EU AI Act Art. 26(11): informing people subject to Annex III decisions

Deployers of Annex III systems that make or assist decisions about natural persons inform those persons that they are subject to the system

By Jorge García Aibar Reviewed 2026-09-24

From clause to evidence Build the artefact, then file every output it produces as a record that names AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-11. Drawn from chapter 08.

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Clause: EU AI Act, Art. 26.
Duty holder: Deployer.
Applies from: 2027-12-02, Deferred.
Artefact: AI-use notice at….
Layers: Layer 02, Layer 04.
Evidence record: Deployment decision record, +7 more.
Record schemas: Deployment decision record , Instructions for use , Vendor due-diligence response , Agent register entry , AI system register entry , Training record , AI incident record , Decommissioning runbook .
No crosswalk topic files this clause yet.

Id

AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-11

Instrument

EU AI Act (post-Omnibus) law

Compared side by side

ISO 42001 vs EU AI Act · NIST AI RMF vs EU AI Act

Clause

Art. 26(11)

Duty holder

Deployer

Authority

National MSA

Applies from

2027-12-02 Deferred · Annex III

Later dates

2030-08-02 Deadline for legacy high-risk systems intended for use by public authorities (Art. 111(2))

System class

High-risk (Annex III)

The artefact that evidences it

AI-use notice at the decision point; notice templates versioned as code; notice delivery log.

Patterns that build it

Vendor / Model Due-Diligence Gate (layer 2 and 5)
Explanation Artefact (layer 4 and 5)
Decision Notice & Contest Path (layer 4 and 5)
Rights Requests Against Models (layer 2 and 5)
Staged Rollout with Rollback Criteria (layer 4)
Drift & Fairness Monitor (layer 4 and 5)
Disclosure & Notification Pipeline (layer 5 and 2)
Deactivation, Localisation & Retirement Runbook (layer 4 and 2)

Source

Chapter 08, section EU AI Act, post-Omnibus, checked against its sources on the review date above.

Machine-readable

This obligation: /api/v1/obligations/aige-obl-euaia-art26-11.json
The register: /api/v1/obligations.json · CSV
Schema and stability promise: open data and API

Cite this obligation

García Aibar, J. (2026). EU AI Act Art. 26(11): informing people subject to Annex III decisions (AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-11). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-euaia-art26-11. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026obligation,
  author       = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title        = {{EU AI Act Art. 26(11): informing people subject to Annex III decisions (AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-11)}},
  howpublished = {In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {0.5.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url          = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-euaia-art26-11},
  note         = {Version 0.5.0}
}