FRIA
Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment.
How the laws define this
Both instruments establish that a fundamental rights impact assessment is a structured, systematic process to identify, evaluate, and mitigate the potential risks and impacts that AI systems pose to fundamental rights across their design and deployment. However, they differ in their scope, framing, and regulatory purpose. The Proposal for Parliamentary Resolution to Establish an Independent AI Supervisory Authority under the Data Protection Authority (B 90) explicitly models the assessment after a DPIA, highlighting specific rights such as privacy, non-discrimination, and freedom of expression, and emphasizes its role in informing supervisory oversight measures. In contrast, the Catalonia AI 2030 Strategy (Estratègia Catalunya IA 2030) introduces the assessment as a model aimed at documenting effects to ensure alignment with both ethical and legal standards, extending the process beyond design and deployment to explicitly encompass the operational use of AI systems.
Synthesised from the 2 statutory definitions below. Each one is quoted in full, with its source.
Definitions (2)
A systematic assessment, analogous to a DPIA, designed to identify, evaluate and mitigate impacts of AI systems on fundamental rights (e.g., privacy, non‑discrimination, freedom of expression), informing design, deployment and supervisory oversight measures.
A Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) model introduced by the strategy to evaluate and document the potential effects of AI systems on fundamental rights and freedoms. It is intended as a structured methodology for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks to rights across AI design, deployment and use, to ensure alignment with ethical and legal standards.
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