About the AI Act
Status: Proposal, Trialogue ended and provisional agreement reached on 8 December 2023.
Next Steps: To be formally adopted by both Parliament and Council, fine tuning of the text agreed still needed expected to take 2-3 months, read more:
- Council’s press release
- Parliament’s press release
Full name: 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.
Type: Regulation
Objective and key elements:
- First ever attempt to enact a horizontal regulation of AI
- Aiming to:
- harmonise AI-regulation within the EU,
- protect fundamental rights,
- enhance the positive aspects of AI, and
- ensure free movement of AI systems
- Includes a risk-based approach depending on AI purposes (and risk levels divided in categories “unacceptable risk”, “high risk”, “limited risk” and “minimal risk”)
Relevant to: Manufacturers, distributors, and users of AI systems used or placed on the internal market
Documents (newest on top):
- Consolidated version text after the Provisional Agreement on 8 December 2023, (version published by the Parliament on 2 February 2024)
- Parliament’s adopted negotiation position mandate, compromise text
- EU Commission draft 21 April 2021, link
- Read more at the European Commission website, link
(Last updated 6 February 2024)