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AI Liability Directive proposal

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    COM(2022) 496 final. English PDF, 29 pages. Official publication edition corresponding to this record.

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Official metadata

Official title
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence (AI Liability Directive)
Official reference
COM(2022) 496 final
Document type
Legislative proposal
Document date
2022-09-28
Document date kind
Document issue
Document-date evidence
European Commission / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Date of document and Date of dispatch: 28/09/2022; COM(2022) 496 final Brussels masthead carries the same date. — Establishes retained document date 2022-09-28.
Publication date
2022-09-28
Publication-date evidence
European Commission · IP/22/5807, Sep 28, 2022, adoption statement and exact proposal link. — Establishes retained publication date 2022-09-28 separately from issue, vote, adoption, or signature.
Version label
Final
Legal status
Withdrawn
Legal-status evidence
European Commission / EUR-Lex · Procedure/history and Dates metadata: end of validity 06/10/2025, Withdrawn. — Official record establishes withdrawal on 6 October 2025.
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
Draft
Temporal collection
Contemporary EU AI policy
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Proposal
Corpus tier
Core
Sectors
  • General cross sector
Policy membership
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission / EUR-Lex · Official COM(2022) 496 final: Articles 3-4 regulate evidence disclosure and presumptions for AI damage claims across covered activities. — The cited provisions make AI the central subject.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission / EUR-Lex · Official COM(2022) 496 final: Articles 3-4 regulate evidence disclosure and presumptions for AI damage claims across covered activities. — The cited provisions substantiate the retained cross-sector classification.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Commission; COM(2022) 496 final heading expressly identifies a Commission proposal. — Exact official metadata identifies the responsible EU institution or body.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · IP/22/5807, Sep 28, 2022, adoption statement and exact proposal link. — The official EU manifestation independently establishes publication of this exact record.

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(2022) 496 final heading expressly identifies a Commission proposal.

Official sources and identifiers

CELEX
52022PC0496

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

  • 2022/0303(COD)

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
Core liability proposal in the selected EU AI policy pathway.
Researcher notes
Analytical assessment; it is not represented as an adopted directive.
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: 2026-09-05T17:43:48Z · IP/22/5807 is dated 28 September 2022, states that the Commission adopted the targeted AI Liability Directive proposal, and links it.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z · EUR-Lex English record confirms COM(2022) 496 final, its title and 28 September 2022 date.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z · EUR-Lex procedure history for 2022/0303/COD records the Commission withdrawal on 6 October 2025 (main document CELEX 52025XC05423).

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