Negotiators from the Council of the EU and the European Parliament will be holding a series of technical meetings between now and 25 October, when the next round of inter-institutional negotiations (trilogues) will take place (see EUROPE 13263/15). Seven meetings, the first of which will be held on 6 October, are planned between now and then.
For the time being, the co-legislators have managed to reach agreement on several points, but the details still need to be discussed, notably the obligations of suppliers of high-risk AI systems, notification authorities and notified bodies, standards, conformity assessment, certificates, registration and regulatory sandboxes. On this last point, the question of trials in real conditions remains to be decided.
Compromises have also been reached on certain requirements applicable to high-risk alert systems - with the exception of Annex IV of the text - or on market surveillance, ex-post control and information sharing. Access to the system’s source code will have to be negotiated by the Council of the EU and the European Parliament.
Negotiations will also have to focus on a number of important points in the text, in particular the definitions and recitals, which have not yet been addressed.
“We’re on the right track, but we need to avoid a situation like the DSA (see EUROPE 13168/12). There is no reason to rush into a political agreement before the technical details have been clarified”, explained the head of the office of German MEP Axel Voss (EPP) on X (formerly Twitter). (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)