What Is Authorised Representative?
Authorised Representative is under the EU AI Act, a natural or legal person established in the EU who has received and accepted a written mandate from a provider established outside the EU to carry out the provider's obligations under the Act on its behalf.
Authorised Representative — under the EU AI Act, a natural or legal person established in the EU who has received and accepted a written mandate from a provider established outside the EU to carry out the provider's obligations under the Act on its behalf.
A provider based outside the EU that places a high-risk AI system on the EU market must appoint an authorised representative within the Union. The representative keeps the technical documentation, cooperates with authorities, and is a local point of contact — a structure familiar from other EU product law. It does not transfer the provider's underlying responsibility, but it gives regulators someone in the Union to deal with.
Source: EU AI Act, Article 3(5)
Plain-language explanation
A provider based outside the EU that places a high-risk AI system on the EU market must appoint an authorised representative within the Union. The representative keeps the technical documentation, cooperates with authorities, and is a local point of contact — a structure familiar from other EU product law. It does not transfer the provider's underlying responsibility, but it gives regulators someone in the Union to deal with.
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