EU Council working party reviews the Cloud and AI Development Act file
On September 29, the Council of the European Union’s Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society considered the Commission’s June 4 proposal and impact assessment for the Cloud and AI Development Act.
Inside Practice · SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
On September 29, the Council of the European Union’s Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society considered the Commission’s June 4 proposal and impact assessment for the Cloud and AI Development Act. The proposal is intended to strengthen Europe’s cloud and AI ecosystem, placing infrastructure capacity alongside the AI Act’s risk and compliance framework. For law firms and legal departments, this broadens AI regulatory monitoring beyond model classification to compute location, cloud dependencies and access to European infrastructure. Procurement teams should watch the legislative text for measures that could change provider selection, data-location commitments or incentives for European deployment.