On Friday 2 February, the Permanent Representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper) validated the provisional political agreement on artificial intelligence (AI Act) reached by the European Parliament and the EU Council after more than 37 hours of negotiations on 8 December (see EUROPE B13311A17).
A source told EUROPE that there were few last-minute changes to the text. In recent weeks, however, several Member States, including France and Germany, have argued in favour of...