A Robust Governance for the AI Act: AI Office, AI Board, Scientific Panel, and National Authorities
It addresses the enforcement challenge of AI regulation for policymakers and stakeholders in the EU, focusing on institutional coordination rather than technical innovation.
The article explains the governance framework for implementing and enforcing the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) through institutional bodies like the AI Office and AI Board, and proposes a normative model to ensure uniform execution of the legislation.
Regulation is nothing without enforcement. This particularly holds for the dynamic field of emerging technologies. Hence, this article has two ambitions. First, it explains how the EU's new Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) will be implemented and enforced by various institutional bodies, thus clarifying the governance framework of the AIA. Second, it proposes a normative model of governance, providing recommendations to ensure uniform and coordinated execution of the AIA and the fulfilment of the legislation. Taken together, the article explores how the AIA may be implemented by national and EU institutional bodies, encompassing longstanding bodies, such as the European Commission, and those newly established under the AIA, such as the AI Office. It investigates their roles across supranational and national levels, emphasizing how EU regulations influence institutional structures and operations. These regulations may not only directly dictate the structural design of institutions but also indirectly request administrative capacities needed to enforce the AIA.