AI Act, Article 14 (human oversight)

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 14

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In force in 437 days, effective 2 December 2027.

An AI risk obligations rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 21 September 2026.

What it requires

This duty does not yet apply. It takes effect on 2 December 2027 for a high-risk AI system classified under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and on 2 August 2028 for one classified under Article 6(1) and Annex I.
If you are the provider of a high-risk AI system, design and develop it, including its human-machine interface, so that a natural person can effectively oversee it while it is in use.
Build oversight measures proportionate to the system's risks, autonomy and context of use, either into the system itself before it is placed on the market or put into service, or as measures you identify for the deployer to implement.
Provide the system to the deployer so that the natural persons assigned to oversee it can understand its capacities and limitations and duly monitor its operation, including detecting and addressing anomalies, dysfunctions and unexpected performance.
Provide the system so the assigned overseers can remain aware of the tendency to automatically rely or over-rely on its output, in particular where the system informs a decision a person will make.
Provide the system so the assigned overseers can correctly interpret its output.
Provide the system so the assigned overseers can decide, in a particular situation, not to use it, or can disregard, override or reverse its output.
Provide the system so the assigned overseers can intervene in its operation or interrupt it through a stop button or similar procedure that brings it to a halt in a safe state.
For a remote biometric identification system (Annex III point 1(a)), build your oversight measures so that no action or decision is taken on the identification result unless it has been separately verified and confirmed by at least two natural persons with the necessary competence, training and authority, except where the system is used for law enforcement, migration, border control or asylum and Union or national law treats that two-person requirement as disproportionate.
If you are a deployer of a high-risk AI system, assign human oversight to natural persons who have the necessary competence, training and authority, as well as the necessary support.

If you get it wrong

Private right of actionNo

What it reaches

Obligation class

Governance, Biometric

Also on the record

EEA status

Status: Pending
Source link: https://www.efta.int/eea-lex/32024r1689

What this law does

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Providers of a high-risk AI system must design and develop it, including its human-machine interface, so that a natural person can effectively oversee it while it is in use. Human oversight must aim to prevent or minimise the risks to health, safety or fundamental rights that may emerge when the system is used as intended or under reasonably foreseeable misuse, in particular where those risks persist despite the other Section 2 requirements.

The oversight measures must be commensurate with the system's risks, level of autonomy and context of use, built into the system before it is placed on the market or put into service, identified for the deployer to implement, or both, and the system must be provided to the deployer so that the assigned overseers can understand its capacities and limitations, monitor its operation, remain aware of the tendency to over-rely on its output, correctly interpret that output, decide not to use it or to disregard, override or reverse it, and intervene in or halt its operation through a stop mechanism.

For a remote biometric identification system under Annex III point 1(a), the oversight measures must ensure that no action or decision is taken on the identification result unless it has been separately verified and confirmed by at least two natural persons with the necessary competence, training and authority, except where the system serves law enforcement, migration, border control or asylum and Union or national law treats the two-person requirement as disproportionate.

A deployer of a high-risk AI system must separately assign that human oversight to natural persons who have the necessary competence, training and authority, as well as the necessary support.

Article 14 sits in Chapter III, Section 2, so it takes effect on the schedule the Digital Omnibus on AI (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force since 27 July 2026) wrote into Article 113: 2 December 2027 for a system classified as high-risk under Article 6(2) and Annex III, and 2 August 2028 for a system classified as high-risk under Article 6(1) and Annex I, rather than the Regulation's general 2 August 2026 application date.

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Read the law

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