AI Act legislative-act text

Official metadata

Official title

Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act)

Official reference

PE-CONS 24/24

Document type

Regulation

Document date

2024-05-14

Document date kind

Document issue

Document-date evidence

Council of the European Union · PE-CONS 24/24 cover: Brussels, 14 May 2024. — Establishes 2024-05-14 as the issue date of this exact INIT version; the later Council adoption remains a separate event.

Publication date

2024-05-21

Publication-date evidence

General Secretariat of the Council · Dated official release, related documents: 'Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence act), 21 May 2024'; link target is PE-24-2024-INIT/en/pdf. — Establishes 2024-05-21 as an official dated publication manifestation of this exact version, separately from its 14 May issue date.

Additional official dates

• Institutional adoption: 2024-05-21 (day) · General Secretariat of the Council · Official Council release dated 21 May 2024 states that the Council approved the AI act that day and directly links this INIT version.
• Institutional adoption: 2024-03-13 (day) · Council of the European Union · PE-CONS 24/24, printed p. 2 (PDF p. 3), ordinary-legislative-procedure footnote: Position of the European Parliament of 13 March 2024.

Version label

Legislative acts and other instruments

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

Version

Version status

Final

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

Policy stage

Adoption

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 · PE-CONS 24/24, Articles 1, 5 and 6 and Annex III: horizontal rules, prohibited AI practices and high-risk AI systems. — Artificial intelligence regulation is the document's central subject.
• Sector tags: General cross sector · Council of the European Union · PE-CONS 24/24, Article 1 and Annex III apply across public and private uses and multiple named domains. — The act is a horizontal cross-sector AI framework.
• Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · Council of the European Union · ST 10172/24, p. 2 identifies Parliament's first-reading position, Council approval and adoption under Article 294(4) TFEU. — The exact act version is a product of EU co-legislators.
• Provenance tags: Joint institutional · Council of the European Union · ST 10172/24, p. 2 identifies both Parliament's position and Council approval in the ordinary legislative procedure. — Parliament and Council jointly adopted the legislative act.
• Provenance tags: Officially published · General Secretariat of the Council · Official Council release dated 21 May 2024 directly links the exact PE-CONS 24/24 INIT PDF. — A dated official institution page publishes the exact version.

Production provenance

Provenance tags

• Authored by an EU institution
• Joint institutional
• Officially published

Named bibliographic authors

None recorded after review

Institutions and roles

• Council of the European Union · Adopter · role evidence · Official release, 21 May 2024 10:17: 'Today the Council approved' the AI act; its dated related-document link resolves to the exact PE-CONS 24/24 INIT PDF.
• European Parliament · Adopter · role evidence · ST 10172/24, p. 2, AI Act item: Council approved the European Parliament's position at first reading and the proposed act was adopted under Article 294(4) TFEU.

Official sources and identifiers

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

  Version of · Official relationship · Verified

Previous and next versions

• Next version: AI Act signed legislative-act text

  Revises · Official relationship · Verified

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

Formal legislative-act version prepared after Parliament's first reading and adopted by the Council before signature.

Researcher notes

The primary official Council release directly linked PE-CONS 24/24 on 21 May 2024. The 14 May cover date remains the exact version's document-issue date; the 21 May Council adoption is recorded separately.

Review status

verified

Relationships

No additional published relationships touch this record.

Verification

Expanded evidence review

Verified

Reviewed by

Yichen Hao

Evidence review date

2026-09-05T19:52:01Z

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

• Last verified: 2026-09-05T19:52:01Z · Official release dated 21 May 2024 10:17 states that the Council approved the AI Act that day and directly links 'Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence ..., 21 May 2024' to the exact PE-24-2024-INIT English PDF.
• Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · Official English legislative-act text PE-CONS 24/24, dated 14 May 2024, for procedure 2021/0106(COD).
• Last verified: 2026-09-05T19:52:01Z · Official draft minutes of the 21 May 2024 TTE Council, issued 28 May 2024. The AI Act item identifies 9645/1/24 REV 1 + ADD 1 REV 2 and PE-CONS 24/24, and states that the Council approved Parliament's first-reading position and the act was adopted under Article 294(4) TFEU.