EU - AI Act: EP Approves Simplification Measures and “nudifier” App Ban

​The European Parliament approved amendments to the EU AI Act as part of the Digital Omnibus package, postponing certain compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems to give companies more time while preserving the Act’s risk-based framework. The amendments introduce an EU-wide ban on AI systems used to create non-consensual intimate deepfakes (“nudifier” apps) and AI systems that generate child sexual abuse material, requiring affected providers to comply by December 2, 2026. The package also simplifies compliance by removing overlapping machinery-product safety requirements, extending some SME exemptions to small mid-cap companies, permitting limited bias-detection processing of personal data with safeguards, and centralizing enforcement of certain general-purpose AI systems under the EU AI Office.