LFI Bill 3149 Seeks Prior Authorisation for General-Purpose AI
Seventy deputies from La France Insoumise, led by René Pilato, tabled proposition de loi n° 3149 on September 15, 2026 to create a National AI Authority (ANIA) that would grant prior market authorisation for general-purpose AI models and certain high-risk systems listed in Annex III of the EU AI Act, with administrative fines up to 7% of worldwide turnover. By late September the text sat with the National Assembly’s economic affairs committee without a debate date, positioning a national prior-approval regime beside the EU’s self-assessment and market-surveillance model.
Filed under Policy and dated September 30, 2026, this AI4France briefing treats bill 3149 as French AI-governance politics distinct from yesterday’s TotalEnergies–Mistral reservoir lab. The draft would require a fresh authorisation after substantial risk-changing modifications, impose 48-hour incident notices, seven-day erasure of interaction personal data where technically feasible, human review of significant HR decisions, and cooperation language with the European AI Office—while openly sitting in tension with the Commission’s exclusive powers over general-purpose model supervision under AI Act Article 88.
Why it matters: French deployers already navigate CNIL tracks and AI Act timelines. A national prior-licence layer could reshape launch calendars—but only if committee drafting clarifies EU primacy, SME burdens and how Campus AI-class compute customers would file.
What it means in practice
French product, legal and public-affairs leads should inventory which general-purpose or Annex III systems would need ANIA filings under the draft; demand named owners for commission-referral tracking; assign an owner for comparing bill 3149 to the EU-adaptation bill that would give CNIL surveillance roles; run time-boxed impact notes on HR and synthetic-content marking articles; and prefer designs that keep humans on employment decisions. Anchor the proposal to Campus AI’s nationwide compute plan and Mistral’s €3 billion round.
Caveats come first. An opposition proposition is not government policy; committee silence can kill a niche slot; and Article 88 friction may force rewriting. AI4France therefore presents bill 3149 as directional political context until an examination calendar and amended text appear.
What to watch next: whether LFI secures a niche debate; Conseil d’État procedure notes if any; and how enterprise counsel treat dual EU–French filing risk. Readers can continue on the AI4France homepage, or browse the Newsroom for additional briefings.
Bottom line: treat this update as orientation, not instruction. French AI politics is testing a prior-authorisation overlay on the AI Act and remains early. Organizations that benefit most will map filing exposure now, keep humans on HR gates, and refuse to confuse a deposited bill with finished law.