European Commissioner for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen said the Commission is planning to introduce “targeted amendments” to the AI Act, Euronews reports. The proposed amendments, which are scheduled to be introduced 19 Nov., must still be approved by the full College of Commissioners. “The next important part (of the AI Act’s implementation) will be next August. And there we are really facing challenges because we don’t have the (technical) standards yet — and they need to be ready one year before the next phase,” Virkkunen said. Meanwhile, European Parliament’s Social Democrats wrote a letter to Virkkunen stating their opposition to potential provisions of the digital simplification package that “could undermine fundamental rights,” Euractiv reports.
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