Mr. Liam Herrick:

The mechanism envisaged is complex but strong at the same time. It is a bit difficult at this stage without having full visibility of what the notifying authorities, notifying bodies and the national AI office will look like. In a crude shape, the AI Act envisages the different roles everybody has, specifically engaging with the questions about design technology. The role contemplated for Article 77 bodies such as ours is somewhat modest in the system. It is effectively that if concerns are raised about the fundamental rights impact of a particular technology, we would then have a power to seek information about its operation and interrogate that further. The primary mechanisms will be those under the notifying authorities and bodies. It is a question of seeing the design. We are confident a lot of thought has gone into the basic architecture of this. It is very much having a central focus on the design of the technology itself and building in fundamental rights considerations at the design stage, including carrying out the fundamental rights impact assessment of anything in the category of high risk.