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EnforcementAuthorities June 26, 2026

Who enforces the Act in your country: the designation map, one year late

Roughly a third of Member States are fully designated; the rest of the map is still filling in.

ANALYSIS — EDITORIAL, NOT THE LEGAL RECORD

Member States were required to designate their national competent authorities by 2 August 2025. Nearly a year past that deadline, the picture remains uneven: a minority are fully designated, a larger group is partial or pending, and a handful are unclear.

The unevenness is a feature to surface, not a footnote. A firm operating across several markets faces different points of contact, different levels of readiness, and in some places genuine ambiguity about where a complaint would land.

The Commission maintains the Article 70 list of single points of contact and the Article 77 list of fundamental-rights authorities. For general-purpose AI the Omnibus shifted supervision to the AI Office centrally, but for most systems the enforcing body is still national — and still, in places, undefined.

Sources: Art. 70 · Art. 77 · verified 2026-07-16
Analysis is original writing by the euaicompliant desk. Not legal advice — the binding text is on EUR-Lex.
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