A/HRC/5/3 page 21 priorities on the EU agenda. The Amsterdam Treaty mandated for social inclusion within the Union. The Lisbon Strategy that emerged from the Lisbon Summit in 2000 addressed the key issue of social exclusion, and set the goal for poverty eradication within the region by 2010, to be achieved through the open method of coordination (OMC). These objectives, if met, would help achieve the larger EU goal of a “socially cohesive Europe”. The objectives were to be fulfilled through the development of appropriate National Action Plans against Poverty and Social Exclusion (NAPS) subject to periodic reporting and monitoring of progress. Further improvements of the indicators for social inclusion were made at the Laeken Economic Council in December 2001. 45. The Human Poverty Indicator-2 (HPI-2), as devised by UNDP, measures human and income poverty in rich industrialized nations. It is a composite index of poverty that measures deprivation based on the following human development indicators, namely, long and healthy life, education and a decent standard of living and social inclusion. The 2005 HPI-2 index shows that Scandinavian countries rank very highly, with Germany, France and Spain occupying middle level ranks and the United Kingdom and Ireland featuring at the bottom of the list.43 46. At the Laeken European Council, a set of 18 common standards and statistical indicators for social inclusion were endorsed and accepted by the Social Protection Committee of the European Council. These indicators can be categorized as follows: − Primary indicators consisting of lead indicators of social exclusion such as financial poverty, health, education etc.; − Secondary indicators consisting of supporting indicators describing other aspects of the problem and commonly defined and determined by the member States; − Third level of indicators which can be included by member States themselves into their NAPs to highlight specific aspects of the problem and help interpret the primary and secondary indicators. 47. With a view to further improving the Laeken indicators, in June 2006 the Social Protection Committee adopted a new set of common indicators for social protection and social inclusion. This new set has streamlined the earlier indicators to give effect to the new monitoring framework for social protection and social inclusion in light of the common objectives set out in the Lisbon Summit, namely social cohesion, greater economic growth and good governance, transparency and involvement of stakeholders in the design, implementation and monitoring process. These new indicators for the overarching portfolios like social inclusion, pensions and long-term health care seek to be comprehensive, balanced and transparent for effective 43 Human and Income Poverty in OECD, Central & Eastern Europe and CIS, Human Development Report 2006, at http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/statistics/indicators/27.html.