Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 Authority Designation Record: Member-State Notifications and the EU-Level Registry Gap

The legal deadline for all 27 EU member states to notify the Commission of their designated national competent authorities (NCAs) and market surveillance authorities (MSAs) was August 2, 2025, as stated in Article 70(9) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 ¹ — yet as of July 4, 2026, the Commission's public register of documents contains no record of a finalized implementing act, standardized notification template, or centralized public listing of those designations ². The European Artificial Intelligence Board is formally registered as Commission Expert Group X03966 (active July 24, 2024), with all 27 member states recorded as participating in a 'Type D — Member State Authority' capacity ³ — but the granular identities of the specific national agencies they represent have not been successfully extracted from the registry ⁴.

The Staged Application Timeline: What the Official Journal States

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 was published in the Official Journal on July 12, 2024, and entered into force on August 1, 2024 ⁵. The OJ text sets out a staged application schedule: prohibited-practices provisions applied from February 2, 2025; the authorities-and-governance chapter applied from August 2, 2025 ¹. Article 70(9) specifically fixes August 2, 2025 as the member-state notification deadline for NCA designations ¹. EUR-Lex searches return 318 hits for AI Act preparatory and EU-level law documents, but few finalized national notification instruments appear in that corpus as of July 2026 ⁶. The documentary record so far points to a situation where the EU-level governance chapter has formally applied for nearly a year, while the public-facing registration of the authorities it activates remains incomplete.

The EU-Level Registry Gap: No Centralized Public Listing Located

Multiple search passes across the Commission's AI Office pages, the Press Corner, the Register of Documents, and EUR-Lex returned no centralized, public-facing dataset of member-state NCA or MSA designations ^{7 2 8}. The Commission's Register of Documents shows no record of a finalized implementing act specifying the notification template that Article 70 contemplates ². Commission Press Corner records MEX_24_4102 and MEX_24_3862 indicate ongoing coordination on AI Act governance structures but do not list a consolidated registry of all 27 designations ⁶. The AI Office is operationally structured — including a 'Regulation and Compliance' unit — and was formally established by Decision C(2024) 390 ⁹, but the public record for designations remains, in the language of the findings, "fragmented at the national legislative level" rather than consolidated at the EU level ⁷.

The European AI Board: Institutional Participation Recorded, Agency Identities Incomplete

The European Artificial Intelligence Board is formally on record as Commission Expert Group X03966, registered active July 24, 2024, with Lead DG listed as DG CNECT ³. The register confirms all 27 member states hold 'Member' status as public-authority representatives, and the mission on record is to provide expertise on AI policy — particularly for the preparation of delegated and implementing acts ³. However, the specific national agencies designated as representatives (for example, whether a given member state sends its data protection authority, its digitalization ministry, or a newly created AI body) were not successfully extracted from the registry due to UI navigation constraints and anti-bot measures encountered during research ⁴. The record is therefore silent on whether the same agencies that hold roles under GDPR, DSA, or DMA are now reappearing as AI Act competent authorities — a question the register's structure should in principle answer.

National-Level Records: Targeted Searches Return Sparse Results

Direct searches in national official gazettes indicate that many member-state designation processes remain in the legislative drafting or notification-pending stage as of mid-2026. A targeted search of Spain's Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) for the Agencia Española de Supervisión de la Inteligencia Artificial (AESIA) returned unrelated administrative resolutions (BOE-A-2023-18557, BOE-A-2023-18559) rather than a specific AI Act designation instrument ⁵. Luxembourg's Legilux gazette search for 'Intelligence artificielle Acte' returned zero hits for a specific designation instrument ⁵. These national-level gaps reinforce the finding that, nearly a year after the August 2, 2025 notification deadline, the public record of formal designation instruments is not yet consolidated — either at the EU level or, in the cases searched, at the national level.

Procurement and Vendor Support: Record Empty in Primary Registries

Searches across TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the EU Funding and Tenders Portal, and general web indices for the specific tender reference CNECT/2023/OP/0044 — identified in secondary discourse as related to AI Act support — returned no direct matches or contract award notices ⁹. The Commission's funding portal returned 'No results found' for that tender ID as of July 2026 ⁹. While centralized coordination via the AI Office is established by Decision C(2024) 390, the secondary trail for external vendor capacity-building contracts (enforcement tooling, audit support, training) remains record-empty in the primary registries searched ¹⁰. The record is silent on whether such contracts exist under different reference numbers or have not yet been awarded.

What the Record Does Not Show

• No centralized EU-level list of designated NCAs or MSAs has been located in the public record as of July 4, 2026, despite the August 2, 2025 notification deadline having passed ^{2 7}. It is not possible from the current record to state how many of the 27 member states have formally notified the Commission.
• No finalized implementing act or notification template for Article 70(9) notifications has been located in the Commission's Register of Documents ². The record is silent on whether such a template was issued informally, delayed, or is pending.
• The specific national agencies representing each member state on the European AI Board (Expert Group X03966) have not been extracted from the registry in this research phase ⁴. Concurrent affiliations with GDPR, DSA, or DMA bodies remain uncharted.
• National gazette searches were limited to Spain and Luxembourg in this phase; 25 member states' official gazettes remain unsearched for specific AI Act designation instruments ⁵.
• Lobbying and stakeholder influence on NCA designation choices: access constraints on the EU Transparency Register and the AI Office's stakeholder meeting disclosures prevented any mapping of whether industry or civil-society submissions correlate with member-state authority choices ¹¹.
• Historical comparison with GDPR/Data Act designation lags: anti-bot measures prevented a full cross-axis comparison of which member states were late in prior digital-regulation rollouts and whether the same states show similar patterns here ⁶.
• Vendor contracts for AI Act enforcement support: the record is empty for CNECT/2023/OP/0044 and no alternative contract award notices were located ⁹.