The European Parliament is working on the 2024 deregulation of the AI Act, which will aid EU companies, especially SMEs, to stay competitive in the technology race with the US and China. These include reducing administrative burdens, clearer rules for implementing government and more space for innovation. According to Tobias Bocheński, the Euro MP from PiS, the simplification package proposed by the European Commission should go further.
The AI Act, or Act on Artificial Intelligence, entered into force on August 1, 2024. Its nonsubjective is to advance innovation in the area of AI and the dissemination of technology, while ensuring a advanced level of safety and protection of fundamental rights, including democracy and the regulation of law. Implementation takes place in stages, and most of them, including those regulating high-risk AI systems, are to start to apply from 2 August 2026 and 2027, depending on the categories of changes.
– This regulation has proved to be very harmful to the improvement of the latest technologies in Europe. Hence the European Commission's initiative and the effort to deregulation, to remove certain burdens for small, micro and medium-sized enterprises dealing with artificial intelligence said Newseria Tobias Bocheński, Euro MP of Law and Justice, European Conservatives and Reformers.
The European Commission published in November 2025 a proposal to deregulation this act, as part of the alleged digital omnibus.
– This is simply a proposal for various detailed method changes on how to work on artificial intelligence, e.g. reducing the number of reports and bureaucratic guidelines and making legal texts clearer so that companies know what their obligations are. Now they don't know. – notes Tobias Bocheński.
The European Commission has already conducted a number of stakeholder consultations after implementing the first legislation. They have shown a number of challenges that could jeopardise the effective application of the key provisions of the Act. Among the proposals for deregulation were simplification in method documentation and quality management systems, or the work to take account of the economical situation of smaller entities erstwhile administering penalties.
– We are presently working on this in the Euro-Parliament. This is 1 of the most crucial initiatives due to the fact that the European Union is losing its competitive edge, including in the most modern markets. If we want to compete with Chinese, Americans, nipponese or South Koreans, we gotta do something about it. – believes the politician.
As indicated by the PAIH study "AI – regulations existing and emerging on the markets concerned", the pro-innovation approach dominates the United States. president Donald Trump's administration reduces regulatory burdens and reduces restrictive state rules, making the creation and implementation of AI systems for start-ups and founders of technology companies easier and little costly.
– I had a gathering with our AI industry. Polish companies are trying to destruct AI-related bureaucracy, due to the fact that they face challenges: they will either close businesses or decision to the US. There is no way out due to the fact that their competition in the same areas is much more dynamic, it functions better behind the ocean, so doing business in Poland or in another European Union country is simply not profitable – emphasises Tobias Bocheński. – In Draghi's report, it is described that all start-ups, which in Europe are thriving, begin to crawl, have large ideas, then flee to the US and run their business there. If we are leading to a drainage of ideas, creativity, capital, people from Europe to the United States, this is not a good improvement vision.
According to this year's survey EY "How Polish companies implement AI", 31 percent of average and large enterprises have started the process of implementing the AI Act, and 40% are in the process. 1 in 3 companies assessed that full compliance with the EU Regulation would be labour intensive and would force changes in both interior and business processes. Only 3% of companies indicate that AI Act does not apply to them.
– The expectations from the marketplace are of all kinds, due to the fact that we request to separate large corporations and tiny start-ups that have different interests, but we request to take them all into account and deepen deregulation. That is, where the European Commission has come in with its proposals, it is essential to guarantee that the amendment of the government goes even further, creating a greater sphere of freedom and freedom for those who are active in manufacturing, processing, developing the most modern technologies in the European Union - considers auro-deputy of Law and Justice.
AI Chamber, a chamber of tens of start-ups, companies and NGOs from Poland and the region of Central and east Europe, sent an open letter to the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament in December 2025. It calls not only for support, but besides for crucial reinforcement and extension of the Omnibus proposal.
– Nowhere in the planet is there a hold-up on artificial intelligence. If we do this, we'll lose in this race. If that happens and artificial intelligence is utilized in robotics, defences, technologies of our regular life, we will not only be backward, but we will besides be much poorer than those who have this technology. – says Tobias Bocheński. – So I'm definitely in a position of freedom. Let us make artificial intelligence on the same terms as in China and the United States. This is our main competitor in Western civilization.
In their appeal to the EU authorities, representatives of the AI Chamber stressed that the expanding complexity of the government creates invisible barriers and expanding costs for entrepreneurs, especially SMEs and start-ups. alternatively of creating fresh products, innovators are forced to spend money on lawyers and consultants to make certain that their thought fits within the framework of the law.
– The large corporations that have this technology do not care about as much deregulation as the tiny ones. These request quite a few freedom to compete with the greats. But the greats have a capital advantage, a technological advantage, their solutions, so they want to take care of their own know-how and combat competition. – explains Euro MP PiS.
