June 16, 2026 | Law Passage | Data Governance

On 16 June 2026, the European Parliament passed a Regulation on the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation). The vote passed with 423 votes in favour, 57 against, and 174 abstentions. The Regulation requires formal adoption by the Council before entering into force. The Regulation would extend the legal basis for processing special categories of personal data for bias detection and correction. Under the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), this legal basis applied only to providers of high-risk AI systems. The Regulation would extend it to deployers of high-risk AI systems and to providers and deployers of other AI systems and models, where processing is strictly necessary and subject to appropriate safeguards. The Regulation would also set fixed application dates for data governance obligations: obligations for AI systems listed in Annex III of the AI Act would apply from 2 December 2027, and obligations for AI systems covered by Article 6(1) of the AI Act would apply from 2 August 2028.

June 16, 2026 | Law Passage | Authorisation, Registration And Licensing

On 16 June 2026, the European Parliament passed a Regulation on the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation). The vote passed with 423 votes in favour, 57 against, and 174 abstentions. The Regulation requires formal adoption by the Council before entering into force. The Regulation would require providers that consider their AI systems to be exempt from classification as high-risk to register those systems in the EU database for high-risk AI systems. The Regulation would also simplify the content of registration notifications under Article 49(2) of the AI Act. SME exemptions from certain requirements would be extended to small mid-cap enterprises (SMCs), defined by reference to Commission Recommendation (EU) 2025/1099.

June 16, 2026 | Law Passage | Data Governance

On 16 June 2026, the European Parliament passed a Regulation on the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation). The vote passed with 423 votes in favour, 57 against, and 174 abstentions. The Regulation requires formal adoption by the Council before entering into force. The Regulation would set fixed application dates for cybersecurity obligations for high-risk AI systems: obligations for Annex III systems would apply from 2 December 2027 and obligations for Article 6(1) systems would apply from 2 August 2028. The Regulation would clarify the relationship between the cybersecurity requirements of the AI Act (Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) and those of the Cyber Resilience Act (Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2024/2847): for high-risk AI systems in products covered by the Cyber Resilience Act, the requirements of the Cyber Resilience Act would apply in place of those of the AI Act. The Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 would be exempt from direct applicability of the AI Act, with the Commission empowered to adopt delegated acts adding health and safety requirements for high-risk AI systems by 2 August 2028.