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This object publishes those eight areas as separate objects, so that a question about recruitment, assessment, creditworthiness or border control lands on the point that names it rather than on the list as a whole.","topics":["high-risk"],"actor_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer","praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider"],"duty_holder_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider"],"affected_actor_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer"],"oversight_actor_ids":[],"evidence_owner_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider"],"duty_holder_uncertainty_status":null,"interpretation_status":"preliminary","interpretation_note":"What is open here is not the text but the boundary and the form. The eight points are reproduced verbatim, but whether a concrete application falls inside a lettered subpoint depends on the intended purpose, and the Commission guidelines working that out point by point are still in draft at our knowledge date. Publishing the points as separate objects is also our choice; the Regulation gives a list and not eight self-standing norms. A defensible alternative reading is that only the Article 6(2) route deserves an object of its own. It also remains unclear how Article 6(3) works out per area: the exception is drafted in general terms, but the profiling proviso bites in almost every case in one area and rarely in another. Finally, we have checked that Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 inserts Article 6(1a) to (1c) without renumbering or amending paragraphs 2 and 3; if that changes, the route in this object changes with it.","obligation_ids":[],"change_ids":[],"action_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:map-system-to-annex-iii-area"],"evidence_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:annex-iii-area-mapping-record"],"control_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:control:annex-iii-area-rescan-trigger"],"template_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:template:annex-iii-eight-areas-legal-text"],"conditions":[{"id":"annex-iii-eight-areas-intended-purpose","operator":"any","description":"Applies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes."},{"id":"annex-iii-eight-areas-route","operator":"all","description":"Classification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order."},{"id":"annex-iii-eight-areas-article-25-role-shift","operator":"any","description":"The duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself."}],"exceptions":[{"id":"annex-iii-eight-areas-article-6-3-derogation","operator":"not","description":"Article 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk."},{"id":"annex-iii-eight-areas-article-6-4-documentation","operator":"all","description":"The derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request."}],"statements":[{"kind":"official_fact","text":"The introductory sentence of Annex III reads: High-risk AI systems pursuant to Article 6(2) are the AI systems listed in any of the following areas. Eight numbered areas follow. 1. Biometrics, in so far as their use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. 2. Critical infrastructure. 3. Education and vocational training. 4. Employment, workers’ management and access to self-employment. 5. Access to and enjoyment of essential private services and essential public services and benefits. 6. Law enforcement, in so far as their use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. 7. Migration, asylum and border control management, in so far as their use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. 8. Administration of justice and democratic processes. The full text of each point, with its lettered subpoints, sits on the object for that area.","citations":[{"source_id":"praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Annex III, points 1 to 8","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","eli":"http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj"}],"review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Praxikon release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"source_checked"}},{"kind":"official_fact","text":"Annex III is not fixed. Article 7(1) empowers the Commission to add or amend use cases in Annex III by delegated act, and Article 7(3) to remove them. Article 7(1)(a) requires the system to be intended for use in one of the areas listed in Annex III. The eight areas are therefore the stable layer; the lettered subpoints inside them can change without the Regulation itself being revised.","citations":[{"source_id":"praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Article 7(1) and (3)","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","eli":"http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj"}],"review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Praxikon release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"source_checked"}},{"kind":"editorial_interpretation","text":"Seven of the eight areas are subdivided into lettered subpoints in the text: point 1 into (a) to (c), point 3 into (a) to (d), point 4 into (a) and (b), point 5 into (a) to (d), point 6 into (a) to (e), point 7 into (a) to (d) and point 8 into (a) and (b). Point 2 has no lettered subpoints. We therefore count twenty-four lettered subpoints across seven areas. That number appears nowhere in the Regulation: it is our count of the text as it stands at our knowledge date, and a delegated act under Article 7 can silently make it stale.","citations":[{"source_id":"praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Annex III, points 1 to 8","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","eli":"http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj"}],"review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Praxikon release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"editorial"}},{"kind":"editorial_interpretation","text":"Reading Annex III as one block leads to the wrong question. The question is not whether your organisation works in one of the eight areas, because nearly everyone does: a hospital touches point 5, a school point 3, and every employer point 4. The question is whether the intended purpose of this one system coincides with the description of a lettered subpoint. A CV parser that only deduplicates repeat applications does something other than a system that evaluates candidates, and yet both get filed under recruitment in practice. Note the order too. Points 1, 6 and 7 carry the condition that the use must be permitted, and that is where Article 5 comes first. Emotion recognition in the workplace and in education is prohibited under Article 5(1)(f), except where the system is placed on the market or put into service for medical or safety reasons; whoever reverses that builds a conformity file for something that is not allowed. Finally, the area also determines which duties then weigh heavily. Article 86 gives a right to an explanation for decisions based on any system listed in Annex III other than point 2, and Article 27 requires bodies governed by public law and private providers of public services to carry out a fundamental rights impact assessment on every Annex III route other than point 2, with point 5(b) and (c) extending that duty to any deployer. For systems already on the market before the application date, the separate transitional rule of Article 111(2) applies as well.","citations":[{"source_id":"praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Article 5(1)(f), Article 27(1), Article 86(1), Article 111(2) and Annex III","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","eli":"http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj"}],"review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Praxikon release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"editorial"}},{"kind":"recommended_action","text":"For every AI system, record in your register not that it falls under Annex III but which point and which lettered subpoint it touches, with the intended purpose in your own words alongside. The eight area objects sit in the graph under the slugs annex-iii-area-1-biometrics through annex-iii-area-8-justice-and-democratic-processes; refer to those rather than to Annex III as a whole. Add four fields: is the use permitted, and if not, why is Article 5 not engaged; has the Article 6(3) test been carried out, which of the four conditions was met, and has the assessment been documented and the system registered under Article 6(4) and Article 49(2); does the system perform profiling, because the exception then falls away; and who carries the provider role after Article 25. 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