Chapter III · High-risk AI systems
Article 16 — Obligations of providers of high-risk AI systems
Official text
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Providers of high-risk AI systems shall:
- (a)
ensure that their high-risk AI systems are compliant with the requirements set out in Section 2;
- (b)
indicate on the high-risk AI system or, where that is not possible, on its packaging or its accompanying documentation, as applicable, their name, registered trade name or registered trade mark, the address at which they can be contacted;
- (c)
have a quality management system in place which complies with Article 17;
- (d)
keep the documentation referred to in Article 18;
- (e)
when under their control, keep the logs automatically generated by their high-risk AI systems as referred to in Article 19;
- (f)
ensure that the high-risk AI system undergoes the relevant conformity assessment procedure as referred to in Article 43, prior to its being placed on the market or put into service;
- (g)
draw up an EU declaration of conformity in accordance with Article 47;
- (h)
affix the CE marking to the high-risk AI system or, where that is not possible, on its packaging or its accompanying documentation, to indicate conformity with this Regulation, in accordance with Article 48;
- (i)
comply with the registration obligations referred to in Article 49(1);
- (j)
take the necessary corrective actions and provide information as required in Article 20;
- (k)
upon a reasoned request of a national competent authority, demonstrate the conformity of the high-risk AI system with the requirements set out in Section 2;
- (l)
ensure that the high-risk AI system complies with accessibility requirements in accordance with Directives (EU) 2016/2102 and (EU) 2019/882.
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The formal analysis of Article 16
Article 6 is formalised first. The remaining articles follow.
Article 16 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
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