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Apr 25, 2024 | 
datamatters.sidley.com | William Long |Francesca Blythe |Lauren Cuyvers
The EU AI Act will be the first standalone piece of legislation worldwide regulating the use and provision of AI in the EU, and will form a key consideration in AI governance programs. The AI Act will have a significant impact on many organizations inside and outside the EU, with failure to comply potentially leading to fines of up to 7% of annual worldwide turnover.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
datamatters.sidley.com | William Long |Lauren Cuyvers |Subhalakshmi Kumar
On 12 March 2024, the European Parliament approved the EU Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) with a large majority of 517-12 votes in favor of the legislation (with 78 abstentions). The CRA aims to ensure that “products with digital elements” (“PDE”) i.e., connected products such as smart devices, and remote data processing solutions, are resilient against cyber threats and provide key information in relation to their security properties.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
lexology.com | William Long |Lauren Cuyvers |Subhalakshmi Kumar
On 12 March 2024, the European Parliament approved the EU Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) with a large majority of 517-12 votes in favor of the legislation (with 78 abstentions). The CRA aims to ensure that “products with digital elements” (“PDE”) i.e., connected products such as smart devices, and remote data processing solutions, are resilient against cyber threats and provide key information in relation to their security properties.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
datamatters.sidley.com | William Long |Lauren Cuyvers |Matthias Bruynseraede
On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament formally adopted the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) with a large majority of 523-46 votes in favor of the legislation. The AI Act is the world’s first horizontal and standalone law governing AI, and a landmark piece of legislation for the EU. Brief Recap of the AI ActOn April 21, 2021, the European Commission had first proposed the EU AI Act.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | William Long |Lauren Cuyvers |Matthias Bruynseraede
On March 13, 2024, the European Parliament formally adopted the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) with a large majority of 523-46 votes in favor of the legislation. The AI Act is the world’s first horizontal and standalone law governing AI, and a landmark piece of legislation for the EU. Brief Recap of the AI ActOn April 21, 2021, the European Commission had first proposed the EU AI Act.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
datamatters.sidley.com | William Long |Francesca Blythe |Lauren Cuyvers |Subhalakshmi Kumar
On 22 January 2024, an unofficial version of the (presumed) final EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) was released. The AI Act reached political agreement early December 2023 (see our blog post here) and had undergone technical discussions to finalize the text since.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
lexology.com | William Long |Francesca Blythe |Lauren Cuyvers |Subhalakshmi Kumar
On 22 January 2024, an unofficial version of the (presumed) final EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”) was released. The AI Act reached political agreement early December 2023 (see our blog post here) and had undergone technical discussions to finalize the text since.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
datamatters.sidley.com | William Long |Francesca Blythe |Lauren Cuyvers |Mhairi Cameron
On 30 November 2023, the EU reached political agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”), the first legislation globally to regulate cybersecurity for digital and connected products that are designed, developed, produced and made available on the EU market. The CRA was originally proposed by the European Commission in September 2022.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
lexology.com | William Long |Francesca Blythe |Lauren Cuyvers |Mhairi Cameron
On 30 November 2023, the EU reached political agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”), the first legislation globally to regulate cybersecurity for digital and connected products that are designed, developed, produced and made available on the EU market. The CRA was originally proposed by the European Commission in September 2022.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
datamatters.sidley.com | William Long |Francesca Blythe |Lauren Cuyvers
On 8 December 2023 — following three days of lengthy and intensive negotiations — EU legislators reached political agreement on the world’s first stand-alone law regulating AI: the EU’s AI Act. The EU considers the AI Act as one of its key pieces of legislation and fundamental to ensuring the EU becomes the world’s leading digital economy. The EU aims for the AI Act to have the same ‘Brussels effect’ as the GDPR — in other words, to have a significant impact on global markets and practices.
