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ESPRIT II

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Official metadata

Official title
88/279/EEC: Council Decision of 11 April 1988 concerning the European strategic programme for research and development in information technologies (Esprit)
Official reference
88/279/EEC
Document type
Decision
Document date
1988-04-11
Document date kind
Official act date
Document-date evidence
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities · Identity panel; Annex II section B, Actions in basic research; OJ L 118/41 — The cited official manifestation establishes the document date 1988-04-11 and its stated meaning.
Publication date
1988-05-06
Publication-date evidence
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities · Identity panel; Annex II section B, Actions in basic research; OJ L 118/41 — The cited official manifestation establishes official publication on 1988-05-06.
Additional official dates
Version label
Official Journal text
Legal status
No longer in force
Legal-status evidence
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities · Identity panel; Annex II section B, Actions in basic research; OJ L 118/41 — The official record states that the act is no longer in force and supplies its end-of-validity date; no repeal-versus-expiry inference is made.
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
Final
Temporal collection
Historical lineage
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Coordination
Corpus tier
Directly related
Sectors
  • Research and innovation
  • Industry and manufacturing
Policy membership

    Classification evidence

    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
    31988D0279
    ELI
    http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/1988/279/oj
    OJ reference
    OJ L 118, 6.5.1988, pp. 32-41
    • Official source · Publisher/host: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities

    Research assessment

    Inclusion rationale
    Official identity, dates, roles and validity are resolved, and AI is an expressly named research area.
    Researcher notes
    Historical collection and corpus classifications are AI-assisted researcher assessments, separate from official metadata.
    Review status
    verified

    Relationships

    No additional published relationships touch this record.

    Verification

    Expanded evidence review
    Verified
    Reviewed by
    Yichen Hao
    Evidence review date
    2026-09-05T06:37:06.8601555Z

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

    • Last verified: 2026-09-05T06:27:41.6613488Z · Identity panel; Annex II section B, Actions in basic research; OJ L 118/41: The act has separate act/OJ dates and an official end date; the work areas expressly include artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

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