AI and data laws

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European UnionEuropean UnionStrategyCOM(2025) 165

AI Continent Action Plan

Commission communication setting out actions to make the EU a leading AI continent, covering computing infrastructure such as AI factories and gigafactories, data, skills, AI uptake and simpler implementation of the AI Act.

AdoptedIntroducedCommitteeFloorLawAdopted

Commission publishes the AI Continent Action Plan (COM(2025) 165)Apr 9, 2025 1 year ago

Body
European Commission
Introduced
Apr 9, 2025

Timeline

  1. Apr 9, 2025 1 year ago

    Commission publishes the AI Continent Action Plan (COM(2025) 165)

European Union
European UnionCOM(2026) 502 (2026/0138(COD))

Cloud and AI Development Act

Proposed regulation to speed up permitting and deployment of data centres, aim to at least triple EU data centre capacity, and create an EU-wide four-level cloud and AI sovereignty framework with a public sector procurement mechanism.

Proposed
European Union
European UnionRegulation (EU) 2024/1689

AI Act

Sets EU-wide risk-based rules for AI systems, banning certain practices, imposing requirements on high-risk systems, transparency duties for some AI, and obligations for general-purpose AI model providers.

In force
European Union
European UnionCouncil Regulation (EU) 2026/150

EuroHPC AI Gigafactories amendment

Amends the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking regulation to provide a legal basis for AI Gigafactories of more than 100,000 advanced AI processors and to expand quantum computing activities.

In force
European Union
European UnionRegulation (EU) 2026/1744 (COM(2025) 836, 2025/0359(COD))

Digital Omnibus on AI

Amends the AI Act to delay high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028, extend SME relief to small mid-caps, simplify AI literacy and registration duties, widen AI Office oversight, and ban AI nudification and CSAM generation.

In force

Change log

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