Agent · ai-act-2024-1689-3
AI Act artikel 3: Definitions
Structural tree: the article's own paragraphs, verbatim.
CELEX 32024R1689 · 2026-08-18 · Weight 84 · minimal-risk
ExtendedOperational weight but lower priority. Metered by volume, not per call, once metering is switched on.
- What this page is
- Agent, AI Act artikel 3
- Checked against the official source
- 2026-08-18Current
- Responsible publisher
- ExploreWorld Legal, editorial deskLiability position
Short answer
What does AI Act Article 3 require, and what outcome does the rule tree give?
AI Act Article 3 is tested here by a deterministic rule tree of 14 rules, built from the article's own conditions. The tree reads your facts and names the outcome that applies, starting with Paragraph 1 applies, carrying paragraph citation, content hash and read date 2026-08-18 against CELEX 32024R1689. The outcome is a machine classification, not a compliance decision.
AI Act Article 3Checked against the publisher 2026-08-18Official text
- Paragraph 1 applies. For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
- Paragraph 2 applies. (1)
- Paragraph 3 applies. ‘AI system’ means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments;
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Inputs
- in_scopeThe article applies to the situationboolean
- punktParagraph of the articleenum (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14)
Rule tree
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 1)
Paragraph 1 applies
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
Paragraph 1
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 2)
Paragraph 2 applies
(1)
Paragraph 2
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 3)
Paragraph 3 applies
‘AI system’ means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments;
Paragraph 3
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 4)
Paragraph 4 applies
(2)
Paragraph 4
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 5)
Paragraph 5 applies
‘risk’ means the combination of the probability of an occurrence of harm and the severity of that harm;
Paragraph 5
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 6)
Paragraph 6 applies
(3)
Paragraph 6
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 7)
Paragraph 7 applies
‘provider’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge;
Paragraph 7
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 8)
Paragraph 8 applies
(4)
Paragraph 8
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 9)
Paragraph 9 applies
‘deployer’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body using an AI system under its authority except where the AI system is used in the course of a personal non-professional activity;
Paragraph 9
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 10)
Paragraph 10 applies
(5)
Paragraph 10
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 11)
Paragraph 11 applies
‘authorised representative’ means a natural or legal person located or established in the Union who has received and accepted a written mandate from a provider of an AI system or a general-purpose AI model to, respectively, perform and carry out on its behalf the obligations and procedures established by this Regulation;
Paragraph 11
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 12)
Paragraph 12 applies
(6)
Paragraph 12
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 13)
Paragraph 13 applies
‘importer’ means a natural or legal person located or established in the Union that places on the market an AI system that bears the name or trademark of a natural or legal person established in a third country;
Paragraph 13
If: alla(in_scope = true, punkt = 14)
Paragraph 14 applies
(7)
Paragraph 14
If no rule matches: The article is not stated to apply, or no paragraph is selected. The agent abstains rather than guesses.
The article text as read
- 1For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
- 2(1)
- 3‘AI system’ means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments;
- 4(2)
- 5‘risk’ means the combination of the probability of an occurrence of harm and the severity of that harm;
- 6(3)
- 7‘provider’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge;
- 8(4)
- 9‘deployer’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body using an AI system under its authority except where the AI system is used in the course of a personal non-professional activity;
- 10(5)
- 11‘authorised representative’ means a natural or legal person located or established in the Union who has received and accepted a written mandate from a provider of an AI system or a general-purpose AI model to, respectively, perform and carry out on its behalf the obligations and procedures established by this Regulation;
- 12(6)
- 13‘importer’ means a natural or legal person located or established in the Union that places on the market an AI system that bears the name or trademark of a natural or legal person established in a third country;
- 14(7)
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Citation: 32024R1689 art. 3, Definitions. ExploreWorld Legal, https://legal.exploreworldai.com/agent/ai-act-2024-1689/artikel-3 (hämtad 2026-08-18, bevis sha256:cd069147961d5655, bygge legal-2026-08-25).