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Requirements at a glance

This regulation imposes 7 specific requirements for Transparency & Disclosure across 1 provision:

• Vulnerable groups — Systems intended for vulnerable groups must be transparent at every lifecycle stage, use simple, clear language appropriate to age and cognitive ability, and consider those groups’ best interests (Art. 5 § 2)
• Disclosure of AI interaction — Art. 5(I) gives every affected person, at any risk level, the right to accessible free information that an interaction is automated, conveyed with standardised icons or symbols (Art. 5 § 1); cybersecurity and cyberdefence systems are excepted
• Right to explanation — Art. 6(I) grants an explanation of a high-risk system's decision, recommendation, or prediction, subject to trade and industrial secrecy (Art. 6 § 1)
• Explanation procedure — Art. 7 requires the explanation to be free, in plain accessible language, within a reasonable period; the competent authority sets deadlines and a simplified procedure scaled to system complexity and agent size
• Documentation — Art. 18 requires developers and deployers of high-risk systems to keep lifecycle documentation and to use tools that allow accuracy and robustness to be assessed
• Procedures for exercising rights — Art. 9 requires high-risk agents to state, clearly and accessibly, how the Chapter II rights are exercised
• Synthetic content marking — Art. 19 requires an identifier in AI-generated synthetic content for authenticity and provenance verification; artistic, cultural, or entertainment works may signal via credits or metadata where doing so does not risk spreading false information (Art. 19 § 3)