Uitvoeringswet AI-verordening, the Dutch AI Act implementation bill

What it is

The Uitvoeringswet AI-verordening (UAIV) is the Dutch implementing act for the EU AI Act. The AI Act applies directly in every member state, but each must designate the authorities that supervise and enforce it, give them powers and set up an AI regulatory sandbox. The UAIV does that for the Netherlands.

On 20 April 2026 the State Secretary for Digital Economy and Sovereignty, Willemijn Aerdts, put the draft bill out for internet consultation, which closed on 1 June 2026. The draft also covers the notification of conformity assessment bodies and the national AI sandbox, and amends several existing laws, including the Telecommunicatiewet, the Warenwet and the Wet medische hulpmiddelen.

Who would supervise what

The draft builds on existing supervisors rather than creating a new one. Ten market surveillance authorities get new tasks.

• Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP). A coordinator of the system, and supervisor where no clear sector supervisor exists, with a dedicated AI board member.
• Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur (RDI). The other coordinator. One of the two coordinators acts as the central point of contact.
• AFM and DNB. AI used by financial institutions.
• Inspectorates and sector authorities. The Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate, the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate, the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority and the Netherlands Labour Authority, each in their own domain.
• The judiciary’s own supervisors. The Procurator General at the Supreme Court and the President of the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State, for AI used in the judicial system.

The government’s stated aim is that businesses deal with supervisors they already know, with strong coordination to keep supervision consistent. The European Commission’s AI Office supervises general-purpose AI models.

What it means for organisations

The bill adds no new obligations for AI systems. Those come from the AI Act. It matters in three ways.

It tells you who will ask. For a bank or insurer it will be the AFM or DNB, for products already overseen by a sector inspectorate it will be that inspectorate, and where no sector supervisor is clear it will be the AP.

It enables enforcement. The AI Act’s fines need national rules on who imposes them and how. Until the act is in force, the Dutch supervisors’ AI Act powers are incomplete, even though the obligations already apply.

It builds on algorithm supervision that already exists. The AP has coordinated supervision of algorithms and AI since 2023 through its Directie Coördinatie Algoritmes, and publishes a twice-yearly AI and Algorithmic Risks Report Netherlands. Its March 2026 edition reported that AI risks had grown sharply over the previous six months and named AI in recruitment, weak transparency and explainability, and slow preparation for the AI Act as its main concerns.

Key dates

• 20 April 2026. Draft bill published for consultation.
• 1 June 2026. Consultation closes.
• 2 August 2026. General application of the AI Act, including Article 50 transparency.
• 2 December 2027. Annex III high-risk obligations apply, as amended by the Digital Omnibus.

After the consultation the bill goes to the Council of Ministers and the Council of State, then to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

How it relates to other frameworks

The UAIV is the national layer on top of the EU AI Act. The GDPR applies alongside it, supervised by the AP, with Article 40 of the Dutch GDPR Implementation Act setting when automated decisions without profiling are allowed. Dutch public bodies apply all of this through the government’s Algoritmekader and publish their algorithms in the Algoritmeregister.

A note on this page

This is Aicura’s reading of the draft Uitvoeringswet AI-verordening as published for consultation. It is not legal advice, and the bill may change before it is adopted. Read the consultation documents, and take advice on how the AI Act applies to your organisation.