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EESC opinion on the 2021 coordinated plan
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Official metadata
- Official title
- Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Fostering a European approach to Artificial Intelligence (COM(2021) 205 final)
- Official reference
- EESC 2021/02456
- 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 2021/02456. — 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. 56-60. — 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
- Coordination
- Corpus tier
- Directly related
- Sectors
- Policy membership
Classification evidence
- Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Official EESC 2021/02456: sections 3-4 assess AI investment, skills, labour, public services and sectoral adoption. — The cited provisions make AI the central subject.
- Sector tags: General cross sector · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Official EESC 2021/02456: sections 3-4 assess AI investment, skills, labour, public services and sectoral adoption. — The cited provisions substantiate the retained cross-sector classification.
- Provenance tags: Authored by an EU agency or body · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Economic and Social Committee; EESC 2021/02456 opinion heading names the Committee. — Exact official metadata identifies the responsible EU institution or body.
- Provenance tags: Officially published · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · OJ C 517, 22.12.2021, pp. 56-60. — The official EU manifestation independently establishes publication of this exact record.
- Sector tags: Employment and labour · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Sections 3.5.4-3.5.6. — Recommends worker transitions and dialogue over workplace AI.
- Sector tags: Education · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Sections 3.5.1-3.5.5. — Recommends AI education and retraining programmes.
- Sector tags: Research and innovation · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Sections 3.3.5 and 3.4.1-3.4.3. — Addresses AI research funding and laboratory support.
- Sector tags: Public administration · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Section 3.3.4, second bullet. — Endorses public-authority data opening within AI-enabling policy.
- Sector tags: Health · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Section 3.6.3. — Recommends medical research, diagnosis and care applications.
- Sector tags: Agriculture and environment · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Section 3.6.2. — Addresses agricultural AI and environmental sustainability.
- Sector tags: Industry and manufacturing · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Section 3.6.2. — Addresses industrial-process AI efficiency.
- Sector tags: Transport and mobility · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Section 3.6.2. — Addresses AI transport-system management.
- Sector tags: Cybersecurity · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Section 2.6. — Recommends cybersecurity cooperation across national AI strategies.
- Sector tags: Consumer protection · European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex · Section 1.6. — Advocates consumers' algorithmic explanation and challenge rights.
Production provenance
- Provenance tags
- Named bibliographic authors
- None recorded after review
- Institutions and roles
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- European Economic and Social Committee · Author · role evidence · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Economic and Social Committee; EESC 2021/02456 opinion heading names the Committee.
Official sources and identifiers
- CELEX
- 52021AE2456
- OJ reference
- OJ C 517, 22.12.2021, pp. 56–60 (2021/C 517/08)
- Official source · Publisher/host: European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex
Research assessment
- Inclusion rationale
- The formal EESC response is a distinct institutional interpretation of COM(2021) 205 and its revised Coordinated Plan.
- Researcher notes
- Included separately from the EESC opinion on COM(2021) 206; EUR-Lex assigns this record 2021/C 517/08 and CELEX 52021AE2456.
- Review status
- verified
Relationships
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EESC opinion on the 2021 coordinated plan · Based on · Fostering a European approach to Artificial Intelligence
Official relationship · Verified
Official rationale: The official EESC opinion identifies COM(2021) 205 final as the communication on which it comments.
Evidence source: European Economic and Social Committee / EUR-Lex
Verification
- Expanded evidence review
- Verified
- Reviewed by
- Yichen Hao
- Evidence review date
- 2026-09-05T18:06:34Z
The evidence review date is not a separate human sign-off date. Review credit and evidence-review actions
- Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · EUR-Lex confirms CELEX 52021AE2456, EESC 2021/02456, adoption on 22 September 2021 and OJ reference 2021/C 517/08.