Federal government adopts implementing law for AI regulation

Marian Lunnebach

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17.02.2026

The German government has agreed on a Implementation Act for the AI Regulation was agreed. The aim is to gradually implement the European AI Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). The AI Regulation aims to establish a standardised legal framework for the development, placing on the market, commissioning and use of AI systems in the European Union. Although it applies directly, it requires national regulations for implementation. In particular, official responsibilities had to be clarified at national level.

 

According to the Federal Government's plans, a coordination centre is now to be created at the Federal Network Agency to support all existing market surveillance authorities and notifying authorities. To this end, AI expertise is to be pooled centrally and made available to the authorities. Another important point was the distribution of responsibilities with regard to state-independent media supervision and the responsibility of the federal states in the press and broadcasting sector. This concerns, for example, the labelling of deepfakes and AI-generated news texts. The state media authorities should continue to be responsible here.

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