Full legal title: REGULATION (EU) 2024/1689 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU […]
What it is, what happened, who decided, what is being done, where to act. · updated 2026-09-03 · Ask about this act →
The world's first general law on artificial intelligence. It does not regulate the technology as such: it sorts AI uses by risk and applies different rules to each tier. A handful of uses are banned outright. "High-risk" systems are allowed but only with documentation, human oversight and a conformity assessment. For the rest the duty is transparency: a person must be told when they are talking to a machine or looking at generated content.
The fight is not about the bans. It is about what lands in the "high-risk" tier and what that costs. Ordinary things land there: sifting job applicants, grading students, scoring creditworthiness, running critical infrastructure. Each such system needs a risk-management system, technical documentation, logging, human oversight and a conformity assessment before it may be placed on the market. The obligations phase in until 2031 — and the act had already been simplified before most of them applied.
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Has the act already been softened?
Yes, once, before most of its obligations applied. On 19 November 2025 the Commission tabled a "digital omnibus" proposal to simplify the implementation of the harmonised AI rules; it became Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 on 8 July 2026 — 231 days. A second proposal, reaching into medical devices, is still pending. For comparison, the packaging regulation's fix was proposed in December 2025 and is still not law.
Who negotiated it in Parliament?
Two co-rapporteurs carried the file — Brando Benifei (S&D, Italy) and Dragoş Tudorache (Renew, Romania) — negotiating with twelve shadow rapporteurs from the other political groups. Two committees were jointly responsible (IMCO and LIBE) and five more gave opinions. The full list, with links to their Parliament profiles, is below.
Did Lithuania take a position on the proposal?
We hold no public record. The Seimas series of specialised-committee conclusions on EU proposals ends in July 2016, and this proposal was tabled in April 2021. Later positions are prepared in an internal system and are not published — they can be requested from the Seimas Committee on European Affairs or the Foreign Ministry.
Amendments that became law, and how long each took from the Commission's proposal to adoption. This is the answer to "can this be changed at all" — from the EU's own register.
| What changed | Proposed | Became law | Took |
|---|---|---|---|
| as regards the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (Text with EEA relevance) 32026R1744 | 2025-11-19 | 2026-07-08 | 231 days |
The rapporteur drafts Parliament's position; the shadow rapporteurs negotiate against them for the other political groups. Between them they decide what survives into the text.
committee responsible: IMCO, LIBE · committees giving an opinion: CULT, ENVI, ITRE, JURI, TRAN
| Member | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Brando BENIFEI | rapporteur | S&D IT | EP profile ↗ |
| Dragoş TUDORACHE | rapporteur | EP profile ↗ | |
| Axel VOSS | shadow rapporteur | EP profile ↗ | |
| Cornelia ERNST | shadow rapporteur | The Left DE | EP profile ↗ |
| Deirdre CLUNE | shadow rapporteur | PPE IE | EP profile ↗ |
| Jaak MADISON | shadow rapporteur | ID EE | EP profile ↗ |
| Jean-Lin LACAPELLE | shadow rapporteur | ID FR | EP profile ↗ |
| Kateřina KONEČNÁ | shadow rapporteur | The Left CZ | EP profile ↗ |
| Kim VAN SPARRENTAK | shadow rapporteur | EP profile ↗ | |
| Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI | shadow rapporteur | ECR PL | EP profile ↗ |
| Petar VITANOV | shadow rapporteur | S&D BG | EP profile ↗ |
| Rob ROOKEN | shadow rapporteur | ECR NL | EP profile ↗ |
| Sergey LAGODINSKY | shadow rapporteur | Verts/ALE DE | EP profile ↗ |
| Svenja HAHN | shadow rapporteur | Renew DE | EP profile ↗ |
This page shows who steered the act, not who represents you — that depends on your country. The European Parliament's own search lets you pick your member state.
What Lithuania NOTIFIED to the European Commission (EUR-Lex sector 7) as measures transposing this act — not an assessment of implementation.
Regulations apply directly – no transposing measures are notified.
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