The BDI position paper on the Digital Omnibus on AI outlines how targeted adjustments to the EU AI Act can reduce regulatory complexity while safeguarding innovation and competitiveness. German industry calls for a proportionate, sequenced approach that ensures legal certainty, predictable timelines and workable obligations for AI providers and deployers. Key recommendations include extending high risk AI timelines, streamlining conformity assessment, clarifying R&D exemptions and aligning the AI Act with existing sectoral legislation and the GDPR. The paper highlights why industrial AI must be treated as the main objective for Europe’s digital future.