In a study published on 30 October by European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), the AI Act is analysed in terms of its relationship with other EU digital legislation, an increasingly central issue (see EUROPE 13709/14), given the multiple legislative texts on the subject (see EUROPE 13717/4).
The study details the cases of excessive regulatory complexity resulting from the overlapping of legislation: several cases of redundancies in impact assessments to be carried out, increased fragmentation of supervision (different roles, different national authorities) and the persistence of grey areas, particularly concerning the qualification of ‘high risk’, sensitive data or shared responsibility between players (supplier/importer/deployer).
This overload and the confusion it causes can “impede [...] the adoption of emerging AI technologies” and European innovation, warns the study, which proposes publishing common guidelines to reduce regulatory complexity and considering “light-touch legislative amendments” to the main texts.
The Commission is planning guidelines on how to reconcile the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) obligations and those of the AI Act for 2026 and has already published a first draft of guidelines on the Digital Markets Act and the GDPR (see EUROPE 12727/24).
The ‘digital simplification’ package, scheduled for 19 November, should enable the targeted ‘amendments’ called for by the study to be made (see EUROPE 13676/16).
See the study: https://aeur.eu/f/j9s (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)