 27 October 2005); Demography and human capital; Examination of national reform programmes; Working Time Directive; Programme for employment and social solidarity - PROGRESS; Equality for men and women in employment - recast version; Portability of supplementary pension rights; Human health aspects of pandemic flu; Paediatric medicines; Mental health.