The negotiators in the EU Parliament have reached a preliminary agreement on the AI Act. The parliamentary position worked out in the Internal Market and Home Affairs Committee (IMCO, LIBE) appears to be a genuine compromise, because the negotiators argued about individual points until the very end. And no one is really happy with the […]
General purpose AI (GPAI) systems are not classified as high-risk systems per se in the parliamentary draft of the AI Act. The reporters have deleted a corresponding entry in Annex III, as Table.Media has learned from negotiating circles.General purpose AI systems are those that can be used for and adapted to a wide range of […]
150 randomly selected citizens of the Union have drawn up 23 recommendations for the Commission on how to make virtual worlds like the Metaverse fair and people-friendly. The proposals include regulations on data protection and transparency in data use as well as digital identification on the one hand and a right to anonymity on the […]
The EU Commission wants to relax regulations on selling unsightly fruit and vegetables. This would allow producers to sell products with external defects directly on-site in the future – without having to comply with marketing standards. In this way, the EU wants to give consumers the opportunity to purchase such fruit and vegetables at affordable […]
Last week, the European Parliament’s working group on rules of procedure presented a draft amendment to the Parliament’s internal rules to resolve competence disputes more quickly. The goal is to avoid months of delays in processing bills because of a lack of agreement on assignments to committees.The document available to Contexte restricts the deadlines of […]
Recently, Germany has repeatedly attracted attention in Europe for either failing to take a clear stand or for only making a statement when it is actually already too late. This has caused a lot of trouble in Brussels. On the other hand, Germany’s position on the Stability and Growth Pact has always been quite clear. […]
Rapporteurs for the AI Act have set new negotiation dates for several technical and political meetings over the next two weeks. Representatives of various political groups believe it is realistic that the planned vote in the lead committees IMCO and LIBE can actually take place on May 11 as now planned.Many things are close to […]
Negotiating circles said on Wednesday that negotiators in Parliament will be unable to keep to the planned timetable for the vote on the AI Act. Accordingly, there were still too many details to be clarified at the technical level. Therefore, the rapporteurs canceled the last political meeting planned for yesterday, Wednesday. Instead, another technical meeting […]
The AI Act rapporteurs, who have called for a global AI summit, are getting support from the scientific community. Speaking to Table.Media, the head of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Antonio Krüger, argued for global coordination on AI regulation. “Regulation should not just happen at the EU level. The EU would have […]
The EU Commission on Tuesday unveiled a new legislative package aimed at stepping up the EU’s fight against cyberattacks. With the package, the Union is showing how it can “build the infrastructures, competencies and capacities through solidarity” to jointly arm itself against cybersecurity threats, Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager said in Strasbourg. Private companies are […]