Europe has earned a global reputation as the leading regulatory power in the digital sphere. However, regulating the rules of an industry you have not yet built does not guarantee leadership: it guarantees irrelevance.
The great challenge of the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) is to break this inertia. The rules must not be a new maze of requirements that suffocates startups and local operators, but rather the enabling mechanism that multiplies private investment and the Union's technical capacity.
For legislation to work in practice and not remain dead letter drafted from offices disconnected from reality, it is essential to have the voice of those who know the terrain: engineers who have spent entire nights migrating systems, data center operators who deal with thermal and electrical consumption, and technology directors who make long-term investment decisions.
The parliamentary team in charge of CADA is driving an open community and channel of collaboration with the technology industry. The goal is clear: to gather real use cases, identify everyday administrative barriers and ensure that the future law acts as a springboard and not as a burden. Building a digitally autonomous and competitive Europe requires legislators and the private sector to work at the same table.
The great challenge of the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) is to break this inertia. The rules must not be a new maze of requirements that suffocates startups and local operators, but rather the enabling mechanism that multiplies private investment and the Union's technical capacity.
For legislation to work in practice and not remain dead letter drafted from offices disconnected from reality, it is essential to have the voice of those who know the terrain: engineers who have spent entire nights migrating systems, data center operators who deal with thermal and electrical consumption, and technology directors who make long-term investment decisions.
The parliamentary team in charge of CADA is driving an open community and channel of collaboration with the technology industry. The goal is clear: to gather real use cases, identify everyday administrative barriers and ensure that the future law acts as a springboard and not as a burden. Building a digitally autonomous and competitive Europe requires legislators and the private sector to work at the same table.
