EU AI Act: First Year Implementation Assessment

EU AI Act: First Year Implementation Assessment

The EU AI Act entered into force with staggered compliance deadlines, and this report assesses the first year of practical implementation across member states.

Conformity assessment bodies remain understaffed relative to the volume of high-risk systems entering the market, creating a backlog that undercuts the regulation's enforcement timeline.

National regulators have taken divergent approaches to defining 'high-risk' in borderline cases, suggesting the need for clearer guidance from the AI Office.

Early enforcement actions have concentrated on transparency obligations rather than the more contentious risk-classification disputes, which remain largely untested.

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