European AI Act – Compliance and Enforcement

The AI Act has now been approved by the European Parliament and the Council, and is about to become binding law across all Member States of the EU. It is part of a very ambitious package of EU legislation that aims to “foster trustworthy AI in Europe and beyond, by ensuring that AI systems respect fundamental rights, safety, and ethical principles and by addressing risks of very powerful and impactful AI models”.

These aims will not be achieved solely by passing legislation. However good the law on the books might be, it will not mean much if it is not accompanied by effective compliance mechanisms and is not enforced consistently and predictably. The AI Act and related legislation puts in place an innovative and highly complex compliance and enforcement framework. It relies on companies self-assessing, private organisations setting standards, private and public bodies exercising oversight, both at national and EU level. It introduces novel institutional constellations and imposes unique compliance procedures.

This Workshop will bring together legal experts to explore the compliance and enforcement mechanisms in the AI Act and related legislation. It will provide an early opportunity for public authorities, industry, scholars and the general public to find out what they need to know as the AI Act begins to apply.

When: 19 September 2024

• in Lund: 9.00 to 15.30 CET
• online: 9.25 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 15.30  CET

Where: 

• Holger Crafoord Center, Lund University School of Economics and Management, Tycho Brahes väg 1,  Lund Sweden.
• Online. We will send a link some days before the event.

Spoken language: English

Registration: To participate is free of charge. Sign up for online, or premilinary for on-site participation at ai.lu.se. 
Read more below.

Programme

09.00 Fika & registration

09.25 Online meeting open

10.00 Morning session - also online

Keynote speaker: Lilian Edwards, Professor of Law, Innovation and Society, Newcastle University, Alan Turing Institute, and Ada Lovelace Institute.

The relation between the AI Act data protection 
Jonas Ledendal, Bussines Law, Lund University, Sweden and Hajo Michael Holt, Business Administration, Umeå University, Sweden

Compliance with the prohibition of discrimination
Anna Nilsson, Department of Law, Lund University, Sweden

Fundamental Rights Impact Assessmets under the AI Act
Eduardo Gill-Pedro, Associate senior lecturer, Department of Law, Lund University

The interplay between Codes and Standards in the AI Act
Rebecca Schmidt, Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University

TBD
Katja de Vries, Department of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden

Navigating the AI Act from a Software Perspective
Matthias Wagner, PhD Student, Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden

12.00 Lunch

13.15 Afternoon session - also online

Panel and Q&A on compliance

European AI Supervision and Innovation Support by Competent
Hans Hedin, The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority

Qualified transparency in the AI Act – on information disclosure for oversight authorities
Kasia Söderlund, Technology and Society, Lund University

The AI liability regime as means of private enforcement of the AI Act
Béatrice Schütte, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki

Panel on Enforcement for Compliance

15.30 Q&A, fika and mingle

Registration 

To participate is free of charge. 

Preliminary registration for particitation on site in Lund: Formal registration for participation on site in Lund will open in the middle of August, but if you sign up now we will give you a couple of days head start before we open the registration.

Particitation online: If you want to participate online you can sign up for real from now and we will send yon an access link to the zoom-platform some days before the event.

You sign up at: lu.se/2024-09-19/registration1

Organisation

• Eduardo Gill-Pedro, Associate senior lecturer, Department of Law, Lund University
• Johan Axhamn, Senior lecturer, Department of Business Law, Lund University
• Jonas Ledendal, Senior lecturer, Department of Business Law, Lund University
• Stefan Larsson, Senior lecturer, Department of Technology and Society
• Anna Nilsson, Associate senior lecturer, Department of Law
• jonas [dot] wisbrant [at] control [dot] lth [dot] se (subject: AI_in_EU_LAW_26_sept) (Jonas Wisbrant), AI Lund

• "Fika-to-fika" means that we start the day, not to early, with a Swedish fika with coffee and refreshment and end the day not to late with an afternoon "fika" with the ambition to leave plenty of room in the programme for discussions and networking.