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AI is a rapidly developing family of technologies that requires
regulatory oversight and a safe and controlled space for experimentation, while ensuring
responsible innovation and integration of appropriate safeguards and risk mitigation measures.
To ensure a legal framework that promotes innovation, is future-proof and resilient to
disruption, Member States should ensure that their national competent authorities establish
at least one AI regulatory sandbox at national level to facilitate the development and testing
of innovative AI systems under strict regulatory oversight before these systems are placed on
the market or otherwise put into service. Member States could also fulfil this obligation
through participating in already existing regulatory sandboxes or establishing jointly
a sandbox with one or more Member States’ competent authorities, insofar as this
participation provides equivalent level of national coverage for the participating
Member States. AI regulatory sandboxes could be established in physical, digital or hybrid
form and may accommodate physical as well as digital products. Establishing authorities should
also ensure that the AI regulatory sandboxes have the adequate resources for their functioning,
including financial and human resources.
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