Royal Decree 729/2023 of 22 August approving the Statute of the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Creates the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA), a state agency based in A Coruña, and approves its statute. The Agency supervises, advises, raises awareness and trains public and private bodies on implementing national and European AI rules, with inspection, verification and sanction functions under the applicable European rules. Its competences include promoting test environments for AI systems, a voluntary certification framework, supervising AI systems used by public administrations, and supervising AI systems that may pose significant risks to health, safety, equal treatment and other fundamental rights.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Spanish text.

Safety topics

Status notes

Approved by the Council of Ministers on 22 Aug 2023, published in BOE no. 210 on 2 Sep 2023 and in force from 3 Sep 2023. It was processed urgently under a Council of Ministers agreement of 13 Jun 2023, so that the Agency could prepare for the obligations of the then proposed EU AI Act. AESIA is attached to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through the State Secretariat for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and was to start operating when its Governing Council was constituted, within three months of entry into force. Its powers are without prejudice to those of the Ministry of Health and the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.boe.es/eli/es/rd/2023/08/22/729

Secondary source: https://aesia.digital.gob.es/en/es

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — the record had none; no English translation by the BOE or another public body was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17notes: Decree dated 22 Aug 2023, published in BOE on 2 Sep 2023, in force 3 Sep 2023. A → Approved by the Council of Ministers on 22 Aug 2023, published in BOE no. 210 on — the remarks on the 2025 draft AI governance law and the European Commission's list of single points of contact are not in this record's stored files and were removed (the draft law is ES-03, already related); the urgent procedure, the attachment to the ministry, the start of operations and the reservation for health authorities were added from the decree2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["evaluation & testing", "accountability & liability", "risk-based classificatio → ["evaluation & testing", "accountability & liability", "risk-based classificatio — 'public-sector use' added: the Statute gives the Agency ex officio supervision of AI systems used by public administrations, with binding reports on whether they continue2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17summary: Creates and sets the statute of AESIA, based in A Coruña and the first national → Creates the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA — rewritten from Articles 2, 4 and 10 of the Statute; the claim that AESIA is 'the first national AI supervisory agency in the EU' is not in any stored file and was removed; adds supervision of AI used by public administrations and of systems posing significant risks to health, safety and fundamental rights2026-10-17-recheck-europe-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Spanish draft AI governance law Spain · Draft / proposed

Spanish AI regulatory sandbox decree Spain · Lapsed

Citation

Government of Spain (Council of Ministers; Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation). Royal Decree 729/2023 of 22 August approving the Statute of the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence [Real Decreto 729/2023; BOE-A-2023-18911 (BOE núm. 210)]. 2023-08-22. https://www.boe.es/eli/es/rd/2023/08/22/729. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/ES-01/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 14:02:44 UTC, SHA-256 9c378ac004e31e01a9d2660190881a71ddae8bf0b479608372a073347f225803. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record ES-01.

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