diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 67c2d7db96b09e988259f2ddc27316f040fe14f8..386bab823a5f6b2bfb9c1ef9b872d640bc78a7d7 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 # Note that environment variables can be set in several places
 # See https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/variables/#cicd-variable-precedence
 stages:
+- lint
 - test
 - publish
 
@@ -14,6 +15,15 @@ sast:
 include:
 - template: Security/SAST.gitlab-ci.yml
 
+black:
+  image: python:3.10-alpine
+  stage: lint
+  before_script:
+    - apk add poetry
+    - poetry install
+  script:
+    - poetry run black --check .
+
 pytest:
   image: python:3.10-alpine
   before_script:
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 401742e751e6faeed3a64c870ec2872e36ea71d6..30508df3744fe67a58c5c18f8a339a94bfde359b 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -30,6 +30,29 @@ docs = ["furo", "sphinx", "sphinx-notfound-page", "zope.interface"]
 tests = ["cloudpickle", "coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "mypy (>=0.900,!=0.940)", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "zope.interface"]
 tests_no_zope = ["cloudpickle", "coverage[toml] (>=5.0.2)", "hypothesis", "mypy (>=0.900,!=0.940)", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "pytest-mypy-plugins"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "black"
+version = "22.8.0"
+description = "The uncompromising code formatter."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6.2"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+click = ">=8.0.0"
+mypy-extensions = ">=0.4.3"
+pathspec = ">=0.9.0"
+platformdirs = ">=2"
+tomli = {version = ">=1.1.0", markers = "python_full_version < \"3.11.0a7\""}
+typed-ast = {version = ">=1.4.2", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\" and implementation_name == \"cpython\""}
+typing-extensions = {version = ">=3.10.0.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+colorama = ["colorama (>=0.4.3)"]
+d = ["aiohttp (>=3.7.4)"]
+jupyter = ["ipython (>=7.8.0)", "tokenize-rt (>=3.2.0)"]
+uvloop = ["uvloop (>=0.15.2)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "certifi"
 version = "2022.9.14"
@@ -38,6 +61,18 @@ category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "click"
+version = "8.1.3"
+description = "Composable command line interface toolkit"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+colorama = {version = "*", markers = "platform_system == \"Windows\""}
+importlib-metadata = {version = "*", markers = "python_version < \"3.8\""}
+
 [[package]]
 name = "colorama"
 version = "0.4.5"
@@ -139,6 +174,14 @@ category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mypy-extensions"
+version = "0.4.3"
+description = "Experimental type system extensions for programs checked with the mypy typechecker."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "packaging"
 version = "21.3"
@@ -150,6 +193,26 @@ python-versions = ">=3.6"
 [package.dependencies]
 pyparsing = ">=2.0.2,<3.0.5 || >3.0.5"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pathspec"
+version = "0.10.1"
+description = "Utility library for gitignore style pattern matching of file paths."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "platformdirs"
+version = "2.5.2"
+description = "A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a \"user data dir\"."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["furo (>=2021.7.5b38)", "proselint (>=0.10.2)", "sphinx (>=4)", "sphinx-autodoc-typehints (>=1.12)"]
+test = ["appdirs (==1.4.4)", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-cov (>=2.7)", "pytest-mock (>=3.6)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pluggy"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -269,6 +332,14 @@ category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "typed-ast"
+version = "1.5.4"
+description = "a fork of Python 2 and 3 ast modules with type comment support"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "typing-extensions"
 version = "4.3.0"
@@ -292,7 +363,7 @@ testing = ["func-timeout", "jaraco.itertools", "pytest (>=6)", "pytest-black (>=
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "1bd2e1ae8a437fbd743e42df72361a4474cc3cf8f861dbdc9828cfa3385fb0b0"
+content-hash = "408720b82b9283102dceb0c0537188b76254cab98c2ba4d703cd5fc79253e70f"
 
 [metadata.files]
 anyio = [
@@ -303,10 +374,39 @@ attrs = [
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 ]
+black = [
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+    {file = "black-22.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:792f7eb540ba9a17e8656538701d3eb1afcb134e3b45b71f20b25c77a8db7e6e"},
+]
 certifi = [
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     {file = "certifi-2022.9.14.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:36973885b9542e6bd01dea287b2b4b3b21236307c56324fcc3f1160f2d655ed5"},
 ]
+click = [
+    {file = "click-8.1.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:bb4d8133cb15a609f44e8213d9b391b0809795062913b383c62be0ee95b1db48"},
+    {file = "click-8.1.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7682dc8afb30297001674575ea00d1814d808d6a36af415a82bd481d37ba7b8e"},
+]
 colorama = [
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@@ -387,10 +487,22 @@ iniconfig = [
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 ]
+mypy-extensions = [
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+    {file = "mypy_extensions-0.4.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:2d82818f5bb3e369420cb3c4060a7970edba416647068eb4c5343488a6c604a8"},
+]
 packaging = [
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 ]
+pathspec = [
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+    {file = "pathspec-0.10.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7ace6161b621d31e7902eb6b5ae148d12cfd23f4a249b9ffb6b9fee12084323d"},
+]
+platformdirs = [
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+    {file = "platformdirs-2.5.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:58c8abb07dcb441e6ee4b11d8df0ac856038f944ab98b7be6b27b2a3c7feef19"},
+]
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 ]
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 typing-extensions = [
     {file = "typing_extensions-4.3.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:25642c956049920a5aa49edcdd6ab1e06d7e5d467fc00e0506c44ac86fbfca02"},
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 890c5262d7ba5f3fbba83adf64ea3e61370a32a0..79177a2269bf2bcb2fe7e33b71a709f15ab4f6d2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ python-dateutil = "^2.8.0"
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 pytest = "^7.1.3"
 pytest-cov = "^3.0.0"
+black = "^22.8.0"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]