Germany: AI Act implementing law (KI-MIG) promulgated and in force

The law implementing the AI Act, whose Article 1 is the KI-MIG, was signed on 22 July 2026 and promulgated on 28 July 2026 in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl. I 2026 No. 223); under its Article 5 it enters into force the day after promulgation, i.e. on 29 July 2026 – only days before the transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act become applicable. Germany thus managed to have its supervisory structure in place in time: the central market surveillance authority is the Bundesnetzagentur, where the independent KI-Marktüberwachungskammer decides, financial-sector supervision goes to BaFin, and systems of Länder public bodies fall to the competent Land authorities.