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European Committee of the Regions opinion on the AI Act

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    COR 2021/02682. English PDF, 26 pages. Revised Committee of the Regions opinion, OJ 2022/C 97/12, pages 60-85.

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Official metadata

Official title
Opinion of the European Committee of the Regions — European approach to artificial intelligence — Artificial Intelligence Act (revised opinion)
Official reference
COR 2021/02682
Document type
Opinion
Document date
2021-12-02
Document date kind
Institutional adoption
Document-date evidence
European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Date of document and Date of vote: 02/12/2021 for COR 2021/02682. — Establishes retained document date 2021-12-02.
Publication date
2022-02-28
Publication-date evidence
European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · OJ C 97, 28.2.2022, pp. 60-85. — Establishes retained publication date 2022-02-28 separately from issue, vote, adoption, or signature.
Version label
Revised adopted opinion
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
Supporting
Version status
Revised
Temporal collection
Contemporary EU AI policy
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Negotiation
Corpus tier
Core
Sectors
  • General cross sector
  • Migration asylum and border management
  • Law enforcement
  • Public administration
  • Consumer protection
Policy membership
  • AI Act legislative process
  • Coordinated European AI strategy
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · Official COR 2021/02682: General and Specific comments assess COM(2021) 206 for regional authorities, public services, SMEs and high-risk domains. — The cited provisions make AI the central subject.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · CoR revised opinion, OJ C 97, 28.2.2022, section II (Policy recommendations): points 5-7, printed p.83 / PDF p.24, and point 14, printed p.84 / PDF p.25. These address application to public/private actors and multiple high-risk domains; the opinion's recommendations are not enacted amendments. — The cited provisions substantiate the retained cross-sector classification.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU agency or body · European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Committee of the Regions; COR 2021/02682 opinion heading names the Committee. — Exact official metadata identifies the responsible EU institution or body.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · OJ C 97, 28.2.2022, pp. 60-85. — The official EU manifestation independently establishes publication of this exact record.
  • Sector tags: Public administration · European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · Policy recommendations 6, 15 and 19-21. — Addresses municipal AI services and oversight.
  • Sector tags: Law enforcement · European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · Amendments 3-4 and reasons; recommendation 8. — Proposes safeguards for police biometric AI.
  • Sector tags: Migration asylum and border management · European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · Amendment 5 and reason. — Strengthens high-risk treatment of migration AI.
  • Sector tags: Consumer protection · European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex · Amendment 6; recommendations 9 and 22. — Proposes consumer information and redress safeguards.

Production provenance

Provenance tags
  • Authored by an EU agency or body
  • Officially published
Named bibliographic authors
None recorded after review
Institutions and roles

Official sources and identifiers

CELEX
52021AR2682
OJ reference
OJ C 97, 28.2.2022, pp. 60–85
  • Official source · Publisher/host: European Committee of the Regions / EUR-Lex

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

  • 2021/0106(COD)

Parent or principal record

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
The revised regional opinion formally addresses both the European approach to AI and the AI Act proposal.
Researcher notes
Analytical selection; document and vote date follow the EUR-Lex record, while publication occurred in 2022.
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

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  • Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · EUR-Lex confirms CELEX 52021AR2682, COR 2021/02682, vote on 2 December 2021 and publication in OJ C 97 on 28 February 2022.

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