In its conclusions of June 17, 1994 concerning greater co-operation in the field of archives (94/C 235/03), the Council of the European Union asked the Commission to organize a multidisciplary forum to be held in the framework of the Community on the problems of management, storage, conservation and retrieval of machine-readable data with the participation of public administrations, national archives services, as well as representatives of industry and of research.
This DLM-Forum takes place every three years: