- Art. 6Classification rules for high-risk AI systems
- Art. 7Amendments to Annex III
- Art. 8Compliance with the requirements
- Art. 9Risk management system
- Art. 10Data and data governance
- Art. 11Technical documentation
- Art. 12Record-keeping
- Art. 13Transparency and provision of information to deployers
- Art. 14Human oversight
- Art. 15Accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity
- Art. 16Obligations of providers of high-risk AI systems
- Art. 17Quality management system
- Art. 18Documentation keeping
- Art. 19Automatically generated logs
- Art. 20Corrective actions and duty of information
- Art. 21Cooperation with competent authorities
- Art. 22Authorised representatives of providers of high-risk AI systems
- Art. 23Obligations of importers
- Art. 24Obligations of distributors
- Art. 25Responsibilities along the AI value chain
- Art. 26Obligations of deployers of high-risk AI systems
- Art. 27Fundamental rights impact assessment for high-risk AI systems
- Art. 28Notifying authorities
- Art. 29Application of a conformity assessment body for notification
- Art. 30Notification procedure
- Art. 31Requirements relating to notified bodies
- Art. 32Presumption of conformity with requirements relating to notified bodies
- Art. 33Subsidiaries of notified bodies and subcontracting
- Art. 34Operational obligations of notified bodies
- Art. 35Identification numbers and lists of notified bodies
- Art. 36Changes to notifications
- Art. 37Challenge to the competence of notified bodies
- Art. 38Coordination of notified bodies
- Art. 39Conformity assessment bodies of third countries
- Art. 40Harmonised standards and standardisation deliverables
- Art. 41Common specifications
- Art. 42Presumption of conformity with certain requirements
- Art. 43Conformity assessment
- Art. 44Certificates
- Art. 45Information obligations of notified bodies
- Art. 46Derogation from conformity assessment procedure
- Art. 47EU declaration of conformity
- Art. 48CE marking
- Art. 49Registration
- Art. 51Classification of general-purpose AI models as general-purpose AI models with systemic risk
- Art. 52Procedure
- Art. 53Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models
- Art. 54Authorised representatives of providers of general-purpose AI models
- Art. 55Obligations of providers of general-purpose AI models with systemic risk
- Art. 56Codes of practice
- Art. 57AI regulatory sandboxes
- Art. 58Detailed arrangements for, and functioning of, AI regulatory sandboxes
- Art. 59Further processing of personal data for developing certain AI systems in the public interest in the AI regulatory sandbox
- Art. 60Testing of high-risk AI systems in real world conditions outside AI regulatory sandboxes
- Art. 60aTesting of high-risk AI systems covered by Union harmonisation legislation listed in Section B of Annex I in real-world conditions outside AI regulatory sandboxes
- Art. 61Informed consent to participate in testing in real world conditions outside AI regulatory sandboxes
- Art. 62Measures for providers and deployers, in particular SMEs, including start-ups
- Art. 63Derogations for specific operators
- Art. 64AI Office
- Art. 65Establishment and structure of the European Artificial Intelligence Board
- Art. 66Tasks of the Board
- Art. 67Advisory forum
- Art. 68Scientific panel of independent experts
- Art. 69Access to the pool of experts by the Member States
- Art. 70Designation of national competent authorities and single points of contact
- Art. 72Post-market monitoring by providers and post-market monitoring plan for high-risk AI systems
- Art. 73Reporting of serious incidents
- Art. 74Market surveillance and control of AI systems in the Union market
- Art. 75Market surveillance and control of AI systems and mutual assistance
- Art. 75aSupervisory and enforcement powers of the AI Office
- Art. 75bCommitments
- Art. 75cNon-compliance, fines and periodic penalty payments
- Art. 75dSafeguards and further specification
- Art. 76Supervision of testing in real world conditions by market surveillance authorities
- Art. 77Powers of authorities protecting fundamental rights and cooperation with market surveillance authorities
- Art. 78Confidentiality
- Art. 79Procedure at national level for dealing with AI systems presenting a risk
- Art. 80Procedure for dealing with AI systems classified by the provider as non-high-risk in application of Annex III
- Art. 81Union safeguard procedure
- Art. 82Compliant AI systems which present a risk
- Art. 83Formal non-compliance
- Art. 84Union AI testing support structures
- Art. 85Right to lodge a complaint with a market surveillance authority
- Art. 86Right to explanation of individual decision-making
- Art. 87Reporting of infringements and protection of reporting persons
- Art. 88Enforcement of the obligations of providers of general-purpose AI models
- Art. 89Monitoring actions
- Art. 90Alerts of systemic risks by the scientific panel
- Art. 91Power to request documentation and information
- Art. 92Power to conduct evaluations
- Art. 93Power to request measures
- Art. 94Procedural rights of economic operators of the general-purpose AI model
- Art. 102Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 300/2008
- Art. 103Amendment to Regulation (EU) No 167/2013
- Art. 104Amendment to Regulation (EU) No 168/2013
- Art. 105Amendment to Directive 2014/90/EU
- Art. 106Amendment to Directive (EU) 2016/797
- Art. 107Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2018/858
- Art. 108Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139
- Art. 109Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2019/2144
- Art. 110Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
- Art. 111AI systems already placed on the market or put into service and general-purpose AI models already placed on the marked
- Art. 112Evaluation and review
- Art. 113Entry into force and application
AI Act Article 26
Obligations of deployers of high-risk AI systems
1.
Deployers of high-risk AI systems shall take appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure they use such systems in accordance with the instructions for use accompanying the systems, pursuant to paragraphs 3 and 6.
2.
Deployers shall assign human oversight to natural persons who have the necessary competence, training and authority, as well as the necessary support.
3.
The obligations set out in paragraphs 1 and 2, are without prejudice to other deployer obligations under Union or national law and to the deployer’s freedom to organise its own resources and activities for the purpose of implementing the human oversight measures indicated by the provider.
4.
Without prejudice to paragraphs 1 and 2, to the extent the deployer exercises control over the input data, that deployer shall ensure that input data is relevant and sufficiently representative in view of the intended purpose of the high-risk AI system.
5.
Deployers shall monitor the operation of the high-risk AI system on the basis of the instructions for use and, where relevant, inform providers in accordance with Article 72. Where deployers have reason to consider that the use of the high-risk AI system in accordance with the instructions may result in that AI system presenting a risk within the meaning of Article 79(1), they shall, without undue delay, inform the provider or distributor and the relevant market surveillance authority, and shall suspend the use of that system. Where deployers have identified a serious incident, they shall also immediately inform first the provider, and then the importer or distributor and the relevant market surveillance authorities of that incident. If the deployer is not able to reach the provider, Article 73 shall apply mutatis mutandis. This obligation shall not cover sensitive operational data of deployers of AI systems which are law enforcement authorities.
For deployers that are financial institutions subject to requirements regarding their internal governance, arrangements or processes under Union financial services law, the monitoring obligation set out in the first subparagraph shall be deemed to be fulfilled by complying with the rules on internal governance arrangements, processes and mechanisms pursuant to the relevant financial service law.
6.
Deployers of high-risk AI systems shall keep the logs automatically generated by that high-risk AI system to the extent such logs are under their control, for a period appropriate to the intended purpose of the high-risk AI system, of at least six months, unless provided otherwise in applicable Union or national law, in particular in Union law on the protection of personal data.
Deployers that are financial institutions subject to requirements regarding their internal governance, arrangements or processes under Union financial services law shall maintain the logs as part of the documentation kept pursuant to the relevant Union financial service law.
7.
Before putting into service or using a high-risk AI system at the workplace, deployers who are employers shall inform workers’ representatives and the affected workers that they will be subject to the use of the high-risk AI system. This information shall be provided, where applicable, in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down in Union and national law and practice on information of workers and their representatives.
8.
Deployers of high-risk AI systems that are public authorities, or Union institutions, bodies, offices or agencies shall comply with the registration obligations referred to in Article 49. When such deployers find that the high-risk AI system that they envisage using has not been registered in the EU database referred to in Article 71, they shall not use that system and shall inform the provider or the distributor.
9.
Where applicable, deployers of high-risk AI systems shall use the information provided under Article 13 of this Regulation to comply with their obligation to carry out a data protection impact assessment under Article 35 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or Article 27 of Directive (EU) 2016/680.
10.
Without prejudice to Directive (EU) 2016/680, in the framework of an investigation for the targeted search of a person suspected or convicted of having committed a criminal offence, the deployer of a high-risk AI system for post-remote biometric identification shall request an authorisation, ex ante, or without undue delay and no later than 48 hours, by a judicial authority or an administrative authority whose decision is binding and subject to judicial review, for the use of that system, except when it is used for the initial identification of a potential suspect based on objective and verifiable facts directly linked to the offence. Each use shall be limited to what is strictly necessary for the investigation of a specific criminal offence.
If the authorisation requested pursuant to the first subparagraph is rejected, the use of the post-remote biometric identification system linked to that requested authorisation shall be stopped with immediate effect and the personal data linked to the use of the high-risk AI system for which the authorisation was requested shall be deleted.
In no case shall such high-risk AI system for post-remote biometric identification be used for law enforcement purposes in an untargeted way, without any link to a criminal offence, a criminal proceeding, a genuine and present or genuine and foreseeable threat of a criminal offence, or the search for a specific missing person. It shall be ensured that no decision that produces an adverse legal effect on a person may be taken by the law enforcement authorities based solely on the output of such post-remote biometric identification systems.
This paragraph is without prejudice to Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 10 of Directive (EU) 2016/680 for the processing of biometric data.
Regardless of the purpose or deployer, each use of such high-risk AI systems shall be documented in the relevant police file and shall be made available to the relevant market surveillance authority and the national data protection authority upon request, excluding the disclosure of sensitive operational data related to law enforcement. This subparagraph shall be without prejudice to the powers conferred by Directive (EU) 2016/680 on supervisory authorities.
Deployers shall submit annual reports to the relevant market surveillance and national data protection authorities on their use of post-remote biometric identification systems, excluding the disclosure of sensitive operational data related to law enforcement. The reports may be aggregated to cover more than one deployment.
Member States may introduce, in accordance with Union law, more restrictive laws on the use of post-remote biometric identification systems.
11.
Without prejudice to Article 50 of this Regulation, deployers of high-risk AI systems referred to in Annex III that make decisions or assist in making decisions related to natural persons shall inform the natural persons that they are subject to the use of the high-risk AI system. For high-risk AI systems used for law enforcement purposes Article 13 of Directive (EU) 2016/680 shall apply.
12.
Deployers shall cooperate with the relevant competent authorities in any action those authorities take in relation to the high-risk AI system in order to implement this Regulation.
Related Recitals
(91) Definition of special responsibilities and obligations for deployers(92) Duty of employers to inform and consult employees or their representatives
(93) Notification and information of persons by the deployer
(94) Application of Directive (EU) 2016/680 when using AI systems for biometric identification for law enforcement purposes
(95) Compliance with safeguards for subsequent remote biometric identification
