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# Parliament committees adopt negotiating position on AI Act simplification
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-03-18-ep-imco-libe-ai-omnibus-mandate/
- Published: 2026-03-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:55:23.000Z
- Description: Parliament's IMCO and LIBE committees adopted, 101 votes to 9 with 8 abstentions, a negotiating mandate on the AI Act Omnibus, fixing high-risk AI obligations to 2 December 2027 and 2 August 2028 and shortening the watermarking grace period.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [European Parliament press release, 18 March 2026](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdfs/news/expert/2026/3/press%5Frelease/20260316IPR38219/20260316IPR38219%5Fen.pdf?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish the final law; the mandate still had to go through plenary and trilogue with the Council.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Committee negotiating mandate on AI Act timing, not final law; no answer moves. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)