European Legislation

The EU AI Act and the Digital Product Passport are two of the most consequential pieces of regulation to reach European enterprise architecture in a generation. Both are often framed as compliance problems. Both are, at their core, architectural ones.

Organisations that treat them as compliance exercises — producing documentation to satisfy an auditor — will find themselves doing it again when the first audit reveals that the documentation does not reflect what the systems and processes actually do. Organisations that treat them as architectural problems — designing governance, data structures, and oversight mechanisms into how they actually operate — will find that compliance follows naturally, and that the architecture they build has value beyond the regulatory mandate.

WorkEm helps organisations approach both as architectural engagements.