EU AI Act
EU AI Act Article 13: Transparency and provision of information to deployers
UpcomingApplies from 2 Dec 2027. Applies from 2 Aug 2028 for high-risk AI systems under Article 6(1) and Annex I.
High-risk AI systems shall be designed and developed in such a way as to ensure that their operation is sufficiently transparent to enable deployers to interpret a system’s output and use it appropriately. An appropriate type and degree of transparency shall be ensured with a view to achieving compliance with the relevant obligations of the provider and deployer set out in Section 3.
Article 13, paragraph 1. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, consolidated text of 27 July 2026. Read the full text on EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex text is reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. Guidance is stored as an interpretation, not as a statute.
What evidence usually supports this
- Instructions for use given to deployers
- Known limitations and expected accuracy
Maps to the TRANSPARENCY control in the Assurance OS catalog.
How Assurance OS gates it
The transparency control needs cited evidence before release when the system's risk class requires it.
This page shows an excerpt of the law and the evidence teams commonly keep for it. It is not legal advice and does not say whether your system complies. Read the full text and take legal advice for your case.
Gate Article 13 evidence in CI.
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