Brussels (The Brussels Morning Newspaper) – It has come to light that two European Parliament committees formed a joint group to monitor the AI Act’s implementation, focusing on transparency, staffing, and civil society engagement.
Two of the European Parliament’s committees have formed a joint working group to observe the enactment of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, Euractiv has revealed. The implementation of the AI Act by the European Commission, which is entrusted with coordinating the process, has caught the concentration of the EU Parliament.
MEPs have previously voiced concerns over the lack of transparency around the AI Office’s staffing approach, as well as the engagement of civil society in parts of the implementation process.
How does the EU Parliament influence regulations?
According to Euractiv, The EU Parliament’s committees on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) will be forming a cross-committee working party for the AI Act. Details regarding how this monitoring working group will perform, such as how it will approach the AI Act, who will be concerned, and how often it will assemble, will be computed out after the summer. Objectives for the group were previously disclosed.
How will the AI Act’s prohibitions be enforced?
In the meantime, the EU Commission’s AI Office is persisting its work for the enactment of the AI Act, which comes into force on 1 August. The Act’s bans on certain uses of AI, such as real-time biometric identification, will spread six months after that date.
Enactment is staggered until the Act is fully applied, two years after it enters into force. By this time, the EU Commission has to clarify how significant provisions of the AI Act, such as the prohibitions, will be executed.
Traditionally, the EU Parliament does not have a large position in the implementation of regulation. However, MEPs active in tech policy have been examining to change that, particularly given the spree of digital rules that have come into force in the past year.
The EU Parliament already has facilities within committees to monitor the undertaking of the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts, two milestone EU regulations on content moderation and digital competition, respectively.
