The instruments we advise on
An index of the principal statutory frameworks within our emerging technology practice, each with its official citation and a link to the primary source. This page records what the instruments are and where they sit. It is not an analysis of them.
Artificial Intelligence Act
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
- Official citation
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689- Full title
- Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence
- Instrument type
- Regulation, directly applicable
- Adopted
- 13 June 2024
- Official Journal
- OJ L, 2024/1689, 12 July 2024
- Entry into force
- 1 August 2024
- Jurisdiction
- European Union
- Legal force
- In force
Our work under this instrument concerns classification and scope: whether a given system falls within the Regulation at all, where it sits against the risk tiers, which obligations attach to the provider as against the deployer, and how the exclusions operate for systems placed outside its reach.
Primary source: EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
Export Control Reform Act of 2018
Pub. L. 115-232, codified at 50 U.S.C. §§ 4801-4852
- Official citation
Pub. L. 115-232, 132 Stat. 1636- Codification
50 U.S.C. §§ 4801-4852(Title 50, Chapter 58)- Instrument type
- Federal statute
- Enacted
- 13 August 2018
- Enacting body
- 115th United States Congress
- Implementing regime
- Export Administration Regulations,
15 C.F.R. Parts 730-774 - Jurisdiction
- United States, with extraterritorial application
- Legal force
- In force
Our work under this statute concerns control classification and jurisdictional reach: whether an item is subject to the Export Administration Regulations by reason of origin, content or the foreign direct product rules, what licensing follows, and how the regime reaches entities that are not United States persons.
Primary sources: 50 U.S.C. Chapter 58 and H.R. 5040, 115th Congress