Chapter I · General provisions
Article 1 — Subject matter
Official text
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The purpose of this Regulation is to improve the functioning of the internal market and promote the uptake of human-centric and trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI), while ensuring a high level of protection of health, safety, fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter, including democracy, the rule of law and environmental protection, against the harmful effects of AI systems in the Union and supporting innovation.
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This Regulation lays down:
- (a)
harmonised rules for the placing on the market, the putting into service, and the use of AI systems in the Union;
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- (b)
prohibitions of certain AI practices;
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- (c)
specific requirements for high-risk AI systems and obligations for operators of such systems;
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- (d)
harmonised transparency rules for certain AI systems;
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- (e)
harmonised rules for the placing on the market of general-purpose AI models;
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- (f)
rules on market monitoring, market surveillance, governance and enforcement;
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- (g)
measures to support innovation, with a particular focus on small mid-cap enterprises (SMCs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including start-ups.amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744
Paragraph amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 — point (g) amended. The other points are unchanged.
The formal analysis of Article 1
Article 6 is formalised first. The remaining articles follow.
Article 1 is formalised node by node: each rule as a deontic position with its operator, each exception with its rank, each predicate resolved against the definitions in Article 3.
What members get, per article
- the rule logic: every norm as a formal position, with the defeater chain that decides which exception wins
- the competency questions and their answers, every unanswered one marked as a gap and named
- the ontology: predicates bound to AISV (AI Standardisation Vocabulary) and to the definitions they depend on, exportable as JSON-LD and OWL
- the documentation: the Article 6(4) assessment record generated from a fact set, with its derivation and the version of the law it was decided against
Built for providers claiming the 6(3) derogation, for the counsel who has to defend that claim, and for the auditor who reads it afterwards.
Access is invite-only and opening in stages. Article 6 is formalised first; the remaining articles follow.
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