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AI Governance Glossary
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What Is Corrective Action?

Corrective Action is the steps a provider or deployer takes to bring a non-compliant or malfunctioning AI system back into conformity, or to withdraw it from the market.

Definition

Corrective Actionthe steps a provider or deployer takes to bring a non-compliant or malfunctioning AI system back into conformity, or to withdraw it from the market.

Under the EU AI Act, providers who consider that a high-risk AI system they have placed on the market is not in conformity must immediately take corrective action — bringing it into compliance, withdrawing it, disabling it, or recalling it — and inform distributors, deployers, and authorities. Corrective-action obligations mirror product-safety recall regimes. A documented corrective-action process is a core part of post-market monitoring.

Source: EU AI Act, Article 20

Plain-language explanation

Under the EU AI Act, providers who consider that a high-risk AI system they have placed on the market is not in conformity must immediately take corrective action — bringing it into compliance, withdrawing it, disabling it, or recalling it — and inform distributors, deployers, and authorities. Corrective-action obligations mirror product-safety recall regimes. A documented corrective-action process is a core part of post-market monitoring.

Primary source: EU AI Act, Article 20

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