Hi, Jambo Pichali Bloomberg News. I have a question about the AI Act. so that

Thomas doesn't feel underutilized now that all of his back. So, I

was just wondering whether there's any Update on

the commission's time for the implementation of the AI Act amid multiple calls

for stopping the clock, so to speak, from businesses, but also from a a

few member countries. I'm also wondering When is

the commission going to say yes or no, we're stopping the clock? Do we, when

when should I expect this statement, the the the statement on that? is

underutilized, and we count on you. Yes, go ahead. Thank you

Paula. Thank you. I've seen indeed a lot of reporting, a lot of

letters, and a lot of things being said on the AI Act. Let me be

as clear as possible. There is no stop the clock. There is no grace period

There is no pause. Why? We have legal deadlines established in the legal text. The

prohibitions kicked in in February. General purpose AI model obligations will kick in in August

and Next year we have the obligations for high risk models that will kick in

in August 2026. These are legal deadlines. We have a legal text that was

adopted by our co-legislators and the Commission's obligation to of course then

enforce the legislation and make sure that companies comply with the AI Act

Now that being said, We take, of course, the concerns of the industry extremely seriously

We take the concerns of our member states very clearly very seriously, and in this

context there are a lot of things that beyond the existing legal text that we

can do. For example, we have been very clear on the general purpose AI code

of practice. Executive Vice President has said it, we will present it in the coming

days. We can discuss when this will be implemented. The end of

the year being considered too many administrative burdens for companies

We can discuss about this. We have a simplification omnibus coming in a in a

in a later this year. For example, we have also established an AI service desk

to help companies to comply with our legislation. So the legal text and the legal

deadlines is a legal text, and these are legal deadlines. There's very little we can

do about it. Now within this limit, as I've just told you, we will see

whatever we can do, we will do it to of course take the concerns of

our industry extremely seriously. Now one last point on this in a more broader

sense, we of course want to make Europe an AI continent. The president was

extremely clear about this when she was in Paris at the AI summit. We are

advancing extremely quickly on these promises that we made on the AI giga factories

with the 76 applications that we already received from 16 member states. So let's

all pull in the same direction. We want Europe to be a true AI continent

We take concerns very seriously. We will address them where we can, but indeed let's

all pull in the same direction. You have a follow-up, Jen. So

very quickly, I'm a bit challenged, so I just would like to understand when you

talk about implementation of the code of practice, what do you mean like from when

it starts? A planning from when it's adopted, what, what, what do you mean with

implementation of the code of practice practically? So you have a code of practice that

will be presented to you. It was drafted again by more than 1000 stakeholders. It

was a very inclusive, I should have mentioned this in my previous reply, a very

inclusive process where we really want to be in touch and rely on the

concerns and build on the work done by the AI community itself. This will be

presented. Signatories will then be able to sign the code and when it will be

officially implemented, I recall that it is a voluntary code, but by when the signatories

want to commit to that, this can be discussed. So this is a possibility again

where we are open to discuss and to listen to the industry. Other

questions to Jan, yes. Hi

Lucas, just to follow up on this topic, I

would kindly ask you to comment on Virkkunen interview

earlier this week on Politico, where she said three things essentially

that the AI Act standards will be ready next month, that

the Commission will take a decision on the stop the clock next month. Based

on where the standards land and that companies should have

one year after the standards are finalized to comply

with the AI Act. Now I understand the first statement is incorrect

The standards are not expected to be finalized until summer next year, so

do you wish to confirm also the other two statements? Thank

you. I will of course confirm what EDP

says in the sense that of course she is in touch with the industry, she's

in touch with stakeholders. She is the first one listening to these concerns and she

will make sure that we can address them. Now you know very well that the

standards is. It's not us developing the standards. They will be ready when they will

be ready. again, they help, especially and essentially when it comes to the upcoming

high risk provisions. So again, the standards will be ready when they will be ready

I don't have an exact timeline here on, on this. Good

Other questions to Thomas. No

Just follow up yes please. So I

mean I understand the standards will be ready when they're ready, but Ven said a

decision will be taken next month. Is that what is going to happen or

not? And on a separate note, asking for a colleague of mine, sorry, does

the Commission have any comment on MTA's push for an EU wide digital

majority age? And are there any initiatives

in the work on this? Thank you. On the interview and

the comments of executive Vice President, we take it from there, obviously if she

says that they will be ready next month, we'll take it from

there. On the other question, thank you. On the other question, yes, I

saw Sara's question. Now we have no particular comments to make on Meta's

decision to impose a so-called EU-wide social media ban. this

is not Meta's competence. What we request fromETA and what we ask fromETA is to

comply with the digital legislation, and this of course includes strong safeguards

when it comes to the protection of minors. Now you're talking about initiatives that are

coming up in the next. Yes, we have one, and we have a very big

one is the presentation of the pilot project on age verification. We have announced this

for July and we will deliver it in July. There again, we work very closely

with our Member states and we will present this indeed in the course of July

together with the guidelines. And the questions to Thomas. No

then we can. Change the topic there in the back.