How the AI Act is being enforced in practice — the AI Office, national competent authorities, the emerging case law, and defensible response strategies.
Who this is for
- General counsel expecting engagement with regulators
- Compliance heads preparing for supervisory activity
- Litigators building AI-related practice areas
- Consultants advising on incident response
What you will be able to do
- Map the enforcement architecture: AI Office, national competent authorities, notified bodies, market surveillance
- Anticipate supervisory priorities based on published guidance and early actions
- Design an internal readiness posture for supervisory engagement
- Manage an incident, complaint, or investigation from first contact through resolution
- Read emerging case law and administrative decisions critically
Syllabus
Each module comprises a mix of structured reading, worked examples, and applied exercises. Every programme concludes with an integrated written assessment marked against the published rubric.
Module 1. The enforcement landscape
Who does what. The interplay between EU-level and Member State enforcement. Sector regulators and how the AI Act sits alongside them.
Module 2. Supervisory tools and powers
Investigation, requests for information, inspections, remedial measures, and fines. Rights of the entity under investigation.
Module 3. The AI Office in practice
Guidance, code oversight, GPAI supervision. Reading published statements for signal about priorities.
Module 4. Complaints, whistleblowing, and civil claims
How the Act is likely to give rise to private actions. Individual complaints, group actions, litigation risk.
Module 5. Incident response
From detection to disclosure. Serious-incident reporting under Article 73. Coordinated disclosure practice.
Module 6. Early case law and administrative practice
The most instructive decisions to date. What they tell us about how the Act will be interpreted.
Module 7. Working the file
Structuring an evidence file that will survive supervisory scrutiny. Common failure modes we see in practice.
Assessment
Brief
Simulated exercise: you have received a request for information from a national competent authority relating to a high-risk system your organisation deploys. Prepare (1) a first-response letter, (2) an internal briefing note to the executive, and (3) an evidence-file inventory. Cover 2,000 words in total across the three artefacts.
Sample question
An NCA has notified you of a complaint about your recruitment AI. The complaint alleges discriminatory outcomes and inadequate human oversight. What do you do in the first 72 hours?
Assessments are marked by a named human examiner against the four-dimension rubric: regulatory accuracy (30%), applied judgement (30%), artefact quality (25%), communication (15%). Pass at 60, distinction at 75.
Prerequisites
EU AI Act Foundations and EU AI Act — High-Risk Systems, or equivalent
Certification
On successful completion (pass mark 60), you receive a SAAII Certified Practitioner (CP) — EU AI Act — Enforcement and Case Law credential. The credential is CPD-accredited, verifiable at thesaaii.com/verify, and forms one component toward higher-tier credentials. See the certification ladder for how it stacks.
Ready to enrol?
EU AI Act — Enforcement and Case Law runs continuously with rolling enrolment. Founding-cohort discount (25%) applies to the first 100 enrolments across the whole programme portfolio.
Cohort licensing available from £395/seat (10+). Public sector, education, and registered charity: 20% discount. Instalment plans available for programmes at £495 and above. See For organisations and the FAQ for detail.