Ship instructions for use with a high-risk AI system

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

2027-12-02

How to do it

Article 13 asks for instructions that are concise, complete, correct and clear, in a digital format deployers can use. They name the provider and contact details. They state the intended purpose, the accuracy with its metrics, robustness and cybersecurity, and the known risks of use and misuse. They describe the human oversight measures, the computing and hardware needs, the expected lifetime and the updates. Where relevant, they explain how deployers collect and read the logs. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 moved the start for Annex III systems to 2 December 2027, and to 2 August 2028 for Annex I products. Whether a feature is high-risk is decided in Find out if a feature is high-risk. Start from the card in Publish a system card for every AI feature.

Examples

JavaScript example

const ARTICLE_13_SECTIONS = ['Provider', 'Characteristics and limits', 'Planned changes', 'Human oversight', 'Resources and lifetime', 'Logs'];

export async function missingSections(url) {
  const page = await (await fetch(url)).text();
  return ARTICLE_13_SECTIONS.filter(section => !page.includes(`<h2>${section}</h2>`));
}

Python example

import urllib.request

ARTICLE_13_SECTIONS = ["Provider", "Characteristics and limits", "Planned changes", "Human oversight", "Resources and lifetime", "Logs"]

def missing_sections(url: str) -> list[str]:
    page = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read().decode()
    return [section for section in ARTICLE_13_SECTIONS if f"<h2>{section}</h2>" not in page]

How to check

For each system marked high-risk in the AI register, a test fetches its instructions page. The page has one section for each of the points (a) to (f) of Article 13(3), and the accuracy figures match the latest eval report.

Sources

• AI Act Article 13 on transparency and provision of information to deployers
• Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI

Related rules

• CMP-44 Find out if a feature is high-risk in Compliance and governance
• DOC-42 Publish a system card for every AI feature in Documentation