Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)

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2024-06-13

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2026-09-05

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• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act requires providers to design AI systems intended to interact directly with natural persons so that those persons are informed they are interacting with an AI system, unless that is obvious to a reasonably well-informed and observant person given the context. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act requires deployers of high-risk AI systems to keep the logs the system generates automatically, to the extent those logs are under their control, for a period appropriate to the system's purpose and of at least 6 months, unless other Union or national law provides otherwise. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act defines an emotion recognition system as an AI system for the purpose of identifying or inferring emotions or intentions of natural persons on the basis of their biometric data. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act requires deployers of an emotion recognition or biometric categorisation system to inform the natural persons exposed to it of the system's operation and to process the resulting personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection law. fact in context
• Emotion recognition is listed in Annex III point 1(c) of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which Article 6(2) incorporates by reference, so an emotion recognition use that is not prohibited is classified as high-risk and carries the Chapter III obligations. fact in context
• Article 5(1)(f) of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act prohibits emotion recognition systems in the workplace, which covers agent-facing emotion recognition in a contact centre; this is the prohibited case, distinct from customer-facing emotion recognition, which is high-risk rather than prohibited. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act's fundamental rights impact assessment obligation applies to deployers that are bodies governed by public law, private entities providing public services, and deployers of the credit and insurance systems in Annex III points 5(b) and 5(c); it does not on its face apply to an ordinary private commercial contact centre deploying an emotion recognition system. fact in context
• Article 26 obligations for deployers under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act still apply even where the Article 27 fundamental rights impact assessment obligation does not. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act requires an employer deploying a high-risk AI system at the workplace to inform workers' representatives and the affected workers, before putting the system into service or use, that they will be subject to it. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act prohibits the use of AI systems to infer emotions of a natural person in the areas of workplace and education institutions, except where the system is intended for medical or safety reasons. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act classifies as high risk AI systems intended for the recruitment or selection of natural persons including placing targeted job advertisements analysing and filtering job applications and evaluating candidates. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act classifies as high risk AI systems intended to make decisions affecting terms of work-related relationships the promotion or termination of work-related contractual relationships or the allocation of tasks based on individual behaviour or personal traits. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act classifies as high risk AI systems intended to be used to monitor and evaluate the performance and behaviour of persons in work-related contractual relationships. fact in context
• Under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act the AI systems referred to in Annex III are considered high risk. fact in context
• The 4 conditions in Article 6(3) of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act are that the system performs a narrow procedural task that it improves the result of a previously completed human activity that it detects decision-making patterns or deviations without replacing or influencing a previously completed human assessment without proper human review or that it performs a preparatory task to an assessment. fact in context
• Article 6(3) of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act provides a derogation where an Annex III system does not pose a significant risk of harm including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making and lists 4 qualifying conditions. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act provides that an Annex III system is always considered high risk where it performs profiling of natural persons notwithstanding the Article 6(3) derogation. fact in context
• The EU Artificial Intelligence Act's recitals give as the reason for classifying employment systems as high risk that they may have an appreciable impact on future career prospects livelihoods and workers' rights and that systems monitoring performance and behaviour may undermine rights to data protection and privacy. fact in context

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WarmTransfer. (2024, June 13). Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act). WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/eu-ai-act-regulation-2024-1689

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@misc{warmtransfer-eu-ai-act-regulation-2024-1689,
  title  = {Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2024},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/eu-ai-act-regulation-2024-1689},
  note   = {Publications Office of the European Union (EUR-Lex), accessed 2026-09-05}
}