Understanding the standardisation of the AI Act (FAQ)

Official question-and-answer page from the Commission on how standardisation under the AI Act works. The page explains that a product or system is only presumed to comply with legal requirements if it complies with harmonised standards whose reference has been published in the EU Official Journal. The Commission names ten requested areas, including risk management, data governance, logging, transparency, human oversight, accuracy, robustness, cybersecurity, quality management and conformity assessment, and states that the first harmonised standards will be published by CEN and CENELEC in 2026. Last updated: 10 March 2026.