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Room for rules more favourable to workers

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The EU AI Act does not preclude the Union or member states from maintaining or introducing laws, regulations or administrative provisions which are more favourable to workers in terms of protecting their rights in respect of the use of AI systems by employers, or from encouraging or allowing the application of collective agreements which are more favourable to workers.

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What the regulation leaves open

  • Union or national laws, regulations or administrative provisions more favourable to workers on the use of AI systems by employers, kept or newly introduced
  • Collective agreements more favourable to workers, encouraged or allowed

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The evidence

This Regulation does not preclude the Union or Member States from maintaining or introducing laws, regulations or administrative provisions which are more favourable to workers in terms of protecting their rights in respect of the use of AI systems by employers, or from encouraging or allowing the application of collective agreements which are more favourable to workers.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 2(11), in the consolidated text CELEX 02024R1689 as consolidated on 27 July 2026 (English). Read from the file saved at sources/eu-ai-act/02024R1689-20260727-consolidated-EN.html, downloaded from EUR-Lex on 2026-10-08 and re-read on 2026-10-20. Paragraph 11 carries the base marker in that text; within Article 2, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 replaced or inserted paragraphs 2, 7 and 13, not this one., read

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