EU AI Act Art. 26(2): human oversight assigned to persons with competence, training and authority

Deployers assign human oversight to natural persons with the necessary competence, training and authority, and the necessary support

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-ART26-2. Drawn from chapter 08.

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Clause: EU AI Act, Art. 26.
Duty holder: Deployer.
Applies from: 2027-12-02, Deferred.
Artefact: Oversight assignment….
Layers: Layer 01, Layer 04.
Evidence record: Training record, +7 more.
Record schemas: Training record , Deployment decision record , Vendor due-diligence response , Agent register entry , AI system register entry , Instructions for use , AI incident record , Decommissioning runbook .
No crosswalk topic files this clause yet.

When this obligation applies The first date in the row's status, then each later step: filled once its date has passed, outlined while it is still ahead of the review date.

Data table: the dates

Dates of AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-2
Date	Step	Detail
2027-12-02	Deferred	Annex III
2028-08-02	High-risk (Annex I)	Applies to Annex I embedded (product safety-component) systems
2030-08-02	Later step	Deadline for legacy high-risk systems intended for use by public authorities (Art. 111(2))

Id

AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-2

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(2)

Duty holder

Deployer

Authority

National MSA

Applies from

2027-12-02 Deferred · Annex III

Later dates

2028-08-02 Applies to Annex I embedded (product safety-component) systems
2030-08-02 Deadline for legacy high-risk systems intended for use by public authorities (Art. 111(2))

System class

High-risk (Annex III) · High-risk (Annex I)

The artefact that evidences it

Oversight assignment in the registry; role-based training records with expiry; approver roster per checkpoint class with authority to pause or refuse.

What this obligation connects to Solid edges are direct relations, dashed ones looser (a case that cites the same article, a framework whose clauses only touch the topic); patterns and controls take the colour of their stack layer. Select a node to open it; the lists below give every relation in full.

Data table: every relation

Relations of AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-2
Family	Item	Relation
Patterns	Deactivation, Localisation & Retirement Runbook	Direct
Patterns	Decision Notice & Contest Path	Direct
Patterns	Disclosure & Notification Pipeline	Direct
Patterns	Drift & Fairness Monitor	Direct
Patterns	Explanation Artefact	Direct
Patterns	Rights Requests Against Models	Direct
Patterns	Staged Rollout with Rollback Criteria	Direct
Patterns	Vendor / Model Due-Diligence Gate	Direct
Open controls	AIGE-CTL-DEPLOY-003 Oversight by trained people with authority to stop	Direct

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)

Open controls that evidence it

Draft controls in the open control profiles that map to this row: each states a requirement and the evidence it must leave behind.

AIGE-CTL-DEPLOY-003 Oversight by trained people with authority to stop (Deployment and monitoring profile)

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-art26-2.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(2): human oversight assigned to persons with competence, training and authority (AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-2). 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-art26-2. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026obligation,
  author       = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title        = {{EU AI Act Art. 26(2): human oversight assigned to persons with competence, training and authority (AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART26-2)}},
  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-art26-2},
  note         = {Version 0.5.0}
}