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EU regulatory register · AI Act

Article 13Transparency and provision of information to deployers

CELEX 32024R1689 · Read on 2026-08-18 · Chapter III

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1. High-risk AI systems shall be designed and developed in such a way as to ensure that their operation is sufficiently transparent to enable deployers to interpret a system’s output and use it appropriately.

Verbatim from the article. Source: NovaCopilot · https://legal.exploreworldai.com/eu/rattsakter/ai-act-2024-1689/artikel-13 · Short answer as data · Official text

AI Act in short

Some AI uses are banned, high-risk AI requires risk management and human oversight, and deployers must ensure AI literacy.

Source: NovaCopilot

Official text

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1. High-risk AI systems shall be designed and developed in such a way as to ensure that their operation is sufficiently transparent to enable deployers to interpret a system’s output and use it appropriately. An appropriate type and degree of transparency shall be ensured with a view to achieving compliance with the relevant obligations of the provider and deployer set out in Section 3.

2. High-risk AI systems shall be accompanied by instructions for use in an appropriate digital format or otherwise that include concise, complete, correct and clear information that is relevant, accessible and comprehensible to deployers.

3. The instructions for use shall contain at least the following information:

(a)

the identity and the contact details of the provider and, where applicable, of its authorised representative;

(b)

the characteristics, capabilities and limitations of performance of the high-risk AI system, including:

(i)

its intended purpose;

(ii)

the level of accuracy, including its metrics, robustness and cybersecurity referred to in Article 15 against which the high-risk AI system has been tested and validated and which can be expected, and any known and foreseeable circumstances that may have an impact on that expected level of accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity;

(iii)

any known or foreseeable circumstance, related to the use of the high-risk AI system in accordance with its intended purpose or under conditions of reasonably foreseeable misuse, which may lead to risks to the health and safety or fundamental rights referred to in Article 9(2);

(iv)

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Knowledge card

Applies
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.
Risk if ignored
high
What to do
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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Obligations, actions and sanctions

  • 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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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 %.

Summary of the obligation in the register; the official language versions on EUR-Lex are authoritative. Source: NovaCopilot

Risk, sanction and outcome

  • Art. 13 · provider

    Risk: high · Sanction: administrative_fine, högst EUR 15 000 000 · Authority: Market surveillance authority

    Decisions applying the provision: none in the register

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Outcomes are counted from stored judgments that cite the provision verbatim. Source: NovaCopilot

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