{"value":{"id":524863,"memberId":127,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under Secretary of Sta","uin":"HLWS43","dateMade":"2016-06-14T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":17,"answeringBodyName":"Department of Health","title":"Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs (EPSCO) Council in Luxembourg: 17 June 2016","text":"<p>My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health (Jane Ellison) has made the following written ministerial statement.</p><p>The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will meet on 16 and 17 June in Luxembourg. The health part of the Council will take place on 17 June in the morning.</p><p>The main agenda items will be the adoption of Council conclusions on:</p><ul><li>Food products improvement;</li><li>The next steps under a one health approach to combat antimicrobial resistance;</li><li>Strengthening the balance in the pharmaceutical systems of the European Union and its Member States.</li></ul><p>Under <em>Any Other Business</em> there will also be:</p><p><strong>Information from the Dutch Presidency </strong>on:</p><ul><li>The state of play of negotiations concerning the Regulations on medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices</li><li>Public Health Conferences that were organised and held by the Presidency</li></ul><p><strong>Information from the Commission</strong> on:</p><ul><li>The European Fund for Strategic Investments and the Investment Plan for Europe</li><li>The EU response to Zika</li><li>Health systems performance assessment (HSPA)</li><li>Proposed new analytical products to support better knowledge and stronger evidence-based policy making, under the banner of the “State of Health in the EU”</li></ul><p><strong>Information from the French delegation</strong> on the election of the WHO Director-General</p><p><strong>Information from the Polish delegation </strong>on the European Committee for Standardisation’s (CEN) Work Programme for 2016 with regards to health-related activities</p><p><strong>Information from the Slovak delegation </strong>on the priorities for their forthcoming Presidency, which will run from July until December 2016</p><p>For information, I attach a draft copy of the latest agenda.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":true,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":524861,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2016-06-14T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[{"url":"https://qna.files.parliament.uk/ws-attachments/524863/original/Health Council Agenda - 17 June.pdf","title":"Draft Agenda","fileType":"pdf","fileSizeBytes":87491}]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/524863","method":"GET"}]}