Latest
  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool
  2. China’s AI compute access expected to double in 2027, with US-designed chips about 65 per cent
  3. UK commits £100m to national AI Biosecurity Lab
  4. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  5. Residents in Newport and Cardiff oppose hyperscale datacentres near homes
  6. Study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans in 92% of forced midterm answers, GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%
  7. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  8. Elvis Presley’s rightsholders sue Anthropic over training on 274 songs

Latest / Government and geopolitics

ProgrammeGovernmentSpainReported

Spain approves the statute of AESIA, its AI supervisory agency in A Coruña

See how this story connects

Source: Garrigues: Government approves the statute of the Spanish AI Supervision AgencyAlso reported by INAP La Administración al Día

Spain’s Council of Ministers approved Royal Decree 729/2023 of 22 August, published in the Official State Gazette on 2 September 2023, setting the statute of the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA), seated in A Coruña. The agency supervises, inspects and can sanction under national and EU AI rules, and also advises, runs voluntary quality seals and promotes regulatory sandboxes. Its governing council had to be constituted within three months.

Why it matters

Spain set up a national AI supervisor with inspection and sanction powers before the EU AI Act was agreed, so AI providers in Spain had a named authority to deal with.

When
22 Aug 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0009
Where
Spain
Who
AESIA, Government of Spain
Rules involved

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Garrigues and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Garrigues

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextSpain sends its AI governance bill to parliament

Cite this story

WTA-N-2023-0009: “Spain approves the statute of AESIA, its AI supervisory agency in A Coruña.” wheresthe.ai, 22 Aug 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/es-aesia-statute-2023-08/ (source: Garrigues: Government approves the statute of the Spanish AI Supervision Agency).

Spotted an error? Email [email protected].