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EESC opinion on the Digital Omnibus

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Official title: Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on a) Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EU) 2024/1689 and (EU) 2018/1139 as regards the simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) (COM(2025) 836 final — 2025/0359 (COD)) and b) Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EU) 2016/679, (EU) 2018/1724, (EU) 2018/1725, (EU) 2023/2854 and Directives 2002/58/EC, (EU) 2022/2555 and (EU) 2022/2557 as regards the simplification of the digital legislative framework, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2018/1807, (EU) 2019/1150, (EU) 2022/868 and Directive (EU) 2019/1024 (Digital Omnibus) (COM(2025) 837 final — 2025/0360 (COD))
Official reference: EESC 2025/03929
Document type: Opinion
Document date: 2026-03-18
Document date kind: Institutional adoption
Document-date evidence: Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Date of document and Date of vote: 18/03/2026 for EESC 2025/03929. — Establishes retained document date 2026-03-18.
Publication date: 2026-07-02
Publication-date evidence: Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · OJ C, C/2026/3225, 2.7.2026. — Establishes retained publication date 2026-07-02 separately from issue, vote, adoption, or signature.
Version label: Adopted opinion
Legal status: Non binding
Language: en

Research classifications

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Supporting

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Final

Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

Relevance class

Direct AI relevance

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Negotiation

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Classification evidence

Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, section 1 points 1.4-1.17 (PDF pp.2-3), under Digital Omnibus on AI, and section 2 points 2.4-2.11 (PDF pp.5-6). — The cited provisions make AI the central subject.
Sector tags: General cross sector · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, points 1.4-1.7 (PDF p.2), 1.10-1.17 (p.3) and 2.4-2.11 (pp.5-6), address horizontal AI regulation, product-law coherence, sandboxes, literacy and implementation safeguards. — The cited provisions substantiate the retained cross-sector classification.
Provenance tags: Authored by an EU agency or body · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Economic and Social Committee; EESC 2025/03929 opinion heading names the Committee. — Exact official metadata identifies the responsible EU institution or body.
Provenance tags: Officially published · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · OJ C, C/2026/3225, 2.7.2026. — The official EU manifestation independently establishes publication of this exact record.
Sector tags: Employment and labour · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, points 1.7 (PDF p.2), 1.13 (p.3), 2.8 and 2.15 (p.6). — Recommends prior worker information and consultation for workplace AI introduction or substantial modification, worker voice and social-partner involvement. These are the Committee's recommendations, not newly enacted obligations.
Sector tags: Consumer protection · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, points 1.5-1.6, PDF p.2. — Discusses socially harmful regulatory conflicts affecting consumers, safeguards for public and consumer-facing AI services, and avoiding liability or redress gaps when considering internal corporate AI privileges. The assignment is not based solely on the introductory stakeholder list.
Sector tags: Industry and manufacturing · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, points 1.4-1.5 (PDF p.2) and 2.5 (p.5). — Addresses industrial AI and robotics, AI systems in production processes and machinery/product conformity overlaps. Proposed lighter B2B treatment remains conditional on safeguards.
Sector tags: Health · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, point 1.5 (PDF p.2) and point 2.5 (p.5). — Examines AI Act interaction with medical-device and in-vitro diagnostic device regulation, including risk classification and conformity assessment conflicts. General health-and-safety wording alone is not the basis.
Sector tags: Research and innovation · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, points 1.10-1.11 (PDF p.3) and 2.7 (p.5). — Recommends AI regulatory sandboxes, cross-border and dedicated testing tracks, and inclusive real-world testing with safeguards. This supports an innovation/testing assignment, not a claim that the opinion reports original scientific experiments.
Sector tags: Education · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, point 1.16, PDF p.3. — Recommends maintaining an explicit AI-literacy obligation for providers and deployers, staff competences and accompanying AI-literacy programmes for all. This is literacy and training, not school admissions or assessment.
Sector tags: Transport and mobility · Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex · EESC opinion C/2026/3225, point 2.19, PDF p.7. — Specifically discusses terminal-data access for vehicle safety and autonomous driving in the ePrivacy simplification context. The assignment concerns the concrete automated-driving use case, not generic transport references.

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European Economic and Social Committee · Author · role evidence · EUR-Lex Document information > Author: European Economic and Social Committee; EESC 2025/03929 opinion heading names the Committee.

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CELEX: 52025AE3929
ELI: https://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/3225/oj
OJ reference: OJ C, C/2026/3225, 2.7.2026

Official source · Publisher/host: Publications Office of the European Union / EUR-Lex

Formal procedure

Official procedure references:

2025/0359(COD)
2025/0360(COD)

Parent or principal record

Parent or principal record: Digital Omnibus AI proposal

Procedural step for · Official relationship · Verified

Research assessment

Inclusion rationale: Verified official English text within the AI Act implementation and amendment corpus.
Researcher notes: Official metadata is transcribed from the cited source; corpus tier and policy-stage classification are researcher assessments.
Review status: verified

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Verification

Expanded evidence review: Verified

Reviewed by: Yichen Hao
Evidence review date: 2026-09-05T18:06:34Z

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Last verified: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z · EUR-Lex confirms EESC 2025/03929, adopted 18 March 2026 and published as OJ C/2026/3225.

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