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European Union: European Commission officially withdrew proposal for a Directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to Artificial Intelligence

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European Commission officially withdrew proposal for a Directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to Artificial Intelligence

On 6 October 2025, the European Commission withdrew its proposal for a Directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to Artificial Intelligence. The proposal focused on causality and fault in AI-related damages and aimed to ensure that…

Scope

Policy Area
Consumer protection
Policy Instrument
Quality of Service requirement
Regulated Economic Activity
ML and AI development, technological consumer goods, software provider: other software
Implementation Level
supranational
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
other regulatory body

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2021-06-30
adopted

On 30 June 2021, the European Commission (EC) published an inception impact assessment (IIA) on a p…

2021-10-18
in consultation

On 18 October 2021, the European Commission launched a public consultation on adapting the civil li…

2022-01-10
processing consultation

On 10 January 2021, the public consultation on adapting the civil liability rules for the digital a…

2022-09-28
under deliberation

On 28 September 2022, the European Commission published the Proposal for a Directive on adapting no…

2023-10-11
under deliberation

On 11 October 2023, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) submitted an opinion on the Euro…

2024-09-19
under deliberation

On 19 September 2024, the European Parliament published the results of the complementary impact ass…

2025-02-11
under deliberation

On 11 February 2025, the European Commission announced the 2025 work programme including the withdr…

2025-05-20
under deliberation

On 20 May 2025, the European Parliament's Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMC…

2025-10-06
rejected

On 6 October 2025, the European Commission withdrew its proposal for a Directive on adapting non-co…

2025-12-03
rejected

On 3 December 2025, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee rejected a proposal to legall…