European Union: European Parliament and Council of the EU reached provisional agreement on Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation (2025/0359) including measures banning nudification apps

On 7 May 2026, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional agreement on the Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation (2025/0359). The Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation would introduce a prohibition on AI systems that generate non-consensual sexually explicit or intimate content or child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The prohibition would cover placing such systems on the EU market, placing systems on the EU market without reasonable safety measures to prevent such generation, and deployers using such systems for that purpose, and would apply to content in image, video, or audio form. Providers would have until 2 December 2026 to bring systems into compliance. The Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation would also set the application date for watermarking obligations for AI-generated content at 2 December 2026. The Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation would set fixed application dates for design obligations, including risk management and human oversight requirements, for high-risk AI systems. Obligations for Annex III high-risk AI systems would apply from 2 December 2027, and obligations for Article 6(1) high-risk AI systems would apply from 2 August 2028. The provisional agreement must be formally adopted by both the European Parliament and the Council of the EU before 2 August 2026.