{"event":{"id":"evt-eu-ai-act-general-approach-20221206","dedupe_key":"ai_regulatory_position:2022-12-06:eu-council-adopts-general-approach-on-proposed-ai-act","event_type":"ai_regulatory_position","title":"EU Council adopts general approach on proposed AI Act","summary":"The Council adopted its common position and negotiating mandate on the proposed horizontal AI Act.","occurred_at":"2022-12-06T10:20:00.000Z","published_at":"2022-12-06T10:20:00.000Z","observed_at":"2026-10-03T14:26:11.000Z","reconstructed_at":"2026-10-03T14:26:11.000Z","ingest_type":"live_world_scan","locations":null,"status":"verified","confidence":0.99,"metadata":{"actors":["Council of the European Union"],"what_happened_at_time":"A major jurisdiction moved from proposal-level discussion to an agreed Council negotiating position on horizontal AI regulation.","evidence_at_time":"Council December 6 press release documents the general approach and its status before trilogues.","affected_layers":["layer-governance","layer-ai","layer-human"],"change_kind":"regulatory_framework_maturation","q3_continuity":"Q3 had voluntary NIST risk-management guidance. Q4 added a formal legislative negotiating position in the EU.","retrospective_inference":"AI governance became more institutionally concrete while remaining incomplete.","uncertainty":"This was not final law and later AI Act provisions must not be projected backward."},"created_at":"2026-10-03T14:45:10.914Z","updated_at":"2026-10-03T14:45:10.914Z"},"artifacts":[{"id":"art-eu-ai-act-general-approach-20221206","canonical_url":"https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/12/06/artificial-intelligence-act-council-calls-for-promoting-safe-ai-that-respects-fundamental-rights/","artifact_type":"policy_position","title":"EU Council general approach on the AI Act","summary":"The Council adopted its general approach on the proposed AI Act, creating a negotiating mandate around a horizontal risk-based AI framework; this was not final enacted legislation.","creator_entities":["Council of the European Union"],"released_at":"2022-12-06T10:20:00.000Z","content_hash":null,"metadata":{"historical_scope":"2022-Q4"},"created_at":"2026-10-03T14:45:10.909Z","updated_at":"2026-10-03T14:45:10.909Z","relation":"evidenced_by"}],"signals":[{"id":"sig-q4-ai-regulatory-formalization","statement":"AI governance became institutionally more concrete as the EU Council adopted a negotiating position on a horizontal risk-based AI regulatory framework, while deployment and safety controls remained heterogeneous.","signal_type":"governance_maturation","direction":"increasing","confidence":0.95,"epistemic_status":"supported_inference","mapping_mode":"retrospective","reconstructed_at":"2026-10-03T14:26:11.000Z","created_at":"2026-10-03T14:45:10.921Z","updated_at":"2026-10-03T14:45:10.921Z"}]}