A central Coordination and Competence Centre for Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 is established at the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur). The Centre has the task of
supporting, on request, with expertise the market surveillance authorities, notifying authorities and DAkkS competent under this Act in complex decisions within the scope of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, or the market surveillance authorities competent under Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 in complex decisions on the market surveillance of AI systems integrated into a product under Regulation (EU) 2023/1230,
coordinating the cooperation of the authorities competent under this Act among themselves and with other authorities affected within their area of responsibility, and working to ensure that cross-cutting legal questions are answered consistently,
facilitating the drawing up of codes of conduct within the meaning of Article 95(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689,
ensuring the appropriate, transparent and regular involvement of civil society, trade unions, business, and science and research, as well as the Länder, and
providing, as needed, prepared training and awareness-raising offerings as well as general information and examination recommendations (Prüfempfehlungen), with the aim of promoting the consistent application of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 in the Federal Republic of Germany.
To perform its tasks under the second sentence, points (1) to (3), the Centre may, in individual cases, involve federal authorities affected within their area of responsibility and call in external expertise. To perform its task under the second sentence, point (2), the Centre may set up suitable committees, in particular composed of representatives of the competent authorities, and in particular a Federal-Länder Committee on Artificial Intelligence (Bund-Länder-Ausschuss Künstliche Intelligenz), which serves the structured coordination and cooperation between the market surveillance authorities under section 2(1) to (6) and (8) and the market surveillance authority to be designated under Article 52(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/2847.