But amid fierce lobbying over the rules, including from the U.S. administration following the election of Donald Trump, companies are waiting for additional guidance or technical standards to help them meet their obligations.
While providers of the most complex AI models will be required to comply with new obligations starting August 2, a key guide in the form of a code of practice is not yet ready.
Industry has in recent weeks been pushing for a stop-the-clock mechanism. This would mean that application dates are postponed if standards and guidance are not ready in time.
Some EU ministers on Friday also signaled openness to delaying the restrictions.
The stop-the-clock demand from industry is “reasonable,” Dariusz Standerski, Poland’s junior digital minister, told POLITICO in an interview. But he said that delaying the deadlines alone “is not the way.”
“First, we need to have a plan: what we want to do within those additional months,” he said on the sidelines of the meeting in Luxembourg, which he was chairing under the Polish Council presidency. Only then would Poland be “open” to the idea, he said.