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FRA Director focuses on AI governance at Privacy Symposium 2026

The FRA Director delivered a high-level address on AI governance at this year’s Privacy Symposium on 20 April in Venice. In her address, the FRA Director reflected on existing EU regulation of new technologies and its opportunities for the protection of fundamental rights.

She underlined that fundamental rights compliance is an obligation under EU law and highlighted the critical need for fundamental rights impact assessments, building on FRA’s longstanding work on AI and in particular its latest report on ‘Assessing high-risk AI’. 

She also stressed the important role of oversight and highlighted FRA’s upcoming meeting with Article 77 bodies under the AI Act, which will aim at discussing oversight challenges and best practices. 

Finally, she underlined the importance of international cooperation, welcoming the interventions from other speakers during the session with high-level addresses on AI governance. 

On the side of the Symposium, the FRA Director held bilateral meetings with the European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski, as well as Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner, Dale Sunderland and Deputy Commissioner, Graham Doyle.