# Recital (138)

AI is a rapidly developing family of technologies that requires regulatory oversight and a safe and controlled space 
for experimentation, while ensuring responsible innovation and integration of appropriate safeguards and risk 
mitigation measures. To ensure a legal framework that promotes innovation, is future-proof and resilient to 
disruption, Member States should ensure that their national competent authorities establish at least one AI 
regulatory sandbox at national level to facilitate the development and testing of innovative AI systems under strict 
regulatory oversight before these systems are placed on the market or otherwise put into service. Member States 
could also fulfil this obligation through participating in already existing regulatory sandboxes or establishing jointly 
a sandbox with one or more Member States’ competent authorities, insofar as this participation provides equivalent 
level of national coverage for the participating Member States. AI regulatory sandboxes could be established in 
physical, digital or hybrid form and may accommodate physical as well as digital products. Establishing authorities 
should also ensure that the AI regulatory sandboxes have the adequate resources for their functioning, including 
financial and human resources.

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Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act) as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, consolidated text of 27 July 2026 (Official Journal of the EU). This page is AI-generated legal information, not legal advice. Verify against the Official Journal.
Canonical: https://euaiactlaw.com/recital/138