The EU has published its ‘AI Continent Action Plan’ (COM(2025)165). The Plan aims to enhance the EU’s AI capabilities by promoting initiatives around five key areas. One of those key areas concerns the promotion of AI in strategic sectors and, in particular, in the public sector and healthcare. The Plan includes some high level initiatives … Read more
The UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on ‘Use of AI in Government’ (2024-25, HC 356). The report focuses on the specific situation in the UK and addresses issues closely related to the UK Government’s current ambitions to quickly roll out AI across the public sector. However, most recommendations … Read more
The extent and limits to the Commission’s duty to assess the compatibility of State aid measures with other rules of EU internal market law, and public procurement rules in particular, continues to heat up (see earlier comment here). According to the Court’s press release, today’s Opinion of AG Medina in Austria v Commission (Centrale nucléaire … Read more
The Court of Justice has been recently presented with some cases where a State aid measure was argued to have (not) infringed EU internal market law and should thus (not) have been authorised by the European Commission. These cases raise the common issue of the Commission’s duty to assess proposed State aid measures for compliance … Read more
In quick succession after the UK Government published its AI Opportunities Action Plan, the National Audit Office (NAO) released its report ‘Government’s approach to technology suppliers: addressing the challenges’ (the NAO digital procurement report). Reading both documents in relation to each other paints a picture of the difficulties and pitfalls in the acceleration of public … Read more