FLAWLESS

Federated Law Attestation Workflows for Legal Evidence, Sovereignty, and Scalability

What is FLAWLESS?

FLAWLESS—Federated Law Attestation Workflows for Legal Evidence, Sovereignty, and Scalability—represents a paradigm shift in how Europe manages compliance in the digital economy. By transforming fragmented and manual regulatory processes into sovereign, automatically verifiable workflows accepted by authorities, the project directly promotes digital justice, administrative fairness, and equitable market access. Its ambition involves 35 partners, 13 Member States, four regulatory domains, and eight active TRL8 services, establishing a public interest model in which AI-driven automation operates within applicable regulatory boundaries, with formal legal provenance and under continuous human supervision, demonstrating that trustworthy AI and regulatory sovereignty are mutually reinforcing objectives. Ethical integrity is guaranteed by non-negotiable architectural choices. Law-as deterministic reasoning produces legally relevant compliance determinations. AI agents are bound by sovereign ODRL policies applied at the connector level before any data leaves the release node. An XAI layer generates automated decisions with audit-level provenance, enabling human oversight of all services. The three-tier access model transforms compliance into a universal right, reaching underserved SME populations, including female-led sole proprietorships. SSH research measures social equity with the same rigor as technical performance. PULSE converts real-time service evidence into EU policy intelligence. CRYSTALS Dilithium post-quantum protections make all proof chains future-proof. The results are released as open-source, providing a legitimate, accountable, and replicable model of ethical AI governance for the EU: the FLAWLESS project. FLAWLESS focuses on Area 1 of the topic.

Project type

HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-DATA-06

FLAWLESS

Information

Area

Research and development

Total value

€ 15.000.000,00

Total value for EHT

€ 503.250,00

Status

Presented

Partners

INLECOM INNOVATION, A Limited Liability Company

NATIONAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURES

ITALIAN E-COMMERCE ASSOCIATION

MAGNA GRAECIA UNIVERSITY OF CATANZARO

DEEPSET GMBH

GEL PROXIMITY, LLC

ALBERO SHOP, LLC

TIMELEX

VLTN INNOVATION VZW

ALLIANCE OF LOGISTICS INNOVATION THROUGH COLLABORATION IN EUROPE AISBL

POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF MADRID

COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY OF MADRID

Foundation of the Galician Institute of Technology

ECIX GROUP, LLC

RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

POŠTA SLOVENIJE, LLC

BULGARIAN E-COMMERCE ASSOCIATION

UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR

DIMOS DAFNIS-YMITTOU (Municipality of Dafni-Ymittos)

BELGIAN-PORTUGUESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LOGISTICS COMPETENCE CENTERS

EHT

EREVNITIKO UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS E&Y

Lithuanian Energy Institute

INOBIT INNOVATIONS LLC

LCUBED AB