EU AI Office
Scorecard
Regulator behind the GPAI Code of Practice; external-evaluator obligations enforceable since August 2026.
Government, Brussels, BE. Confidence med. Domains: bio, cyber, misuse, assurance. Scores by preset: Lab procurement 75; Regulator or auditor 74; Public trust 73; Equal weights 75. Weakest dimension: publication rights 2/4.
What would move the score. An accreditation pathway for external evaluators and a public reporting schema.
- Public funding.
Frontier AI safety regulations: A reference for lab staff (METR, 2026-01-29) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14 - Public budget under the Digital Europe Programme; EUR 7.37M awarded across six lots to contracted evaluators. No confirmed negative on file.
TED 864574-2025 Technical Assistance for AI Safety (Tenders Electronic Daily, 2025-12) tier 1 filingconfirmed2026-09-14 - Open: Add a confirmed bounded negative from a primary source to restore anchor 4.
- Regulator with statutory basis.
Frontier AI safety regulations: A reference for lab staff (METR, 2026-01-29) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
- Civil-service conflict rules.
Frontier AI safety regulations: A reference for lab staff (METR, 2026-01-29) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
- Legal power to compel; the only body whose access does not depend on goodwill.
Frontier AI safety regulations: A reference for lab staff (METR, 2026-01-29) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
- Contracts its own evaluators (FAR.AI-led consortium) rather than relying on lab-chosen ones.
FAR AI (Longterm Wiki, 2026-02-26) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14 - Code sets the access floor: helpful-only versions where security allows, at least 20 business days, external evaluators for each new frontier model.
Frontier AI safety regulations: A reference for lab staff (METR, 2026-01-29) tier 3 selfconfirmed Expanding External Access to Frontier AI Models for Dangerous Capability Evaluations (arXiv 2601.11916) (arXiv, 2026-01-21) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14 - Contract notice TED 864574-2025, Technical Assistance for AI Safety, published 26 December 2025; contractors self-report include METR, FAR.AI, SecureBio, SaferAI and Epoch.
TED notice 864574-2025: Artificial Intelligence Act: Technical Assistance for AI Safety (Tenders Electronic Daily, 2025-12-26) tier 1 filingconfirmed TED 864574-2025 Technical Assistance for AI Safety (Tenders Electronic Daily, 2025-12) tier 1 filingconfirmed2025-12-26
- Safety and Security Model Reports are submitted to the Office, not the public.
Frontier AI safety regulations: A reference for lab staff (METR, 2026-01-29) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
- No accreditation pathway or public reporting schema yet; thin evaluator bench.
The EU's Real AI Leverage Is Making Compliance the Path of Least Resistance (TechPolicy.Press, 2026-02-26) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
- No commercial products.
Frontier AI safety regulations: A reference for lab staff (METR, 2026-01-29) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Traced money and ties
public: 1 row. Confirmed rows: 1 of 1. Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 1 of 1 sources. Ties: none within two steps recorded. Bounded negatives on file: 1.
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Money in
- T48 from EU budget (Digital Europe Programme): contract €7.37M (EUR, not converted), 2025-12. EU AI Office: total awarded across six lots of TED 864574-2025 to contracted evaluators (outflow from the Office, recorded on the Office row for visibility) confirmedtier 1 filinghttps://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/864574-2025
Bounded negatives
- N10 no grant from Coefficient Giving in its index [Coefficient grants index, 2,911 rows, snapshot 2026-09-11] importedhttps://coefficientgiving.org/grants/
One hop away
Funding graph, focused
Neighbours at full strength, everything else faded. Hover any name to move the focus; click a name to open its page.