MALTESE MP TO PARTICIPATE IN EU AND CoE SEMINARS IN BRUSSELS AND PARIS

The Hon Francis Agius will be participating at an information seminar focusing on the EU policy on public health within the framework of enlargement, to be held in Brussels on the 26^th and 27^th November, 2001.

Amongst the subjects under discussion are:-

• health care systems in applicant countries;
• the new EU Public Health Programme 2001-2006;
• health care systems in applicant countries;
• public health policy of the European Commission;
• young people’s health in the European Union and in the applicant countries;
• new threats to public health; and
• public health aspects of enlargement.

During this meeting will be discussed:-

• the OECD activities in the field of agriculture;
• preservation and management of fish stock;
• fisheries in Europe’s semi-land-locked seas;
• parliamentary cooperation in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Basin;
• treatment of biological waste; and
• Kyoto protocol on climate change.