The Commission is proposing targeted simplification measures to ensure timely, smooth, and proportionate implementation of certain of the AI Act’s provisions.
These include:
• linking the implementation timeline of high-risk rules to the availability of standards or other support tools;
• extending regulatory simplifications granted to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to small mid-caps (SMCs), including simplified technical documentation requirements and special consideration in the application of penalties;
• requiring the Commission and the Member States to foster AI literacy instead enforcing unspecified obligation on providers and deployers of AI systems in this respect, while training obligations for high-risk deployers remain;
• offering more flexibility in the post-market monitoring by removing a prescription of a harmonised post-market monitoring plan;
• reducing the registration burden for providers of AI systems that are used in highrisk areas but for which the provider has concluded that they are not high-risk as they are only used for narrow or procedural tasks;
• Centralising oversight over a large number of AI systems built on general-purpose AI models or embedded in very large online platforms and very large search engines with the AI Office;
• facilitating compliance with the data protection laws by allowing providers and deployers of all AI systems and models to process special categories of personal data for ensuring bias detection and correction, with the appropriate safeguards;
• a broader use of AI regulatory sandboxes and real-world testing, that will benefit European key industries such as the automotive industry, and facilitating an EU-level
AI regulatory sandbox which the AI Office will set up as from 2028; • targeted changes clarifying the interplay between the AI Act and other EU legislation and adjusting the AI Act’s procedures to improve its overall implementation and operation.