# European Parliament Adopts the EU AI Act

Date: 2024

On 13 March 2024 the European Parliament adopted the Artificial Intelligence Act, the world's first comprehensive horizontal AI law, with co-rapporteurs Brando Benifei (S&D, Italy) and Dragos Tudorache (Renew, Romania) steering the file. The regulation takes a risk-based approach, banning certain practices, imposing strict duties on high-risk systems, and adding transparency rules for general-purpose AI. It was formally signed in June 2024 and is being phased in, with the first prohibitions applying from February 2025.

## Drivers

- Digital-Rights and Platform-Power Regulation: https://factrail.ai/drivers/tech-digital-rights-regulation

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## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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