M/593 - Artificial Intelligence
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 22.5.2023 on a standardisation request to the European Committee for Standardisation and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation in support of Union policy on artificial intelligence
The Commission Implementing Decision of 22 May 2023 issues a standardisation request (Mandate M/593) to the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC). This mandate supports Union policy on artificial intelligence by directing these bodies to develop relevant standards. The goal is to facilitate the implementation of AI-related policies and contribute to the harmonisation and safety of AI technologies within the European Union. The decision relates to the resolution CEN/BT C058/2023 and formalizes the approval of the mandate.
Purpose
The Commission Implementing Decision dated 22 May 2023 relates to a standardisation request directed at the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC). The mandate aims to support Union policy on artificial intelligence (AI) by fostering the development of harmonised standards that can provide technical specifications and guidelines in this domain.
Standardisation request
The European Commission requests CEN and CENELEC to establish standardisation activities concerning artificial intelligence technologies. This includes creating standards that address relevant aspects of AI to facilitate its safe, trustworthy, and effective deployment within the European Union. The decision formalises this standardisation request to align with Union policies on AI regulation, ethics, and market adoption.
Expected deliverables
While specific deliverables are not detailed in the metadata, the expected outcomes typically include harmonised European standards related to AI systems. These might cover technical requirements, performance benchmarks, safety measures, and ethical guidelines that can be referenced in Union legislation and applied by industry stakeholders to ensure reliable AI solutions.
Context
This mandate forms part of the wider EU strategic approach to artificial intelligence, which emphasizes fostering innovation while ensuring AI systems comply with ethical principles and regulatory requirements. By involving recognised European standardisation bodies, the Commission aims to leverage technical expertise to support the effective implementation of AI policies and regulatory frameworks across Member States. The resolution reference CEN/BT C058/2023 records the approval process within the standardisation organisations.
The mandate covers standardisation work to support Union policy on artificial intelligence, encompassing AI technologies and systems used across various sectors to ensure their safety, trustworthiness, and compliance with EU regulations. This includes developing standards for AI methods, processes, and applications to facilitate innovation and market adoption within the European Union.
General Information
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This document defines the essential concepts and principles inherent to the AI ethicist role. It illustrates a clear, uniform approach to the integral components of this profession.
Moreover, the document outlines how the role of AI ethicists can be seamlessly integrated into a wide variety of organizations. These include, but are not limited to, commercial enterprises, governmental agencies and non-profit organizations.
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This document establishes a systematized framework for the competences of AI ethicists, categorizing them into knowledge, skills and attitudes related to the specific activities and tasks of the role. It specifies requirements and recommendations necessary for individuals to effectively perform as AI ethicists. These competences encompass a strong understanding of European values and fundamental rights, further enhancing the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for this profession.
This document defines the essential concepts and principles inherent to the AI ethicist role. It illustrates a clear, uniform approach to the integral components of this profession.
Moreover, the document outlines how the role of AI ethicists can be seamlessly integrated into a wide variety of organizations. These include, but are not limited to, commercial enterprises, governmental agencies and non-profit organizations.
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This document specifies the requirements and provides guidance for the definition, implementation and maintenance of a quality management system for organizations that provide AI systems.
This document is intended to support the organization in meeting applicable regulatory requirements. It is primarily intended for organizations placing on the market or putting into service high-risk AI systems and is not specific to any particular sector.
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This document specifies requirements and provides guidance for risk management of AI systems. It specifies terminology, principles and a process for risk management.
The process described in this document intends to assist providers of AI systems to identify the hazards associated with the AI systems, to estimate and evaluate the associated risks, to control these risks, and to monitor the effectiveness of the controls. The process described in this document applies to risks to health, safety and fundamental rights associated with an AI system. The process described in this document is applied throughout the life cycle of the AI system.
This document requires providers to establish objective criteria for risk acceptability but does not specify acceptable risk levels.
This document is intended for use by organizations providing AI systems, regardless of their size, nature or location. This document is not intended for managing risk faced by organizations. This document is intended to support the organization in meeting applicable regulatory requirements.
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select, implement and interpret those evaluation methods. This document covers quantitative metrics as well as other evaluation
methods. It includes requirements on the implementation of the described metrics, and further requirements on the technical
resources involved in the evaluation process.
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This document describes common capabilities, requirements and a supporting information model for logging of events in AI systems.
This document is designed to be used with a risk management system.
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This document addresses organizational and technical solutions aimed at ensuring the cybersecurity of high-risk AI systems over the life cycle, appropriate to the relevant circumstances and the risks. The technical solutions to address AI-specific vulnerabilities include, where appropriate, measures to prevent, detect, respond to, resolve and control for attacks trying to manipulate the training dataset (data poisoning), or pre-trained components used in training (model poisoning), inputs designed to cause the model to make a mistake (adversarial examples or model evasion), confidentiality attacks or model flaws. This document provides objective criteria to enable decisions on whether a given technical or organizational solution adequately achieves a given vulnerability-related goal.
- Draft55 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This document provides terminology, concepts, requirements, and guidance for logging of AI systems.
It is primarily intended for organizations placing on the market or putting into service AI systems and is not specific to any particular sector.
- Draft21 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This document addresses organizational and technical solutions aimed at ensuring the cybersecurity of high-risk AI systems over the life cycle, appropriate to the relevant circumstances and the risks. The technical solutions to address AI-specific vulnerabilities include, where appropriate, measures to prevent, detect, respond to, resolve and control for attacks trying to manipulate the training dataset (data poisoning), or pre-trained components used in training (model poisoning), inputs designed to cause the model to make a mistake (adversarial examples or model evasion), confidentiality attacks or model flaws. This document provides objective criteria to enable decisions on whether a given technical or organizational solution adequately achieves a given vulnerability-related goal.
- Draft55 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This document specifies requirements and provides guidance for risk management of AI systems. It specifies terminology, principles and a process for risk management.
The process described in this document intends to assist providers of AI systems to identify the hazards associated with the AI systems, to estimate and evaluate the associated risks, to control these risks, and to monitor the effectiveness of the controls. The process described in this document applies to risks to health, safety and fundamental rights associated with an AI system. The process described in this document is applied throughout the life cycle of the AI system.
This document requires providers to establish objective criteria for risk acceptability but does not specify acceptable risk levels.
This document is intended for use by organizations providing AI systems, regardless of their size, nature or location. This document is not intended for managing risk faced by organizations. This document is intended to support the organization in meeting applicable regulatory requirements.
- Draft71 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This document specifies the evaluation of computer vision systems, in the sense of measuring the quality of a system’s results to
assess its functional suitability. It provides a definition of evaluation methods for those systems, together with guidance on how to
select, implement and interpret those evaluation methods. This document covers quantitative metrics as well as other evaluation
methods. It includes requirements on the implementation of the described metrics, and further requirements on the technical
resources involved in the evaluation process.
- Draft56 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This document describes common capabilities, requirements and a supporting information model for logging of events in AI systems.
This document is designed to be used with a risk management system.
- Draft26 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
Frequently Asked Questions
A European Standardization Mandate is a formal request from the European Commission to the European Standardization Organizations (CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI) to develop European standards (ENs) in support of EU legislation and policies. Mandates are issued under Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 and help ensure that products and services meet the essential requirements set out in EU directives and regulations.
M/593 is a European Standardization Mandate titled "COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 22.5.2023 on a standardisation request to the European Committee for Standardisation and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation in support of Union policy on artificial intelligence". COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 22.5.2023 on a standardisation request to the European Committee for Standardisation and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation in support of Union policy on artificial intelligence There are 14 standards developed under this mandate.
Standards developed in response to a mandate and cited in the Official Journal of the European Union become "harmonized standards". Products manufactured in compliance with harmonized standards benefit from a presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the corresponding EU directive or regulation, facilitating CE marking and market access across the European Economic Area.