Eurosmart answered to the Digital Omnibus and Digital Omnibus on AI public consultations

13 Mar 2026 Eurosmart answered to the Digital Omnibus and Digital Omnibus on AI public consultations

Eurosmart, the voice of the European digital security industry, welcomes the European Commission’s initiatives on the Digital Omnibus and on the Digital Omnibus on AI.

Eurosmart supports the objective of improving clarity and consistency across the EU digital regulatory framework. Ensuring legal certainty, avoiding fragmentation and facilitating practical implementation are essential for organizations operating across several Member States. Eurosmart represents a broad membership of companies active in the European digital security sector. As providers of technologies enabling secure data processing, identity verification, authentication and cybersecurity, Eurosmart members are directly linked to the regulatory frameworks addressed in the Digital Omnibus proposal. As such, the digital security industry is closely involved in the implementation of several of the legislative instruments covered by this initiative, including data protection, data governance and cybersecurity frameworks. Ensuring legal clarity, regulatory coherence and practical implementation across these instruments is therefore of particular importance for our industry.
In this context, Eurosmart provided comments on several elements of the proposals for regulations, in particular on:

• Legal clarity definitions, including the definition of residual personal data, and the definition of residually retained data.
• The processing and protection of personal data, namely on processing of pseudonymized data, and processing of biometric data.
• Cybersecurity and incident reporting, particularly on the alignment of incident notification timelines, and the interaction between NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act.
• Access to data stored in terminal equipment.
• Legitimate interests in AI development.
• Postponement of the entry into application of high-risk AI requirements.
• Governance for changes to high-risk AI systems and prohibited practices.
• EU-Level AI regulatory sandbox.
• Processing of special categories of personal data for bias detection and mitigation.

Eurosmart will continue to support initiatives that strengthen trust, security and effective implementation of the EU’s digital regulatory framework.