AI Act Documents:

Article 83: Formal Non-Compliance

Comes into force 2 August 2026, according to Article 113
1. Where the market surveillance authoritymarket surveillance authorityAny national authority responsible for carrying out market surveillance on the territory of the Member State concernedRegulation (EU) 2019/1020 Art. 3(4) of a Member State makes one of the following findings, it shall require the relevant providerprovidermeans a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of chargeArticle 3(3) to put an end to the non-compliance concerned, within a period it may prescribe:
(a) the CE markingCE markingmeans a marking by which a providerprovidermeans a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of chargeArticle 3(3) indicates that an AI systemAI systemmeans a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environmentsArticle 3(1) is in conformity with the requirements set out in Chapter III, Section 2 and other applicable Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixingArticle 3(24) has been affixed in violation of Article 48;
(b) the CE markingCE markingmeans a marking by which a providerprovidermeans a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of chargeArticle 3(3) indicates that an AI systemAI systemmeans a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environmentsArticle 3(1) is in conformity with the requirements set out in Chapter III, Section 2 and other applicable Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixingArticle 3(24) has not been affixed;
(c) the EU declaration of conformity referred to in Article 47 has not been drawn up;
(d) the EU declaration of conformity referred to in Article 47 has not been drawn up correctly;
(e) the registration in the EU database referred to in Article 71 has not been carried out;
(f) where applicable, no authorised representativeauthorised representativemeans a natural or legal person located or established in the Union who has received and accepted a written mandate from a providerprovidermeans a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of chargeArticle 3(3) of an AI systemAI systemmeans a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environmentsArticle 3(1) or a general-purpose AI modelgeneral-purpose AI modelmeans an AI model, including where such an AI model is trained with a large amount of data using self-supervision at scale, that displays significant generality and is capable of competently performing a wide range of distinct tasks regardless of the way the model is placed on the market and that can be integrated into a variety of downstream systems or applications, except AI models that are used for research, development or prototyping activities before they are placed on the marketArticle 3(63) to, respectively, perform and carry out on its behalf the obligations and procedures established by this RegulationArticle 3(5) has been appointed;
(g) technical documentation is not available.
2. Where the non-compliance referred to in paragraph 1 persists, the market surveillance authoritymarket surveillance authorityAny national authority responsible for carrying out market surveillance on the territory of the Member State concernedRegulation (EU) 2019/1020 Art. 3(4) of the Member State concerned shall take appropriate and proportionate measures to restrict or prohibit the high-risk AI systemAI systemmeans a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environmentsArticle 3(1) being made available on the market or to ensure that it is recalled or withdrawn from the market without delay.