AI Act: EU Commission sticks to timeframe for AI regulation
After dozens of CEOs called for a delay in the implementation of the AI Act, the EU Commission has now made it clear that there will be no such delay.
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The European Commission is sticking to its timeframe for the AI Regulation. Users must therefore continue to be prepared for governance obligations for the legally compliant use of AI to take effect in four weeks' time. This was confirmed by Thomas Regnier, the EU Commission spokesperson responsible for the digital dossier, in Brussels on Monday.
Brussels against postponement
The Commission is thus rejecting calls for a postponement: recently, there have been several discussions about postponing important deadlines for the EU regulation on artificial intelligence or even repealing it completely. Under the impression of a possible regulatory pause in the USA, some EU member states called for a complete rethink of the AI regulation. EU Commission Vice President Virkkunen had already rejected this at an early stage. At best, a postponement of deadlines would be an option if the preparatory work was not completed in time. Large European industrial companies had also recently called for a postponement.
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In particular, the outstanding “Code of Practice” for general purpose models, the so-called General Purpose AI (GPAI), which should have been ready in May, was cited as an argument for a possible postponement. The Code of Practice is intended to define application rules for such models as good professional practice for safe operation within the meaning of the AI Regulation. According to Commission spokesperson Regnier, however, this would now be submitted to and adopted by the Commission in a timely manner so that this part of the EU AI Regulation could also enter into force in August.
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