On the Commission's September 2026 list, 9 EU Member States had a final AI Act market-surveillance single point of contact, 12 were pending final adoption and 6 had none listed.

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Claim LD12-HQ-C02 (v1.0)

On the Commission's September 2026 list, 9 EU Member States had a final AI Act market-surveillance single point of contact, 12 were pending final adoption and 6 had none listed.

Research opportunities this claim motivates

What this claim leaves open for research. Each is a hypothesis about a gap, not a finding.

How many staff and how much money do national AI Act enforcers actually have?The September 2026 Commission list counts designated contact points (9 final, 12 pending, 6 none) but explicitly does not show that final authorities have adequate resources.

Provenance and status

Claim type: Fact
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with qualifiers: date or metric
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: That no enforcement can occur or that final authorities have adequate resources
Limitations: Continuously updated list; construct is market-surveillance SPOC
Source (as cited): European Commission, Market Surveillance Authorities under the AI Act
Source type: Administrative record or dataset (recorded as “Government administrative record”)
Institutional position: EU regulator
Maturity of the evidence: Emerging evidence
Recorded date: 25 September 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

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European Commission, Market Surveillance Authorities under the AI Act (Administrative record or dataset)
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All 25 canonical Claim fields, verbatim, with the coded values derived from them. The plain-language labels above are read from these.

Claim type (coded): FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (DATE_OR_METRIC) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH DATE QUALIFIER”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY
Source type (coded): ADMINISTRATIVE_RECORD_OR_DATASET
Maturity (coded): EMERGING

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD12-HQ-C02	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	On the Commission's September 2026 list, 9 EU Member States had a final AI Act market-surveillance single point of contact, 12 were pending final adoption and 6 had none listed.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	A — Implementation/enforcement	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	European Commission, Market Surveillance Authorities under the AI Act	source_ids: SRC-LD12-EC-AI-ACT-MSA-LIST
7	SOURCE TYPE	Government administrative record	classes: ADMINISTRATIVE_RECORD_OR_DATASET
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	EU regulator	—
9	SCOPE	EU-27; national market-surveillance authority buildout	—
10	DESIGN	Administrative-record count	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	27 Member States	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	n.a.	—
13	COMPARATOR	Statutory designation deadline	—
14	MAIN RESULT	9 final / 12 pending / 6 blank at the evidence cut.	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Institutional carrier for enforcement	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	That no enforcement can occur or that final authorities have adequate resources	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Continuously updated list; construct is market-surveillance SPOC	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Other trackers use different authority definitions	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	EU / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Geographic asymmetry in formal enforcement infrastructure	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D6.3, L-B, R-1	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Updated Commission list or resource reports	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH DATE QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: DATE_OR_METRIC
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D6.3 (SUB_AREA); L-B (LENS); R-1 (LENS)

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Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“European Commission, Market Surveillance Authorities under the AI Act” → European Commission, Market Surveillance Authorities under… (SRC-LD12-EC-AI-ACT-MSA-LIST--v1.0) — European Commission, Market Surveillance Authorities under the AI Act; class ADMINISTRATIVE_RECORD_OR_DATASET (explicit public provenance pin)

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SocioLens project. (2026, September 25). On the Commission's September 2026 list, 9 EU Member States had a final AI Act market-surveillance single point of contact, 12 were pending final adoption and 6 had none listed [Claim LD12-HQ-C02, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld12-hq-c02/v1.0/

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