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Duty holder

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Who an obligation legally binds (under the EU AI Act, the provider, the deployer or both), as distinct from who enforces it; chapter 08 carries a duty-holder column so an engineer can tell which artefacts their organisation is responsible for producing.

Developed in
ch. 18, Who you are in the value chain
Chapters
ch. 08, Regulatory Map · ch. 18, EU AI Act
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

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

  • AI Act (EU)

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

  • Deployer

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

  • Provider

    Under the EU AI Act, whoever develops an AI system or general-purpose AI model, or has one developed, and places it on the market or puts it into service…

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

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

Cite this term

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

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026dutyholder,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Duty holder}},
  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/duty-holder}
}