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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:

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
    • Updated with inter alia tailor-made regimes for general-purpose AI and foundation models (like ChatGPT), read more
    • General approach by the Council published 6 December 2022, link
  • EU Commission draft 21 April 2021, link
    • Read more at the  European Commission website, link

 

(Last updated 6 February 2024)