Apply AI Strategy annexes

Official metadata

Official title

Annexes to the Communication Apply AI Strategy

Official reference

COM(2025) 723 final

Document type

Communication

Document date

2025-10-08

Document date kind

Document issue

Document-date evidence

Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Date of document and Date of dispatch: 08/10/2025; COM(2025) 723 final Brussels masthead carries the same date. — Establishes retained document date 2025-10-08.

Publication date

2025-10-08

Publication-date evidence

European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology · Publication 08 October 2025; link says including annexes in EurLex. — Establishes retained publication date 2025-10-08 separately from issue, vote, adoption, or signature.

Version label

Annexes 1–3

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

Implementation

Corpus tier

Directly related

Sectors

• General cross sector
• Health
• Employment and labour
• Migration asylum and border management
• Transport and mobility
• Defence and security
• Education
• Public administration
• Media and culture
• Intellectual property
• Research and innovation
• Industry and manufacturing
• Agriculture and environment
• Critical infrastructure
• Cybersecurity

Policy membership

• EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

• Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · Official COM(2025) 723 final: the COM(2025) 723 annex components enumerate actions and uses in healthcare, manufacturing, energy, mobility, public administration and science. — The cited provisions make AI the central subject.
• Sector tags: General cross sector · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · Official COM(2025) 723 final: the COM(2025) 723 annex components enumerate actions and uses in healthcare, manufacturing, energy, mobility, public administration and science. — The cited provisions substantiate the retained cross-sector classification.
• Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Commission; COM(2025) 723 final masthead reads EUROPEAN COMMISSION. — 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 08 October 2025; link says including annexes in EurLex. — The official EU manifestation independently establishes publication of this exact record.
• Sector tags: Health · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Healthcare including pharmaceuticals, screening-centre and expertise-network action rows. — The annex itself specifies healthcare deployment and clinical-validation activities. Target dates are plans, not evidence of completion.
• Sector tags: Industry and manufacturing · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Manufacturing, engineering and construction, model-development and acceleration-pipeline rows. — The annex itself lists specific industrial AI model and deployment activities.
• Sector tags: Public administration · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 2, internal register and operational guidelines; Annex 3, Public sector, toolbox and interoperability rows. — Documents internal AI governance and plans concrete public-administration deployment support.
• Sector tags: Defence and security · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Defence, security and space, AI-enabled C2 and dedicated computing rows. — Lists defence and space AI development initiatives in the annex's own action table.
• Sector tags: Migration asylum and border management · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Defence, security and space, first flagship row on C2 and border security. — Specifies dual-use AI-enabled border-security solutions. The combined label is supported by border security, not asylum policy.
• Sector tags: Cybersecurity · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Defence, security and space, cybersecurity-tools and trusted-integration rows. — Lists AI-based threat detection, mitigation, incident recovery and cybersecurity integration measures.
• Sector tags: Transport and mobility · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Mobility, transport and automotive, automated-driving and Ambition Cities rows. — Contains specific AI model and deployment actions for automated mobility.
• Sector tags: Critical infrastructure · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Energy, forecasting/system-balancing and critical-energy Community of Practice rows. — Specifies AI support for energy-system operation and trust in critical energy applications.
• Sector tags: Agriculture and environment · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Climate and environment and Agri-Food action rows. — Specifies Earth-system modelling, post-disaster digital twins and agricultural AI platforms and foundation models.
• Sector tags: Media and culture · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Cultural and creative sectors, micro-studios, news platforms and cultural-site digital-twin rows. — Lists concrete cultural and media applications, separately evidenced within the annex.
• Sector tags: Intellectual property · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Cultural and creative sectors, targeted-study row on copyright-infringing AI content. — Explicitly plans investigation of legal challenges and safeguards against copyright-infringing generated content.
• Sector tags: Education · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 2 point 4; Annex 3, Enabling an AI-ready workforce, AI literacy and executive-master rows. — Contains specific staff learning and formal training-programme actions.
• Sector tags: Employment and labour · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Enabling an AI-ready workforce, Pact for Skills and Skills Guarantee row. — Targets retraining of workers in restructuring sectors or at risk of displacement, including displacement due to AI.
• Sector tags: Research and innovation · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · COM(2025) 723 final, Annex 3, Robotics R&D row and Supporting AI as a production factor, Frontier AI Initiative row. — Plans foundation-model research and coordinated frontier-AI capability development in the annex itself.

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 · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Commission; COM(2025) 723 final masthead reads EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Official sources and identifiers

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

Parent or principal record

• Parent or principal record: Apply AI Strategy

  Annex to · Official relationship · Verified

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

Verified official English text within the AI Act implementation and amendment corpus.

Researcher notes

Official metadata is transcribed from the cited source; corpus tier and policy-stage classification are researcher assessments.

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 · Publication 08 October 2025; link labelled Apply AI strategy including annexes in EurLex.
• Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · EUR-Lex confirms COM(2025) 723 final, CELEX 52025DC0723, dated 8 October 2025, with separately downloadable annexes.