Source: OJ L, 2025/454, 10.3.2025Current language: EN
- Artificial intelligence act
Implementing acts
- Scientific panel of independent experts
Article 19 Handling of qualified alerts
Summary What does Article 19 of the Scientific panel of independent experts say?
This article deals with what happens after the scientific panel issues a qualified alert to the AI Office, effectively describing the downstream response process.
It establishes the AI Office as the decision-making body that evaluates each qualified alert and determines whether to act or close it.
The article connects directly to Article 18, which governs how the scientific panel issues qualified alerts, and feeds into the broader enforcement framework of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 by triggering potential investigative or supervisory measures against providers of general-purpose AI models.
Important points:
- The AI Office is required to evaluate qualified alerts and decide whether to launch measures or close the alert, within two weeks of receiving a complete qualified alert.
- The AI Office must inform the Board before launching any measures, and may request additional information from the scientific panel, which pauses the two-week processing clock until that information is provided.
- Where the AI Office decides to launch measures, the Secretariat, in consultation with the Chair of the scientific panel, shall appoint a rapporteur and two contributors to advise the Commission on the adoption of those measures.
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The AI Office shall evaluate the qualified alerts issued pursuant to Article 90(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and take a decision whether to launch any measures as provided for in Articles 91 to 93 of that Regulation. Where the AI Office decides not to launch any measures as provided for in Articles 91 to 93, it shall close the qualified alert.
The AI Office shall process the qualified alert within two weeks from the receipt of the complete qualified alert. At any time before taking its decision, the AI Office may require the requesting member of the scientific panel to provide additional information to substantiate the request. In this case the qualified alert shall not be considered complete until the additional information has been provided.
Before launching the measures referred to in paragraph 1, the AI Office shall inform the Board in accordance with Article 90(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
Where the AI Office decides to launch a measure pursuant to Articles 91 to 93 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the Secretariat, in consultation with the Chair of the scientific panel shall appoint a rapporteur and two contributors responsible to advise the Commission in the adoption of the measures.
Relevant recitals
Recital 10 Issuance of qualified alerts
To ensure that the scientific panel can effectively issue qualified alerts to the AI Office pursuant to Article 90 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the conditions, procedures and detailed arrangements for the issuance of such qualified alerts should be set out. The AI Office should provide a secure interface through which the scientific panel can transmit qualified alerts and the evidence supporting such alerts. Given the relevance and possible implications of a qualified alert for a provider of a general-purpose AI model, such an alert should require a decision by at least a simple majority of the members of the scientific panel.
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