These consultations focused on two AI Act regulatory obligations - the definition of AI systems and prohibited AI practices – which have been in application since 2 February 2025. 

The Commission drew on both these public consultations and other sources of feedback to draft its non-binding guidelines on prohibited practices and definition of AI systems, aimed at assisting providers and stakeholders in the effective application of the AI Act.   

The report presents a comprehensive analysis of responses to each of the 88 questions of the stakeholder consultation, organised into nine key sections. It shows that industry stakeholders accounted for the majority of responses to the public consultation (47.2% of nearly 400 replies), while citizen participation remained limited (5.74%). Respondents called for clearer definitions of technical terms such as "adaptiveness" and "autonomy", cautioning against the risk of inadvertently regulating conventional software. 

The guidelines on prohibited practices specifically address areas such as harmful manipulation, social scoring, and real-time remote biometric identification, and include legal clarifications and practical examples to support stakeholder understanding and compliance with the AI Act.