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Annex III: the eight areas separately

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Annex III: the eight areas separately

Annex III names eight areas in which an AI system can be high-risk under Article 6(2). 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.

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Annex III: the eight areas separately

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Source ·: Annex III on EUR-Lex
Condition ·: 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.
Condition ·: 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.
Exception ·: 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.
Exception ·: 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.

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Checked on 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z · praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-eight-areas

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Read at 27 Jul 2026. What did not yet apply on that date is not shown here. The Digital Omnibus enters into force: the requirements for high-risk systems move back and article 4 takes its current wording.

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