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ECB opinion CON/2021/40 on the AI Act proposal

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Official metadata

Official title
Opinion of the European Central Bank of 29 December 2021 on a proposal for a regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (CON/2021/40) 2022/C 115/05
Official reference
CON/2021/40
Document type
Opinion
Document date
2021-12-29
Document date kind
Institutional adoption
Document-date evidence
European Central Bank / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Date of document and Date of vote: 29/12/2021 for CON/2021/40. — Establishes retained document date 2021-12-29.
Publication date
2022-03-11
Publication-date evidence
European Central Bank / EUR-Lex · OJ C 115, 11.3.2022, pp. 5-11. — Establishes retained publication date 2022-03-11 separately from issue, vote, adoption, or signature.
Version label
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
Final
Temporal collection
Contemporary EU AI policy
Relevance class
Direct AI relevance
Policy stage
Negotiation
Corpus tier
Directly related
Sectors
  • General cross sector
  • Financial services
Policy membership
  • AI Act legislative process
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

  • Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Central Bank / EUR-Lex · Official CON/2021/40: paragraphs 2.1 onward assess the horizontal AI proposal for credit institutions, prudential supervision and central-bank tasks. — The cited provisions make AI the central subject.
  • Sector tags: General cross sector · European Central Bank / EUR-Lex · Official CON/2021/40: paragraphs 2.1 onward assess the horizontal AI proposal for credit institutions, prudential supervision and central-bank tasks. — The cited provisions substantiate the retained cross-sector classification.
  • Sector tags: Financial services · European Central Bank / EUR-Lex · CON/2021/40, paragraphs 1.2-1.7, OJ C 115, 11.3.2022, pp.5-6 (PDF pp.1-2). — The text substantively addresses AI in banking, prudential supervision, or financial services.
  • Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · European Central Bank / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Central Bank; CON/2021/40 opinion heading names the ECB. — Exact official metadata identifies the responsible EU institution or body.
  • Provenance tags: Officially published · European Central Bank / EUR-Lex · OJ C 115, 11.3.2022, pp. 5-11. — The official EU manifestation independently establishes publication of this exact record.

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
52021AB0040
OJ reference
OJ C 115, 11.3.2022, pp. 5–11 (2022/C 115/05)

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

  • 2021/0106(COD)

Parent or principal record

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
The ECB opinion is a formal procedure contribution addressing the proposal's application to central banking and prudential supervision.
Researcher notes
Analytical selection; document and OJ dates follow EUR-Lex.
Review status
verified

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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 52021AB0040, CON/2021/40, adoption on 29 December 2021 and OJ reference 2022/C 115/05.

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