Commission Decision of 24 January 2024 establishing the European Artificial Intelligence Office

Record EU-02 · C/2024/1459 (OJ C series); Commission document C/2024/390

Issued by: European Commission
Jurisdiction: European Union
Level · region: Supranational · Europe
Published / adopted: 2024-01-24
In force: 2024-02-21
Language: All 24 official EU languages
Official identifier: C/2024/1459 (OJ C series); Commission document C/2024/390

Summary

Establishes the European Artificial Intelligence Office within the Commission's Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology to implement and enforce the AI Act. Its tasks include developing tools, methodologies and benchmarks to evaluate general-purpose AI models, in particular very large models with systemic risks; monitoring unforeseen risks from such models, including alerts from the scientific panel; investigating possible infringements; supporting the rules on prohibited practices and high-risk systems; providing the AI Board's secretariat and facilitating codes of practice; and contributing to international cooperation on AI.

Safety topics

safety institutegeneral-purpose / frontier AIevaluation & testinginternational cooperation

Status notes

Adopted on 24 January 2024 and published in the Official Journal C series on 14 February 2024; it entered into force on 21 February 2024 (Article 9). It was adopted ahead of the AI Act, after the co-legislators' political agreement of 8 December 2023, so that preparation of the Act's implementation could start, and it says it may be revised once the Regulation is adopted. The Office's officials come from the Directorate-General's staff and its operational expenditure from the Digital Europe Programme's specific objective on AI. It is not a European Office within the meaning of the Financial Regulation. As of September 2026 the Office has more than 125 staff in six units, among them unit A3 'AI Safety', and two advisers, a Lead Scientific Adviser and an International Affairs Adviser. Under the powers the AI Act gives the Commission it enforces the rules for general-purpose AI models: it can evaluate models, request information and measures from providers and, in case of infringement, restrict a model's public availability and issue direct fines.

Sources

Open the official source https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1459/oj/eng

Secondary source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-decision-establishing-european-ai-office

Local copy

Archived. Saved with a headless browser because the plain download looked incomplete. A source changed since the previous snapshot; both versions are kept. Last attempt 2026-10-17 18:20:27 UTC

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Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-17 · official-url-fetched

Stored and read in this run: the EUR-Lex text of the Decision (HTML and PDF of the OJ C publication), which confirms the title, the date of 24 January 2024, the OJ C reference C/2024/1459 of 14 Feb 2024, the document number C/2024/390, the EUR-Lex status 'In force', entry into force on 21 Feb 2024 (Article 9) and the tasks in the summary; and the Commission's library page for the Decision (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, secondary source), which gives the publication date of 24 January 2024 and the placement within DG CONNECT. Also stored: the Commission's AI Office page (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu, last updated 8 September 2026), which gives the Office's staff, units and advisers and its enforcement of the AI Act's rules for general-purpose AI models, including fines; the notes on these points rest on it, not on the Decision. The page's printable PDF version is not stored, because the site's robots.txt does not allow automated downloads of it. Version 1's statements on the enforceability date of 2 Aug 2026 and on the Digital Omnibus widening the Office's remit are in neither stored text and were removed from the notes.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 10 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "eu-ai-act", "id": "EU-03"}, {"slug": "eu-scientific-panel-implementin → [{"slug": "eu-ai-act", "id": "EU-03"}, {"slug": "eu-scientific-panel-implementin — two-way link added: EU-17 link(s) to EU-022026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17notes: Adopted 24 Jan 2024. EUR-Lex metadata gives an entry-into-force date of 21 Feb 2 → Adopted on 24 January 2024 and published in the Official Journal C series on 14 — rewritten from the Decision; the staff, units, advisers and enforcement powers now rest on the stored AI Office page; the 2 Aug 2026 date and the Digital Omnibus remit removed2026-10-17-recheck-europe-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17summary: Establishes the European AI Office within DG CONNECT as the Commission's centre → Establishes the European Artificial Intelligence Office within the Commission's — rewritten from Articles 1, 3 and 7 and recital 6; version 1's claims that the Decision lets the Office request corrective measures and impose fines, coordinate the Scientific Panel and Advisory Forum, and lead EU international engagement, and that it has an AI Safety unit (A3), are not in the Decision2026-10-17-recheck-europe-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17official_identifier: C/2024/1459 (OJ C series); Commission document reference reported as C(2024) 390 → C/2024/1459 (OJ C series); Commission document C/2024/390 — EUR-Lex gives the Commission document number as C/2024/390; the hedge 'reported as C(2024) 390' is replaced by the stored value2026-10-17-recheck-europe-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

European Commission. Commission Decision of 24 January 2024 establishing the European Artificial Intelligence Office [C/2024/1459 (OJ C series); Commission document C/2024/390]. 2024-01-24. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/1459/oj/eng. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/EU-02/2026-10-17/official.html retrieved 2026-10-17 18:20:35 UTC, SHA-256 f7c91509813f297cbfa371c6aa56bbbd843717e0135f49983398e39a46dbea70. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record EU-02.

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