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European Union · Phased: Aug 2024 → Aug 2027

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act

Scope

Risk-based horizontal regulation of AI systems placed on the EU market, in service, or whose output is used in the EU.

Who must comply

Providers, deployers, importers, distributors, and product manufacturers of AI systems used in the EU.

AIMSS coverage

72%

Weighted overlap with this regulation

Fully covered clauses14
Partial coverage11
Not addressed here2

Clause map

AIMSS clauses that satisfy EU AI Act.

AIMSS §10.2

External assurance & independent re-audit

Governance

Full

Notified-body conformity assessment for many high-risk systems.

Art. 43, Annex VII

AIMSS §4.1

AI inventory & system register

Governance

Full

Article 49 requires registration of high-risk systems in the EU database.

Art. 49

AIMSS §4.3

Risk classification & impact assessment

Governance

Full

Risk categories and conformity assessments mandated.

Art. 6, Annex III

AIMSS §4.4

Third-party & supply-chain AI obligations

Governance

Full

Importer, distributor and downstream-deployer obligations defined.

Art. 23–27

AIMSS §5.2

Human oversight & meaningful intervention

Ethics

Full

Human oversight measures mandated for high-risk AI.

Art. 14

AIMSS §5.3

Explainability of automated decisions

Ethics

Full

Right to explanation of individual decisions for high-risk AI.

Art. 86

AIMSS §5.4

Disclosure to affected persons

Ethics

Full

Article 50 transparency obligations for AI systems interacting with humans.

Art. 50

AIMSS §8.1

Bias & disparate-impact testing

Society

Full

Art. 10 data and bias requirements for high-risk systems.

Art. 10

AIMSS §8.2

Demographic-data governance for fairness testing

Society

Full

Permitted processing of special-category data to detect and correct bias.

Art. 10(5)

AIMSS §8.3

Accessibility for users with disabilities

Society

Full

Compliance with EU accessibility requirements mandated.

Art. 16(l)

AIMSS §8.5

Content provenance & synthetic-media labelling

Society

Full

Machine-readable marking of AI-generated and deepfake content.

Art. 50(2)–(4)

AIMSS §9.1

Post-market monitoring & incident reporting

Lifecycle

Full

Articles 72 & 73 mandate post-market monitoring and serious-incident reporting.

Art. 72–73

AIMSS §9.2

Cybersecurity & adversarial robustness

Lifecycle

Full

Accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity requirements for high-risk AI.

Art. 15

AIMSS §9.4

Audit trail & technical documentation

Lifecycle

Full

Automatic logs and detailed technical documentation required.

Art. 11–12, Annex IV

AIMSS §10.1

Continuous integrity programme

Governance

Partial

Conformity reassessment after substantial modification.

Art. 43

AIMSS §4.2

Documented AI policy & accountable executive

Governance

Partial

Quality-management system required for providers of high-risk AI.

Art. 17

AIMSS §5.1

Independent ethics review

Ethics

Partial

Fundamental rights impact assessment required for some deployers.

AIMSS §6.1

Water & cooling impact disclosure

Climate

Partial

GPAI Code of Practice asks for compute-environment energy reporting; water not specified.

Art. 53

AIMSS §6.2

Training & inference emissions accounting

Climate

Partial

GPAI providers must report energy use of training.

Art. 53(1)(a)

AIMSS §6.3

Lifecycle carbon disclosure to buyers

Climate

Partial

GPAI providers must document known or estimated energy consumption in technical documentation passed to downstream providers.

Art. 53(1)(a), Annex XI

AIMSS §7.1

Data-worker labour conditions

Labour

Partial

Data governance Art. 10 implies labelling quality; no direct labour standards.

AIMSS §7.3

Red-team psychological safeguards

Labour

Partial

Adversarial testing required for systemic-risk GPAI.

Art. 55

AIMSS §7.4

Workforce displacement notice & re-skilling

Labour

Partial

Workers' representatives must be informed before workplace AI deployment.

Art. 26(7)

AIMSS §8.4

Misuse & dual-use assessment

Society

Partial

Systemic-risk evaluation for advanced GPAI.

Art. 55

AIMSS §9.3

Public complaints register

Lifecycle

Partial

Right to lodge complaint with market surveillance authority.

Art. 85

AIMSS goes further

2 additional AIMSS clauses go beyond what EU AI Act requires.

  • AIMSS §6.4Emissions reduction targetsClimate
  • AIMSS §7.2Pay-floor & overtime limits for data workersLabour