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Agenda of Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council

Trade and Industry written statement – made at on 2 November 2006.

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Photo of Jim Fitzpatrick Jim Fitzpatrick Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Employment Relations & Postal Services)

The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council will be held on 7 November 2006 in Brussels. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Department for Trade and Industry (Alistair Darling) and I will represent the UK.

The only item on the agenda is the amended proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time, for political agreement. The working time directive, adopted in 1993, regulates maximum working hours and entitlements to rest breaks for workers.

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