"EU AI Omnibus revision offers five regulatory lessons for India"
Risk-based framework
AI regulation model where compliance obligations are proportional to the potential harm of the AI system.
EU AI Omnibus
2025 amendment to the EU AI Act extending deadlines and simplifying compliance without reducing core safeguards.
Artificial Intelligence regulation has emerged as one of the defining governance challenges of the current decade. Governments worldwide face a common dilemma: technology evolves faster than legislation, yet the risks of unregulated AI, to privacy, employment, democratic processes, and public safety, are too significant to ignore. The European Union AI Act, adopted after years of negotiation, was the world's first comprehensive, legally binding AI regulation. It introduced a risk-based framework that categorised AI systems into prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk, and minimal-risk tiers, with compliance obligations scaled accordingly. General-purpose AI (GPAI) models, large foundation models capable of multiple tasks, were brought under specific transparency and safety rules.
India's own regulatory posture has been markedly different. Rather than enacting a comprehensive AI law, India has pursued sector-specific governance and a principles-based approach emphasising responsible AI and innovation. The IndiaAI Mission, launched with a significant budgetary allocation, focuses on compute infrastructure, dataset development, and AI application in public services. India's experience with Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), Aadhaar, UPI, and the ONDC network, gives it a distinctive foundation: large-scale, interoperable digital systems that AI can be layered onto. This background shapes both India's strengths and its regulatory gaps.
The EU AI Omnibus, which entered into force in July 2025, amends the original AI Act by extending compliance deadlines and simplifying obligations for certain categories of providers. It gives regulators and companies more time to prepare for high-risk AI rules. Crucially, this is not a retreat from regulation. It is an acknowledgment that even carefully designed frameworks must be capable of iterative revision. The Omnibus illustrates a concept central to modern regulatory theory: adaptive regulation, where rules are treated as living instruments rather than fixed statutes.
The risk-based approach at the core of the EU AI Act remains instructive for India. Under this model, the regulatory burden is proportional to potential harm. AI systems used in critical infrastructure, employment decisions, credit scoring, law enforcement, or migration carry the heaviest obligations, mandatory conformity assessments, human oversight requirements, and transparency duties. …
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Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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2.The EU AI Omnibus repealed the EU AI Act entirely and replaced it with a lighter-touch voluntary framework.
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Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
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1.The IndiaAI Mission is India's comprehensive AI regulatory law, equivalent in scope to the EU AI Act.
2.India currently relies on sector-specific regulators such as RBI, TRAI, and SEBI for AI oversight in their respective domains.
3.India's experience with Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) provides a foundation for building adaptive AI governance.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
The principle that AI regulatory compliance obligations should be proportional to the potential harm of the AI system is best described as:
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