France: Directorate-General for Enterprise announced Draft law establishing scheme for designation of national authorities to implement EU AI Act

On 9 September 2025, the Directorate-General for Enterprise (DGE) and the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) published the draft law establishing the scheme for designation of national authorities responsible for implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act), to be submitted to Parliament for adoption. The framework designates the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) as coordinator and single point of contact under Article 70(2), while the Directorate-General for Enterprise (DGE) represents France in the European AI Committee. Prohibited practices under Article 5 are monitored by the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) and Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) for manipulative techniques and exploitation of vulnerabilities, by the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL) and Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) for social scoring, and solely by the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL) for predictive policing, biometric categorisation, and untargeted facial recognition databases. Oversight of high-risk AI under Annex I is assigned to existing market surveillance and notifying authorities, while Annex III extends responsibilities to the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) for credit and insurance, to the Council of State, Court of Cassation and Court of Auditors for judicial AI, and to the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL), Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) and Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) for areas including education, biometrics, democratic processes, employment, migration and border control. Transparency duties under Article 50 are divided between the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL), Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) and Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom), with technical support from the National Cybersecurity Agency of France (ANSSI) and the Digital Regulation Expertise Centre (PEReN).