EU Parliament: a study on the relationship between the AI Act and EU digital regulation has been published.

The European Parliament published on 30 October 2025 a study entitled “Interplay between the AI Act and the EU digital legislative framework”, dedicated to the analysis of the points of contact – and potential friction – between the AI Act and the complex mosaic of European digital regulations. The document highlights how the stratification of obligations deriving from different EU laws on digital matters can lead to duplication, mismatches and application uncertainties, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The study highlights the partial coincidence of areas between the Artificial Intelligence Regulation and other fundamental texts: GDPR, Data Act, Digital Services Act (DSA), Digital Markets Act (DMA), Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and NIS 2 Directive. While acknowledging that each piece of legislation serves a specific purpose, Parliament notes that their joint application risks creating "regulatory friction" that slows down innovation and complicates compliance for operators.

Among the main examples of overlap, the study cites the relationship between Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) provided for by the GDPR and the Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments (FRIAs) introduced by the AI Act: two distinct, but potentially duplicative, tools with different thresholds and criteria.

A similar interference is found between the dataset quality obligations provided for AI providers and the rules of the Data Act on data access and portability, which could compromise the traceability required by the AI Regulation.

The document also points to the intertwining of cybersecurity requirements, with the risk of a double certification between the AI Act and the CRA; and the areas of transparency and content moderation common to the DSA and AI Act, which pose operational challenges for very large platforms and search engines (VLOPs and VLOSEs) when integrating generative AI systems. Finally, the study recalls the potential asymmetries arising from the designation of gatekeepers under the DMA, which could overlap with the classification of systems as "high systemic risk" provided for by the AI Act.

Parliament therefore calls on the European institutions to promote greater regulatory harmonisation, both through common interpretative guidelines and through the reduction of procedural duplication, in order to foster a coherent, proportionate regulatory environment favourable to technological innovation