Article 1

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Official source: COM(2026) 502 final — Proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act

Article 1

Subject matter
     1.      This Regulation establishes a framework for strengthening the cloud and AI
             ecosystem at Union level, in particular through the following measures:
             (a)   establishing the Cloud Leadership Initiative and the AI Leadership Initiative
                   (‘the Cloud and AI Leadership Initiatives’);
             (b)   setting the framework for the accelerated deployment of data centres across the
                   Union;
             (c)   enabling the availability of a sovereign cloud and artificial intelligence (AI)
                   offer to safeguard the Union’s public order;
             (d)   reducing dependencies on critical technologies;
             (e)   fostering the adoption of cloud computing services across the public sector.
     2.      The first general objective of this Regulation is to ensure the conditions necessary for
             the competitiveness and innovation capacity of the Union’s cloud and AI ecosystem.
     3.      The second general objective, separate from and complementary to the first general
             objective in paragraph 2, is to improve the functioning of the single market by laying
             down a uniform Union legal framework for increasing the Union’s resilience and
             strategic autonomy in cloud and AI technologies.

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