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The EU AI Act as an interactive map
Every article, recital, annex and definition of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as one connected network, parsed from the official EUR-Lex text. Click any provision to read it in full and follow its cross-references, or take a guided path through the topics that matter to your role.
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This map serves the consolidated text: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 with the Digital Omnibus (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force 27 July 2026) applied, mechanically consolidated from the official OJ texts and unofficial pending the official EUR-Lex consolidation. Amended provisions carry a marker and list their changes. Study aid, not legal advice; the official texts on EUR-Lex are always authoritative.
Guided paths through the Regulation
Six curated reading orders. Each step links to the provision's full text; the same paths run inside the interactive map above.
Practitioner
High-Risk Compliance Journey
The full Annex III compliance loop, end to end.
Foundation
Prohibited Practices, First Read
What the Act bans outright, and why.
Practitioner
General-Purpose AI Essentials
The GPAI model regime in five provisions.
Practitioner
Deployer Duty Tour
What changes the day you deploy, not build.
Foundation
Transparency and Limited Risk
Disclosure duties for interactive and synthetic AI.
Advanced
Enforcement and Penalties
Who enforces the Act, and what it costs to break it.
Every provision of the Act
The whole Regulation as plain links, grouped as it is grouped. Each one opens that provision on its own page with the full official text, its cross-references and any amendment the Digital Omnibus made to it.
Chapter IGENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter IIPROHIBITED AI PRACTICES
Chapter IIIHIGH-RISK AI SYSTEMS
Chapter III, Section 1Classification of AI systems as high-risk
Chapter III, Section 2Requirements for high-risk AI systems
- Article 8Compliance with the requirements
- Article 9Risk management system
- Article 10Data and data governance
- Article 11Technical documentation
- Article 12Record-keeping
- Article 13Transparency and provision of information to deployers
- Article 14Human oversight
- Article 15Accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity
Chapter III, Section 3Obligations of providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems and other parties
- Article 16Obligations of providers of high-risk AI systems
- Article 17Quality management system
- Article 18Documentation keeping
- Article 19Automatically generated logs
- Article 20Corrective actions and duty of information
- Article 21Cooperation with competent authorities
- Article 22Authorised representatives of providers of high-risk AI systems
- Article 23Obligations of importers
- Article 24Obligations of distributors
- Article 25Responsibilities along the AI value chain
- Article 26Obligations of deployers of high-risk AI systems
- Article 27Fundamental rights impact assessment for high-risk AI systems
Chapter III, Section 4Notifying authorities and notified bodies
- Article 28Notifying authorities
- Article 29Application of a conformity assessment body for notification
- Article 30Notification procedure
- Article 31Requirements relating to notified bodies
- Article 32Presumption of conformity with requirements relating to notified bodies
- Article 33Subsidiaries of notified bodies and subcontracting
- Article 34Operational obligations of notified bodies
- Article 35Identification numbers and lists of notified bodies
- Article 36Changes to notifications
- Article 37Challenge to the competence of notified bodies
- Article 38Coordination of notified bodies
- Article 39Conformity assessment bodies of third countries
Chapter III, Section 5Standards, conformity assessment, certificates, registration
- Article 40Harmonised standards and standardisation deliverables
- Article 41Common specifications
- Article 42Presumption of conformity with certain requirements
- Article 43Conformity assessment
- Article 44Certificates
- Article 45Information obligations of notified bodies
- Article 46Derogation from conformity assessment procedure
- Article 47EU declaration of conformity
- Article 48CE marking
- Article 49Registration
Chapter IVTRANSPARENCY OBLIGATIONS FOR PROVIDERS AND DEPLOYERS OF CERTAIN AI SYSTEMS
Chapter VGENERAL-PURPOSE AI MODELS
Chapter V, Section 1Classification rules
Chapter V, Section 2Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models
Chapter V, Section 3Obligations of providers of general-purpose AI models with systemic risk
Chapter V, Section 4Codes of practice
Chapter VIMEASURES IN SUPPORT OF INNOVATION
- Article 57AI regulatory sandboxes
- Article 58Detailed arrangements for, and functioning of, AI regulatory sandboxes
- Article 59Further processing of personal data for developing certain AI systems in the public interest in the AI regulatory sandbox
- Article 60Testing of high-risk AI systems in real world conditions outside AI regulatory sandboxes
- Article 60aTesting of high-risk AI systems covered by Union harmonisation legislation listed in Section B of Annex I in real-world conditions outside AI regulatory sandboxes
- Article 61Informed consent to participate in testing in real world conditions outside AI regulatory sandboxes
- Article 62Measures for providers and deployers, in particular SMEs, including start-ups
- Article 63Derogations for specific operators
Chapter VIIGOVERNANCE
Chapter VII, Section 1Governance at Union level
Chapter VII, Section 2National competent authorities
Chapter VIIIEU DATABASE FOR HIGH-RISK AI SYSTEMS
Chapter IXPOST-MARKET MONITORING, INFORMATION SHARING AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE
Chapter IX, Section 1Post-market monitoring
Chapter IX, Section 2Sharing of information on serious incidents
Chapter IX, Section 3Enforcement
- Article 74Market surveillance and control of AI systems in the Union market
- Article 75Market surveillance and control of AI systems and mutual assistance
- Article 75aSupervisory and enforcement powers of the AI Office
- Article 75bCommitments
- Article 75cNon-compliance, fines and periodic penalty payments
- Article 75dSafeguards and further specification
- Article 76Supervision of testing in real world conditions by market surveillance authorities
- Article 77Powers of authorities protecting fundamental rights and cooperation with market surveillance authorities
- Article 78Confidentiality
- Article 79Procedure at national level for dealing with AI systems presenting a risk
- Article 80Procedure for dealing with AI systems classified by the provider as non-high-risk in application of Annex III
- Article 81Union safeguard procedure
- Article 82Compliant AI systems which present a risk
- Article 83Formal non-compliance
- Article 84Union AI testing support structures
Chapter IX, Section 4Remedies
Chapter IX, Section 5Supervision, investigation, enforcement and monitoring in respect of providers of general-purpose AI models
- Article 88Enforcement of the obligations of providers of general-purpose AI models
- Article 89Monitoring actions
- Article 90Alerts of systemic risks by the scientific panel
- Article 91Power to request documentation and information
- Article 92Power to conduct evaluations
- Article 93Power to request measures
- Article 94Procedural rights of economic operators of the general-purpose AI model
Chapter XCODES OF CONDUCT AND GUIDELINES
Chapter XIDELEGATION OF POWER AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE
Chapter XIIPENALTIES
Chapter XIIIFINAL PROVISIONS
- Article 102Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 300/2008
- Article 103Amendment to Regulation (EU) No 167/2013
- Article 104Amendment to Regulation (EU) No 168/2013
- Article 105Amendment to Directive 2014/90/EU
- Article 106Amendment to Directive (EU) 2016/797
- Article 107Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2018/858
- Article 108Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2018/1139
- Article 109Amendment to Regulation (EU) 2019/2144
- Article 110Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
- Article 111AI systems already placed on the market or put into service and general-purpose AI models already placed on the marked
- Article 112Evaluation and review
- Article 113Entry into force and application
Annexes (14)
- Annex IList of Union harmonisation legislation
- Annex IIList of criminal offences referred to in Article 5(1), first subparagraph, point (h)(iii)
- Annex IIIHigh-risk AI systems referred to in Article 6(2)
- Annex IVTechnical documentation referred to in Article 11(1)
- Annex VEU declaration of conformity
- Annex VIConformity assessment procedure based on internal control
- Annex VIIConformity based on an assessment of the quality management system and an assessment of the technical documentation
- Annex VIIIInformation to be submitted upon the registration of high-risk AI systems in accordance with Article 49
- Annex IXInformation to be submitted upon the registration of high-risk AI systems listed in Annex III in relation to testing in real world conditions in accordance with Article 60
- Annex XUnion legislative acts on large-scale IT systems in the area of Freedom, Security and Justice
- Annex XITechnical documentation referred to in Article 53(1), point (a) — technical documentation for providers of general-purpose AI models
- Annex XIITransparency information referred to in Article 53(1), point (b) — technical documentation for providers of general-purpose AI models to downstream providers that integrate the model into their AI system
- Annex XIIICriteria for the designation of general-purpose AI models with systemic risk referred to in Article 51
- Annex XIVThe list of codes, categories and corresponding types of AI systems for the purpose of the notification procedure referred to in Article 30 specifying the scope of the designation as notified bodies
Defined terms (70)
- AI system
- risk
- provider
- deployer
- authorised representative
- importer
- distributor
- operator
- placing on the market
- making available on the market
- putting into service
- intended purpose
- reasonably foreseeable misuse
- safety component
- micro, small and medium-sized enterprise
- small mid-cap enterprise
- instructions for use
- recall of an AI system
- withdrawal of an AI system
- performance of an AI system
- notifying authority
- conformity assessment
- conformity assessment body
- notified body
- substantial modification
- CE marking
- post-market monitoring system
- market surveillance authority
- harmonised standard
- common specification
- training data
- validation data
- validation data set
- testing data
- input data
- biometric data
- biometric identification
- biometric verification
- special categories of personal data
- sensitive operational data
- emotion recognition system
- biometric categorisation system
- remote biometric identification system
- real-time remote biometric identification system
- post-remote biometric identification system
- publicly accessible space
- law enforcement authority
- law enforcement
- AI Office
- national competent authority
- serious incident
- personal data
- non-personal data
- profiling
- real-world testing plan
- sandbox plan
- AI regulatory sandbox
- AI literacy
- testing in real-world conditions
- subject
- informed consent
- deep fake
- widespread infringement
- critical infrastructure
- general-purpose AI model
- high-impact capabilities
- systemic risk
- general-purpose AI system
- floating-point operation
- downstream provider
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