Annexes 1 to 9 to the AI Act proposal

Official metadata

Official title

ANNEXES 1 to 9 to 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

COM(2021) 206 final

Document type

Legislative proposal

Document date

2021-04-21

Document date kind

Document issue

Document-date evidence

European Commission / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Date of document and Date of dispatch: 21/04/2021; COM(2021) 206 final Brussels masthead carries the same date. — Establishes retained document date 2021-04-21.

Publication date

2021-04-21

Publication-date evidence

European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · Commission library Publication 21 April 2021 links CELEX 52021PC0206, whose second component is the dated ANNEXES manifestation. — Establishes exact publication separately from issue, vote, adoption, signature, receipt, or consolidation.

Version label

Annexes 1 to 9

Legal status

Proposed

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

Draft

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 / EUR-Lex · Official COM(2021) 206 final: the second CELEX text component is ANNEXES to COM(2021) 206; Annex I defines AI techniques, Annex II spans product laws and Annex III lists eight high-risk domains. — The cited provisions make AI the central subject.
• Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission / EUR-Lex · Official COM(2021) 206 final: the second CELEX text component is ANNEXES to COM(2021) 206; Annex I defines AI techniques, Annex II spans product laws and Annex III lists eight high-risk domains. — The cited provisions substantiate the retained cross-sector classification.
• Sector tags: Health · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 5(c); printed pp. 4 (PDF pp. 6). — Medical-aid dispatch is an explicit healthcare application, without importing later insurance or triage provisions.
• Sector tags: Employment and labour · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 4(a)-(b); printed pp. 4 (PDF pp. 6). — Recruitment, employment decisions, task allocation and worker monitoring establish workplace scope.
• Sector tags: Migration asylum and border management · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 7(a)-(d); printed pp. 5 (PDF pp. 7). — Specifies border risk assessment, travel-document checks and examination of asylum, visa and residence applications.
• Sector tags: Financial services · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 5(b); printed pp. 4 (PDF pp. 6). — Creditworthiness and credit scoring establish financial-services scope; this discovery label does not remove the small-scale-provider exception.
• Sector tags: Transport and mobility · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 2(a); printed pp. 4 (PDF pp. 6). — Road-traffic management using AI safety components is an explicit transport application.
• Sector tags: Law enforcement · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 6(a)-(g); printed pp. 4-5 (PDF pp. 6-7). — Specifies policing and investigation applications, including risk assessments, evidence evaluation and profiling.
• Sector tags: Justice · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 8(a); printed pp. 5 (PDF pp. 7). — Judicial assistance in interpreting facts and law is expressly covered; later alternative-dispute-resolution wording is not inferred.
• Sector tags: Education · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 3(a)-(b); printed pp. 4 (PDF pp. 6). — Educational admission, placement and assessment establish education and training scope.
• Sector tags: Public administration · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 5(a); printed pp. 4 (PDF pp. 6). — Eligibility and decisions about public assistance benefits and services establish public-administration scope.
• Sector tags: Critical infrastructure · Council of the European Union · 2021 proposal, Council forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1: Annex III, 2(a); printed pp. 4 (PDF pp. 6). — AI safety components for water, gas, heating and electricity supplies establish essential-infrastructure scope.
• Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Commission; COM(2021) 206 final heading expressly identifies a Commission proposal. — Exact official metadata identifies the responsible EU institution or body.
• Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · Commission library Publication 21 April 2021 links CELEX 52021PC0206, whose second component is the dated ANNEXES manifestation. — Official EU page establishes publication of this exact manifestation.

Production provenance

Provenance tags

• Authored by an EU institution
• Officially published

Named bibliographic authors

None recorded after review

Institutions and roles

• European Commission · Proposer · role evidence · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Commission; COM(2021) 206 final heading expressly identifies a Commission proposal.

Official sources and identifiers

• Official source · Publisher/host: Council of the European Union
• Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission / EUR-Lex
• 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: Artificial Intelligence Act proposal

  Annex to · Official relationship · Verified

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

The separately downloadable annexes define the original proposal's techniques, high-risk uses and amendment schedules and are essential to version comparison.

Researcher notes

Analytical selection; the annexes are modelled separately from the proposal's main text.

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: 2026-09-08T01:36:00Z · Official English forwarding copy ST 8115/21 ADD 1, 17 PDF pages. Council cover (PDF p. 1) identifies the enclosure as COM(2021) 206 final ANNEXES 1 to 9; Commission title sheet (PDF p. 2) is dated 21 April 2021. Council receipt on 22 April and cover date on 23 April are distinct events. Annex III is on printed pp. 4-5 (PDF pp. 6-7). Supplemental body-text evidence only: not a separate document admission, proof of first publication, or a byte-identity claim against the EUR-Lex component.
• Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · Official English EUR-Lex PDF contains Annexes 1 to 9 to COM(2021) 206 final and identifies procedure 2021/0106(COD).
• Last verified: 2026-09-05T17:43:48Z · Publication 21 April 2021; exact COM(2021) 206 EUR-Lex link.