The European Artificial Intelligence Board (the "AI Board") is a key advisory body that was created by the AI Act, which took effect on 1 August 2024.
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, ensuring the effective implementation of the AI Act 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 will be 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 on innovation policy, 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
- 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 (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 General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.
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