The Parliament gives final approval to the digital omnibus and a "nudifier" ban, while the Commission rolls out labelling icons and FAQs for the AI-generated content transparency Code.
Legislative Process
EP approves simplification measures and “nudifier” app ban: The European Parliament has granted final approval, by 423 votes to 57 with 174 abstentions, to amendments to the EU AI Act under the digital omnibus package. Most notably, the legislation postpones obligations on high-risk AI systems, which will now apply from 2 December 2027 for stand-alone systems and from 2 August 2028 for those embedded as safety components covered by EU sectoral legislation. Alongside this, watermarking obligations on AI-generated content are delayed until 2 December 2026 for systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026. The law furthermore bans AI systems generating child sexual abuse material or non-consensual intimate imagery, giving companies until 2 December 2026 to comply. Additional changes streamline requirements for machinery, clarify the “safety component” definition, permit bias-detection data processing, and extend SME exemptions to small mid-caps.
EU icons for labelling AI-generated content: The European Commission has developed a set of icons that creators, publishers and other deployers of generative AI systems may use to [...]
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(00:41) Legislative Process
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(08:21) Discussion about this post
(08:25) Ready for more?
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First published:
June 29th, 2026
Source:
https://artificialintelligenceact.substack.com/p/the-eu-ai-act-newsletter-105-transparency
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