{"id":9716,"date":"2024-01-05T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T09:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/the-european-union-reaches-an-agreement-to-regulate-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:45:15","slug":"the-european-union-reaches-an-agreement-to-regulate-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/the-european-union-reaches-an-agreement-to-regulate-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Union reaches an agreement to regulate Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #8f2b2f;color:#8f2b2f\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #8f2b2f;color:#8f2b2f\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/the-european-union-reaches-an-agreement-to-regulate-artificial-intelligence\/#The_European_Union_reaches_an_agreement_to_regulate_Artificial_Intelligence\" >The European Union reaches an agreement to regulate Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_European_Union_reaches_an_agreement_to_regulate_Artificial_Intelligence\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European Union reaches an agreement to regulate Artificial Intelligence<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European Union (hereinafter EU) has taken a leadership position in the race to regulate Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter AI), as on December 8th, 2023, all member states met for 3 days and reached a provisional agreement regarding the regulation of AI, a project known as the Artificial Intelligence Act. The European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Mr. Thierry Breton, has described it as \u201ca historic agreement\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This provisional agreement seeks to achieve the main objective of protecting citizens from the risks associated with this constantly developing technology. Furthermore, it aims to encourage the use in the European market of safe AI that respects the fundamental rights and values of the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most important aspects that have been addressed in the provisional agreement, which still has to be ratified, are the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly, the use of real-time surveillance and biometric technologies, including emotional recognition, has been banned. Only three exceptions have been established where the police could use this technology: (1) in the event of an unexpected terrorist attack threat; (2) the need to search for victims; and (3) the pursuit of serious crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, limits have been established regarding generative AI, that is, the one used to create texts, music, and audiovisual content. In this sense, there will be an obligation to inform when the content being reproduced, published, or disseminated is the work of AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, direct bans have been established in relation to certain activities that could affect fundamental rights:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2192 Systems that use biometric identification of people based on their political, religious, philosophical beliefs, race, sex, or sexual orientation cannot be used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2192 Audiovisual material from Google, Social Networks, TV, etc., cannot be used to create a database for facial recognition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2192 Abusive emotion recognition systems at work or schools are not allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2192 Systems that can manipulate people&#8217;s behavior are not permitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2192 Systems known as &#8220;social scoring,&#8221; used to socially score people, are not allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likewise, it has been decided to create an Office of Artificial Intelligence, which will be responsible for supervising AI systems that enter the European market, contributing to the norms that may arise in this regard, and ensuring that existing norms are complied with by all member states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In parallel, there will be an Artificial Intelligence Committee formed by all member states that will be responsible for coordination and consultations that may arise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To support this Committee, a Consultative Forum will also be created, which will serve for all those companies, SMEs, societies, and figures from the academic world to have the appropriate technical knowledge that the Committee can provide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Considering all the above, obviously, fines have been established for breaches of the AI Act, setting a percentage of the global annual turnover of the offending company in the previous financial year or a predetermined amount if this were higher. The main penalties are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2192 35 million euros or 7% of the turnover for infringements related to AI applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2192 15 million euros or 3% of the turnover for non-compliance with the obligations established in the AI Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2192 7.5 million euros or 1.5% of the turnover for providing inaccurate information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the provisional agreement sets more proportional limits to the administrative fines that can be imposed on SMEs and startups in case of infringement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding the entry into force, the provisional agreement determines that the AI Act should apply two years after its entry into force, with certain exceptions for specific provisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, we are facing a Regulation project whose main purpose will be to ensure that AI systems introduced into the European market are safe, as well as to stimulate investment and innovation in the field of AI in Europe, effectively addressing a global challenge in a technological environment that is experiencing rapid evolution and in a key sector for the future of our societies and economies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union reaches an agreement to regulate Artificial Intelligence The European Union (hereinafter EU) has taken a leadership position in the race to regulate Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter AI), as on December 8th, 2023, all member states met for 3 days and reached a provisional agreement regarding the regulation of AI, a project known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11138,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions\/11138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augelegalfiscal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}