What Is Provider?
Provider is under the EU AI Act, a natural or legal person that develops an AI system or general-purpose AI model (or has one developed) and places it on the market or puts it into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge.
Provider — under the EU AI Act, a natural or legal person that develops an AI system or general-purpose AI model (or has one developed) and places it on the market or puts it into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge.
Providers carry the heaviest obligations under the Act — for high-risk systems this includes the risk-management system, data governance, technical documentation, conformity assessment, and CE marking. An organisation that puts its name on a system, or substantially modifies a high-risk system, can become its provider even if it did not build it from scratch.
Source: EU AI Act, Article 3(3)
Plain-language explanation
Providers carry the heaviest obligations under the Act — for high-risk systems this includes the risk-management system, data governance, technical documentation, conformity assessment, and CE marking. An organisation that puts its name on a system, or substantially modifies a high-risk system, can become its provider even if it did not build it from scratch.
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