{"id":238555,"date":"2026-06-29T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/artificial-intelligence-council-gives-final-green-light-to-simplify-and-streamline-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:01:00","slug":"artificial-intelligence-council-gives-final-green-light-to-simplify-and-streamline-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/artificial-intelligence-council-gives-final-green-light-to-simplify-and-streamline-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence: Council gives final green light to simplify and streamline rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/eu-institution-news\/artificial-intelligence-council-gives-final-green-light-to-simplify-and-streamline-rules\/\">Artificial Intelligence: Council gives final green light to simplify and streamline rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/eu-institution-news\/artificial-intelligence-council-gives-final-green-light-to-simplify-and-streamline-rules\/\">https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/eu-institution-news\/artificial-intelligence-council-gives-final-green-light-to-simplify-and-streamline-rules\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-29 10:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\">www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The Council has approved a new regulation aimed at streamlining and simplifying rules regarding artificial intelligence (AI), part of the EU\u2019s broader simplification agenda.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The regulation includes proposals to harmonize rules on AI as part of the &#8216;Omnibus VII&#8217; legislative package, addressing delayed application dates for high-risk AI systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The application of high-risk AI rules is postponed to 2 December 2027 for stand-alone systems and 2 August 2028 for those embedded in products.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The new law includes prohibitions against AI practices generating non-consensual sexual content, with these systems expected to be banned by December of this year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The deadline for establishing AI regulatory sandboxes at the national level is pushed back to 2 August 2027, and the grace period for transparency solutions for artificially generated content is reduced to 3 months by 2 December 2026.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The AI Office\u2019s competences are clarified to oversee AI systems developed by the same provider, with exceptions noted for sectors such as law enforcement and financial institutions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The new law provides mechanisms for resolving overlaps between the AI act and sector-specific laws in fields like medical devices and toys.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The regulation directs the European Commission to offer guidance to assist SMEs in complying with high-risk AI requirements under the AI act while reducing unnecessary compliance burdens.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence: Council gives final green light to simplify and streamline rules https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/eu-institution-news\/artificial-intelligence-council-gives-final-green-light-to-simplify-and-streamline-rules\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}