IrelandEuropean Union (Artificial Intelligence) (Designation) Regulations 2025
In force since .
An AI governance rule binding government bodies.
- Private right of action
- No
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- This Regulation designates Ireland's national competent authorities, market surveillance authorities and notifying authorities under the EU AI Act; it creates no separate duty on an AI developer or deployer beyond identifying which State body enforces the Regulation against them.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Oifig IS na hÉireann (AI Office of Ireland) (guidance, recorded ).
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Oifig IS na hÉireann (the AI Office of Ireland), as the single point of contact for Article 70(2) under section 42 of the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026 and as a market surveillance authority for Article 70(1); the market surveillance authorities named in Schedule 1 as national competent authorities for the points of Section A of Annex I (the Health and Safety Authority, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, the Marine Survey Office, the Commission for Communications Regulation, the Commission for Railway Regulation and the Health Products Regulatory Authority); the Central Bank of Ireland and the Data Protection Commission as market surveillance authorities under Article 74; Coimisiún na Meán for Article 50 where the provider or deployer is an intermediary, audiovisual media, sound broadcasting, relevant designated online or hosting service; and, under Schedules 2 and 3, the Data Protection Commission, the Commission for Communications Regulation, the National Transport Authority, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, the Workplace Relations Commission, the Health Service Executive, the Central Bank of Ireland and Coimisiún na Meán for the points of Annex III and Article 5(1) they list.
Settledness
- As of
- Guidance link
- https://aioffice.gov.ie/national-competent-authorities/
- Guidance body
- Oifig IS na hÉireann (AI Office of Ireland)
- Open questions
- Which authority supervises Article 50 of the AI Act for a provider or deployer that is not an intermediary service, an audiovisual media service, a sound broadcasting service, a relevant designated online service or a hosting service, and does the designation of Oifig IS na hÉireann as a market surveillance authority for Article 70(1) in regulation 4(4) cover it?
- What activity is 'in direct connection with the provision of financial services' for the Central Bank of Ireland's designation under Article 74(6), when a regulated financial service provider uses the same high-risk AI system partly outside financial services?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
These Regulations designate Ireland's national competent authorities, market surveillance authorities and notifying authorities under the EU AI Act. They create no independent duty on a developer or deployer to create, keep or produce a log or record; any documentation duty a regulated party owes, and any power a designated authority may exercise, comes from the AI Act's own text rather than from this designation instrument.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Made under section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 to give further effect to the EU AI Act, these Regulations designate national competent authorities, market surveillance authorities and notifying authorities for the purposes of that Act. The European Union (Artificial Intelligence) (Designation) (Amendment) Regulations 2026, given under Official Seal on , substituted regulation 3 and replaced the Schedule with three Schedules.
Regulation 3, as substituted, designates each market surveillance authority named in Schedule 1 as the national competent authority for the purposes of Article 70(1), for its own point of Section A of Annex I to the AI Act. Schedule 1 names the Health and Safety Authority, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, the Marine Survey Office, the Commission for Communications Regulation, the Commission for Railway Regulation and the Health Products Regulatory Authority.
Oifig IS na hÉireann is designated as a market surveillance authority for the purposes of Article 70(1). Coimisiún na Meán is the market surveillance authority for Article 50, insofar as that Article relates to providers or deployers of AI systems, where the provider or deployer is an intermediary service, an audiovisual media service, a sound broadcasting service, a relevant designated online service or a hosting service.
The Central Bank of Ireland is the market surveillance authority for Article 74(6), insofar as that paragraph applies to the placing on the market, putting into service or use of a high-risk AI system by a regulated financial service provider in direct connection with the provision of financial services. The Data Protection Commission is the market surveillance authority for Article 74(8).
Schedule 2 designates, for the points of Annex III it lists, the Data Protection Commission, the Commission for Communications Regulation, the National Transport Authority, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, the Workplace Relations Commission, the Health Service Executive and the Central Bank of Ireland as market surveillance authorities.
Schedule 3 designates, for the points of Article 5(1) it lists, Coimisiún na Meán, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Data Protection Commission and the Workplace Relations Commission as market surveillance authorities. Regulation 5 designates notifying authorities for the purposes of Article 28. The Irish National Accreditation Board carries out the assessment and monitoring referred to in Article 28(1) in relation to the notifying authorities designated under regulation 5(1)(a), (b) and (d).
Section 42 of the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026 designates Oifig IS na hÉireann as the single point of contact for the purposes of Article 70(2) and revokes regulation 6 of these Regulations. The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026 came into operation on , other than paragraphs (a) and (e) of the definition of applicable market surveillance authority in section 78, under the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Act 2026 (Commencement) Order 2026.
The Regulations create no separate duty on an AI developer or deployer; they identify which State body enforces the AI Act against one.
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