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Draft high-risk classification guidelines — Complete consultation work

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    Part 1 of 3: general principles and Sections V-VI (6 pages). Read all three PDFs on this page for the complete consultation work. These are consultation drafts, not adopted final guidelines.

    Source: European Commission. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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    Part 2 of 3: Article 6(1) and Annex I guidance (13 pages). Read all three PDFs on this page for the complete consultation work. These are consultation drafts, not adopted final guidelines.

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    Part 3 of 3: Article 6(2) and Annex III guidance (148 pages). Read all three PDFs on this page for the complete consultation work. These are consultation drafts, not adopted final guidelines.

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Official metadata

Official title
Draft Commission Guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems
Document type
Guidelines
Document date
2026-05-19
Document date kind
Publication
Document-date evidence
European Commission · Publication 19 May 2026; paragraph immediately above Downloads explaining that the guidelines are provided in separate sections; Downloads 1-3. — Establishes 2026-05-19 as the publication date of the complete consultation work represented by the three section downloads.
Publication date
2026-05-19
Publication-date evidence
European Commission · Publication 19 May 2026; paragraph immediately above Downloads explaining that the guidelines are provided in separate sections; Downloads 1-3. — Establishes official Commission publication of the whole draft consultation work, not formal adoption of a numbered communication.
Version label
Consultation draft — Complete work
Legal status
Non binding
Legal-status evidence
European Commission · PDF page 3 / printed page 2, paragraphs 3-7 identify draft guidelines for consultation and their non-binding interpretive role. — Supports the complete work's draft and non-binding status; cover placeholders do not establish a numbered or adopted communication.
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
Consultation
Corpus tier
Core
Sectors
  • General cross sector
  • Health
  • Employment and labour
  • Migration asylum and border management
  • Financial services
  • Transport and mobility
  • Law enforcement
  • Justice
  • Education
  • Public administration
  • Industry and manufacturing
  • Critical infrastructure
Policy membership
  • AI Act implementation
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Commission · PDF page 3 / printed page 2, paragraphs 3-7 introduce the complete draft guidelines' interpretation of Article 6 of the AI Act. — The complete work directly interprets substantive AI Act high-risk classification.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Commission · PDF page 3 / printed page 2, paragraphs 3-7 introduce horizontal principles and the separately supplied Article 6(1) and Article 6(2) sections. — The complete work applies across the full high-risk classification framework.
  • Sector tags: Critical infrastructure · European Commission · Section IV.3.2, printed pages 38-47. — The Annex III section expressly covers critical infrastructure.
  • Sector tags: Transport and mobility · European Commission · Section IV.3.2.3, printed pages 42-43, road-traffic use case. — The Annex III section expressly covers transport and mobility.
  • Sector tags: Education · European Commission · Section IV.3.3, printed pages 48-59. — The Annex III section expressly covers education.
  • Sector tags: Employment and labour · European Commission · Section IV.3.4, printed pages 60-77. — The Annex III section expressly covers employment and worker management.
  • Sector tags: Public administration · European Commission · Section IV.3.5.2, printed pages 79-84, public-assistance benefits and services. — The Annex III section expressly covers public-authority assistance decisions.
  • Sector tags: Financial services · European Commission · Sections IV.3.5.3-IV.3.5.5, printed pages 85-93, creditworthiness and insurance. — The Annex III section expressly covers credit and insurance.
  • Sector tags: Health · European Commission · Sections IV.3.5.4 and IV.3.5.6, printed pages 89-91 and 94-98, health insurance and emergency services. — The Annex III section expressly covers health-related services.
  • Sector tags: Law enforcement · European Commission · Section IV.3.6, printed pages 99-115. — The Annex III section expressly covers law enforcement.
  • Sector tags: Migration asylum and border management · European Commission · Section IV.3.7, printed pages 116-129. — The Annex III section expressly covers migration, asylum and border management.
  • Sector tags: Justice · European Commission · Section IV.3.8, administration of justice and democratic processes. — The Annex III section expressly covers administration of justice.
  • Sector tags: Industry and manufacturing · European Commission · PDF page 4 / printed page 3, paragraph 23: machinery and industrial equipment. — The Annex I section expressly covers machinery and industrial equipment.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Commission · PDF page 1 cover carries the European Commission masthead; the official library identifies it as a section of the common work. — The complete work is authored by the European Commission.
  • Provenance tags: Official consultation material · European Commission · Official library Publication 19 May 2026 presents the three downloads as sections of the draft guidelines consultation work. — The complete work was issued as official Commission consultation material.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Commission · Official library Publication 19 May 2026 and Downloads 1-3. — The Commission library officially publishes the complete work through its section downloads.

Production provenance

Provenance tags
  • Authored by an EU institution
  • Official consultation material
  • Officially published
Named bibliographic authors
None recorded after review
Institutions and roles
  • European Commission · Author · role evidence · PDF page 1 cover carries the European Commission masthead; the official library identifies this file as one section of the complete draft guidelines work.

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Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
Complete Commission consultation work jointly published through three official section downloads interpreting the AI Act's high-risk classification rules.
Researcher notes
This record represents the real complete consultation work published by the Commission library through three separately downloadable sections. It is not the prospective numbered Commission communication shown only as a placeholder on the draft covers. The library supplies the work-level publication date and section structure; the three PDFs supply the complete work's substantive, sector, authorship and draft-status evidence. No cover placeholder is treated as a reference or adoption date.
Review status
verified

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Verification

Expanded evidence review
Verified
Reviewed by
Yichen Hao
Evidence review date
2026-09-06T17:05:16Z

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  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T08:20:53Z · AI-assisted reviewer retrieved this official download with normal TLS verification. The 260362-byte response is a 6-page PDF, confirmed by PDF signature, Poppler and pypdf despite the malformed HTTP Content-Type value '/'. SHA-256: b127bbdc50b1741bb2d97e8aff5839cccd1a4484445be4e8cca246c12541fc42. retrieved_at uses observed UTC local file-write completion immediately following download as an operational retrieval-time proxy; it does not claim precise HTTP timing and is not the publication date. Cover and first body page reviewed, not all six pages. Cover identifies an annex to a draft Commission communication; body identifies the shared guidelines, general principles and a draft disclaimer. Original bytes exist only in a local ignored review directory; no committed archive is claimed. Exact observation limits and timestamps are recorded in research/migrations/2026-09-05-official-pdf-evidence.json.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T08:20:53Z · AI-assisted reviewer retrieved this official download with normal TLS verification. The 337928-byte response is a 13-page PDF, confirmed by PDF signature, Poppler and pypdf despite the malformed HTTP Content-Type value '/'. SHA-256: 10f1302c9090d2bcfdb8eacd2b36ff7a09860fc7909f7c1c4b42cc3b9bed3b50. retrieved_at uses observed UTC local file-write completion immediately following download as an operational retrieval-time proxy; it does not claim precise HTTP timing and is not the publication date. Cover and first body page reviewed, not all thirteen pages. Shared cover/title; table of contents concentrates on Article 6(1)/Annex I; references to separate chapters and draft disclaimer corroborate section identity. Original bytes exist only in a local ignored review directory; no committed archive is claimed. Exact observation limits and timestamps are recorded in research/migrations/2026-09-05-official-pdf-evidence.json.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T08:20:53Z · AI-assisted reviewer retrieved this official download with normal TLS verification. The 1547742-byte response is a 148-page PDF, confirmed by PDF signature, Poppler and pypdf despite the malformed HTTP Content-Type value '/'. SHA-256: b1df0ffb30310e126c7e060e03c9b5aab97c0a2ab61a2f3e3e00ede3655e2792. retrieved_at uses observed UTC local file-write completion immediately following download as an operational retrieval-time proxy; it does not claim precise HTTP timing and is not the publication date. Cover and first contents page reviewed, not all 148 pages. Shared cover/title and detailed Article 6(2)/Annex III contents support section identity, not a separately verified combined full work. Original bytes exist only in a local ignored review directory; no committed archive is claimed. Exact observation limits and timestamps are recorded in research/migrations/2026-09-05-official-pdf-evidence.json.
  • Last verified: 2026-09-05T08:20:53Z · Official page published 19 May 2026 provides three separate consultation-draft files: general principles, Annex I and Annex III guidance (newsroom documents 128559, 128560 and 128561). These downloads are presented as drafts; this bounded review does not establish the absence of every possible final successor. Narrow verification on 2026-09-05 checked the landing-page structure, stated purposes and download labels recorded in research/migrations/2026-09-05-relationship-evidence-migration.json; linked binary file interiors and retained bytes were not verified in this review, and no source snapshot was retained. Follow-up by AI-assisted reviewer at 2026-09-05T08:20:53Z: actual linked PDF bytes were retrieved and narrowly inspected; individual source records, checksums, selected page locators and local-only retention are recorded in research/migrations/2026-09-05-official-pdf-evidence.json. This supplements the earlier landing-page review; it is not a full-field or all-page re-verification, and unresolved relationship holds remain.

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