🇩🇪 Germany · AI Regulations
AI governance regime (EU AI Act and local frameworks), risk tiers, transparency duties, and the official authority.
As an EU member, Germany is governed by the EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689), a risk-based law applied across the bloc. It entered into force in August 2024 and applies in phases: bans on certain practices and AI-literacy duties from February 2025, general-purpose AI model obligations from August 2025, and most high-risk-system rules from August 2026/2027. National authorities oversee enforcement in Germany.
- The EU AI Act is a risk-based, EU-wide law in force since August 2024.
- Phased application: prohibitions + AI literacy (Feb 2025), GPAI obligations (Aug 2025), most high-risk rules (Aug 2026/2027).
- Obligations scale with risk (prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk, minimal-risk).
Official authorities
- EU AI Act (European Commission)
Official EU AI-regulation framework.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.
Government portals
- Federal Government of Germany — Germany's Federal Cabinet official website — policy, legislation, news, and government programs
- Federal Office for Migration (BAMF) — German visas, EU Blue Card, asylum, integration courses, and permanent residency
- Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt) — Tax ID (IdNr) registration, tax identification lookup, withholding tax refunds — the key authority for foreign taxpayers in Germany