EU lawmakers present draft report on Cloud and AI Development Act

On November 11, 2026, European Parliament co-rapporteurs Diego Solier (ECR, Spain) and Reinier van Lanschot (Greens/EFA, Netherlands) presented a joint draft report on the Cloud and AI Development Act, according to the Cloud and AI Development Act procedure file maintained by the European Parliament Legislative Observatory. The Act, formally COM(2026)0502 under procedure 2026/0138(COD), was proposed by the European Commission on June 3, 2026, and the two lawmakers were appointed co-rapporteurs on June 24, 2026.

Concrete changes in the draft report

• Common EU standards for cloud services
• Faster permitting procedures for data centres
• Increased EU public procurement from European cloud providers
• Extended sovereignty requirements covering private operators of critical infrastructure
• A citation that three non-EU hyperscalers control more than 70% of the EU cloud market

What it means for people building with AI

The draft report explicitly ties cloud infrastructure rules to the build-out of AI infrastructure, so the standards, permitting timelines and procurement rules it proposes would directly shape the capacity available to AI companies and developers operating in the EU. It is an early but concrete legislative step toward EU rules for the cloud infrastructure that AI companies and developers in Europe depend on, with a stated goal of reducing dependence on non-EU hyperscalers.

Next steps for the legislation

The provisional timeline comes from the Cloud and AI Development Act legislative train schedule published by the European Parliament.

• Committee discussion scheduled for December 1, 2026
• Committee vote provisionally scheduled for mid-March 2027
• Plenary vote scheduled for April 2027

Sources

• Procedure file 2026/0138(COD) - Cloud and AI Development Act (European Parliament Legislative Observatory (OEIL), November 11, 2026, official)
• Legislative train schedule - Cloud and AI Development Act (European Parliament, November 11, 2026, official)

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