For providers · Anbieter
You put AI on the market under your name. Here is the chain the Act expects.
A product, a model, an embedded feature: the provider chapter is long, but it is a list, and most of it has a date in 2027 or 2028.
What applies to you
- Art. 4 and Art. 5: literacy measures and no prohibited practice (since 2 February 2025)
- Art. 50(1) and (2): disclose AI interaction; mark synthetic audio, image, video and text in a machine-readable format (since 2 August 2026; existing generative systems by 2 December 2026)
- Art. 53 to 55: general-purpose model documentation, downstream information, copyright policy, training-content summary; systemic-risk duties (since 2 August 2025; pre-existing models by 2 August 2027)
- Art. 9 to 15: risk management, data governance, technical documentation, logging, instructions, human oversight, accuracy and robustness for high-risk systems
- Art. 16 to 22, 43, 47 to 49: QMS, conformity assessment, declaration of conformity, CE marking, registration, authorised representative
- Art. 72 and 73: post-market monitoring and serious-incident reporting with the 15, 10 and 2-day clocks
By date
- 2 February 2025Literacy and prohibitionsIn force
- 2 August 2025GPAI, governance, penaltiesIn force
- 2 August 2026General applicationIn force
- 2 December 2026New prohibitions and marking deadline24 days left
- 2 August 2027Pre-existing GPAI models267 days left
- 2 December 2027Annex III high-risk389 days left
- 2 August 2028Annex I high-risk633 days left
What you would need to document
- Technical documentation per Annex IV (SMEs: the simplified form of Art. 11(1))
- Risk management file and data governance record
- Instructions for use and human oversight description
- QMS documentation (EN 18286:2026; SMEs: Art. 63 simplified form)
- EU declaration of conformity, CE marking evidence, EU database entry
- Marking technical documentation for Art. 50(2): signed metadata, watermark, detection route, robustness tests
- Post-market monitoring plan and incident procedure
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744; dates per Art. 113 and Art. 111. Corpus snapshot 02024R1689-20260727. Information, not legal advice.
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