Entity
Proposedhttps://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Entity
A person, group, organisation or body relevant to AI standardisation or to the AI Act.
AI Standardisation Watch
Draft · All terms proposed · Version 2026-09-15
Namespace https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv# · Prefix aisv
Creator Georg Philip Krog · 94 concepts · 23 properties
AISV describes how European standards supporting the EU AI Act are developed, voted, published and cited, what legal effect they give, and which AI Act roles and authorities they concern. Terms are derived from the CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 Inclusiveness Newsletter, Editions 1–16. Definitions of AI Act roles and authorities are based on Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Entity
A person, group, organisation or body relevant to AI standardisation or to the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#StandardisationEntity
An organisation, body or group that takes part in developing, adopting, assessing or using standards.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AIActOperator
A provider, product manufacturer, deployer, authorised representative, importer or distributor.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(8) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AIActAuthority
A Union or national body with a role in implementing, supervising or enforcing the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AffectedPerson
A natural person or group of persons affected by the use of an AI system.
Scope noteNot a defined term in the AI Act; used here for readers such as consumers, workers and vulnerable people.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Provider
A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model, or has one developed, and places it on the market or puts the system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(3) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Deployer
A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body using an AI system under its authority, except where the AI system is used in the course of a personal non-professional activity.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(4) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Importer
A natural or legal person located or established in the Union that places on the market an AI system bearing the name or trademark of a person established in a third country.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(6) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Distributor
A natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the provider or the importer, that makes an AI system available on the Union market.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(7) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AuthorisedRepresentative
A natural or legal person located or established in the Union that has received and accepted a written mandate from a provider to perform and carry out on its behalf the obligations and procedures established by the AI Act.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(5) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ProductManufacturer
A manufacturer of a product covered by the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Section A of Annex I that places a high-risk AI system on the market or puts it into service together with its product and under its own name or trademark.
Scope noteBased on Article 25(3) of the AI Act; such a manufacturer is considered the provider of the high-risk AI system.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AIOffice
The Commission's function of contributing to the implementation, monitoring and supervision of AI systems, general-purpose AI models and AI governance.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(47) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AIBoard
The European Artificial Intelligence Board, composed of one representative per Member State, which advises and assists the Commission and the Member States.
Scope noteEstablished by Article 65 of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#MarketSurveillanceAuthority
A national authority carrying out the activities and taking the measures of market surveillance under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(26) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NotifyingAuthority
A national authority responsible for setting up and carrying out the procedures for the assessment, designation, notification and monitoring of conformity assessment bodies.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(19) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NotifiedBody
A conformity assessment body notified in accordance with the AI Act and other relevant Union harmonisation legislation.
Scope noteBased on Article 3(22) of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#EuropeanStandardisationOrganisation
An organisation recognised under Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 to develop European standards (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI).
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NationalStandardsBody
A national member of a European or international standardisation organisation that circulates drafts, collects national comments and casts the national vote.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NationalMirrorCommittee
A committee within a national standards body that follows a European or international committee and forms the national position.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#TechnicalCommittee
A committee that develops deliverables in a defined field, such as CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 or ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#WorkingGroup
A group within a technical committee responsible for drafting specific deliverables.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#TaskGroup
A group within a working group or committee with a specific horizontal task, such as inclusiveness or technical coherence.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#TechnicalBoard
The body that oversees the standards programme of CEN and CENELEC and can decide on procedures and priorities.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ProjectEditor
The person responsible for drafting a deliverable and proposing resolutions of comments.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AnnexIIIOrganisation
A European organisation representing SMEs, consumers, environmental or social interests that receives Union financing under Annex III of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 to take part in European standardisation.
Scope noteExamples: ANEC (consumers), ECOS (environment), ETUC (workers), SBS (SMEs).
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#LiaisonOrganisation
An organisation granted liaison status with a technical committee, giving access to its work.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#InterestedParty
A person, group or organisation that can affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision or activity.
Scope noteCommon definition adopted by JTC 21. Unlike the usual ISO management system wording, it names groups explicitly.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#StandardisationDeliverable
A document produced or adopted by a standardisation organisation, such as a standard, technical specification or technical report.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#EuropeanStandard
A standard adopted by a European standardisation organisation (EN).
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#TechnicalSpecification
A deliverable for which there is the future possibility of agreement on a standard (TS).
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#TechnicalReport
An informative deliverable containing information of a different kind from a standard (TR). It cannot give presumption of conformity.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#InternationalStandard
A standard adopted by an international standardisation body such as ISO or IEC.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#DraftDeliverable
A deliverable that has not yet been published (prEN, prTS, prTR, CD, DIS).
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#HarmonisedStandard
A European standard adopted on the basis of a request from the Commission for the application of Union harmonisation legislation.
Scope noteUnder Article 40(1) of the AI Act, presumption of conformity arises only once the reference is published in the Official Journal.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#CandidateHarmonisedStandard
A European standard or draft developed under a standardisation request with the aim of being cited in the Official Journal.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#StandardisationRequest
A Commission decision requesting European standardisation organisations to develop standards in support of Union legislation.
Scope noteFor the AI Act: M/593 (C(2023)3215), replaced by M/613 (C(2025)3871).
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AnnexZA
The annex of a candidate harmonised standard that maps its clauses to the provisions of the Union legislation it supports, including conditions and exclusions.
Scope notePresumption applies only to the clauses and conditions listed in Annex ZA.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ScopeStatement
The clause of a deliverable stating its subject, intended users and field of application.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#DevelopmentStage
A stage in the life cycle of a standardisation deliverable, from preliminary work to citation or withdrawal.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PreliminaryWorkItem
A proposal under study before a formal new work item.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NewWorkItem
An approved project to develop a deliverable.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#WorkingDraftStage
The stage in which a working group drafts and revises the text.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#CommitteeDraftStage
The stage in which national members comment on a committee draft.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PreEnquiryAssessment
The Commission's check, before public enquiry, of whether a draft is eligible to be cited as a harmonised standard.
Scope noteAlso called HAS assessment. Confirmed for all mandated AI Act standards.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PublicEnquiry
The stage in which national standards bodies circulate a draft for public comment and vote on it.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#CommentResolution
The stage in which the editor proposes and the working group agrees resolutions of comments.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#FormalVote
The final vote of national members on a finalised draft.
Scope noteAfter a positive enquiry, the CEN-CENELEC Technical Board allowed publication without formal vote (October 2025).
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Publication
The stage in which a deliverable is published by the standardisation organisation.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#OfficialJournalCitation
The publication by the Commission of the reference of a harmonised standard in the Official Journal of the EU.
Scope notePublication by CEN-CENELEC does not by itself trigger presumption of conformity.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Withdrawal
The removal of a deliverable or of its Official Journal citation.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#StandardisationEvent
An event in the development of a deliverable, such as a vote, a meeting or a decision.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#EnquiryVote
The vote of national members at the close of public enquiry.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#FormalVoteBallot
The ballot held at the formal vote stage.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ScopeBallot
A ballot on a proposed change to the scope of a deliverable.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ReconsiderationRequest
A request by a participant to reconsider a proposed resolution of a comment.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#CommentResolutionMeeting
A meeting in which comments and reconsideration requests are resolved.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PlenaryMeeting
A meeting of a whole technical committee that takes formal decisions.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#TechnicalBoardDecision
A decision of the CEN-CENELEC Technical Board affecting procedures or priorities.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#DeliverableSplit
A decision to divide a deliverable into several parts.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#LegalEffectStatus
The status of a deliverable with regard to the legal effect it gives under Union harmonisation legislation.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PresumptionOfConformity
The rebuttable presumption that a system or model conforming to a cited harmonised standard, or parts of it, meets the requirements covered by that standard.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NoPresumptionDraft
The deliverable is not yet published and gives no presumption.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NoPresumptionUncited
The deliverable is published but its reference is not in the Official Journal.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PresumptionPartial
Presumption applies only to the clauses and conditions listed in Annex ZA.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PresumptionLapsed
Presumption no longer applies because the citation was withdrawn.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#DeliverableOrigin
How a European deliverable relates to international work.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#DirectAdoption
A European deliverable that adopts an international deliverable without technical change.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ParallelDevelopment
A deliverable developed jointly at international and European level, with one body leading.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#HomegrownDevelopment
A deliverable developed at European level to meet European requirements not covered by international work.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#HarmonisationRole
The intended role of a deliverable in relation to presumption of conformity.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#SeeksPresumption
A deliverable intended to give presumption of conformity once cited.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ReferencedNoPresumption
A deliverable referenced by a candidate harmonised standard but not itself intended to give presumption of conformity.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NotIntendedForHarmonisation
A deliverable adopted in Europe but not intended to be cited under the legislation in question.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#AccessStatus
Who can read a deliverable at a given stage.
Scope noteRelevant to the CJEU judgment of 5 March 2024 on access to harmonised standards (C-588/21 P).
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ConfidentialDraft
A draft available only to committee participants and national standards bodies.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PublicEnquiryDraft
A draft made available for comment by any stakeholder through national standards bodies.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#PurchasableStandard
A published deliverable available for purchase.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#VotingCriterion
A condition that must be met for a draft to be approved at enquiry or formal vote.
Scope noteThresholds are not stated here; the newsletters report outcomes only.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#NationalMemberCriterion
The criterion based on the number of national members voting in favour.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#WeightedPopulationCriterion
The criterion based on the weighted votes of national members in favour, reflecting population.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#VoteOutcome
The result of an enquiry vote or formal vote.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Approved
The draft met all voting criteria.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ApprovedWithComments
The draft was approved and comments remain to be resolved.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ApprovedUnanimously
All voting national members approved the draft.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#Rejected
The draft failed at least one voting criterion.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#CriterionResult
Whether a voting criterion was met in a given vote.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#CriterionMet
The voting criterion was met.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#CriterionNotMet
The voting criterion was not met.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#CriterionNotReported
The source does not report whether the criterion was met.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ReaderDeonticStatus
A plain-language classification of what a reader is required, allowed or forbidden to do, or where no rule yet applies.
Scope noteIntended for communication with readers.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ReaderObligated
A legal requirement applies to the reader's role at the given date.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ReaderPermitted
The reader may choose to act, for example by applying a standard.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ReaderProhibited
The practice is forbidden, for example under Article 5 of the AI Act.
https://krogrules.com/vocab/aisv#ReaderNormativeGap
No applicable rule or legal effect yet, for example before an obligation applies or before a standard is cited.
| ID | Label | Definition | Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hasDevelopmentStage | has development stage | Indicates the development stage of a deliverable. | Development Stage | Proposed |
| hasOrigin | has origin | Indicates how a European deliverable relates to international work. | Deliverable Origin | Proposed |
| hasHarmonisationRole | has harmonisation role | Indicates the intended role of a deliverable in relation to presumption of conformity. | Harmonisation Role | Proposed |
| hasLegalEffectStatus | has legal effect status | Indicates the legal effect status of a deliverable. | Legal Effect Status | Proposed |
| hasAccessStatus | has access status | Indicates who can read a deliverable. | Access Status | Proposed |
| respondsToRequest | responds to request | Indicates the standardisation request a deliverable responds to. | Standardisation Request | Proposed |
| supportsRequirement | supports requirement | Indicates a legal provision that a deliverable is intended to support. | — | Proposed |
| referencesDeliverable | references deliverable | Indicates a deliverable referenced by another. | Standardisation Deliverable | Proposed |
| adoptsDeliverable | adopts deliverable | Indicates the international deliverable adopted by a European deliverable. | Standardisation Deliverable | Proposed |
| hasPart | has part | Indicates a part of a multi-part deliverable. | Standardisation Deliverable | Proposed |
| developedBy | developed by | Indicates the committee or group developing a deliverable. | Standardisation Entity | Proposed |
| assessedBy | assessed by | Indicates the entity that assessed a deliverable. | Standardisation Entity | Proposed |
| hasIntendedAudience | has intended audience | Indicates the role a deliverable is primarily written for. | AI Act Operator | Proposed |
| hasVote | has vote | Links a deliverable to a vote held on it. | Standardisation Event | Proposed |
| hasVoteOutcome | has vote outcome | Indicates the outcome of a vote. | Vote Outcome | Proposed |
| hasCriterionAssessment | has criterion assessment | Links a vote to the assessment of one voting criterion. | — | Proposed |
| assessesCriterion | assesses criterion | Indicates which voting criterion is assessed. | Voting Criterion | Proposed |
| hasCriterionResult | has criterion result | Indicates whether the criterion was met. | Criterion Result | Proposed |
| hasCommentCount | has comment count | Indicates the number of comments received in a consultation or vote. | — | Proposed |
| hasPlannedDate | has planned date | Indicates the planned date of a milestone. | — | Proposed |
| hasActualDate | has actual date | Indicates the actual date of a milestone. | — | Proposed |
| routesCommentVia | routes comment via | Indicates the entity through which a stakeholder's comment enters the process. | Standardisation Entity | Proposed |
| hasSourceEdition | has source edition | Indicates the newsletter edition supporting a statement. | — | Proposed |
AISV is a draft vocabulary by Georg Philip Krog. It is not an official W3C, CEN-CENELEC or Commission source.