The abandonment significantly tightens the timeline to avoid legal uncertainty, since new rules for high-risk AI applications are set to kick in this August. EU legislators had rushed to meet an informal end-of-April deadline to agree on delaying those rules.<\/p>\n
The talks derailed over a request by the center-right in Parliament, backed by Germany, to allow key products, such as machinery and medical devices, to comply with AI requirements under sectoral law rather than the AI Act.<\/p>\n
German top officials, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz, are pushing for less strict rules for industrial AI, in a bid to give engineering firms such as Siemens and Bosch a boost. <\/p>\n
Center-right lawmakers doubled down on an exemption for industrial AI after talks collapsed. \u201cParliament\u2019s proposal is clear: remove industrial AI from the AI Act and apply sector-specific laws to end double regulation,\u201d said German liberal lawmaker Svenja Hahn. <\/p>\n
Hahn said it was \u201cunacceptable\u201d that the Cypriot presidency of the Council, which led negotiations for EU countries, \u201cwas not willing to make a substantial compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the plan is strongly opposed by several EU countries and also by the center-left, which accused the center-right European People\u2019s Party (EPP) of siding with the far-right to postpone talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The abandonment significantly tightens the timeline to avoid legal uncertainty, since new rules for high-risk AI applications are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,12706,1223,8561,7586,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-403010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-henna-virkkunen","tag-medical-devices","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}