SwitzerlandCouncil of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Swiss Signature
This is a Council of Europe treaty, not European Union law. The Council of Europe is a separate international organization, with wider and different membership than the EU.
Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Democracy and the Rule of Law (CETS No. 225), signed by Switzerland
Signed, with consent not yet expressed, dated , as of .
An AI governance rule.
- Audit expectation
- continuous
- Who audits it
- Regulator, Self
- Where the report goes
- Kept
Where it has got to
The text described here is Certified copy of the Convention in its corrected version per the Committee of Ministers' decision at the 1527th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies. That print is CETS 225, published .
The stage above is recorded at www.coe.int.
The Treaty Office chart of signatures and ratifications, read with a stated status as of , records one ratification in total (the European Union, ) against twenty signatures not followed by ratification, and entry into force requires five ratifications including at least three Council of Europe member states. So the treaty has not entered into force for any state and no state has done more than sign it.
The source link is the Treaty Office's own detail page for the Convention rather than the certified copy itself, because rm.coe.int refuses the crawler outright.
What it requires
- Each Party to the Convention must adopt or maintain measures to ensure that activities within the lifecycle of artificial intelligence systems are consistent with its obligations to protect human rights (Article 4), that adequate transparency and oversight requirements are in place (Article 8), that accountability and responsibility for adverse impacts are ensured (Article 9), and that equality and the prohibition of discrimination are respected (Article 10); Article 1(2) has each Party give effect to the Convention through legislative, administrative or other measures.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- GOVERN 1.2The characteristics of trustworthy AI are integrated into organizational policies, processes, procedures, and practices.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Regulator, Data subject
What the log must hold
System identity, Decision basis
Logging duty
The Convention never uses the words log or record. Article 14(2)(a) obliges each Party to adopt measures ensuring that relevant information about AI systems that can significantly affect human rights, and their usage, is documented and provided to authorised bodies, and Article 16(2)(f) requires the risk-management measures to include documentation of risks, impacts and the risk management approach. That information cannot be provided or shown without a record the operator keeps. The duty binds the Party to adopt measures; it reaches an operator only through the Party's implementing law, and Switzerland has not ratified.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- Article 14(2)(a) and (b); Article 16(2)(f) and Article 16(3)
- Trigger
- high_risk_systems
- automated_decisions
What this law does
Switzerland signed the Council of Europe's Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law in Strasbourg on , the first internationally binding treaty aimed at ensuring that AI systems remain consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
Switzerland has signed but has not yet ratified the Convention; on the Federal Council decided to pursue ratification and to make the amendments to Swiss law that would require.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates content with AI, deploys a chatbot or makes high-risk automated decisions.
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