Two expert reports for the EU Commission on AI prohibited practices (Art. 5 AIA), including remote biometric identification

The EU Publications Office published the reports made by Catherine Jasserand and by Els J. Kindt for the EU Commission on selected Art. 5 AI Act prohibitions and conditions, including on remote biometric identification. They served as input to the Commission’s Guidelines on Art. 5 AI Act:

• E. J. Kindt, Study concerning the prohibitions of Article 5.1(c) (social scoring), Article 5.1(d) (predictive policing), Article 5.1(f) (emotion recognition), and of Article 5.1(g) (biometric categorisation), and the procedural requirements for the exceptions to the real-time remote biometric identification prohibition in the Articles 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 of the AI Act, Publication Office of the European Union, DOI 10.2759/6434655,  ISBN 978-92-68-29182-5, 5 May 2026
• Catherine Jasserand, 'Guidance study on Article 5(1)(h) prohibition and its three exceptions (Article 5(1)(h)(i)-(iii), the procedural requirements laid down in Article 5(2), and the prohibition of Article 5(1)(e) of the AI Act',  Publications Office of the European Union, 5 May 2026.