The problem this service answers
You know that obligations are coming, that some already apply, and that your sector regulator has its own reading of them. What you do not have is a calendar that says what concerns you and by when.
Regulation on this subject arrives in stages, and the general framework is only part of the picture. A financial supervisor, a health authority, a data protection regulator and a sector body can each publish expectations that apply to the same system, sometimes with different vocabulary for the same requirement. Following only the headline text leaves most of the obligation invisible.
Timing is the practical difficulty. Compliance work on a deployed system takes months: documentation to assemble, risk assessments to run, contractual clauses to renegotiate with suppliers, sometimes technical changes. Discovering an obligation when it takes effect means discovering it too late, which is why the monitoring has to run against a calendar rather than a news feed.
What the assignment covers
This watch covers the texts that apply to your use of artificial intelligence and the bodies that interpret them. That includes general frameworks such as the European legislation on artificial intelligence, data protection rules, sector-specific requirements, standardisation work, and the positions taken by supervisory authorities in guidance, consultations, decisions and enforcement actions. Guidance often matters more in practice than the text itself.
We work from your actual uses. A general regulatory summary is of limited value; what changes a decision is knowing which of your systems falls into which category, which obligations attach to that category, and which of them you already satisfy. The watch is therefore mapped onto your inventory of uses, and each new element is reported against the uses it concerns.
The ethical dimension is treated alongside the legal one, because it drives requirements that no text has yet fixed. Expectations from clients, employees, works councils, funders and the public on transparency, human oversight, training data and automated decisions are increasingly written into contracts and tenders before they appear in legislation.
How we work on it
- We map your uses of artificial intelligence and the jurisdictions that apply to them.
- We identify the texts, regulators and standardisation bodies relevant to each use.
- We monitor legislative work, guidance, consultations, decisions and enforcement continuously.
- We convert each development into a dated implication for the uses concerned.
- We maintain a compliance calendar showing what applies from when.
- We alert immediately when a deadline moves or a regulator publishes a position affecting you.
Where the information comes from
Sources are selected with you at the start of the assignment and reviewed as the subject evolves.
- Legislative and regulatory texts, implementing acts and official publications
- Guidance, opinions, consultations, decisions and enforcement actions from supervisory authorities
- Sector regulator publications and professional codes applicable to your activity
- Standardisation work, technical standards and certification frameworks
- Legal analysis, parliamentary material and specialised professional press
Possible deliverables
The format is chosen with you. A single assignment can combine several of them.
- A compliance calendar mapping obligations, dates and the uses concerned
- A monthly regulatory bulletin covering texts, guidance and decisions
- Immediate alerts when a deadline changes or a regulator publishes a position
- A note on the ethical expectations appearing in tenders and contracts
- A synthesis prepared for a board, an audit committee or a works council
Who this service is designed for
What this service does not promise
This is a monitoring service, not legal advice. We report texts, positions and deadlines with their sources and their implications; the legal qualification of your specific situation is the work of your counsel, which this watch is designed to support.
How to start
Describe your uses of artificial intelligence, your sector and the jurisdictions concerned. We propose a monitoring perimeter and a compliance calendar structure before any work starts.