Poland: President of Personal Data Protection Office submitted opinion on proposal for Act on Artificial Intelligence systems

On 23 April 2026, the President of the Polish Office for Personal Data Protection submitted an opinion to the Parliament on the draft Act on Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, adopted by the Council of Ministers on 31 March 2026. The Act applies to operators and deployers of high-risk AI systems in Poland. The Office for Personal Data Protection welcomed the removal of provisions that had encroached on its exclusive data protection competences, but argued that the draft's cooperation provisions between the Office for Personal Data Protection and the new Commission for the Development and Security of Artificial Intelligence remain legally hollow, failing to specify the form, scope, or procedures for inter-authority collaboration. The opinion also calls for the Office for Personal Data Protection's role as a fundamental rights protection body under the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act to be explicitly enshrined in statute, and for the Office to be granted a formal right to submit reasoned positions on data processing matters before the Commission issues binding decisions.