EU AI Act Regulatory Directory

This tool identifies competent authorities responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. This includes three types of authorities: market surveillance and notifying authorities, together referred to as national competent authorities, as well as national authorities protecting fundamental rights.

Each country entry provides an overview of such authorities and indicates their current status of designation. The listings clarify whether the authorities have been officially designated, identified through draft legislative proposal or other formal communication but are pending official designation, or not officially identified. In accordance with the EU AI Act, all EU member states must designate or establish their national competent authorities by 2 Aug. 2025.

The current outline is based on publicly available information as of early January 2026 and will be updated to reflect changes in designation status across EU member states. If you have comments about this tool, please share it with us at research@iapp.org.

The IAPP additionally published an EU AI Act 101 chart, which provides an overview of the AI Act's most important features and requirements.

EU institutions

Authorities at the EU level

The EU AI Act designates the European Data Protection Supervisor as the competent authority — both market surveillance and notifying authority — in relation to AI systems used or deployed by EU institutions, agencies, offices and bodies.

Furthermore, the EU AI Office holds the powers of a market surveillance authority concerning AI systems that are based on a general-purpose AI model when both the model and the system are developed by the same provider.