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EDPB–EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021
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Download PDF — 23 pages (0.48 MB)Correct EDPB–EDPS Joint Opinion5/2021 adopted18 June2021.23 pages; final page has conclusion paragraphs81–82 and both institutional signatures. Full adopted English opinion, not a press release.
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Official metadata
- Official title
- EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021 on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)
- Official reference
- Joint Opinion 5/2021
- Document type
- Opinion
- Document date
- 2021-06-18
- Document date kind
- Institutional adoption
- Document-date evidence
- European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor · Joint-opinion PDF cover: 'EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021' and 'Adopted on 18 June 2021'. — Establishes 2021-06-18 as this exact record's institutional adoption date.
- Publication date
- 2021-06-18
- Publication-date evidence
- European Data Protection Supervisor · EDPS official page dated 18 June 2021 announcing the joint opinion and linking the exact English PDF. — Establishes 2021-06-18 as first official publication for this exact version or release.
- 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
- Core
- Sectors
- Policy membership
Classification evidence
- Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor · Exact 'EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021 on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)': subject heading and analysis/recommendation sections addressing the proposed EU AI Regulation or AI Omnibus. — The artifact directly governs, interprets, evaluates or operationalises EU artificial-intelligence policy rather than merely mentioning AI.
- Sector tags: General cross sector · European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor · Exact 'EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021 on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)': subject heading and analysis/recommendation sections addressing the proposed EU AI Regulation or AI Omnibus. The cited scope applies horizontally to AI systems, models, providers, deployers or affected persons rather than one economic sector. — The retained general_cross_sector tag is supported by the artifact's horizontal AI-policy scope.
- Provenance tags: Authored by an EU agency or body · European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor · Exact PDF cover title 'EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021' names the European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor as the joint issuing bodies. — The exact opinion is issued by the named EU body.
- Provenance tags: Joint institutional · European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor · Exact PDF cover title 'EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021' jointly names EDPB and EDPS; the cover records adoption on 18 June 2021. — The opinion is expressly a joint instrument of two EU supervisory bodies.
- Provenance tags: Officially published · European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor · EDPS official page dated 18 June 2021 announcing the joint opinion and linking the exact English PDF. — The exact version is distributed through an official EU institutional endpoint.
Production provenance
- Provenance tags
- Named bibliographic authors
- None recorded after review
- Institutions and roles
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- European Data Protection Board · Author · role evidence · Joint-opinion PDF cover: 'EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021' and 'Adopted on 18 June 2021'.
- European Data Protection Supervisor · Author · role evidence · Joint-opinion PDF cover: 'EDPB-EDPS Joint Opinion 5/2021' and 'Adopted on 18 June 2021'.
Official sources and identifiers
- Official source · Publisher/host: European Data Protection Supervisor
- Official source · Publisher/host: European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor
Formal procedure
Official procedure reference:
- 2021/0106(COD)
Parent or principal record
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Parent or principal record: Artificial Intelligence Act proposal
Procedural step for · Official relationship · Verified
Research assessment
- Inclusion rationale
- The joint opinion is a formal data-protection intervention in the AI Act procedure and is central to comparing institutional constructions of risk and fundamental-rights safeguards.
- Researcher notes
- Analytical selection; title and adoption date follow the official joint PDF and EDPB record.
- Review status
- verified
Relationships
No additional published relationships touch this record.
Verification
- Expanded evidence review
- Verified
- Reviewed by
- Yichen Hao
- Evidence review date
- 2026-09-05T18:07:46Z
The evidence review date is not a separate human sign-off date. Review credit and evidence-review actions
- Last verified: 2026-09-05T17:58:09Z · Live official EDPS-page review on 5 September 2026. The page dated 18 June 2021 identifies the joint EDPB–EDPS opinion on the proposed AI Regulation; the linked exact PDF records adoption on the same date. Direct PDF retrieval during this pass was access-limited, so the existing PDF source's retrieval and verification timestamps are intentionally unchanged.
- Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · Official English joint PDF confirms the title, Joint Opinion 5/2021 and adoption date 18 June 2021.