The enforcement architecture the EU AI Act requires does not yet exist in most of Europe. A March 2026 European Parliament Think Tank analysis found only 8 of 27 member states had designated market surveillance authorities by the compliance deadline — meaning the regulation entered force in a jurisdiction where the majority of national governments had not appointed anyone to enforce it. AlgorithmWatch's intervention is, in this context, less a policy critique than a structural indictment: the demands for improvement presuppose a regulator capable of receiving and acting on…