Date: 13 June 2008

Organiser: European Commission in collaboration with the Presidency

Venue: Brussels, Belgium

Attendance: 300 participants. By invitation only.

Contact person:

Jürgen Scheftlein, European Commission, DG SANCO/C/4

e-mail: jurgen.scheftlein(at)ec.europa.eu

phone: +352 4301 36643

The high-level conference will be organised by the European Commission in collaboration with the Slovenian Presidency. The purpose will be to launch a European Pact for Mental Health, as a follow-up initiative to the consultation on the Commission's Green Paper on Improving the Mental health of the Population of 2005. The Pact would be an intersectoral, non-binding Declaration and would highlight the relevance of mental health for public health, learning, productivity and social cohesion in the EU. Furthermore, the Pact would express the willingness of high-level governmental and non-governmental actors in the EU to work together in addressing mental health issues, based on a set of agreed key principles for action, and to engage in a process of exchange and implementation.