EU AI Act – Focus On Enforcement: The EU Governance Structure

On 1 August 2024, the Regulation laying down harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (AI Act) will enter into force. As a European regulation, the AI Act will apply directly in all 27 EU member states and is intended to make a significant contribution to achieving the European digital strategy (A Europe fit for the digital age).

In this, the second article in our series on the implementation of the AI Act, we provide an overview of the European AI governance structure. Understanding this structure is important to understand the roles of the administrative bodies that will have oversight and other roles, including to adopt the more than 80 follow-up measures expected under the AI Act in the coming years (e.g. implementing acts, delegated acts, guidelines) and the opportunities the governance structure will afford to companies.