European Union: European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee rejected proposal for legal action against European Commission over withdrawn AI civil liability directive

On 3 December 2025, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee rejected a proposal to legally challenge the European Commission’s decision to withdraw the draft directive on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence. As a result, the Parliament will not pursue legal action against the Commission for withdrawing the proposal, which had sought to update civil liability rules to address harms involving AI systems. The Commission formally withdrew the proposal on 6 October 2025, having first signalled its intention to do so in February 2025. The draft directive focused on questions of causality and fault in AI-related damage and aimed to ensure that individuals harmed by AI systems would receive protection comparable to that available for other technologies. It included measures to ease evidentiary burdens for claimants, empower courts to request evidence from AI providers, and introduce a presumption of causation in defined circumstances. The Commission stated that it withdrew the proposal after concluding that governments were unlikely to reach an agreement and noted that alternative approaches may be considered in the future.