Council general-approach text

Official metadata

Official title

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union legislative acts – General approach

Official reference

ST 14954/22

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. — The official PDF establishes 25 November 2022 as the issue date of this text.

Publication date

2022-12-06

Publication-date evidence

General Secretariat of the Council · Release header: 6 December 2022 10:20; direct resource link 'General approach'. — The dated official Council release directly publishes ST 14954/22 on 6 December 2022, establishing the primary manifestation publication date under scope specification section 5.1.

Additional official dates

• Institutional adoption: 2022-12-06 (day) · General Secretariat of the Council · Opening sentence: the Council has adopted its common position ('general approach'); header 6 December 2022 10:20.

Version label

Text submitted to Council for general approach

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

Version

Version status

Revised

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

Policy stage

Negotiation

Corpus tier

Core

Sectors

• General cross sector
• Health
• Employment and labour
• Migration asylum and border management
• Financial services
• Transport and mobility
• Defence and security
• Law enforcement
• Justice
• Education
• Public administration
• Research and innovation
• Agriculture and environment
• Critical infrastructure
• Cybersecurity

Policy membership

• AI Act legislative process
• EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

• Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · Council of the European Union · Section IV headings and paragraphs 1-7; Annex title and Articles 1-85. — The text directly defines and regulates AI systems, prohibited practices, high-risk systems, general-purpose AI, governance, enforcement and innovation.
• Sector tags: General cross sector · Council of the European Union · Section IV paragraphs 1-7 and Annex recital 5a on a horizontal framework applying across sectors. — The proposed AI Act supplies a horizontal framework spanning product safety, data protection, financial services, law enforcement, public authorities and other sectors.
• Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · Council of the European Union · Cover From Coreper I to Council; section III paragraph 2 attributes preparation to the Czech Presidency and approval for submission to Coreper. — The exact Council preparatory bodies and Presidency drafting responsibility are identified in the official document.
• Provenance tags: Officially published · General Secretariat of the Council · Dated Council release and direct 'General approach' link to ST 14954/22. — An official dated Council publication directly links this exact manifestation.
• Sector tags: Financial services · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III points 5(b) and 5(d), printed/PDF p. 199. — Specifies creditworthiness/credit scoring and life/health-insurance risk assessment and pricing as high-risk uses, with this version's micro/small-provider own-use exceptions. This is historical scope, not the wording of the final Act.
• Sector tags: Law enforcement · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III point 6(a), (b), (d)-(f), printed/PDF pp. 199-200. — Specifies law-enforcement risk assessment, polygraphs, evidence-reliability assessment and profiling. Deleted items 6(c) and 6(g) are not treated as retained provisions.
• Sector tags: Critical infrastructure · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III point 2(a), printed/PDF p. 198. — Explicitly identifies safety components in critical digital infrastructure, road traffic and water, gas, heating and electricity management/operation.
• Sector tags: Transport and mobility · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III point 2(a), printed/PDF p. 198; Article 54(1)(a)(iv), p. 142. — Specifically covers road-traffic safety components and transport/mobility as a public-interest sandbox development area.
• Sector tags: Education · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III point 3(a)-(b), printed/PDF p. 198. — Specifies access/admission/assignment to educational programmes and evaluation of learning outcomes as covered AI uses.
• Sector tags: Employment and labour · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III point 4(a)-(b), printed/PDF pp. 198-199. — Specifies recruitment, targeted job advertisements, employment decisions, task allocation and performance/behaviour evaluation.
• Sector tags: Public administration · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III point 5(a), printed/PDF p. 199; Article 54(1)(a)(v), p. 142. — Addresses public-benefit eligibility and grant/reduction/revocation/recovery decisions, and explicitly includes public-administration/public-service improvement in sandbox development.
• Sector tags: Health · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III points 5(c)-(d), printed/PDF p. 199; Article 54(1)(a)(ii), p. 142. — Specifically addresses emergency medical-aid dispatch, health-insurance assessment/pricing and public-health/healthcare-system development in sandboxes.
• Sector tags: Migration asylum and border management · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III point 7(a), (b), (d), printed/PDF pp. 200-201. — Specifies migration-related risk assessment and examination of asylum, visa and residence applications/complaints. Deleted point 7(c) is excluded from this rationale.
• Sector tags: Justice · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Annex III point 8(a), printed/PDF p. 201. — Specifies AI used by or for judicial authorities to interpret facts/law and apply law to concrete facts.
• Sector tags: Cybersecurity · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Article 15(1)-(4), printed/PDF pp. 98-99. — Sets out cybersecurity and resilience requirements including protection against data poisoning, adversarial examples and model flaws in the historical compromise text.
• Sector tags: Agriculture and environment · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Article 54(1)(a)(iii), printed/PDF p. 142, subject to the cumulative safeguards on pp. 142-144. — Identifies environmental improvement, green transition and climate mitigation/adaptation as eligible public-interest sandbox development areas. The combined tag is supported by environment, not an assertion of agricultural provisions.
• Sector tags: Research and innovation · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Article 2(6)-(7), printed/PDF p. 70; Articles 54, 54a and 54b, pp. 142-148. — Contains explicit research/development scope exclusions and detailed rules for innovative-system development, testing and informed consent. Exclusions are recorded as subject coverage, not regulatory inclusion.
• Sector tags: Defence and security · Council of the European Union · ST 14954/22, Article 2(3), printed/PDF p. 70; cover-note section IV.4.1, p. 7. — Expressly delineates the exclusion of military, defence and national-security activities. This tag identifies a substantive scope boundary and must not be read as asserting that such uses fall within the proposed Act.

Production provenance

Provenance tags

• Authored by an EU institution
• Officially published

Named bibliographic authors

None recorded after review

Institutions and roles

• Council of the European Union · Adopter · role evidence · Release header and opening: on 6 December 2022 the Council adopted its common position ('general approach'); the resource list directly links ST 14954/22 as 'General approach'.
• Council of the European Union · Author · role evidence · Cover: From Permanent Representatives Committee (Part 1) to Council; section III paragraph 2 states the Czech Presidency prepared the final text and Coreper agreed to submit it without changes.

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: Coreper general-approach text

  Version of · Official relationship · Verified

Attachments

• Attachment: German statement on the Council general approach

  Annex to · Official relationship · Verified

Previous and next versions

• Related version: Council General Approach on the AI Act

  Version of · Official relationship · Verified

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

Final Coreper-submitted Council text subsequently adopted as the Council's common position on the AI Act.

Researcher notes

The cover and body preserve the exact Coreper I/Czech Presidency preparation roles; the Council's 6 December adoption is separately evidenced. ST 15698/22 remains the distinct outcome-of-proceedings record.

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 document ST 14954/22, dated 25 November 2022; it submits the general-approach text to Council and cites ST 14336/22.