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ESPRIT preparatory phase

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Official metadata

Official title
Council Decision of 21 December 1982 on a preparatory phase for a Community research and development programme in the field of information technologies (82/878/EEC)
Official reference
82/878/EEC
Document type
Decision
Document date
1982-12-21
Document date kind
Official act date
Document-date evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · Act heading and signature: 1982-12-21. — Date of the adopted act, separate from publication.
Publication date
1982-12-29
Publication-date evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · OJ L 369, 29.12.1982, pp. 37-40 — Publication of the cited original English OJ manifestation.
Version label
Official Journal text
Legal status
Expired
Legal-status evidence
Publications Office of the European Union · EUR-Lex document-information panel: end of validity 31/12/1983, See Art.1; operative Article 1 maximum one-year activity. — Explicit official end-of-validity metadata, not an inferred repeal from a programme title.
Language
en

Research classifications

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Record level
Principal
Version status
Final
Temporal collection
Historical lineage
Relevance class
AI-related precursor
Policy stage
Implementation
Corpus tier
Directly related
Sectors
  • Research and innovation
  • Industry and manufacturing
Policy membership

    Classification evidence

    • Relevance class: AI-related precursor · Publications Office of the European Union · Annex, section III, Advanced information processing: knowledge-based systems and inference techniques; Annex, section V: image-driven pattern-directed control. — Substantive knowledge-based systems and inference research connected to the collected ESPRIT policy lineage.
    • Sector tags: Research and innovation · Publications Office of the European Union · Articles 1-2: preparatory research and development activity; Annex, section III, Advanced information processing: knowledge-based systems and inference techniques. — The operative research programme includes substantive knowledge-processing and inference research, supporting the research and innovation subject label.
    • Sector tags: Industry and manufacturing · Publications Office of the European Union · Articles 2-3: precompetitive research and industrial participation; Annex, section V, Computer integrated manufacturing: robot control and image-driven pattern-directed control. — The manufacturing projects contain substantive robot-control and image-processing applications rather than merely naming industrial beneficiaries.
    • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · Publications Office of the European Union · Enacting institution and signature. — Official EU or European Communities act; exact historical adopter retained.
    • Provenance tags: Officially published · Publications Office of the European Union · OJ L 369, 29.12.1982, pp. 37-40 — Published original Official Journal text.

    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

    CELEX
    31982D0878
    ELI
    http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/1982/878/oj
    OJ reference
    OJ L 369, 29.12.1982, pp. 37-40
    • Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union
    • Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union

    Research assessment

    Inclusion rationale
    Annex, section III, Advanced information processing: knowledge-based systems and inference techniques; Annex, section V: image-driven pattern-directed control.
    Researcher notes
    The exact title is preparatory phase, not the provisional inventory wording experimental phase. Its substantive knowledge processing and inference provisions meet the precursor boundary; generic information technology alone would not. This is not an early version of the AI Act. Concept/policy annotations are not yet completed.
    Review status
    verified

    Relationships

    No additional published relationships touch this record.

    Verification

    Expanded evidence review
    Verified
    Reviewed by
    Yichen Hao
    Evidence review date
    2026-09-06T22:54:17Z

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

    • Last verified: 2026-09-06T22:54:17Z · Official identity, dates, cited operative provisions and status qualifications inspected. Captured SHA-256 fed84f179fee07abad645d640a5634f84975270719245e829f211172554f9961; receipt in research/reviews/2026-09-06-candidate-snapshot/root-source-checks.json. The original act and later status evidence are not conflated.
    • Last verified: 2026-09-06T22:54:17Z · Official identity, dates, cited operative provisions and status qualifications inspected. Captured SHA-256 176a818d5cd58c7614b6ba6e646dc08c391d205659945102f78c4322fd83395b; receipt in research/reviews/2026-09-06-candidate-snapshot/root-source-checks.json. The original act and later status evidence are not conflated.

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