German statement on the Council general approach

Official metadata

Official title

Statement by Germany – Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act) – General approach

Official reference

ST 14954/22 ADD 1

Document type

Institutional position

Document date

2022-11-25

Document date kind

Document issue

Document-date evidence

Council of the European Union · Cover: Brussels, 25 November 2022; ST 14954/22 ADD 1. — The official PDF establishes 25 November 2022 as the issue date of the addendum.

Publication date

2022-12-06

Publication-date evidence

General Secretariat of the Council · Release header: 6 December 2022 10:20; direct link 'General approach - Statement by Germany'. — The dated official Council release directly publishes this exact attachment on 6 December 2022, establishing the primary manifestation publication date under scope specification section 5.1.

Version label

Addendum 1

Legal status

Non binding

Language

en

Research classifications

These are researcher classifications used to organise and analyse the corpus; they are not official EU metadata.

Record level

Attachment

Version status

Final

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

Policy stage

Negotiation

Corpus tier

Directly related

Sectors

• General cross sector

Policy membership

• AI Act legislative process
• EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

• Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · Council of the European Union · Annex: 'STATEMENT BY GERMANY', 'Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act)', and statement lines 40-46. — The national statement takes an express policy position on the AI Act general approach and forthcoming interinstitutional negotiations.
• Sector tags: General cross sector · Council of the European Union · PDF p.2, statement's three paragraphs on the general approach and forthcoming negotiations. — Takes a position on the horizontal AI Act text without developing individual sectors.
• Provenance tags: Officially published · General Secretariat of the Council · Dated Council release resource link 'General approach - Statement by Germany'. — The official Council publication directly links the exact attachment.

Production provenance

Provenance tags

• Officially published

Named bibliographic authors

• Government of the Federal Republic of Germany · Council of the European Union · Annex lines 37-40: 'STATEMENT BY GERMANY' and 'Statement to the minutes of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany'.

Institutions and roles

• Council of the European Union · Publisher · role evidence · Official Council press release header and direct resource link 'General approach - Statement by Germany'; PDF cover is a Council document forwarding the attached German statement.

Official sources and identifiers

• Official source · Publisher/host: General Secretariat of the Council
• Official source · Publisher/host: Council of the European Union

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

• 2021/0106(COD)

Parent or principal record

• Parent or principal record: Council general-approach text

  Annex to · Official relationship · Verified

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

Official national statement attached to the Council general approach and directly addressing Germany's position on the AI Act text.

Researcher notes

The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is the statement author; the Council is separately recorded as official publisher. The 6 December date is the dated primary Council release that directly links this manifestation, not a claim about its globally first availability.

Review status

verified

Relationships

No additional published relationships touch this record.

Verification

Expanded evidence review

Verified

Reviewed by

Yichen Hao

Evidence review date

2026-09-05T19:47:08Z

The evidence review date is not a separate human sign-off date. Review credit and evidence-review actions

• Last verified: 2026-09-05T19:47:08Z · Official Council press release headed 6 December 2022 10:20. It states that the Council adopted its common position on the AI Act and directly links the exact resources ST 14954/22 INIT ('General approach') and ST 14954/22 ADD 1 ('General approach - Statement by Germany'). This is evidence of the primary dated Council publication manifestation under scope specification section 5.1, not a claim of globally first availability.
• Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · Official English Council addendum ST 14954/22 ADD 1, dated 25 November 2022; the cover identifies the attachment as Germany's statement on the general approach.