Brussels to Tokyo: Legal Roadmaps for AI Compliance, Regulation, and Governance

July 14 2025

As AI storms industry and captures headlines, the EU lit the first torch with Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on July 12, 2024, prompting other jurisdictions to set their own rules. On May 28, 2025, Japan answered with the Act on the Promotion of Research, Development, and Utilization of Artificial Intelligence–Related Technologies [人工知能関連技術の研究開発及び活用の推進に関する法律], unveiling a principle-driven, collaboration-first model that seems to contrast sharply with the EU’s prescriptive, rights-based regime.

For companies expanding AI across Europe and Japan, grasping each regime’s compliance and legal risks is vital. The EU AI Act’s risk-based duties, covering data governance, transparency, conformity assessments, and post-market monitoring, prioritizes legal certainty and individual right protection setting forth fines and demand robust compliance programs, while fostering R&D incentives, support for SME and rooting its comprehensive regulatory infrastructure in the principle of proportionality. Japan’s softer framework, centering on policy guidance, voluntary standards, and a new regulatory body eases upfront burdens but shifts legal risk onto firms’ own governance, where lapses can harm reputation and provoke litigation costs.

This comparative webinar will unpack these divergent models and their business impacts. We’ll explore scope and definitions, high-risk classifications versus principle-led guidelines, due diligence across the value chain, and cross-border compliance challenges, equipping counsel, compliance officers, and AI entrepreneurs to navigate and align these pioneering regulatory landscapes and understand the nuances of these two approaches.

Date & Time
Jul 14, 2025 10:00 AM CEST

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87411335472?pwd=qXmys7bvKKUT0PFW0wLyPl1boCeqzM.1
 

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