Brussels, 30/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - During the last plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament debated the protection of personal data handled by the Community institutions and the creation of a European data processing monitoring authority. These issues are the object of the report by the Italian Elena Paciotti (Democratici di Sinistra) that contains 63 amendments to the draft regulation submitted by the European Commission in the framework of a codecision procedure. Most of the amendments aim to specify certain provisions without setting aside the general guidelines of the proposal. Five of them bring new elements, but they have already been discussed with the French Presidency of the Council and seem to be acceptable to it, which will enable to adopt this regulation in a single reading. It notably concerns the introduction of a reference to Articles 6 (fundamental rights) and 225 (access to documents) of the EC Treaty for the processing of data into the framework of the Treaty's second and third pillars. In order to enable its adoption in a single reading, no doubt with the Internal Market Council on 29 November, the Parliament adjourned the vote on the Paciotti report until its next plenary session. This postponement was called for by the Council in order to allow for the verification of translations by linguist-lawyers.