European Commission Establishes AI Act Oversight Bodies as Ireland Takes EU Presidency
EC announces Advisory Forum and Scientific Panel members to oversee AI Act compliance, as Ireland assumes EU presidency with AI summit planned for October.
European Commission Forms Key AI Act Oversight Bodies
The European Commission has announced the members of two critical oversight bodies established under the AI Act: the Advisory Forum and the Scientific Panel.
The Scientific Panel comprises 60 members and is expected to act independently while playing an active role in the oversight of General-Purpose AI (GPAI) models. The Advisory Forum currently has 172 members and was conceived as a bipartisan forum of technical experts with balanced representation of commercial and non-commercial representation.
Code of Practice on AI-Generated Content Published
The European Commission published the final Code of Practice on marking and labelling of AI-generated content, which operationalises the AI Act’s transparency requirements. OpenAI has been the first actor to publicly announce that it will sign the Code of Practice on marking and labelling of AI-generated content.
OpenAI also published its Frontier Governance Framework, which serves as its Safety and Security Framework under the General Purpose AI Code of Practice.
Ireland Takes EU Presidency with AI Focus
Starting July 1st, Ireland will take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union after Cyprus. Ireland’s presidency programme aims to strengthen the EU’s capacities in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and announces a forthcoming AI Summit to take place in Dublin on 14 October 2026.
European Tech Sovereignty Push
The European Commission published its Tech Sovereignty Package, headlined by two policy documents and two legislative initiatives: the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) and the Chips Act 2.0. The CADA proposes to triple the EU’s data center capacity within the next 5-7 years, including by speeding up environmental assessments.
National AI Initiatives and Export Controls
Germany announced the establishment of an AI Security Institute. However, the EU faces challenges on the global stage: Anthropic disabled foreign access to the Mythos model after an export control directive by the US government which suspended access to Anthropic frontier models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, effectively shutting down European Union access to these models.
Earlier, Anthropic had expanded the range of actors with access to its Mythos frontier model under Project Glasswing to include eight EU countries, including Germany.
Liability Ruling on AI Tools
A regional court in Germany ruled that Google can be held directly liable for incorrect answers created by its AI overview tool.