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Regulatory Scrutiny Board opinion on the AI Act proposal

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    SEC(2021) 167 final. Second opinion. Includes the Council transmission cover and the enclosed Commission document.

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Official title
REGULATORY SCRUTINY BOARD OPINION Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union Legislative Acts
Official reference
SEC(2021) 167 final
Document type
Opinion
Document date
2021-03-22
Document date kind
Document issue
Document-date evidence
European Commission / Publications Office of the European Union · Original SEC package p. 1 cover: SEC(2021) 167, 22.03.2021; p. 7 electronic signature is also dated 22 March 2021. Cellar separately records DATE_DOCUMENT 2021-04-21. — Establishes 2021-03-22 as the artifact's issue date; the disclosed 21 April catalogue field neither overrides the signed artifact nor establishes publication.
Publication date
2021-04-23
Publication-date evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · Publication details: Published 2021-04-23; exact IMMC ST 8115 2021 ADD 5; matching SEC(2021) 167 subject. — Establishes publication on 2021-04-23 for the explicitly identified Council-hosted manifestation, without claiming first-ever publication of every SEC format.
Version label
Second opinion
Legal status
Non binding
Legal-status evidence
European Commission / Publications Office of the European Union · Original p. 2 states that the opinion concerns a draft impact assessment; pp. 2 and 5 are positive and negative scrutiny opinions rather than an adopted act. — Supports retained non-binding opinion status.
Language
en

Research classifications

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

Record level
Supporting
Version status
Final
Temporal collection
Contemporary EU AI policy
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Proposal
Corpus tier
Directly related
Sectors
  • General cross sector
Policy membership
  • AI Act legislative process
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission / Publications Office of the European Union · Original pp. 2-7 evaluate the impact assessment for COM(2021) 206 and SWD(2021) 84/85, including the proposed horizontal AI regulatory framework. — The opinion directly evaluates the evidence base for the AI Act proposal.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission / Publications Office of the European Union · Original opinion and quantification annex assess the proposal's economy-wide risk categories, costs and affected businesses rather than one sector. — The retained horizontal sector classification follows the assessed AI Act proposal's cross-sector scope.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission / Publications Office of the European Union · Original p. 1 Commission masthead and p. 2 Regulatory Scrutiny Board heading. — The exact package is authored by the Commission's Regulatory Scrutiny Board.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · Publications Office of the European Union · Publication details explicitly date exact IMMC ST 8115 2021 ADD 5 and link the official manifestation. — The exact package is distributed through an official EU publication endpoint.

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

  • Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union
  • Official source · Publisher/host: Council of the European Union
  • Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission / Publications Office of the European Union
  • Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union
  • Official source · Publisher/host: European Commission / EUR-Lex

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

  • 2021/0106(COD)

Parent or principal record

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
The opinion is part of the published Commission proposal package and evaluates the supporting impact assessment.
Researcher notes
The SEC(2021) 167 compound package contains the positive second opinion and quantification annex together with the earlier negative opinion. The original cover and signature establish issue on 22 March 2021. The exact OP card dates publication of the Council-hosted ST 8115/21 ADD 5 manifestation on 23 April, not first-ever SEC publication. Cellar's competing DATE_DOCUMENT 21 April is catalogue issue metadata and does not override the visible cover/signature. Commission/RSB authorship is distinct from Council transmission and publication hosting.
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

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

  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T06:10:21.901179+01:00 · Cellar object metadata for SEC(2021) 167 records DATE_DOCUMENT 2021-04-21 and the exact English expression. That catalogue field is retained as a disclosed conflict and is not treated as publication or as overriding the artifact's 22 March cover/signature. Preserved source SHA-256 9c8575a4073f234e1e94b1309a7841847788aaffa91dd554dd15232ce4012c3a.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T06:09:28.10865+01:00 · Exact eight-page ST 8115/21 ADD 5 wrapper and enclosed SEC(2021) 167 package. The cover identifies the Commission sender, 22 April Council receipt and 23 April wrapper issue; it does not by itself establish publication. Preserved source SHA-256 d7cd025ae5b6ab0ab806f40973e68aecc3e3159a17cfd7f61d81e51f4d7c729f.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T06:10:42.443634+01:00 · Original seven-page SEC(2021) 167 English package: cover and electronic signature establish 22 March 2021; inner headings identify the Commission Regulatory Scrutiny Board and the positive and negative opinions. Preserved source SHA-256 80210a79981bc91903834c182e0a1f9d3936c545bbcd1d5c5d71ee1ffa46c126.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-06T06:10:42.442634+01:00 · Exact OP catalogue card for IMMC ST 8115 2021 ADD 5; explicitly states Published: 2021-04-23. It dates this Council-hosted manifestation, not first-ever SEC publication. Preserved source SHA-256 e4eb594cb998fbb767ca6a704b90ce22b2e7ed48d9cf350b08c688db62176652.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · Official English Commission PDF confirms SEC(2021) 167, the Regulatory Scrutiny Board opinion title and date 22 March 2021.

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