Annexes to the AI Act proposal impact assessment

Official metadata

Official title

COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT ANNEXES Accompanying the 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

Official reference

SWD(2021) 84 final

Document type

Staff working document

Document date

2021-04-21

Document date kind

Document issue

Document-date evidence

European Commission / Council of the European Union · ST 8115/21 ADD 3 PDF p.2: Commission masthead Brussels, 21.4.2021. Council cover p.1 is dated 23 April and records receipt on 22 April; neither replaces the component issue date. — Establishes exact component issue date.

Publication date

2021-04-21

Publication-date evidence

European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · Publication 21 April 2021 and distinct download 2. Annex to the Impact assessment. — Establishes exact component publication independently of Council cover/receipt dates.

Version label

Impact assessment annexes

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

Proposal

Corpus tier

Core

Sectors

• General cross sector
• Health
• Employment and labour
• Migration asylum and border management
• Financial services
• Transport and mobility
• Law enforcement
• Justice
• Education
• Public administration
• Critical infrastructure

Policy membership

• AI Act legislative process
• EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

• Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission / Council of the European Union · ST 8115/21 ADD 3 PDF pp.2-3: Part 2/2 title and contents; Annex 5.4 Table 7, printed pp.41-46 (PDF pp.43-48), analyses multiple sectoral AI risk cases. — The cited provisions make AI the central subject.
• Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission / Council of the European Union · ST 8115/21 ADD 3 PDF pp.2-3: Part 2/2 title and contents; Annex 5.4 Table 7, printed pp.41-46 (PDF pp.43-48), analyses multiple sectoral AI risk cases. — The cited provisions substantiate the retained cross-sector classification.
• Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission / Council of the European Union · ST 8115/21 ADD 3 PDF p.2: EUROPEAN COMMISSION masthead on Part 2/2. — Exact official metadata identifies the responsible EU institution or body.
• Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · Publication 21 April 2021 and distinct download 2. Annex to the Impact assessment. — Official Commission page dates and identifies the exact component.
• Sector tags: Health · European Commission / Council of the European Union · SWD(2021) 84 final Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, emergency first-response row, printed p. 42 (ADD 3 PDF p. 44). — Analyses risks and dependency in AI prioritisation/dispatch of emergency medical aid, not merely a general reference to health harm.
• Sector tags: Transport and mobility · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, essential public infrastructure row, printed pp. 42-43 (PDF pp. 44-45). — Assesses road-network safety components with traffic-management and signal-optimisation examples supporting the identified risk case.
• Sector tags: Critical infrastructure · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, essential public infrastructure row, printed pp. 42-43 (PDF pp. 44-45). — Analyses critical-network AI risks, including water, gas and electricity, dependency and potentially irreversible safety harms.
• Sector tags: Education · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, education/admissions/assessment row, printed p. 43 (PDF p. 45). — Provides a specific risk analysis for educational access and assessment systems, including scale, dependency and remedy limitations.
• Sector tags: Employment and labour · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, recruitment and work-management row, printed pp. 43-44 (PDF pp. 45-46). — Assesses recruitment, promotion/termination, task allocation and performance evaluation against vulnerability, bias and remedy criteria.
• Sector tags: Financial services · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, creditworthiness row, printed p. 44 (PDF p. 46). — Analyses credit-scoring risks, indirect discrimination, transparency and gaps in existing sectoral protection.
• Sector tags: Public administration · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, social-security eligibility/benefits row, printed pp. 44-45 (PDF pp. 46-47). — Assesses public-authority benefit decisions and recipients' dependency, vulnerability and access to remedies.
• Sector tags: Law enforcement · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, predictive policing and related uses row, printed pp. 45-46 (PDF pp. 47-48). — Develops a specific risk analysis of policing AI, severe decision consequences, biased criminal data and limited reversibility.
• Sector tags: Migration asylum and border management · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, law-enforcement/asylum/migration/border-control row, printed pp. 45-46 (PDF pp. 47-48). — Explicitly includes asylum, migration and border-control systems in the substantive risk assessment, with visa and immigration examples. Not inferred solely from institutional competence.
• Sector tags: Justice · European Commission / Council of the European Union · Part 2/2, Annex 5.4 Table 7, judicial-decision support row, printed p. 46 (PDF p. 48). — Assesses non-ancillary judicial-decision support against fair-trial, dependency, vulnerability and systemic rule-of-law risks.

Production provenance

Provenance tags

• Authored by an EU institution
• Officially published

Named bibliographic authors

None recorded after review

Institutions and roles

• European Commission · Author · role evidence · ST 8115/21 ADD 3 PDF p.2: EUROPEAN COMMISSION masthead, SWD(2021) 84 final PART 2/2, IMPACT ASSESSMENT ANNEXES. Council transmission is distinct from Commission authorship.

Official sources and identifiers

• Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission / Council of the European Union
• Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

• 2021/0106(COD)

Parent or principal record

• Parent or principal record: AI Act proposal impact assessment

  Annex to · Official relationship · Verified

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

The separately transmitted impact-assessment annexes contain the evidence, consultation and cost material underpinning SWD(2021) 84 final.

Researcher notes

Analytical selection; official title and attachment identity are verified through Council record ST 8115/21 ADD 2. Correction on 8 September 2026: direct inspection establishes ST 8115/21 ADD 2 as Part 1/2 (main assessment), and ADD 3 as Part 2/2 (annexes). The earlier ADD 2 identification above is superseded; historical review credits and timestamps are retained, not recertified.

Review status

verified

Relationships

No additional published relationships touch this record.

Verification

Expanded evidence review

Verified

Reviewed by

Yichen Hao

Evidence review date

2026-09-05T18:06:34Z

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

• Last verified: 2026-09-08T04:08:48Z · Correction on 8 September 2026: direct inspection establishes ST 8115/21 ADD 2 as Part 1/2 (main assessment), and ADD 3 as Part 2/2 (annexes). The earlier ADD 2 identification above is superseded; historical review credits and timestamps are retained, not recertified. Inspected ADD 3 PDF pp.1-3. The source ID retains its legacy suffix for reference stability; the current URL is the Council PDF, not an inspected EUR-Lex page.
• Last verified: 2026-09-05T17:43:48Z · Official page gives Publication 21 April 2021 and separately exposes impact assessment, annex, and executive summary downloads, corroborated against SWD(2021) 84/85 EUR-Lex identities.