Chapter X · Codes of conduct and guidelines
Article 96 — Guidelines from the Commission on the implementation of this Regulation
Official text
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The Commission shall develop guidelines on the practical implementation of this Regulation, and in particular on:
- (a)
the application of the requirements and obligations referred to in Articles 8 to 15 and in Articles 25 and 26;amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744
- (b)
the prohibited practices referred to in Article 5;
- (c)
the practical implementation of the provisions related to substantial modification;
- (d)
the practical implementation of transparency obligations laid down in Article 50;
- (e)
detailed information on the relationship of this Regulation with the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Annex I, as well as with other relevant Union law, including as regards consistency in their enforcement;
- (f)
the application of the definition of an AI system as set out in Article 3, point (1);amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744
- (g)
the practical implementation of Article 8(2), Article 9(10) and Article 17(3) in accordance with the principle of complementarity and proportionality, with a view to ensuring consistency, avoiding duplication and minimising additional burdens when complying with the requirements of this Regulation and the requirements of the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Section A of Annex I; such guidelines shall be published by 1 August 2027.amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744
When issuing such guidelines, the Commission shall involve the Board and pay particular attention to the needs of SMEs, including start-ups, and SMCs, of local public authorities and of the sectors most likely to be affected by this Regulation.amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744
The guidelines referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall take due account of the generally acknowledged state of the art on AI, as well as of relevant harmonised standards and common specifications that are referred to in Articles 40 and 41, or of those harmonised standards or technical specifications that are set out pursuant to Union harmonisation law.
Consolidated text — no legal value · amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744
At the request of the Member States or the AI Office, or on its own initiative, the Commission shall update guidelines previously adopted when deemed necessary.
Authentic — as published in the Official Journal
The formal analysis of Article 96
Article 6 is formalised first. The remaining articles follow.
Article 96 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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Commentary in preparation
The official text above is complete. The editorial layer for this article — duties, the roles bound by them, the AISV concepts that model them, and the European standards written to support them — is in preparation, in the same form as the articles already published.
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