In the Netherlands, the government is working on a proposal for the national supervisory structure for the supervision on the EU AI Act. It is expected that multiple supervisory authorities will be designated for different components of the EU AI Act. Which supervisory authority is competent in a specific area will depend on the context in which the AI system is being used or developed. The distribution of supervisory roles will be enshrined in Dutch legislation.
The extent to which the Dutch Data Protecion Authority (AP) will supervise the AI Act is therefore not yet fixed. However, as coordinating AI supervisor, in collaboration with other supervisory authorities, we are already contributing to the preparations. In May, the AP, together with the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (RDI), issued an advisory report to the Dutch government on the establishment of a supervisory structure for the supervision of the AI Act. This role of the AP as coordinating AI supervisor is carried out by the Department for the Coordination of Algorithmic Oversight (DCA).
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) is already the supervisory authority for personal data processing using algorithms.