The rules of the AI Act, which came into effect as of August 1, 2024, will become applicable in several stages. Initially, from February 2, 2025, the provisions related to prohibited AI practices must be applied, and from August 2, 2025, the rules related to general purpose AI models will become…
How does the new Product Liability Directive affect liability for AI-systems?
The new Product Liability Directive (PLD, Directive 2024/2853) has recently been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, renewing the previous product liability regime established by the old product liability directive adopted in 1985. Member States shall bring into force the laws,…
Deep dive into the AI Act - Part 5: Prohibited AI practices
The provisions of the AI Act on prohibited AI practices (Article 5 of the AI Act) will become applicable quite quickly, 6 months after the entry into force of the AI Act (i.e. from February 2, 2025).
As discussed in a previous post, the AI Act takes a risk-based approach and accordingly, we can…
Deep dive into the AI Act - Part 3: the definition of AI systems
From the point of view of the application of the AI Act, the question of how to interpret the definition of AI systems is a crucial question. Therefore, in this post, I will examine what can be understoodunder the concept of an AI system under the AI Act and how an AI system can be distinguished…
Deep dive into the AI Act - Part 2: the scope of the AI Act
In Part 2 of my blog series related to the preparation for the application of the AI Act, I deal with the scope of the AI Act, i.e. I examine in more detail the personal, territorial and material scope of application of the regulation. The exceptions to the scope of the regulation will also be…