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The EU AI Act was designed to ensure safety, transparency and ethical deployment of AI systems across the EU while protecting consumers’ fundamental rights. The AI Omnibus, however, risks undermining these protections, exposing consumers to heightened risks and more legal uncertainty. By weakening core safeguards, it threatens to erode consumers’ trust in digital products and services. Trilogues must ensure that these protections are preserved and strengthened, not compromised.

This paper summarises BEUC’s recommendations for trilogue negotiations on the AI Omnibus. For more information, see our position paper, the Commission’s proposal, the EU Parliament’s and Council’s positions.

The Food and Feed Safety Simplification Omnibus aims at giving authorities and businesses in the food system more flexibility, particularly on pesticides, mad cow disease, feed labelling, inspections and border controls. However, simplification must not reduce inspection intensity, weaken transparency, or undermine pesticides’ risk assessment. Co-legislators must maintain a high level of consumer protection through targeted improvements and additional safeguards.

The CAP affects almost every aspect of the European food system and represents almost a third of the EU budget. Its design influences what is economically viable for farmers, how markets respond to shocks, what foods are available to consumers, and at what price. It can and should become a central instrument to deliver healthy, sustainable, and affordable food by prioritising consumers’ expectations.