(125) Given the complexity of high-risk AI systems and the risks that are associated with them, it is important to develop an adequate conformity assessmentconformity assessmentmeans the process of demonstrating whether the requirements set out in Chapter III, Section 2 relating to a 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) have been fulfilledArticle 3(20) procedure for high-risk AI systems involving notified bodies, so-called third party conformity assessmentconformity assessmentmeans the process of demonstrating whether the requirements set out in Chapter III, Section 2 relating to a 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) have been fulfilledArticle 3(20). However, given the current experience of professional pre-market certifiers in the field of product safety and the different nature of risks involved, it is appropriate to limit, at least in an initial phase of application of this Regulation, the scope of application of third-party conformity assessmentconformity assessmentmeans the process of demonstrating whether the requirements set out in Chapter III, Section 2 relating to a 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) have been fulfilledArticle 3(20) for high-risk AI systems other than those related to products. Therefore, the conformity assessmentconformity assessmentmeans the process of demonstrating whether the requirements set out in Chapter III, Section 2 relating to a 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) have been fulfilledArticle 3(20) of such systems should be carried out as a general rule by the 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) under its own responsibility, with the only exception of AI systems intended to be used for biometrics.