EU AI Act
Who it binds
The 4 roles that carry a duty under EU AI Act, and the provisions that fall on each. A duty follows the capacity you are acting in, which is not always the one you think of yourself as occupying.
§ 1 — How to read this
One organisation frequently occupies more than one of these roles at once, and the duties are owed separately for each. The roles below are kept distinct because the instruments keep them distinct: where two look alike, the sentence explaining the difference is the reason both are listed. Counts are of obligations in this collection only.
§ 2 — By role
The duty, by capacity
Providers
12 obligations
Whoever develops the system, or places it on the market under their own name — including a deployer who rebrands one or modifies it substantially.
- Article 5 — Prohibited AI practices
- Article 6 — Classification rules for high-risk AI systems
- Article 9 — Risk management system
- Article 10 — Data and data governance
- Article 11 — Technical documentation
- Article 12 — Record-keeping
- Article 13 — Transparency and provision of information to deployers
- Article 14 — Human oversight
- Article 15 — Accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity
- Article 50 — Transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems
- Article 72 — Post-market monitoring by providers and post-market monitoring plan for high-risk AI systems
- Article 73 — Reporting of serious incidents
Deployers
5 obligations
Whoever uses the system under their own authority, in the course of their activity.
- Article 5 — Prohibited AI practices
- Article 6 — Classification rules for high-risk AI systems
- Article 26 — Obligations of deployers of high-risk AI systems
- Article 27 — Fundamental rights impact assessment for high-risk AI systems
- Article 50 — Transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems
Importers
2 obligations
Whoever places on the Union market a system bearing the name of a provider established outside it.
Distributors
One obligation
Anyone in the supply chain, other than the provider or importer, who makes a system available on the market.
Certification
Assessed on the same standard of evidence
Every Council credential is examined on applied judgement against a published anchor, set out the way the obligations on this page are. The Certified Applied AI Associate, the Council’s flagship, is open to any adult today, its fee waived by a coupon code from the AI-Readiness Check, and the register lists what is open for enrolment.