AI regulation in Germany
Germany applies the EU AI Act directly as an EU member state, alongside its own data protection and sectoral supervisory bodies for enforcement.
EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Administered by European Commission / BNetzA and other national authorities.
- Article 5 prohibitions are in force: social scoring, untargeted facial-image scraping, emotion inference in workplaces and schools, and certain biometric categorisation and predictive policing.
- Article 50 transparency applies: people must be told when they are interacting with an AI system, and synthetic audio, image, video and text must be marked in a machine-readable way.
- General-purpose AI model obligations under Articles 51–56 apply to providers, including technical documentation and copyright policy.
- High-risk obligations — risk management, data governance, logging, human oversight, conformity assessment — are deferred, not cancelled. Systems being built now will be in scope on the new dates.
The European AI Office, alongside national market surveillance authorities in each member state. The Omnibus gave the AI Office direct investigation and on-site inspection powers, the ability to accept binding commitments, and the power to impose fines.
This page is a general orientation guide built from public sources, not legal advice, and it does not establish that any organisation complies with Germany's requirements. AIC certifies governance against its own published standard; that is a different question from legal compliance, and neither substitutes for the other. Back to the map.