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AI Act: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689

CELEX 32024R1689 · Read 2026-08-12

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Last verified
2026-08-31
Consolidated version
2025-11-20(derived)
Amendments
Regulation (EU) 2025/384 (Digital Omnibus on AI) införd 2025-11-20
Status
In force · updated · consolidated

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Identifier

CELEX
32024R1689
Identifier
EU 2024/1689
Adopted
2024-06-13
In force
2024-08-01
Applies from
2026-08-02
Articles
113

Chapters

  • I General provisions1-4
  • II Prohibited AI practices5
  • III High-risk AI systems6-49
  • IV Transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems50
  • V General-purpose AI models51-56
  • VI Measures in support of innovation57-63
  • VII Governance64-70
  • VIII EU database for high-risk AI systems71
  • IX Post-market monitoring, information sharing and market surveillance72-94
  • X Codes of conduct and guidelines95-96
  • XI Delegation of power and committee procedure97-98
  • XII Penalties99-101
  • XIII Final provisions102-113

Articles

113 articles are read into the register, one address each. Read on 2026-08-18.

Recitals that carry the interpretation

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  • Skäl 27 · Article 6

    The high-risk classification: product safety legislation and Annex III as the two tracks.

  • Skäl 28 · Article 5

    Why manipulation and exploitation of vulnerability are banned: practices that undermine free choice.

  • Skäl 44 · Article 5

    The carve-outs for law-enforcement biometric identification: strict proportionality and judicial review.

  • Skäl 89 · Article 9

    The risk-management system as a continuous process over the system's whole lifecycle.

  • Skäl 97 · Article 17

    Quality management systems for providers: documentation, allocation of responsibility and compliance control.

  • Skäl 105 · Article 43

    Conformity assessment: for which high-risk systems self-assessment suffices and when a notified body is required.

  • Skäl 109 · Article 49

    Registration in the EU database: what information must be given and who has access.

  • Skäl 132 · Article 50

    The transparency duties: the user must know when it interacts with an AI system or synthetic content.

  • Skäl 109 · Article 71

    The EU database's function as the public register of high-risk systems.

  • Skäl 165 · Article 99

    The penalties: turnover-based fines must be dissuasive even for the largest actors.

Guidance and secondary law

Authority guidance and the delegated or implementing acts that fill the article, with the primary source at the issuing body. Read 2026-08-31.

Amendment history

The amending acts that affect the base act, so the question of what applied on a given date can be answered against the register. Read 2026-08-31.

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Obligations, actions and sanctions

  • Article 16 · Role: provider

    Meet the provider obligations for high-risk AI systems.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 9 · Role: provider

    Establish and maintain a risk management system.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 10 · Role: provider

    Apply data and data governance requirements to training, validation and testing data.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 11 · Role: provider

    Draw up and keep technical documentation.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 12 · Role: provider

    Enable automatic recording of events (logging).

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 17 · Role: provider

    Operate a quality management system.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 43 · Role: provider

    Carry out the applicable conformity assessment before placing on the market.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 72 · Role: provider

    Run post-market monitoring of the system in use.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 73 · Role: provider

    Report serious incidents to the market surveillance authority.

    Deadline: Serious incident: not later than 15 days after awareness (Art. 73(2)); not later than 2 days for a widespread infringement or a serious and irreversible disruption of critical infrastructure (Art. 73(3), Art. 3(49)(b)); not later than 10 days in the event of the death of a person (Art. 73(4)).

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  • Article 26 · Role: deployer

    Use the system in line with the instructions and assign human oversight.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 27 · Role: deployer

    Carry out a fundamental rights impact assessment where required.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 23 · Role: importer

    Verify conformity, documentation and marking before placing on the market.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 24 · Role: distributor

    Verify marking and documentation before making available on the market.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 53 · Role: gpai-provider

    Keep model documentation and a copyright policy for general-purpose AI models.

    Deadline: Applies since 2 August 2025; models placed on the market before that date must comply by 2 August 2027. Commission fines apply from 2 August 2026.

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  • Article 55 · Role: gpai-provider

    Meet the additional obligations for models with systemic risk.

    Deadline: Applies since 2 August 2025 for models with systemic risk; notify the Commission within two weeks of meeting the threshold (Art. 52(1)). Models placed on the market before that date must comply by 2 August 2027.

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  • Article 5 · Role: operator

    Do not place on the market, put into service or use AI systems for the prohibited practices in Article 5, including manipulative techniques, exploitation of vulnerabilities, social scoring, untargeted scraping of facial images, emotion recognition at work or in education, and biometric categorisation by sensitive traits.

    Deadline: Applies since 2 February 2025.

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  • Article 4 · Role: provider-or-deployer

    Take measures to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among staff and others operating or using AI systems on their behalf, taking account of their knowledge, experience, education and context of use.

    Deadline: Applies since 2 February 2025; amended wording applies from 27 July 2026. No dedicated fine in Article 99; enforcement follows national law.

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  • Article 50 · Role: provider

    Design AI systems that interact with natural persons so they are informed they are interacting with an AI system, and mark synthetic audio, image, video and text output in a machine-readable and detectable format.

    Deadline: Applies since 2 August 2026; providers of generative systems placed on the market before that date have until 2 December 2026 for the marking in Article 50(2).

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  • Article 50 · Role: deployer

    Inform natural persons exposed to an emotion recognition or biometric categorisation system, and disclose that deep fake content or AI-generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest has been artificially generated or manipulated.

    Deadline: Applies since 2 August 2026, at the latest at the time of the first interaction or exposure.

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  • Article 54 · Role: gpai-provider

    Appoint, by written mandate, an authorised representative established in the Union before placing a general-purpose AI model on the Union market when established outside the Union.

    Deadline: Applies since 2 August 2025; models placed on the market before that date must comply by 2 August 2027. Commission fines apply from 2 August 2026.

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  • Article 13 · Role: provider

    Design high-risk AI systems to be sufficiently transparent and accompany them with instructions for use stating the provider's identity, the system's characteristics, capabilities, limitations and human oversight measures.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 14 · Role: provider

    Design high-risk AI systems so that natural persons can effectively oversee them during use, including the ability to disregard, override or stop the system.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 15 · Role: provider

    Design high-risk AI systems to achieve an appropriate level of accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity throughout their lifecycle, and declare accuracy metrics in the instructions for use.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 18 · Role: provider

    Keep the technical documentation, quality management system documentation, notified body decisions and EU declaration of conformity at the disposal of national competent authorities.

    Deadline: Ten years after the system has been placed on the market or put into service. Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 19 · Role: provider

    Keep the logs automatically generated by the high-risk AI system, to the extent they are under the provider's control.

    Deadline: For a period appropriate to the intended purpose, of at least six months. Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 20 · Role: provider

    Immediately take corrective action to bring a non-conforming high-risk AI system into conformity, withdraw, disable or recall it, and inform distributors, deployers and the authorities of a risk.

    Deadline: Immediately on considering or having reason to consider non-conformity. Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 47 · Role: provider

    Draw up a written, machine-readable EU declaration of conformity for each high-risk AI system and keep it up to date.

    Deadline: Keep for ten years after placing on the market or putting into service. Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 48 · Role: provider

    Affix the CE marking visibly, legibly and indelibly to the high-risk AI system, or digitally for systems provided digitally.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 49 · Role: provider

    Register the provider and the high-risk AI system listed in Annex III in the EU database before placing it on the market or putting it into service.

    Deadline: Before placing on the market or putting into service. Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 26(6) · Role: deployer

    Keep the logs automatically generated by the high-risk AI system, to the extent under the deployer's control, and inform workers' representatives and affected workers before putting the system into service at the workplace.

    Deadline: Logs for a period appropriate to the intended purpose, of at least six months. Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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  • Article 86 · Role: deployer

    Provide affected persons, on request, with a clear and meaningful explanation of the role of the high-risk AI system in a decision that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

    Deadline: Applies from 2 December 2027 for high-risk systems under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and from 2 August 2028 under Article 6(1) and Annex I (Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

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Sanction: Administrative fine: prohibited practices up to EUR 35 million or 7 % of worldwide annual turnover; other obligations up to EUR 15 million or 3 %; incorrect information up to EUR 7.5 million or 1 %. For general-purpose AI models the Commission (AI Office) decides, up to EUR 15 million or 3 %.

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2026-08-02Date of application under the actEUR-Lex
2024-08-01Entry into force under CELEX 32024R1689EUR-Lex

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