Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee approved on Thursday a resolution addressing several challenges arising from the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) technologies. When consumers interact with an ADM system, they should be "properly informed about how it functions, about how to reach a human with decision-making powers, and about how the system's decisions can be checked and corrected", says the committee. Those systems should only use high-quality and unbiased data sets and "explainable and unbiased algorithms" in order to boost consumer trust and acceptance, states the resolution. Review structures should be set up to remedy possible mistakes in automated decisions. It should also be possible for consumers to seek human review of, and redress for, automated decisions that are final and permanent.

After decades of living in a common internal market, many people seem to have forgotten how important it is, and how easy. But when you travel to for example the United States, and you forget your adapter, you can't even charge your mobile phone - a problem that never occurs when you travel on the European continent. The internal market is not only about the free movement of goods and services. That's why worldwide people talk about "European standards", as a label of global quality. It is the task of the IMCO committee to make sure these European standards are upheld in every single space in Europe.