**Target:** Proposal for a regulation — Recital 71

## Text proposed by the Commission

(71) Artificial intelligence is a rapidly developing family of technologies that requires novel forms of regulatory oversight and a safe space for experimentation, while ensuring responsible innovation and integration of appropriate safeguards and risk mitigation measures. To ensure a legal framework that is innovation-friendly, future-proof and resilient to disruption, national competent authorities from one or more Member States should be encouraged to establish artificial intelligence regulatory sandboxes to facilitate the development and testing of innovative AI systems under strict regulatory oversight before these systems are placed on the market or otherwise put into service.

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## Amendment of the European Parliament

(71) Artificial intelligence is a rapidly developing family of technologies that requires regulatory oversight and a safe and controlled space for experimentation, while ensuring responsible innovation and integration of appropriate safeguards and risk mitigation measures. To ensure a legal framework that promotes innovation, is future-proof, and resilient to disruption, Member States should establish at least one artificial intelligence regulatory sandbox to facilitate the development and testing of innovative AI systems under strict regulatory oversight before these systems are placed on the market or otherwise put into service. It is indeed desirable for the establishment of regulatory sandboxes, whose establishment is currently left at the discretion of Member States, as a next step to be made mandatory with established criteria. That mandatory sandbox could also be established jointly with one or several other Member States, as long as that sandbox would cover the respective national level of the involved Member States. Additional sandboxes may also be established at different levels, including cross Member States, in order to facilitate cross-border cooperation and synergies. With the exception of the mandatory sandbox at national level, Member States should also be able to establish virtual or hybrid sandboxes. All regulatory sandboxes should be able to accommodate both physical and virtual products. Establishing authorities should also ensure that the regulatory sandboxes have the adequate financial and human resources for their functioning.

Artificial intelligence is a rapidly developing family of technologies that requires novel forms of regulatory oversight and a safe space for experimentation, while ensuring responsible innovation and integration of appropriate safeguards and risk mitigation measures. To ensure a legal framework that is innovation-friendly, future-proof and resilient to disruption, national competent authorities from one or more Member States should be encouraged to establish artificial intelligence regulatory sandboxes to facilitate the development and testing of innovative AI systems under strict regulatory oversight before these systems are placed on the market or otherwise put into service.

Artificial intelligence is a rapidly developing family of technologies that requires regulatory oversight and a safe and controlled space for experimentation, while ensuring responsible innovation and integration of appropriate safeguards and risk mitigation measures. To ensure a legal framework that promotes innovation, is future-proof, and resilient to disruption, Member States should establish at least one artificial intelligence regulatory sandbox to facilitate the development and testing of innovative AI systems under strict regulatory oversight before these systems are placed on the market or otherwise put into service. It is indeed desirable for the establishment of regulatory sandboxes, whose establishment is currently left at the discretion of Member States, as a next step to be made mandatory with established criteria. That mandatory sandbox could also be established jointly with one or several other Member States, as long as that sandbox would cover the respective national level of the involved Member States. Additional sandboxes may also be established at different levels, including cross Member States, in order to facilitate cross-border cooperation and synergies. With the exception of the mandatory sandbox at national level, Member States should also be able to establish virtual or hybrid sandboxes. All regulatory sandboxes should be able to accommodate both physical and virtual products. Establishing authorities should also ensure that the regulatory sandboxes have the adequate financial and human resources for their functioning.