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What Is CE Marking (AI)?

CE Marking (AI) is the conformity marking a high-risk AI system must carry to show it meets EU requirements before being placed on the EU market.

Definition

CE Marking (AI)the conformity marking a high-risk AI system must carry to show it meets EU requirements before being placed on the EU market.

CE marking is the EU's long-standing "this product meets our rules" stamp, extended to high-risk AI by the EU AI Act (Article 48). Affixing it is a declaration that the system has been through the required conformity assessment. For AI, it signals that providers have completed the documentation, risk management, and testing the Act demands — not that any regulator has independently certified the system as safe.

Source: EU AI Act, Article 48

Plain-language explanation

CE marking is the EU's long-standing "this product meets our rules" stamp, extended to high-risk AI by the EU AI Act (Article 48). Affixing it is a declaration that the system has been through the required conformity assessment. For AI, it signals that providers have completed the documentation, risk management, and testing the Act demands — not that any regulator has independently certified the system as safe.

Primary source: EU AI Act, Article 48

Related terms

Conformity Assessment Notified Body High-Risk AI EU AI Act

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