{"id":36566,"date":"2026-09-02T11:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/?p=36566"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:10:33","slug":"the-european-trade-union-confederations-position-on-the-adoption-of-the-omnibus-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/en\/the-european-trade-union-confederations-position-on-the-adoption-of-the-omnibus-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Trade Union Confederation\u2019s position on the adoption of the Omnibus AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of July, the <b>Digital Omnibus on artificial intelligence<\/b> (AI) officially came into force in the European Union (<a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/FR\/TXT\/HTML\/?uri=OJ:L_202601744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Regulation (EU) 2026\/1744<\/u><\/a>). This simplification measure stipulates that the main technical requirements relating to high-risk AI for the machinery sector must be incorporated directly into the Machinery Regulation 2023\/1230, rather than applied under the <i>AI Act<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, <strong>Claes-Mikael St\u00e5hl<\/strong>, Deputy General Secretary of the ETUC, and <b>Giulio Romani<\/b>, Confederal Secretary, expressed their views in an article entitled \u2018Simpler AI Rules Must Not Mean Weaker Safety for Europe\u2019s Workers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialeurope.eu\/simpler-ai-rules-must-not-mean-weaker-safety-for-europes-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Read the ETUC article<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/en\/machinery-regulation-2023-1230-what-the-digital-omnibus-on-ai-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Find out more about the AI Omnibus<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the ETUC article on the adoption of the AI Omnibus, \u2018Simpler AI Rules Must Not Mean Weaker Safety for Europe\u2019s Workers\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":33899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[907],"class_list":["post-36566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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