Contents
Terms of Reference
Chapter 1: Introduction
The wider context
Chapter 2: The judgment of the Court of Justice
First question referred for preliminary ruling:
territorial scope of the Directive
Second question: Is a search engine a data
controller?
Third question: the right to be forgotten
Box 1: Article 6 of the Directive
Box 2: Paragraph 94 of the judgment
of the Court
Chapter 3: The consequences of the judgment
The task of the Committee
Should a search engine be classed as a data
controller?
Box 3: European Parliament draft of opening
words of Article 17 of the new Regulation
Can the judgment in practice be complied
with?
Box 4: Statistics from Google
How would the judgment affect the Information
Commissioner and other European data protection regulators?
How would the judgment affect other data
controllers?
The economic impact of the judgment
Chapter 4: Should there continue to be a
'right to be forgotten'?
Box 5: Speech by Vice-President Viviane Reding,
22 January 2012
Box 6: Paragraph 90 of the judgment
of the Court
Box 7: Answer proposed by the Commission
to the third question
The view of the Information Commissioner
The view of the Government
Chapter 5: The views of the Committee
The impact of the judgment
Future negotiations on the data protection
package
Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and Declarations
of Interest
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Evidence is published online at http://www.parliament.uk/right-to-be-forgotten and
available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219
5314)
References in footnotes are as follows:
Q refers to a question in oral evidence.
Witness names without a question reference refer to written evidence.
| 
