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First, how deep the explanation has to go: the Regulation asks for clear and meaningful explanations of the role of the system and the main elements of the decision taken, but there is no case law and no guidance saying whether a description of the factors used is enough or whether it concerns the weighting in the individual case. We read it as the latter, because the text speaks of the decision taken rather than of the system in general. Second, from when the right bites in practice: Article 86 falls under the general application date of 2 August 2026, while the obligations for the Annex III systems it hangs on were shifted to 2 December 2027 by the Digital Omnibus. We therefore read the right as applying from 2 August 2026 to systems already in use at that point, and not as having moved along automatically. A defensible alternative reading is that the right only acquires meaning once the corresponding obligations apply.","obligation_ids":[],"change_ids":[],"action_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:handle-explanation-requests"],"evidence_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:explanation-request-record"],"control_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:control:explanation-request-routing"],"template_ids":["praxikon:eu:ai-act:template:article-86-legal-text"],"conditions":[{"id":"article-86-scope","operator":"all","description":"Applies where a deployer takes a decision about a natural person on the basis of the output of a high-risk AI system listed in Annex III, with the exception of point 2 of that Annex, and that decision produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects that person in a way they consider to have an adverse impact on their health, safety or fundamental rights."}],"exceptions":[{"id":"article-86-exception-union-or-national-law","operator":"not","description":"Paragraph 2 excludes the right for AI systems where exceptions from, or restrictions to, that obligation follow from Union or national law in compliance with Union law. Paragraph 3 further limits the right to cases where it is not otherwise provided for under Union law, which makes the boundary with Article 22 GDPR a case-by-case question."}],"statements":[{"kind":"official_fact","text":"Paragraph 1 gives any affected person subject to a decision taken by the deployer on the basis of the output of a high-risk AI system listed in Annex III, with the exception of point 2 of that Annex, and which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects that person in a way that they consider to have an adverse impact on their health, safety or fundamental rights, the right to obtain from the deployer clear and meaningful explanations of the role of the AI system in the decision-making procedure and of the main elements of the decision taken. Paragraph 2 provides that paragraph 1 does not apply to the use of AI systems for which exceptions from, or restrictions to, that obligation follow from Union or national law in compliance with Union law. Paragraph 3 provides that this Article applies only to the extent that the right referred to in paragraph 1 is not otherwise provided for under Union law.","citations":[{"source_id":"praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Article 86(1)-(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":"This right reaches you through a different channel than the rest of the Regulation. A regulator writes to you; a candidate or a citizen calls or emails, usually at your existing complaints or objections desk. That desk does not know today that an AI system was in the process, let alone what role it played, and that is where it goes wrong. Two things therefore matter more than the legal depth of the explanation itself: that your front line recognises such a request, and that it can be traced per decision which system in which version contributed to it. Without the second you can explain how your system works in general but not what happened in this case, and the latter is what is being asked. Note also the relationship with Article 22 GDPR: where that article already grants a right, Article 86 steps back, but the scope differs enough that you cannot settle the question in the abstract.","citations":[{"source_id":"praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Article 86(1)-(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":"editorial"}},{"kind":"recommended_action","text":"Record, per Annex III system that contributes to decisions about people, which decision was supported by which system version, and make sure your complaints or objections desk recognises a request for an explanation and routes it to someone who can answer it. 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