On Monday 10 March, the European Commission published its implementing act in the Official Journal of the EU, setting up a scientific panel of independent experts to help the AI Office implement the Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI Act).
According to the text, the experts who will be included on the panel must be “neither an employee nor in a contractual relationship with such a provider throughout the term of office” and their declarations of interest will be made public. They will be appointed for a renewable two-year term.
The Commission may appoint a Chair and Vice-Chair of the panel, recommended by a simple majority of the members.
It will be made up of a maximum of 60 people from the EU or EEA, and each Member State must nominate one candidate. These candidates will then be chosen by the Commission and the European AI Board.
The prerogatives of the panel of experts include the possibility of issuing “qualified alerts” as provided for in the AI Act, in the event of a suspicion about a concrete risk of a general-purpose AI model. The AI Office then has two weeks to determine whether any action needs to be taken.
The other task of this panel will be to support the market surveillance authorities, which are to be designated by the Member States by 2 August, and to provide assistance to the Office.
The Commission will shortly be launching a call for expressions of interest to select the experts.
To see the implementing act, go to https://aeur.eu/f/fvw (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)