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Decision notice

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The notice a person receives at the point of an automated or AI-assisted decision, rendered from a versioned template and the decision record: that a system was used, the principal reasons and what the person can do by when. Content follows each regime, such as notice of use under AI Act Article 26(11) or reasons under US Regulation B 12.

Developed in
ch. 18, Deployer duties (Article 26)
ch. 05, Pattern: Decision Notice & Contest Path
Chapters
ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 08, Regulatory Map · ch. 18, EU AI Act
Contrast with
Adverse action notice
Source
2 numbered references, listed below

Where it is used

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

Patterns that use this term

4 pattern pages use the term, most mentions first.

  • Contest path

    The route by which a person affected by an automated decision reaches a reviewer who did not take the original decision, sees the inputs, the reasons and the…

  • Contestability

    The ability of a person affected by an AI-supported decision to challenge it and obtain a response that can change it.

  • Deployer

    Under the EU AI Act, whoever uses an AI system under its own authority, other than in a purely personal, non-professional activity.

  • Reason code

    A stable, human-readable statement of a principal factor behind an adverse decision, mapped from the factors the model actually scored and versioned with the…

  • AI Act (EU)

    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU's horizontal, risk-tiered law for AI, amended by the Digital Omnibus.

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)
  2. [2] 12 CFR 1002.9 (Regulation B, notifications) (1002.9(b)(2) statement of specific principal reasons for adverse action; Supplement I commentary; text as of 2026-09-01). eCFR. 2026-09-01. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-12/chapter-X/part-1002/section-1002.9 (verified: primary)

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

Cite this term

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

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026decisionnotice,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Decision notice}},
  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/decision-notice}
}