Sin­gle Point of Con­tact

The AI Act requires each Member State to designate a single point of contact (Article 70(2) sentence 3).

The single contact point serves as the central contact point for the AI Office established within the European Commission and for the competent authorities of the EU Member States, in particular the notifying authorities and the market surveillance authorities. The single points of contact in the 27 Member States are published on the European Commission’s website..

Germany’s single point of contact for artificial intelligence is the sole point of contact for the European Commission and for the single points of contact of other Member States. The email address of the single point of contact for AI is

SPOC-AI@bnetza.de.

The single point of contact has the following tasks:

• collecting information from market surveillance and notifying authorities comprising details of tasks, email addresses and details of contact persons and a representative acting as a direct contact point;
• providing the email addresses of market surveillance and notifying authorities;
• notifying the European Commission of the names, responsibilities and email addresses of the market surveillance and notifying authorities, and publishing this information on the Bundesnetzagentur’s website;
• acting as the point of contact for the EU institutions, other Member States of the European Union, the AI Office and the European Artificial Intelligence Board;
• processing information from the AI Office and other counterparts at Member State and EU level;

fulfilling the reporting obligations under the AI Act, where market surveillance and notifying authorities do not report direct.