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EU AI Act

On 8 December 2023, negotiators for the European Parliament and Council of the EU reached political agreement on the shape and contents of the ground-breaking EU regulation on AI – the AI Act. However, this represents the beginning of the end of the legislative process, rather than the end itself as much of the detail remains to be finalised, including areas that could still provoke disagreement.

The text that was agreed in December is not publicly available but our Insight summarises what we knew at the stage when the agreement was reached. Since then, the Commission has published this useful Questions and Answers document giving an overview of the Act. We understand that the final text must be finished by the end of February in order for there to be sufficient time for the formalities of adoption of the text by the Parliament and Council to take place before