🔷The regulation, agreed with Member States in December 2023 during the Spanish Presidency of the Council and under the leadership of Carme Artigas, has been endorsed by MEPs with 523 votes in favor, 46 against and 49 abstentions.
🔷It pursues to ensure security and compliance with #FundamentalRights, while boosting #INNOVATION
➡️ Prohibited applications:
Biometric categorization based on sensitive data and non-targeted extraction of facial images from the Internet or CCTV to create facial recognition databases. Also emotion recognition in the workplace and schools, social scoring, predictive policing, and AI that manipulates human behavior or exploits people’s vulnerabilities.
➡️Law enforcement exemptions:
Biometric identification (RBI) systems by law enforcement is prohibited in principle, except in exhaustively and strictly enumerated situations.
➡️Obligations for high-risk systems:
Clear obligations for high-risk AI systems (due to their significant potential harm to health, security, fundamental rights, the environment, democracy and the rule of law)
➡️Transparency requirements:
General Purpose AI (GPAI) systems, and the GPAI models on which they are based, must meet certain transparency requirements, including compliance with EU copyright law and publication of detailed summaries of content used for training.
✅Next steps:
After final review by legal linguists and formal endorsement by the Council, it will enter into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal, and will be fully applicable 24 months later, except: prohibitions on prohibited practices (6 months later) codes of practice (9 months later) AI standards for general use, including governance (12 months later) and obligations for high-risk systems (36 months)
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