{"id":65379,"date":"2025-05-01T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65379\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:06:13","slug":"dispatch-from-brussels-updates-on-eu-tech-policy-may-2025-techuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/65379\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from Brussels: Updates on EU tech policy – May 2025 | techUK"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

GPAI Guidelines:\u00a0On 22 April, the EU Commission\u00a0opened a public consultation<\/a>\u00a0to help prepare its upcoming guidelines on GPAI models under the AI Act. The consultation, which will close on 22 May, aims to clarify the definition of GPAI, and the difference between a GPAI provider and a downstream provider. As a reminder, these guidelines are different from the code of practice, but both aim to facilitate AI Act implementation by giving companies further clarity. Both are expected to be released together.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

GPAI Code of Practice timeline:\u00a0The Code of Practice, which aims to detail the AI Act rules for providers of general-purpose AI models and general-purpose AI models with systemic risks will be released alongside the GPAI Guidelines as discussed above. However, in the timeline announcements it was shown that the Code and the Guidelines could be expected at some point in May or June 2025 (as opposed to the May 2025 deadline previously communicated).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Simplification\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity Act:\u00a0On 11 April, the EU Commission\u00a0opened a consultation<\/a>\u00a0on revising it 2019 Cybersecurity Act. The initiative is part of the EU Commission\u2019s ongoing efforts to simplify its rules. The review of the act will focus on the mandate of the EU agency for cybersecurity (ENISA), the EU Cybersecurity Certification Framework, and addressing ICT supply chain security challenges.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Data protection and AI Act:\u00a0The European Data Protection Board (the independent European body tasked with ensuring that the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive) announced in its\u00a0April plenary<\/a>\u00a0that it would closely cooperate with the EU AI Office in relation to the drafting of the guidelines on the interplay between the AI Act and EU data protection legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Platforms\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Digital Markets Act:\u00a0On 25 April, the EU Commission published its\u00a02024 annual report<\/a>\u00a0on the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (the regulation which aims to prevent large digital platforms from abusing their market power). The report provides a useful summary of the Commission\u2019s activities throughout the year, and an overview of the information provided by \u201cgatekeepers\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Data Privacy\u00a0<\/p>\n

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Annual Report:\u00a0The EDPS (the EU\u2019s independent data protection authority) which is tasked with supervising EU bodies and advising on new legislative proposals, published its\u00a02024 annual report<\/a>\u00a0on the work it conducted as part of its 2020 to 2024 work programme. The report gives interesting insights on the work done by the supervisor so far (such as how it prepared itself to assess conformity with the EU AI Act) and its upcoming plans. The EDPS future plans can be found in these\u00a020 initiatives<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Annual Report:\u00a0The EDPB, the independent European body tasked with ensuring that the GDPR and the Law Enforcement Directive are applied consistently in different countries, has also recently published its\u00a0annual 2024 report<\/a>. The report covers the EDPB\u2019s work throughout 2024 and more interestingly, the opinions it has released on issues such as the use of personal data to train AI models, the use of \u201cconsent or pay\u201d models (which is currently a very relevant issue with Meta being fined for using such a model).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

EDPB guidelines on blockchain:\u00a0On 14 April the EDPB, during its plenary, adopted\u00a0guidelines<\/a>\u00a0on how to process personal data through the use of blockchain technologies. The guidelines will be subject to public consultation until 9 June 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI\u00a0\u00a0 GPAI Guidelines:\u00a0On 22 April, the EU Commission\u00a0opened a public consultation\u00a0to help prepare its upcoming guidelines on GPAI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[323,18012,5032,33479,33477,27861,3457,2814,3677,33480,33475,33478,7964,2000,299,5187,1699,33474,3575,7481,2963,33476],"class_list":{"0":"post-65379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-annual","10":"tag-april","11":"tag-board","12":"tag-code","13":"tag-commission","14":"tag-cybersecurity","15":"tag-data","16":"tag-digital","17":"tag-directive","18":"tag-edpb","19":"tag-edps","20":"tag-enforcement","21":"tag-eu","22":"tag-europe","23":"tag-european","24":"tag-european-union","25":"tag-gpai","26":"tag-guidelines","27":"tag-protection","28":"tag-report","29":"tag-techuk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114432021837787403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}