If you are unsure who is implementing and enforcing the new digital law and what the specific time frames are, you might find this as well as my previous article very helpful. The attached document to this second article gives you on 22 pages a comprehensive list of all obligations and tasks that the AI Act refers to Member States.
Since the technical negotiations on the AI Act have been concluded in January 2024, I hear very different numbers and deadlines when it comes to secondary legislation but also other implementing and enforcement tasks on EU and national level. No one seems to know, what role the AI Office, Member States, and public authorities have to play from now on.
One of the objectives of my blog is to make EU laws more accessible and EU policy less opaque. This is why I spent the last two weeks reading the AI Act, while looking for the obligations that the law gives Member States as well as for the respective time frames to fulfil those tasks. The result: similar to the AI Office, also the national level faces many new obligations with sometimes very tight deadlines.
In total, I have identified 88 responsibilities for the national level:
18 tasks with the aim to establish an AI governance system, to be executed between 02 November 2024 until 02 August 2026.
07 items of either new national laws and of secondary legislation that Member States could introduce or where they may support the Commission. Some of those items feature clear deadlines, others depend on the Member States' discretion.
55 different categories of enforcement activities on national level, some of them will need to be executed already from 02 February 2025 onwards.
08 tasks with the aim to conduct ex-post evaluation of the AI Act, to be executed between 2025 until at least 2031.
I hope that this list is helping in particular civil society, academics, and SMEs that do not have the necessary resources to monitor the whole implementation and enforcement of the AI Act on EU level. My table should allow them to identify their key priorities and to focus their scrutiny activities with regard to the Member States to those areas.
You can download the document here:
P.S.: Please let me you know if you find any mistakes. I have triple-checked every item on the list but - due to the complexity of this project - I might have overlooked something. The document will be updated regularly.
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