We just updated our Benchmark on national competent authorities that were or could be empowered to enforce the Data Governance Act (DGA), the Data Act, the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) and the directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the EU (NIS2) in 17 EU countries.

National authorities will oversee the application of these new EU rules. An exception is the supervision of general-purpose AI models, which was entrusted to the newly created AI Office in the European Commission.

The research shows that in general member states are still at an early stage of the designation of competent authorities for the Data Act and the AI Act, while they are moving forward with the implementation of the DGA and the transposition of the NIS2 Directive.

The research shows that:

• On the DGA, most of the surveyed member states have not yet designated competent authorities to enforce different aspects of the act, while the regulation applies since September 2023.
• On the Data Act, France was the only surveyed country which designated a competent authority (the telecoms regulator, ARCEP is responsible for enforcing the provisions related to cloud services).
• For the AI Act, only Denmark and Spain appointed their competent authorities, government agencies in both cases.
• On NIS2, Belgium and Croatia, the only surveyed countries that transposed the directive, designated a national or central cybersecurity authority. Howeever, telecoms regulators (BIPT and HAKOM respectively) will be competent for providers of electronic communications services (ECS).

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