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European Parliament adopts the AI Act by 523 votes to 46

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Source: European Parliament press releaseAlso reported by Anadolu Agency

The European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act on 13 March 2024 by 523 votes to 46, with 49 abstentions. The text bans uses including social scoring, emotion recognition in workplaces and schools, untargeted scraping of facial images and predictive policing based only on profiling, and sets duties for high-risk systems and general-purpose AI models. Co-rapporteurs were Brando Benifei and Dragoș Tudorache.

Why it matters

The plenary vote fixed the AI Act’s text for companies selling AI in the EU, leaving only Council endorsement and publication before its staged deadlines started.

When
13 Mar 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0081
Who
European Parliament; Brando Benifei, Dragoș Tudorache
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Summary by wheresthe.ai, from European Parliament press release and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at European Parliament press release

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Document the source offers: document 1 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0081: “European Parliament adopts the AI Act by 523 votes to 46.” wheresthe.ai, 13 Mar 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/eu-parliament-adopts-ai-act-2024-03/ (source: European Parliament press release).

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