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Council of the European Union
General Secretariat
Directorate-General Communication and Information - COMM
Directorate Information and Outreach
Information Services Unit / Transparency
Head of Unit
Brussels, 8 March 2022
Ms Vanja Skoric
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Ref. 22/0158-mj/vk
Request made on: 27.01.2022
Registered on:
28.01.2022
Deadline extension: 18.02.2022
Dear Ms Skoric,
Thank you for your request for access to “
Al working papers and other documents containing
positions, comments and text proposals of member states on the 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, until
the January 25 2022”.
1 The following documents have been identified as corresponding to your request:
WK 9717 2020 INIT
WK 13182 2021 INIT
WK 13199 2021 INIT
WK 6373 2021 INIT
WK 13182 2021 REV1
WK 13239 2021 INIT
WK 10567 2021 INIT
WK 13184 2021 INIT
WK 13239 2021 ADD1
WK 10581 2021 INIT
WK 13185 2021 INIT
WK 13269 2021 INIT
WK 11168 2021 INIT
WK 13191 2021 INIT
WK 13298 2021 INIT
WK 13173 2021 INIT
WK 13194 2021 INIT
WK 13348 2021 INIT
WK 13176 2021 INIT
WK 13195 2021 INIT
WK 13455 2021 INIT
WK 13177 2021 INIT
WK 13196 2021 INIT
WK 13457 2021 INIT
WK 13178 2021 INIT
WK 13197 2021 INIT
WK 14060 2021 INIT
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The General Secretariat of the Council has examined your request on the basis of the applicable rules:
Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council regarding public access to
European Parliament, Council and Commission documents (OJ L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 43) and the specific
provisions concerning public access to Council documents set out in Annex II to the Council's Rules of Procedure
(Council Decision No 2009/937/EU, OJ L 325, 11.12.2009, p. 35).
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WK 14062 2021 INIT
WK 192 2022 INIT
WK 350 2022 INIT
WK 14182 2021 INIT
WK 202 2022 INIT
WK 352 2022 INIT
WK 14638 2021 INIT
WK 213 2022 INIT
WK 372 2022 INIT
WK 15346 2021 INIT
WK 221 2022 INIT
WK 419 2022 INIT
WK 124 2022 INIT
WK 224 2022 INIT
WK 465 2022 INIT
WK 128 2022 INIT
WK 242 2022 INIT
WK 868 2022 INIT
WK 130 2022 INIT
WK 251 2022 INIT
WK 1046 2022 INIT
WK 132 2022 INIT
WK 255 2022 INIT
WK 190 2022 INIT
WK 257 2022 INIT
You may have full access to the abovementioned documents which are in bold.
You may also have access to document
WK 14638/2021 INIT except to the parts which contain
personal data about Presidency officials.
Disclosure of this information would undermine the protection of privacy and the integrity of the
individuals in question, in particular in accordance with European legislation regarding the
protection of personal data.
2 Accordingly, pursuant to Article 4(1)(b) of the Regulation (EC)
No 1049/2001 (protection of privacy and the integrity of the individual), the General Secretariat is
unable to grant you access to these parts of the document.
However, as abovementioned, pursuant to Article 4(6) of the Regulation, you may have access to
the rest of the document which is not covered by this exception.
You wil find all these documents attached.
Please find also attached partially accessible versions of documents WK 13239/2021 ADD 1,
WK 14060/2021 and WK 14062/2021.
3 However, I regret to inform you that full access cannot be
given for the reasons set out below.
WK 13239/2021 ADD 1 is a Working Document of 11 November 2021 from the General
Secretariat of the Council to the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society on
Artificial Intelligence Act. This document contains additional FR comments on Articles 1-29,
Annexes I-IV (doc. 8115/21).
WK 14060/2021 and
WK 14062/2021 are Working Documents of 18 November 2021 from the
General Secretariat of the Council to the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information
Society on the Artificial Intelligence Act. These documents contain a consolidated table of
comments from PT, PL, BG, SK, CZ, IT, MT, LV, AT, EE, DK, NL, BE, ES, FR, SE, FI and from
HU, IE and FR (Additional) on Articles 1-29, Annexes I-IV (doc. 8115/21).
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Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection
of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and
agencies and on the free movement of such data (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).
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Article 4(6) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
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These documents contain information on techniques and technologies used or which can be used
to identify and prevent risks and threats that some Member States face or might face in the near
future. Disclosure of this information would specifically and effectively undermine the protection of
public security of those Member States and of the European Union.
Full disclosure of the documents would therefore undermine the protection of the public interest as
regards public security. As a consequence, the General Secretariat is not able to grant a full
access to the requested documents
4. However, as abovementioned, pursuant to Article 4(6) of the Regulation, you may have access to
the other parts of the documents which are not covered by this exception.
The General Secretariat is stil examining documents
WK 13177/2021, WK 13199/2021,
WK 13239/2021 INIT, WK 13455/2021, WK 15346/2021,
WK 128/2022,
WK 130/2022,
WK 192/2022,
WK 242/2022 and
WK 868/2022. You wil receive an additional reply as soon as
possible.
Pursuant to Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you may ask the Council to review this
decision within 15 working days of receiving this reply. Should you see the need for such a review,
you are invited to indicate the reasons thereof.
Yours sincerely,
Fernando FLORINDO
Enclosures: 42
Link to the documents:
https://we.tl/t-LZmZKqi Fr
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Article 4(1)(a), first indent, of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001.
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