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Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act

European Union · published 2024-07-12 · Official Journal text

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eu-ai-act · last checked 2026-09-04 · voice: government · origin: global north

Original 2024 enactment, not a consolidated current-law or applicability check. Records discuss its text, not whether a provision applies to a particular situation today.

Claims that cite this source · 9

  1. Source assertion· confidence high· passage review pending

    Human rights and dignity can function as the normative foundation against which AI governance choices are evaluated.

    Locator: UNESCO values and principles; EU AI Act Article 1

    Used in: Affected people, Impact assessment

  2. Synthesis· confidence high· passage review pending

    Traceability connects decisions and system behavior to records that can support inquiry, review, and accountability.

    Locator: OECD principle 1.5; EU AI Act high-risk obligations

    Used in: Traceability, Audit record

  3. Interpretation· confidence medium· passage review pending

    Human oversight is a context-dependent safeguard; merely placing a person in a workflow does not establish that intervention is informed or effective.

    Used in: Meaningful human oversight

  4. Source assertion· confidence high· passage review pending

    The EU AI Act applies differentiated requirements according to categories of risk and regulates specific actors, uses, and model providers.

    Locator: EU AI Act; Commission risk-based approach overview

    Used in: Deploying organization, Supervision and regulatory review

  5. Synthesis· confidence high· passage review pending

    Voluntary frameworks and binding law can share governance goals while creating different duties, enforcement pathways, and evidence burdens.

    Used in: Liability exposure, Regulator or public authority, Standards body, Supervision and regulatory review

  6. Synthesis· confidence medium· passage review pending

    People affected by AI systems are governance participants and rights-holders, not only downstream recipients of technical risk controls.

    Used in: Affected people, Civil society and independent researchers, Contestable decision

  7. Source assertion· confidence high· passage checked

    The original EU AI Act includes a specific complaint route to a market surveillance authority in Article 85.

    Used in: Complaint and appeal routes, Accountability

  8. Source assertion· confidence high· passage checked

    The original EU AI Act's Article 86 explanation right is conditional, not a general right to explanations of every AI-assisted decision.

  9. Source assertion· confidence high· passage checked

    EU law prohibits AI systems that exploit vulnerabilities due to age to materially distort behaviour in a way likely to cause significant harm.

    Used in: Regulator or public authority