Facts and figures 

The Civil Liberties Committee tabled a record number of 3,133 amendments to the Commission's proposal for a regulation. These, plus the amendments tabled in the opinions of the Industry Committee (417), the Internal Market Committee (226), the Employment Committee (27) and the Legal Affairs Committee (196), make a total of 3,999 amendments. This was  the highest number of amendments ever tabled in Parliament to a single legislative file.

Parliament's political groups negotiated 91 compromise amendments, combining those already tabled, in order to make it easier to vote on the regulation.

The Civil Liberties Committee tabled 673 amendments to the draft directive. These, plus the amendments tabled by the Legal Affairs Committee in its opinion (98), make a total of 771 amendments.

Parliament's political groups negotiated 64 compromise amendments, combining those already tabled, in order to make it easier to vote on the directive.

The voting list for the regulation was 261 pages long and the one for the directive ran to 57 pages (making a total of 318 pages for the whole package).

By the time of the full Parliament voted in March 2014, the data protection reforms had been debated for 20 months. The committee's official debates alone accounted for some 30 hours. Informal negotiations among political groups took around 250 hours.