Policy & Governance Resources
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EU AI Act — Article 49: Registration
The registration gate in law. On the Commission's official Act Service Desk, Article 49 requires high-risk systems to be entered in the EU database before they are placed on the market or put into service — registration as a precondition of deployment, not a filing that follows it.
Topic · EU Regulation
EU AI Act — Article 26: Obligations of Deployers of High-Risk AI Systems
The deploying organization's side of the register. Article 26 requires competent human oversight to be assigned, operation to be monitored, and automatically generated logs to be retained for at least six months — and bars a public-authority deployer from using a high-risk system that is not yet registered.
Topic · EU Regulation
European Commission Guidelines on the Definition of an AI System
The European Commission’s official guidelines (Feb 2025) on how to determine whether a software system is an “AI system” under the AI Act — the practical boundary test behind the Article 3 definition.
Topic · EU Regulation
EU Draft Guidelines on Classifying High-Risk AI Systems
The Commission’s draft guidelines on classifying high-risk AI systems — which categories of AI system draw heightened obligations, a comparative reference for defining the scope a policy governs.
Topic · EU Regulation
EU AI Act Article 3, Annotated (Future of Life Institute)
A readable, recital-linked annotation of EU AI Act Article 3 (68 defined terms including “AI system”), maintained by the Future of Life Institute — a convenient reader reference (unofficial machine translation).
Topic · EU Regulation
EU AI Act — Article 3: Definitions
The EU AI Act’s binding legal definition of an “AI system” (Article 3(1)), on the Commission’s official Act Service Desk — the authoritative anchor for what a policy governs and where the boundary sits.
Topic · EU Regulation
EU AI Act — Article 14: Human Oversight
The legal spine of a domain custodian’s veto. On the Commission’s official Act Service Desk, Article 14 requires that human oversight be assigned to natural persons with the necessary competence, training and “authority” — empowered to disregard, override or reverse an AI system’s output and to interrupt its operation.
Topic · EU Regulation
EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation 2024/1689)
The world’s first comprehensive, risk-tiered AI regulation. High-risk obligations phase in through 2026–2027; the high-risk provisions are the priority read for enterprises.
Topic · EU Regulation
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