AI Board

Governance and coordination

The role of Board in shaping EU AI policy

The AI Board includes representatives from each EU Member State and is supported by the AI Office within the European Commission, which serves as the Board's Secretariat. It is chaired by one of the EU Member States. The Board plays a crucial role in the governance framework set out by the AI Act and strengthened in the Apply AI Strategy. Among others, it is ensuring the effective implementation of the AI Act and support the coordination of national AI strategies across the European Union. The European Data Protection Supervisor, and EEA-EFTA countries, participate in Board meetings as observers.

The AI Board helps coordinate and ensure cooperation between EU Member States, aiming for consistent implementation and application of the AI Act across the Union. It helps coordinate national competent authorities responsible for enforcing the Regulation, and it collects and shares technical and regulatory expertise, but also best practices. There are sub-groups that serve as platforms for collaboration for national authorities and subgroups that will focus on AI policy topics.

A key responsibility of the AI Board is to provide advice and assistance with implementing the AI Act, including discussing guidelines, draft delegated and implementing acts. These are essential to make sure that the AI Act’s provisions are easy to understand, implement and enforce. 

However, the Board's responsibilities go beyond regulation. It plays a larger and proactive role in shaping AI policy across the EU by giving advice to Member States on AI innovation policies, the international AI partnerships and other strategic AI related matters. This broad scope helps ensure that the EU stays competitive in AI. 

Through its work, the European Artificial Intelligence Board supports the development of a coherent and forward-looking AI policy framework, ensuring that AI technologies benefit all European citizens while upholding the highest standards of safety and ethics.

AI board meetings

• Eighth meeting - 11 June 2026
• Seventh meeting - 20 March 2026
• Sixth meeting - 04 December 2025
• Fifth meeting - 24 October 2025
• Fourth meeting - 30 June 2025
• Third meeting - 24 March 2025
• Second meeting - 10 December 2024
• First meeting  - 10 September 2024

Visit the Register of Commission Expert Groups and Other Similar Entities to find the agenda, the list of participants and the minutes of the meetings.

Documents endorsed by the AI Board

Interplay between the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) & In vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR) and the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) (PDF) - This document, developed jointly by the AI Board sub-group on interplay between AIA and MDR/IVDR and Medical Devices Coordination Group New Technologies formation, offers an initial set of answers to the most frequently asked questions about how the AI Act and the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) or the In vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR) work together. It will be regularly updated and expanded.

AI Board Adequacy Assessment Code of Practice General-Purpose AI (GPAI) (PDF) - On 1 August, the Commission and the AI Board have confirmed that the GPAI Code of Practice, developed by independent experts, is an adequate voluntary tool for providers of GPAI models to demonstrate compliance with the AI Act. See also the Commission Opinion on the assessment of the GPAI Code of Practice (PDF).

AI Board Adequacy Assessment Code of Practice Transparency of AI-Generated Content (PDF) - On 9 July, the Commission and the AI Board have confirmed that the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content is an adequate voluntary tool for providers and deployers of generative AI systems to ensure compliance with the AI Act transparency obligations related to marking and labelling of AI-generated. See also the  Commission Opinion on the assessment of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content (PDF).

Harmonised Standards for High-Risk AI Systems under the AI Act: Progress and Availability - This document has been prepared by the AI Board sub-group on Standards in response to the European Commission Standardisation Request C(2025) 3871, repealing C(2023)3215. It guides a public audience to: 

1. What is the EU AI Act?
2. What qualifies as high-risk AI?
3. Where does GPAI (general-purpose AI) fit?
4. What are the European Commission’s standardisation requests?
5. How CEN (European Committee for Standardization) and CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization) via JTC 21 (their Joint Technical Committee on AI) are organising the work?
6. How an OJEU (Official Journal of the European Union) citation turns a European Standard into a harmonised one that offers a presumption of conformity with legal requirements?

Report on the possible elements of forthcoming standardisation requests, to comply with Article 40 of the AI Act - This document has been prepared by the AI Board sub-group on Standards. It presents a structured analysis of where national respondents see a need for additional or clarified standards under Article 40 of the AI Act in the next 12 months. It draws on an internal survey conducted by the AI Board standards subgroup, in which each national delegation submitted one consolidated response after consulting authorities, standardisation experts, industry, research and, where appropriate, civil society.

Report on the ongoing AI standardisation activities in other international fora - This document has been prepared by the AI Board sub-group on Standards. It offers an overview of the international standardisation activities related to AI and its applications, specifically those pertinent to the compliance obligations for high-risk AI systems under the AI Act. The main activities/projects being tracked are those from the main international standardisation bodies such as ISO, IEC, ETSI, ITU and other organisations involved in the development of guidelines or technical standards.The analysis is focused on the scope defined in the Standardisation Request areas.