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Article 69
Access to the pool of experts by the Member States

Chapter VII — AI Office, Section 1 — AI Office. 3 distinct duties, powers or definitions are coded from this article, applying from 2025-08-02.

Amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI), in force 2026-07-27 — about 49 words changed. The text below is the consolidated version of 27 July 2026; the 2024 text and the amending regulation are on EUR-Lex.

official text: EUR-Lex (consolidated 27 Jul 2026) · text © European Union (Decision 2011/833/EU) · coding CC BY 4.0 · data: obligations.json · Hugging Face · GitHub

The text

1. Member States may call upon experts of the scientific panel to support their enforcement activities under this Regulation.

2. The Member States may be required to pay fees for the advice and support provided by the experts at a rate equivalent to the remuneration fees applicable to the Commission pursuant to the implementing act referred to in Article 68(1).

3. The Commission shall facilitate timely access to the experts by the Member States, as needed, and ensure that the combination of support activities carried out by Union AI testing support pursuant to Article 84 and experts pursuant to this Article is efficiently organised and provides the best possible added value.

What it requires, coded

SafeLegalAI's reading of each duty in this article: who, what, from when, under which fine tier, and whether it reaches a firm, chambers, court or legal-AI vendor. Descriptive, not advice; the quoted words are the Regulation's.

  1. Art. 69(1)Support measureNot tier-specific

    Member States may call upon scientific-panel experts to support their AI Act enforcement activities.

    "Member States may call upon experts of the scientific panel to support their enforcement activities under this Regulation"
    Who
    Member State, Scientific panel
    From
    (Art. 113(b))
    Legal practice
    Institutional — Enforcement-support mechanism with indirect relevance to legal-AI providers and deployers.
    See
    Art. 68

  2. Art. 69(2)Governance institutionalNot tier-specific

    Member States may be required to pay fees for expert advice and support at a rate equivalent to Commission remuneration fees under the Article 68(1) implementing act.

    "The Member States may be required to pay fees for the advice and support provided by the experts at a rate equivalent to the remuneration fees applicable to the Commission"
    Who
    Member State
    From
    (Art. 113(b))
    Legal practice
    Institutional — Administrative funding row with indirect relevance to legal practice.
    See
    Art. 68(1)

  3. Art. 69(3)Governance institutionalNot tier-specific

    The Commission must facilitate Member States’ timely access to scientific-panel experts and organise expert support and Union AI testing support efficiently for best added value.

    "The Commission shall facilitate timely access to the experts by the Member States, as needed"
    Who
    Commission
    From
    (Art. 113(b))
    Legal practice
    Institutional — Governance coordination row with indirect relevance to legal-AI enforcement.
    See
    Art. 84

Cite

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 69 (Access to the pool of experts by the Member States), as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, consolidated text of 27 July 2026, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/2026-07-27/eng#art_69 — text © European Union; only the Official Journal is authentic. Coding: SafeLegalAI (published by Cognesio LLP), "EU AI Act, structured", safelegalai.com/regulation/eu-ai-act/article-69, accessed 2026-09-08, CC BY 4.0.