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title: "Assess the effect on fundamental rights · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/ai-act/fundamental-rights-assessment
id: CMP-86
level: Recommended
applies: ai-features
region: EU
updated: 2026-10-27
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licence: "CC BY 4.0"
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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# Assess the effect on fundamental rights before deploying high-risk AI

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By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-27.

- ID: CMP-86
- Level: Recommended
- Chapter: [AI Act](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/ai-act.md)
- Rule: Some deployers of high-risk AI must assess its effect on people's rights before first use. They are public bodies, public services, and firms scoring credit or pricing insurance. Send the result to the market surveillance authority.
- Check: Every register entry with a high-risk area and a deployer role of a listed kind links a dated assessment before its first use. The assessment names the affected groups, the risks, the oversight and the notification date.
- Applies when: The project uses AI models.
- Region: European Union (EU). The duty comes from the law there. The rule applies only when the project serves people there, and its Applies when also holds.
- Review by: 2027-06-30
- How: AI Act Article 27 asks these deployers for a fundamental rights impact assessment. It names the process, how long and how often the system runs, and the groups of people it affects. It also names the risks of harm to them, the human oversight and what you do when a risk occurs. A DPIA you already wrote can cover part of it, as [Screen every new feature for a DPIA](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/records-and-data-map/dpia-screening.md) describes. The duty starts with the other high-risk duties, which Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 moved to 2 December 2027. Plan it as [Find out if a feature is high-risk](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/ai-act/ai-high-risk-check.md) says.

## Sources

- [AI Act Article 27](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj)
- [Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2026/1744/oj)

## Related rules

- CMP-44 [Find out if a feature is high-risk](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/ai-act/ai-high-risk-check.md) in Compliance and governance
- CMP-10 [Screen every new feature for a DPIA](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/records-and-data-map/dpia-screening.md) in Compliance and governance

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- [AI Act](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/ai-act.md)