Law sets the floor and arrives late, so the real work of technology ethics happens in a meeting room before anything is switched on. You are on the review committee. Classify the proposal under the EU AI Act, put the seven procurement questions to the vendor, judge each answer yourself, and sign a recommendation you would be willing to defend after something goes wrong.
The proposal in front of the committee
Step 1 · Classify it under the EU AI Act
Step 2 · Put the questions to the vendor
Step 3 · Sign your recommendation
Governance artefacts on file
The dossier
Committee scrutiny
The seven questions are the chapter’s procurement table. The tier logic follows the EU AI Act as in force from 1 August 2024, with prohibitions applying from 2 February 2025; high-risk duties have already slipped — a 2026 simplification package moved stand-alone high-risk systems to 2 December 2027. Check the current text before relying on any date.