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Council General Approach on the AI Act

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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 (6 December 2022)
Official reference
ST 15698/22
Document type
Institutional position
Document date
2022-12-06
Document date kind
Document issue
Document-date evidence
Council of the European Union · PDF p. 1 cover: Brussels, 6 December 2022; ST 15698/22. — The official PDF establishes 2022-12-06 as the issue date of this exact INIT outcome-of-proceedings manifestation.
Publication date
2022-12-06
Publication-date evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · Publication details: Published 2022-12-06; IMMC ST 15698 2022 INIT; English PDF option. — The official catalogue supplies an explicit publication date for the exact English manifestation; it does not claim first-ever availability.
Additional official dates
  • Institutional adoption: 2022-12-06 (day) · Council of the European Union · Outcome text records Council approval at the 3917th TTE Council meeting on 6 December 2022.
Version label
Outcome of proceedings
Legal status
Adopted
Language
en

Research classifications

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

Record level
Principal
Version status
Final
Temporal collection
Contemporary EU AI policy
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Negotiation
Corpus tier
Core
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 · PDF p. 1 subject and outcome text; p. 3 recital 2. — The record is the Council outcome for its general approach on the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · Council of the European Union · PDF p. 1 subject and p. 3 recital 2 describing harmonised AI rules. — The Council position concerns the horizontal AI Act framework rather than a single sector.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · Council of the European Union · PDF p. 1 Council masthead, General Secretariat sender line and Council outcome subject. — This is an official Council outcome document; the Secretariat sender is recorded separately from the adopter.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · Publications Office of the European Union · Publication details: Published 2022-12-06; IMMC ST 15698 2022 INIT; English PDF option. — The Publications Office card identifies and dates the exact official English manifestation.

Production provenance

Provenance tags
  • Authored by an EU institution
  • Officially published
Named bibliographic authors
None recorded after review
Institutions and roles

Official sources and identifiers

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

  • 2021/0106(COD)

Parent or principal record

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
Definitive official outcome-of-proceedings record for the Council general approach approved on 6 December 2022.
Researcher notes
The document issue, Council approval and exact OP publication assertion all fall on 6 December 2022 but remain separately evidenced. This is adoption of the Council institutional position, not adoption of the final regulation.
Review status
verified

Relationships

No additional published relationships touch this record.

Verification

Expanded evidence review
Verified
Reviewed by
Yichen Hao
Evidence review date
2026-09-04T00:00:00Z

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  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T03:22:44Z · Exact English OP catalogue card for IMMC ST 15698 2022 INIT; explicitly states Published: 2022-12-06. Local evidence SHA-256 6e99b3884c633204e8e082f8af4c9803f325969f853b1ade9ebfac5a40f2f82f.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · Official English Council outcome-of-proceedings document ST 15698/22, dated 6 December 2022; it records the general approach approved by the TTE Council and cites ST 14954/22 and its addendum.

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