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Article 26(4)

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Ensure Controlled Input Data Is Relevant and Sufficiently Representative

Applies to Deployer; High-Risk AI, where deployer controls input data.

Actors
Deployer
AI class
High-Risk AI
Themes
Third Parties & Supply ChainGovernance & Accountability

Tracker Guidance

Where your organization controls the input data used by the high-risk AI system, ensure those inputs are relevant and sufficiently representative for the system's intended purpose.

Official text

Article 26(4)Official source
4. Without prejudice to paragraphs 1 and 2, to the extent the deployer exercises control over the input data, that deployer shall ensure that input data is relevant and sufficiently representative in view of the intended purpose of the high-risk AI system.

Timing depends on the system

  • 2 Dec 2027 — Article 6(2) / Annex III high-risk AI
  • 2 Aug 2028 — Article 6(1) / Annex I Section A high-risk AI
  • 2 Dec 2027 — Pre-existing Annex III high-risk AI type/model first placed on the market or put into service before 2027-12-02
  • 2 Aug 2028 — Pre-existing Article 6(1) / Annex I high-risk AI type/model first placed on the market or put into service before 2028-08-02
  • 2 Aug 2030 — Pre-existing high-risk AI intended to be used by public authorities
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