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The AI Act annex listing high-risk use cases (biometrics, critical infrastructure, education, employment, essential services, law enforcement, migration, justice); obligations for these phase in under the Digital Omnibus timeline 1.

Developed in
ch. 18, High-risk through use (Annex III)
Chapters
ch. 08, Regulatory Map · ch. 18, EU AI Act
Contrast with
Annex I (EU AI Act)
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

13 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

6 pattern pages use the term, most mentions first.

  • Right to explanation (AI Act Art. 86)

    The right of a person affected by a deployer's decision based on an Annex III high-risk system's output, with legal or similarly significant adverse effects…

  • Classification decision record

    A versioned registry record of why a system sits on a given rung of the AI Act risk ladder: the Annex III point, any Article 6(3) condition relied on, an…

  • Conformity assessment

    The procedure by which a provider shows a high-risk AI system meets the EU AI Act before placing it on the market: internal control for most Annex III…

  • Article 6(3) filter

    The derogation under which an Annex III system is not high-risk when it poses no significant risk of harm and meets one of four conditions (narrow procedural…

  • High-risk AI system

    Under the EU AI Act, an AI system that is a safety component of, or itself, a product under Annex I legislation needing third-party conformity assessment, or…

  • Profiling override

    The rule in the third subparagraph of AI Act Article 6(3) that an Annex III system which performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk, whichever…

  • Digital Omnibus

    The 2026 reform package amending the EU AI Act (in force 27 Jul 2026), which adjusted the high-risk timeline, added AI Office investigation powers and…

Sources

  1. [1] Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), consolidated text as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI, in force 27 Jul 2026; definitions in Art. 3, incl. 3(1), 3(3) to 3(14), 3(14b), 3(20), 3(22), 3(23), 3(29) to 3(32), 3(49), 3(55) to 3(57), 3(60), 3(61), 3(63), 3(68); Arts. 4, 5, 6 (incl. 6(3) third subparagraph, profiling), 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22 to 27 (incl. 26(11)), 40, 41, 43, 47, 48, 50, 53 (incl. 53(1)(c)), 55, 57, 60, 72, 73, 86; Annexes I, III, IV). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2026-07-27. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/2026-07-27/eng (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Annex III. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/annex-iii. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026annexiii,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Annex III}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/annex-iii}
}