# Methodology for the Risk and Impact Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Systems from the Point of View of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (HUDERIA)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Council of Europe
- **Instrument type**: Framework
- **Status**: Guidance
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Council of Europe Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)
- **Adopted**: 2024-11-28

## In brief

HUDERIA risk and impact assessment methodology is a non-binding framework of the Council of Europe, issued by the Council of Europe Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI). Its current status is guidance. Voluntary methodology for developers and deployers of AI systems, and for states implementing the Convention.

## Summary

Adopted by the CAI in November 2024, HUDERIA is a structured methodology for assessing risks and impacts of AI systems on human rights, democracy and the rule of law across the lifecycle: context-based risk analysis, stakeholder engagement, risk and impact assessment, and mitigation planning with iterative review. It supports implementation of the Framework Convention and can be used by public and private organisations.

## Scope

Voluntary methodology for developers and deployers of AI systems, and for states implementing the Convention.

## Notes on dates

Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0056 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0056; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/council-of-europe-huderia-methodology
- **Official source**: https://www.coe.int/en/web/artificial-intelligence/huderia
- **Source document**: HUDERIA
- **Published by**: Council of Europe
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Methodology for the Risk and Impact Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Systems from the Point of View of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (HUDERIA)" [AIPT-POL-0056, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0056 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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