Is the transparency mandate from Article 53 of the EU AI Act truly an unbreakable, always-on part of the whole regulation, or can its real-world effect change depending on the local context?
Here in Belgium, we see how federal, regional, and even communal rules can shift how something is applied; what’s considered transparent for an AI in Flanders might be quite different from how a national authority in, say, another EU country decides to prioritize innovation for specific AI uses.
It’s less about the rule itself, and more about how the rule is actually implemented on the ground.
For instance, if a startup here gets some leeway on documentation for a niche AI, that 'subpart' feeling might not be so absolute.