Automated decision-making: consumer protection and free movement

Official metadata

Official title

European Parliament resolution of 12 February 2020 on automated decision-making processes: ensuring consumer protection and free movement of goods and services (2019/2915(RSP))

Official reference

P9_TA(2020)0032

Document type

Resolution

Document date

2020-02-12

Document date kind

Institutional adoption

Document-date evidence

Publications Office of the European Union · PDF p.1, resolution heading: 12 February 2020. — Document issue/adoption date; distinct from publication.

Publication date

2021-07-23

Publication-date evidence

Publications Office of the European Union · PDF pp.1-4, OJ C 294, 23.7.2021, pp.14-17. — Explicit publication evidence for the cited manifestation.

Version label

Adopted resolution, Official Journal manifestation

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

Principal

Version status

Final

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

Policy stage

Adoption

Corpus tier

Directly related

Sectors

• General cross sector
• Consumer protection

Policy membership

• EU AI policy pathway

Classification evidence

• Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · Publications Office of the European Union · Recitals A-E and paragraphs 1-14, including paragraph 7 on AI risk assessment. — Addresses consumer safeguards, product safety, risk assessment, human review and transparency of AI-based automated decision-making.
• Sector tags: Consumer protection · Publications Office of the European Union · Paragraphs 1-8 and 13-14; consumer information, product liability, redress and market surveillance. — Substantive coverage supports this navigation classification; not a claim that every application mentioned is regulated by this document.
• Sector tags: General cross sector · Publications Office of the European Union · Recital A and paragraphs 7 and 10; AI/automated decisions across the internal market. — Substantive coverage supports this navigation classification; not a claim that every application mentioned is regulated by this document.
• Provenance tags: Authored by an EU institution · Publications Office of the European Union · Official title/identity block and institutional attribution. — Attribution follows the issuing institution, not merely its website domain.
• Provenance tags: Officially published · Publications Office of the European Union · Public official full text and corresponding identity metadata. — Confirms official public availability; an exact first release day is separately assessed.

Production provenance

Provenance tags

• Authored by an EU institution
• Officially published

Named bibliographic authors

None recorded after review

Institutions and roles

• European Parliament · Adopter · role evidence · Adopted resolution heading and acting body: The European Parliament.
• European Parliament · Author · role evidence · Official title/identity block and institutional attribution; for reports, the institutional role is separate from the personal rapporteur/author credits.
• Publications Office of the European Union · Publisher · role evidence · Official Journal masthead.

Official sources and identifiers

CELEX

52020IP0032

OJ reference

2021/C 294/03

• Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union

Formal procedure

Official procedure reference:

• 2019/2915(RSP)

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale

Addresses consumer safeguards, product safety, risk assessment, human review and transparency of AI-based automated decision-making.

Researcher notes

The adopted resolution is distinct from the committee motion B9-0094/2020 linked in the external discovery catalogue. No motion date or status is transferred to this record.

Review status

verified

Relationships

• Automated decision-making: consumer protection and free movement · Related to · Building Trust in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence

  Official relationship · Verified

  Official rationale: Locator: PDF p.1, introductory citation to COM(2019)0168 of 8 April 2019. This identifies the Building Trust in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence communication as an explicitly referenced document, not as the same text or a binding legal basis.

  Evidence source: Publications Office of the European Union

• Automated decision-making: consumer protection and free movement · Related to · Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence

  Official relationship · Verified

  Official rationale: Locator: PDF p.1, introductory citation to COM(2018)0795 of 7 December 2018. The resolution cites the Commission communication on the Coordinated Plan; no implementing or amending relationship is asserted.

  Evidence source: Publications Office of the European Union

• Automated decision-making: consumer protection and free movement · Related to · Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI

  Official relationship · Verified

  Official rationale: Locator: PDF p.1, introductory citation naming Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, published on 8 April 2019. This records an explicit reference to the guidelines, not incorporation as binding requirements; the assessment list mentioned alongside them is not treated as a separate version here.

  Evidence source: Publications Office of the European Union

• Automated decision-making: consumer protection and free movement · Related to · A comprehensive European industrial policy on AI and robotics

  Official relationship · Verified

  Official rationale: Locator: PDF p.1, first introductory citation and footnote 1 (P8_TA(2019)0081). The 2020 resolution explicitly cites the 2019 industrial-policy resolution. Citation does not establish that one document implements or supersedes the other.

  Evidence source: Publications Office of the European Union

Verification

Expanded evidence review

Verified

Reviewed by

Yichen Hao

Evidence review date

2026-09-12T11:57:14.718211Z

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