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The Catalan Data Protection Authority has presented the Catalan model to carry out evaluations on fundamental rights in the use of AI in the framework of a workshop on AI organized by the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority
The director of the Catalan Data Protection Authority (APDCAT), Meritxell Borràs i Solé, and the head of the Legal Advice, Xavier Urios Aparisi, presented on Tuesday in Gibraltar the Catalan FRIA model for a reliable and respectful AI. The presentation of the Catalan FRIA model has been the main axis of a workshop on AI organized by the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority as an Information Commissioner.
In her presentation, the director stressed that it is a pioneering methodology in Europe, which includes a model for the impact assessment on fundamental rights in the use of artificial intelligence that guides step by step from practical cases.
Promoted by the APDCAT, it was born within the framework of the ‘DPD in network’ community, with the support of DPDs from public and private entities and the professor and expert Alessandro Mantelero. It allows to respond to the obligation to identify and mitigate possible risks on the fundamental rights of high-risk AI systems, which will be in force from August 2026, in accordance with the Artificial Intelligence Regulation.
In order to promote this methodology beyond Catalonia, the APDCAT has signed collaboration agreements with other similar authorities such as Brazil, the Basque Country, so that the Catalan FRIA becomes the reference model in their respective areas. Also other countries such as Croatia or Malta recommend it among organizations and companies within their territory.