This article is part of a series on the operational impacts of the EU AI Act. The full series can be accessed here, with the other articles in the series listed below.

The EU AI Act sets up an intricate governance structure with various stakeholders at both the EU and national levels to ensure its effective and coherent implementation and enforcement. Chapter VII of the AI Act provides an overview of this structure but certain details concerning specific roles, tasks and interactions can be found beyond this section. Also, Chapter VII does not mention all the actors involved in the act's implementation and enforcement.

This article focuses on each body, outlining its composition and main competences to help organizations better understand the AI Act's governance structure. While indicating every task of each stakeholder is beyond the scope of this article, the annex below navigates the AI Act's text to find their responsibilities.

Top 10 operational impacts of the EU AI Act

The overview page for the series can be accessed here.

• Subject matter, definitions, key actors and scope
• Understanding and assessing risk
• Obligations on providers of high-risk AI systems
• Obligations on nonproviders of high-risk AI systems
• Obligations for general-purpose AI models
• Governance: EU and national stakeholders
• AI Assurance across the risk categories
• Post-market monitoring, information sharing and enforcement
• Regulatory implementation and application alongside EU digital strategy
• Leveraging GDPR compliance