"Regulation - EU obliges countries to create entity to supervise AI" (with Filipe de Oliveira Casqueiro)

"Filipe de Oliveira Casqueiro, an Associate at SRS Legal, points out that "as it is a European regulation, it applies directly in all EU countries without the need to transpose it into national law". However, he adds, this piece of legislation "allows and enhances the issue of complementary laws regulating certain more specific aspects". Examples include "the use of remote identification systems using biometric data by security forces and the development of regulatory sandboxes".
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"The AI Act is an innovative law and occupies a regulatory space that urgently needed intervention in the light of new technological advances. However, in Portugal artificial intelligence already benefited from a specialized body of legislation that regulated it, albeit incompletely. A prime example is the General Data Protection Regulation, which regulates the processing of personal data of natural persons, even if it is carried out using AI systems," explains Filipe de Oliveira Casqueiro, an associate at SRS Legal."