Text · Opinion parliamentary committee draft
On institutional aspects of artificial intelligence in the context of European integration
Document IMCO-PA-787702 · 2025/2118(INI)
- Kind
- Opinion parliamentary committee draft IMCO-PA-787702
- Date
- 20 April 2026
- Committee
- Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- Rapporteur
- Gheorghe Piperea
- Dossier
- 2025-2118
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- 2025/2118(INI)
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The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection submits the following to the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, as the committee responsible :
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| Ia. whereas the Observatory should facilitate fast and direct access for Parliament to relevant information from the Member States, reducing reliance on slow administrative procedures and fragmented responses from national authorities; |
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| J. whereas AI can support parliamentary scrutiny of the implementation and application of EU law by reducing information asymmetries and mitigating Parliament’s recurring difficulties in accessing the relevant data, as well as by contributing to the improvement of the EU’s legislative processes; | J. whereas AI can support parliamentary scrutiny of the implementation and application of EU law by reducing information asymmetries and mitigating Parliament’s recurring difficulties in accessing the relevant data, as well as by contributing to the improvement of the EU’s legislative processes; whereas the widespread use of artificial intelligence systems in public administration and within the Union’s institutions should not lead to replacement of human resources, especially civil servants, whose skills, experience and legal responsibility constitute essential guarantees against systemic errors, algorithmic biases and risks of distortion of the decision-making process through opaque or improper use of such systems; |
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| Ja. whereas algorithmic systems can be vulnerable to errors, manipulation, a lack of transparency and reliance on data of varying quality, which makes them, in some contexts, less reliable than human assessment, particularly in sensitive areas such as public policy-making, law enforcement or administrative decision-making; |
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| Jc. whereas the use of artificial intelligence systems must be explicitly prevented in legislative processes, in the development of case law and in the adoption of individual administrative decisions without substantial, responsible and identifiable human intervention; |
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| Ka. whereas maintaining effective, meaningful and verifiable human oversight of artificial intelligence systems is essential to ensure respect for fundamental rights, administrative accountability and the principles of the rule of law; whereas such oversight cannot be ensured in the absence of staff who are adequately skilled and kept up to date with rapid technological developments; whereas Parliament should therefore invest in the ongoing development of the skills of its staff, provide specialised training, and allocate adequate resources to build its internal capacity to use, evaluate and oversee artificial intelligence systems; |
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| Kb. whereas the development of Parliament’s analytical capacities, including through the creation of an AI Observatory, should aim to support parliamentary work and reduce information asymmetries without replacing existing human expertise, particularly that provided by services such as the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), and to help relieve staff of repetitive, technical or low-value-added tasks; whereas the use of artificial intelligence should lead to an increase in the complexity, responsibility and added value of human work, enabling staff to focus on essential functions such as critical analysis, decision-making and strategic orientation, rather than on mechanical or fragmented tasks; |
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| Kc. whereas the creation of an AI Observatory within Parliament calls for a fully transparent and fiscally responsible approach, particularly in relation to clarification of financing sources, the impact on the Union’s budget and the way in which resources are allocated, as well as the establishment of clear and merit-based procedures for staff recruitment and any administrative appointments, so as to avoid duplication of existing structures, inefficient use of resources and any distortions that could affect the proper functioning of the internal market; |
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| Kd. whereas the functioning of the internal market in the field of artificial intelligence is threatened by significant disparities between the Member States in terms of digital infrastructure, data storage and processing capacity, and available administrative and technical resources; |
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| L. whereas the rapid deployment of AI technologies is profoundly transforming electoral campaigning and political communication; whereas such technologies may interfere with the integrity of electoral processes and undermine trust in democratic institutions, including in the context of European elections; | L. whereas the rapid deployment of AI technologies is profoundly transforming electoral campaigning and political communication; whereas such technologies may interfere with the integrity of electoral processes and undermine trust in democratic institutions, including in the context of European elections; whereas very large online platforms must be subject to enhanced obligations, such as strict systemic risk assessments, proactive mechanisms for detecting and eliminating coordinated manipulation networks, full transparency in relation to recommendation algorithms and the funding of political content, as well as independent audits, to prevent external interference and distortion of the electoral process within the Union. |
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| Lb. whereas the lack of transparency and explainability of certain artificial intelligence systems may undermine citizens’ trust in public institutions and may affect the legitimacy of decisions taken with the aid of such technologies; |
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| Ma. whereas, despite its name, artificial intelligence remains a product of human intervention based on statistical models and datasets, and cannot substitute human discernment, responsibility and judgement in the performance of public functions or in decision-making processes that affect citizens; |
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| Mb. whereas the use of artificial intelligence systems in public administration may lead to the adoption of automated decisions that have a direct impact on citizens, sometimes without an adequate level of transparency, explainability and effective appealability; whereas such systems are not value-neutral or technically neutral, as they reflect the data and models on which they are trained and can therefore amplify or perpetuate existing errors, biases and imbalances in administrative and decision-making processes; whereas it is necessary to maintain effective and substantial human oversight of all administrative decisions that have significant legal or social impact on citizens, and to prohibit the use of exclusively automated decisions in sensitive fields such as access to social benefits, individual assessments with legal consequences, sanctioning procedures, or other decisions affecting people’s rights and obligations; |
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| 7a. Also underlines that the development, supply and integration of artificial intelligence systems must be accompanied by clearly defined responsibility commensurate with the role of each actor in the value chain, such as developers, suppliers and integrators, while avoiding any unjustified transfer of responsibility to end users; |
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| 7b. Firmly rejects ‘responsibility-washing’ practices whereby responsibility for the effects of artificial intelligence systems is diluted or outsourced, underlining that actors who design, control and market these technologies must assume full responsibility for their consequences; |
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| 10a. Firmly underlines that the proper functioning of the internal market in the field of artificial intelligence is seriously affected by significant disparities between the Member States in terms of digital infrastructure, data storage and processing capacities, and available administrative and technical resources, which could lead to unequal development of the European AI ecosystem and the emergence of structural imbalances within the internal market; |
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| 12a. Cautions that the unequal levels of digitalisation and the lack of resources in some Member States may lead to uneven application of the Union’s legislative framework for artificial intelligence, resulting in fragmentation of the internal market and the creation of structural gaps between Member States in terms of implementation and oversight capacity; Also underlines that the increasing use of artificial intelligence-based tools in national reporting and evaluation processes may result in the submission to Union institutions of data that are incomplete, opaque or difficult to verify, affecting the European Parliament’s ability to perform effective democratic oversight and the provision of accurate information for the decision-making process; |
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| 12b. Calls on the Commission to establish, without delay, robust, targeted and adequately funded mechanisms to provide financial, technical and operational support to Member States with limited capacity, including through mobilisation of the Union’s existing instruments and the development of common infrastructures and administrative capacity-building programmes, in order to ensure consistent, uniform and effective implementation of the artificial intelligence framework, prevent distortions of competition, and ensure a level playing field in the internal market; |
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| 21a. Stresses that the drafting of legal provisions, the development of case law and the adoption of administrative decisions within Union institutions and the Member States inherently involves the exercise of human responsibility that is direct, identifiable and subject to democratic oversight; Stresses that the use of artificial intelligence systems must not lead to automatic generation of legal provisions, influencing of case law or adoption of administrative decisions without real, effective and substantial human oversight; Stresses, in this regard, that any delegation of decision-making functions to algorithmic systems in the absence of meaningful human intervention is incompatible with the principles of the rule of law, democratic accountability, and the values enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union; Reaffirms that artificial intelligence can play only an auxiliary role of providing analytical and technical support, without ever replacing human judgement or institutional responsibility; |
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European Parliament (2026). “DRAFT OPINION on institutional aspects of artificial intelligence in the context of European integration”. Text, 20 April 2026. docId IMCO-PA-787702. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/IMCO-PA-787702 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/IMCO-PA-787702 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-imco-pa-787702,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{DRAFT OPINION on institutional aspects of artificial intelligence in the context of European integration}},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-04-20},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/IMCO-PA-787702}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/IMCO-PA-787702},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId IMCO-PA-787702. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}