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EU Parliament and Council reach political agreement on the AI Act

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Source: Council of the European Union

Negotiators for the European Parliament and the Council reached a provisional political agreement on the AI Act in talks that ended on 9 December 2023. The deal followed the Commission’s proposal of 21 April 2021, the Council’s general approach of 6 December 2022 and Parliament’s position of 14 June 2023. Technical work on the text continued, the Council gave final approval on 21 May 2024, and the Act entered into force on 1 August 2024.

Why it matters

Companies selling AI in the EU learned that binding rules on banned practices, high-risk systems and general-purpose models would become law, with the details still to be written into the final text.

When
9 Dec 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0017
Who
European Parliament, Council of the EU, European Commission
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Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Council of the European Union. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Council of the European Union

Source copy: download the page as saved on 21 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0017: “EU Parliament and Council reach political agreement on the AI Act.” wheresthe.ai, 9 Dec 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/eu-ai-act-political-agreement-2023-12/ (source: Council of the European Union).

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