Map of the AI Act

Distributor

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Distributor

You are a distributor if you make an AI system available on the Union market without being the provider or the importer. This catches resellers, systems integrators and managed service providers that pass on someone else's AI.

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Article 24 on EUR-Lexguidance

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Distributor

The legal path

Source ·: Article 24 on EUR-Lex
Condition ·: Applies where you sit in the supply chain, are neither provider nor importer, and supply the system in the course of a commercial activity. Supply free of charge expressly counts.
Exception ·: If you put your own name or trade mark on a high-risk system already placed on the market, or make a substantial modification, or change its intended purpose, Article 25(1) treats you as a provider. Point (a) applies without prejudice to contractual arrangements stipulating that the obligations are otherwise allocated. The role switch can be determined today; the duties of Article 16 start to apply on 2 December 2027 for the standalone Annex III route and on 2 August 2028 for the embedded Annex I route.

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Checked on 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z · praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:distributor

Read the map atin force now 2 Feb 2025 2 Aug 2025 27 Jul 2026 2 Aug 2026 2 Dec 2026 2 Aug 2027 2 Dec 2027 2 Aug 2028

Read at 2 Dec 2026. What did not yet apply on that date is not shown here. The transition period for machine-readable marking ends and the new prohibitions apply.