Welcome to This Week in AI Regulations for March 08, 2026.

The European Union Parliament has proposed new rules to protect copyright in the age of artificial intelligence. AI providers must now clearly acknowledge any protected content used for AI training and ensure fair remuneration to right-holders. Additionally, right-holders will have the right to prevent the use of their protected content for AI training. Compliance with European Union laws is mandatory when AI training involves content generated within the Union.

In France, the Haute Autorité de Santé and the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés have launched a public consultation on a new guide for AI use in healthcare. This guide provides legal clarifications and good practice recommendations covering governance, patient information, digital security, and care organization. It emphasizes compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation when AI systems process personal data. The guide categorizes recommendations into standard, advanced, and mandatory reflexes to ensure safe and ethical AI deployment in patient care.

The European Union’s European Securities and Markets Authority and European Banking Authority are reviewing their suitability guidelines, incorporating new requirements from the revised Capital Requirements Directive. These include mandatory ex-ante suitability assessments for management body members and key function holders such as chief financial officers and heads of control functions. The updated guidelines also strengthen links with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks and address emerging risks related to artificial intelligence, information and communication technologies, environmental, social, and governance factors, and money laundering and terrorist financing. Entities must implement policies promoting diversity and gender balance, while competent authorities will assess these risks during suitability processes.

On March 4, 2026, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted two new recommendations focused on addressing AI-related discrimination and technology-facilitated violence against women and girls. These recommendations call for preventing and combating discrimination throughout the AI lifecycle, including design, use, and retirement phases. They also emphasize transparency and explainability of AI systems, strengthening procedural safeguards, and providing effective remedies for discrimination.

Finally, Klaus Löber, Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, delivered a speech at the Eurex Derivatives Forum on February 25, 2026, highlighting the publication and entry into force of the final Regulatory Technical Standards on the Active Account Requirement as of February 26, 2026. ESMA has issued supervisory briefings and Q&As to assist with compliance. The first Active Account Requirement reports are due by July 2026, covering data from June 25, 2025, onward. Löber also noted the forthcoming publication of final RTS on margin transparency and the development of the sixth European Union-wide central counterparty stress test framework. The updates emphasize operational resilience, including cloud and artificial intelligence adoption, and aim to enhance supervisory convergence and market integration across the European Union.

That wraps up today's regulatory updates. Visit carveragents.ai for more information.