• Working Document for Commission A : The Socio-Cultural Environment of Authors, Artists  and Performers
• Working Document for Commission B : Authors, Artists and Performers and the Economic Situation at the end of the 20th Century
• Working Document for Commission C : Training and Work
• Working Document for Commission D : Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Age
• Report on the Progress Realized During the Last Fifteen Years in the Implementation of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of the Artist - Study of the First  Evaluation Meetings
• Analysis of the Member States  Replies to the Questionnaires on Cultural Policies in Favour of Artists and the Arts and on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights
• Synopsis of Member States' Replies to Questionnaires II – Questions on artistic education
• Detailed analysis of the Member States' Replies to the Questionnaire II – Questions on artistic education
• Reference document The Status of the Performer in 1997 (a report of the International Federation of Actors)
• Reference document: The Status of Music Performers in 1997 (a report by the International Federation of Musicians)
• Reference document: The Writers' Profession at the End of this Century (by Alexandre Blokh, International Secretary of the International P.E.N.)
• Reference document: The Survival of the Artist – How visual artists live and work (by Una Walker, President of the International Association of Art)
• Reference document: The Status of the Artist in Canada

Reference Texts

• Art and society: topical questions; the new technologies, funding and artistic education
• Consultation d’experts sur l’évolution de la condition de l’artiste (Vienne, 27-30 juin 1983)
• Réunion internationale sur la protection de l’artiste (Madrid, 7-10 novembre 1988)
• Séminaire international sur l’application en Europe de la Recommandation relative à la condition de l’artiste, en particulier dans les arts du spectacle (Lisbonne, 3-4 mai 1990)
• Réunion informelle sur la constitution d’un système d’information sur la Recommandation relative à la condition de l’artiste (Paris, 12-14 septembre 1990)
• Regional workshop on the application in Asia and the Pacific of the Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artist (Seoul, 3-7 September 1991)
• Colloque panafricain sur la condition de l’artiste (Brazzaville, 20-23 juillet 1994)