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EESC opinion on the AI Act proposal

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    EESC 2021/02482. English PDF, 6 pages. EESC opinion, OJ 2021/C 517/09, pages 56-61.

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Official title
Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain union legislative acts’ (COM(2021) 206 final — 2021/106 (COD))
Official reference
EESC 2021/02482
Document type
Opinion
Document date
2021-09-22
Document date kind
Institutional adoption
Document-date evidence
European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Date of document and Date of vote: 22/09/2021 for EESC 2021/02482. — Establishes retained document date 2021-09-22.
Publication date
2021-12-22
Publication-date evidence
European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · OJ C 517, 22.12.2021, pp. 61-66. — Establishes retained publication date 2021-12-22 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
Core
Sectors
  • General cross sector
  • Health
  • Employment and labour
  • Migration asylum and border management
  • Financial services
  • Law enforcement
  • Justice
  • Education
  • Public administration
  • Consumer protection
  • Critical infrastructure
Policy membership
  • AI Act legislative process
  • EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

Production provenance

Provenance tags
  • Authored by an EU agency or body
  • Officially published
Named bibliographic authors
None recorded after review
Institutions and roles

Official sources and identifiers

CELEX
52021AE2482
OJ reference
OJ C 517, 22.12.2021, pp. 61–66 (2021/C 517/09)
  • Official source · Publisher/host: European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

  • 2021/0106(COD)

Parent or principal record

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale
The mandatory EESC opinion is a formal institutional contribution to procedure 2021/0106(COD).
Researcher notes
EUR-Lex assigns this AI Act proposal opinion 2021/C 517/09, not 2021/C 517/08; the latter is the separate opinion on COM(2021) 205.
Review status
verified

Relationships

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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 52021AE2482, EESC 2021/02482, adoption on 22 September 2021 and OJ reference 2021/C 517/09.

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