The European Commission is considering plans to delay parts of the EU’s artificial intelligence work, following strong pressure from businesses and Donald Trump’s administration.
The Commission confirmed that “a mirror” continues “to delay the regulatory aspects, after media reports that the changes of large companies to large Tech companies.
The act, the world’s first comprehensive law regulating AI, comes into effect in August 2024, but many of its provisions will apply. Most of the obligations of companies developing high-riser systems that “cause serious risks to health, safety or fundamental rights” are not due until August 2026 or a year after that.
According to Financial Timesthe commission is considering giving a one-year “grace period” to companies to break the rules of the highest risk AI.
Geneative Ai Generators – Systems that can produce content, such as text or images – that place products in a one-hour delay without disrupting the market”, states an internal document cited by the FT.
The Commission is also considering delays in the imposition of fines for violations of the new AI transparency rules until August 2027 which gives enough time for AI systems “to implement AI obligations, implement the newspaper.
The school also has greater flexibility for AI developers in monitoring systems to monitor products on the market than the Specialist News Site MLEX, which First reported on planned changes in the act.
The proposals may change before their expected release on 19 November. Once published, they must be approved by the EU member states and the European Parliament.
The EU has come under repeated pressure from the Trump administration to loosen regulation of tech companies. The US president recently threatened to impose tariffs on countries with tech regulations or digital taxes that he deemed “designed to harm or discriminate against technology”.
Meta announced this year that it will not sign the code of the Commission of Code of the Commission for the general purpose of AI models. “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI,” wrote the company’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, who contended that the code introduced “legal uncertainties” for model developers, as well as measures that went “far beyond the scope of the AI Act”.
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But it’s not just US companies complaining about European regulation of the rapidly growing technology.
Dozens of European companies urged a two-year moratorium on the ACT To allow time for “reasonable implementation” and “further simplification of the new rules”. An open letter signed by the heads of 46 companiesincluding Airbus, Lufthansa and Mercedes-Benz, said a delay would show managers and investors that “the European agenda is serious”.
The spokesman for the European Commissin Thomas Regnier said: “When it comes to the choice of implementation of the targeted parts of the AI Act, a mirror continues.” No decision has been reached, he said, adding that the commission “will always remain fully behind the AI ACT and its purpose.
Regnier said that there are “constant contacts with our partners around the world “This is our sovereign right,” he added.