European Union lawmakers have set out a first bundle of proposals for a new digital strategy for the bloc...

The top-line proposals are:

AI

- Rules for "high risk" AI systems such as in health, policing, or transport, requiring such systems are "transparent, traceable and guarantee human oversight."

- A requirement that unbiased data is used to train high-risk systems so that they "perform properly, and to ensure respect of fundamental rights, in particular non-discrimination." ...

- A voluntary labelling scheme for lower risk AI applications...

Data

- A regulatory framework covering data governance, access and reuse [...] to create incentives for data sharing...

- A push to make public sector data more widely available...

- Sectoral specific actions to build European data spaces that focus on specific areas such as industrial manufacturing, the green deal, mobility or health...

Next steps will see the Commission taking feedback on the plan — as it kicks off public consultation on both proposals...