From Ambition to Action: Equipping the EU AI Office for AI Act Enforcement
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Prominent voices, from Nobel Prize winning laureates, to MEPs, the independent expert drafters of the Code of Practice, and many others, have been calling for a bolstered AI Office to meet the demands of AI progress and risks. The following report explores this issue further, making international comparisons and policy recommendations.
Key takeaways:
Enforcement capacity hinges on rapidly scaling the European AI Office - especially units A2 (Regulation & Compliance) and A3 (AI Safety)
Advanced, increasingly agentic models, raise systemic risks; peers like the UK’s AI Security Institute set a lower-bound benchmark for technical capacity and funding
Current EU AI Office resourcing and transparency is likely insufficient for timely and consistent AI Act implementation
Policy recommendations
Increase AI Office staff count for units A2 and A3 by end of 2026
Allocate resources to increase the number of staff in the Regulation and Compliance unit (DG CNECT A2) to 100
Allocate resources to increase the number of staff in AI Safety unit (DG CNECT A3) to 100
Increase overall AI Office budget
Utilise EU budgetary instruments such as the EU Annual Budget and Multiannual Financial Framework to raise the AI Office’s annual budget
Ensure that the annual amount allocated for units A2 and A3 exceeds the amount (approx. €78 million) allocated by the UK government to its AI Security Institute for the 2025/2026 financial year
Increase transparency of AI Office resourcing
Budget planning documents from the Commission, Council, and European Parliament should provide the following information on the resourcing of the AI Office and its respective units:
The official staff, external staff, and operational expenditure
For each of the above: currently, planned for 2025, and planned for 2026
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