The digitalization process that our society has embraced, as with any new technology, brings great opportunities and benefits but also risks and challenges.\u00a0 One such challenge is how to regulate new digital technologies to allow their development and use within the constitutional\/political values and legal framework of a given jurisdiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
The EU, comprising its three main institutions (Parliament, Council and Commission), has in recent years been the main international player for regulation of new IT technologies.\u00a0 The GDPR of 2018, a complex statute that involved years of discussions, has demonstrated that the EU can produce legislation that both protects its citizens and companies against threats but also that influences other jurisdictions, projecting the EU constitutional values beyond its frontiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
After the GDPR, the list of EU legislative acts is rather impressive including approval of the DSA, DORA and NIS2 in 2022 and the DMA, DSA Audit Act, the Data Act and the Chips Act in 2023.\u00a0 The list of legislation currently under discussion is also long, and includes the FIDA II, the AI & AI Liability Acts, the European Health Data Space and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).<\/p>\n\n
As to the AI Act, the EU concluded interinstitutional negotiations (or trilogue) on 8 December 2023 to reach a political agreement on a general regulation of AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n