Consolidated AI Act text reveals AI Office's inspection, sealing and 5%-per-day penalty powers
The consolidated Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 text (ref. 02024R1689-20260727, in force since 27 July, folding in the Digital Omnibus) reveals detail behind the headline 'enforcement starts 2 August' story: new Articles 75a-75d give the AI Office exclusive competence over two categories — GPAI-based systems where model and system share the same provider or undertaking, and AI systems that are or sit inside a Digital Services Act-designated very large online platform (Google Search, YouTube, Meta's platforms, TikTok, LinkedIn, Amazon, Bing among them). For those systems, enforcement moves entirely out of national regulators' hands to one Brussels office, which can now enter and seal premises, compel oral testimony, bill its own investigation costs back to a non-compliant operator once non-compliance is found, and impose periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of average daily turnover per day to force compliance — stacked on top of the existing €15M/3% and €35M/7% fine tiers. Practical read: for any client whose AI stack runs on or inside a designated VLOP, the live regulator relationship just narrowed from 'your national sectoral authority' to a single office with search-and-seal powers — worth a line in any Article 25(2) vendor-documentation clause.
Source: PPC Land, citing consolidated Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
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Begin in writing →This briefing is general information, not legal advice, and does not create an advisor–client relationship. Summaries are original; follow source links for the full record. Adesanya AI Advisory — Abdulwahab B. Adesanya, Barrister-at-Law (Nigeria).