In November 2024, the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (“Rijksdienst Digitale Infrastructuur”) and the Dutch Data Protection Authority (“Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens”) published their final joint advice on the supervision of AI systems under the AI Act in the Netherlands.

As part of the Knowledge Centre Data & Society’s (KCDS) fifth anniversary event, we organized a panel on the organisation of supervision under the AI Act.

In this policy brief we provide an overview of the scope of application of the AI Act, especially exemptions to the scope where national legislators may still (wish to) act. Additionally, we discuss the different authorities that Belgium must designate or establish under the AI Act and consider which Belgian authorities may be suited to fulfil this role.

The Spanish government will set up a state agency to monitor AI and supervise algorithms this year