European Parliament:

• Oral question N. 193/73, with debate, on protecting the privacy of the Community’s citizens. Sitting of 13 March 1974.
• Interim report drawn up on behalf of the Legal Affairs Committee on the protection of the rights of the individual in the face of developing technical progress in the field of automatic data processing (‘Mansfield report’), European Parliament, Document 487/74, PE 39.608 fin., 19 February 1975.
• European Parliament, Debate on 21 February 1975 on the Protection of the individual’s rights with regard to automatic data-processing. Report of Proceedings No. 186. 1974-1975 Session, pp. 254-257. 21 February 1975.
• European Parliament, Resolution of 21 February 1975 on the protection of the rights of the individual in the face of developing technical progress in the field of automatic data processing, OJ C60, 13.3.1975, p. 48. 21 February 1975.
• European Parliament, Motion for a Resolution tabled by Mr Fellermaier et al. on the protection of the rights of the individual in the face of developing technical progress in the field of automatic data processing. Working Documents 1976-1977, Document 46/76, 6 April 1976.
• European Parliament, Debate on 8 April 1976. OJ, Debates of the European Parliament 1975-1976 Session, Report of Proceedings of 5 to 9 April 1976. 1976.
• European Parliament, Resolution of the European Parliament of 8 April 1976 on the protection of the right of the individual in the face of developing technical progress in the field of automatic data processing, OJ C100, 3.5.1976, p. 27, 1976.
• Cousté, P. B., Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on the proposals from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council (doc. 433/76) for a four-year programme for the development of informatics in the Community. EP Working Documents 1977-78, Document 235/77, 31 August 1977.
• European Parliament, Resolution of 8 May 1979 on the protection of the rights of the individual in the face of technical developments in data processing, OJ C140, 5.6.1979, pp. 34-38, 1979.
• Written question No 1166/79 by Ms Clwyd to the Commission of the European Communities on ‘Indiscriminate searches of data banks‘, 26 November 1979.
• Written question No 1351/79 by Mr Forth to the Commission of the European Communities on ‘Access to and security of computer-processed data in the EEC‘, 14 December 1979.
• Sieglerschmidt, H., Second Report drawn up on behalf of the Legal Affairs Committee on the protection of the rights of the individual in the face of technical dev6lopments in data processing, Document 1-548/81, 12 October 1981.
• European Parliament, Resolution of 9 March 1982 on the protection of the rights of the individual in the face of technical developments in data processing. 1982.

European Commission:

• Commission of the European Communities, A four-year programme for the development of informatics in the Community. Volume I: objectives and summary of the programme, legal texts. COM (76) 524 final Vol. I (see p. 8). 29 October 1976.

• Eurobarometer, The European Public’s Attitudes to Scientific and Technical Development, 1978.
• Commission of the European Communities, European society faced with the challenge of new information technologies: a Community response, COM(79) 650 final, 26 November 1979.

• Proceedings of the Conference Videotex in Europe, Luxembourg, 19-20 July 1979, Learned Information, Oxford and New York, 1980.
• Burkert, H., Study on data security and confidentiality. Volume 2. Section 2: Organization and method of operation of the data protection authorities, European Commission – Working Document. 1980.
• Hogrebe, E. F. M., Study on data security and confidentiality. Volume 4. Section 4: International economic aspects of data protection, European Commission – Working Document. 1980.
• Burke, Richard, Protection of privacy, automatical data processing and progress in statistical documentation. Extracts from opening address to Eurostat Seminar, Luxembourg, 11 December 1984.
• Commission of the European Communities, Social Europe: The Computerization of Public Administration — Supplement 4/88, 1988.
• Brainbridge, David, Tony Bovaird, Colin Gilmore, Corien Prins, and Jules Theeuwes, ‘An evaluation of the financial impact of the proposed European Data Protection Directive: Final report’, Report to the European Commission, 1994.
• European Commission / Joint Research Centre, The Role of Technology in Facilitating On-Line Privacy. Results and Conclusions of a Workshop for Identifying Technology Requirements to Support EU Data Protection Legislation, 17 May 2000, 2000.

Article 29 Working Party:

• Article 29 Working Party, Recommendation 4/99 on the inclusion of the fundamental right to data protection in the European catalogue of fundamental rights, WP 26, 1999.
• Article 29 Working Party, Fourth Annual Report on the situation regarding the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and privacy in the European Union and in third countries. Covering the year 1999, 17 May 2001.

About the 2016 ‘data protection reform’

• EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Opinion on the proposed data protection reform package, FRA Opinion 2/2012, Vienna, 1 October 2012.
• Page of the LIBE Committee 8th parliamentary term (2014 – 2019) on ‘Data protection‘, with many interesting documents.