{"id":335771,"date":"2024-02-13T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/02\/13\/intelligenza-artificiale-commissioni-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T10:58:17","slug":"a-new-decisive-step-for-the-eu-artificial-intelligence-act-green-light-from-meps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/02\/13\/a-new-decisive-step-for-the-eu-artificial-intelligence-act-green-light-from-meps\/","title":{"rendered":"A new decisive step for the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. Green light from MEPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The last step before the plenary session that, given a preview in joint Committees, will undoubtedly put the final stamp on the world’s first legislation on artificial intelligence<\/strong>. “With an overwhelming majority”-as the chairwoman of the EU Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Committee, Anna Cavazzini<\/strong> described it – Europeans gave the green light today (Feb. 13) to the text of the provisional\u00a0agreement<\/a> reached in early December with Council negotiators on the EU Artificial Intelligence Regulation. Now, final approval is awaited in the plenary session,<\/strong> and the groundwork for the new EU legislation can proceed.<\/p>\n

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The co-rapporteur for the European Parliament on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, Brando Benifei (Democratic Party)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We are the first in the world to adopt such a comprehensive piece of legislation on artificial intelligence, paving the way for a human-centered model, now we must move forward with implementation to protect citizens and build a strong and resilient Digital Single Market<\/strong>,” \u00a0the co-rapporteur for the EU Parliament on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, Brando Benifei <\/strong>(Pd) said at the vote in joint IMCO and LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) Committees. “Today is an important day.\u00a0We said it when we approved our positions in the\u00a0Committee and, with long and difficult negotiations, we worked for the best possible result<\/strong>,” the Democratic Party’s head delegation said, referring to the Euro Chamber the 36-hour marathon between December 6 and 8, 2023<\/a> to finalize the understanding. The “very long hours” of negotiations between negotiators from the two EU institutions were also mentioned by co-rapporteur Drago\u0219 Tudorache <\/strong>(Renew Europe), who joked that “we did not deserve to suffer so much.”<\/p>\n

After the most difficult green light in the EU Council on Feb. 2 and with 71 votes in favor, 8 against, and 7 abstentions in the Committee, it looks like a downhill battle for the EU AI Act\u00a0at the final test of the vote in the plenary session of the European Parliament\u00a0which<\/strong> – as confirmed by several sources within the EU institution – should be held at the mini-plenary session scheduled in Brussels between April 10 and 11<\/strong>. The Regulation will be fully applicable 24 months after it enters into force, except for prohibitions on banned\u00a0practices (after 6 months), codes of conduct (after 9 months), general rules on AI, including governance (after 12 months), and obligations for high-risk systems (after 36 months). In the meantime, given\u00a0the potential impact of new technologies on June’s European elections<\/strong>\u00a0and given the timing of the entry into force of the new Regulation, the EU pact on artificial intelligence was launched in mid-November to voluntarily anticipate the requirements, and as of January 24, the Commission established an Ad Hoc AI Office<\/a>\u00a0within it.<\/p>\n