---
title: "Duty holder"
description: "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…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/duty-holder
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
---

# Duty holder

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](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/eu-ai-act#who-you-are-in-the-value-chain)
- Chapters: [ch. 08, Regulatory Map](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/regulatory-map) · [ch. 18, EU AI Act](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/eu-ai-act)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-duty-holder

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.