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Poland's Sejm Passes AI Act Creating the KRiBSI Watchdog, With Senate and President Still to Sign

Poland's lower house has approved a national law that would name a new commission, the KRiBSI, as the country's AI market-oversight body and single point of contact for the EU AI Act. The bill still needs the Senate and the President before it takes effect.

By Anthony Guerriero  ·  Reviewed by The Leveraged Years Editorial Desk  ·  Published July 7, 2026  ·  Last updated July 7, 2026

Poland has moved a step closer to its own national framework for artificial intelligence. According to reporting on the vote, the Sejm, the lower house of Poland's parliament, passed the Act on artificial intelligence systems on June 11, 2026, with the tally reported at 421 in favor. The bill, prepared by the Ministry of Digital Affairs, is designed to slot Poland into the EU AI Act by naming a national supervisor and building the machinery to enforce it. It is not law yet. The Senate and the President still have to act before anything binds a single company.

What the bill would create

The centerpiece is a new body, the Komisja Rozwoju i Bezpieczenstwa Sztucznej Inteligencji, or KRiBSI. As reported, the commission would serve as Poland's AI market-oversight authority and as the country's single point of contact under the EU AI Act, the role every member state has to fill so that Brussels and other national regulators know who to call. Rather than stand up an entirely separate agency, the design pulls in representatives from existing regulators, including the competition authority UOKiK, the financial supervisor KNF, the media regulator KRRiT, and the telecom regulator UKE. The intent is a single front door backed by the sector expertise already spread across those offices.

How it would work in practice

The KRiBSI would do three concrete things, according to the reporting on the bill. It would keep a complaint register, giving people and firms a formal channel to raise concerns about AI systems. It would issue binding opinions, meaning its interpretations would carry legal weight rather than sit as advice. And it would run regulatory sandboxes, the supervised environments where companies can test AI under a regulator's eye before full deployment. Coverage cites a sandbox target of around August 2, 2026, which aligns with the EU AI Act's own governance timeline. That date should be read as a stated aim tied to a bill that has not yet passed the Senate or been signed, not as a live deadline.

What it does not do yet

The most important thing to hold onto is what has not happened. A Sejm vote is one stage in Poland's legislative process, not the end of it. The Senate can propose amendments, and the President must sign the Act before it is promulgated and can take effect. Until those steps are complete, the KRiBSI does not exist as a legal body, the complaint register is not open, and no binding opinions can issue. Firms should not treat any part of the regime as operative, and should be cautious about secondary summaries that describe the law as if it were already in force.

The cross-border angle

For a US firm with AI operations or customers in Poland, this is the emerging enforcement map for one more EU market. The EU AI Act applies across the bloc, but each member state decides who enforces it and how complaints and opinions flow. Poland's answer, if enacted, is a consolidated commission drawing on several regulators at once. That is worth watching now, because the practical experience of compliance, who you file with, who audits you, where you test, is set at the national level, and Poland is signaling a single, cross-sector supervisor rather than a scattered one.

For now, the sensible posture is preparation, not action. Map your Polish AI footprint, note which existing regulators already touch it, and keep an eye on the Senate and presidential steps. The shape of the watchdog is becoming clear even though its powers have not yet switched on.

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