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Determine and record whether your AI component is a safety component

Describe, per AI component inside a product under Annex I, Section A, which function it performs, whether that is a safety function, what happens on failure or malfunctioning, and whether the mandatory third-party conformity assessment rests on health and safety risks or only on other risks. A recommended practice, not a legal duty.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:assess-safety-component-role
Payload hash (sha256): b97e18ebfc6b192d56b5cded8f3b3727de730dad73e5d36b3ecc82cb4580c289

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Praxikon, "Determine and record whether your AI component is a safety component", praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:assess-safety-component-role@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.2.0 (schema 1.5.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 b97e18ebfc6b192d56b5cded8f3b3727de730dad73e5d36b3ecc82cb4580c289

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 27 July 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 14 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Topics: conformity, high-risk

Review status: Editorially reviewed (14 August 2026). Next check due by 10 February 2027. The check date is the knowledge date of this version; no later recheck has been recorded.

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Source
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- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 6(1)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Inserted Article 6(1a)-(1c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 3(14)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113 application dates
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 2(2), Article 43(3) and Annex I
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | allTo be carried out during the design of a product covered by the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Annex I, Section A, and again on every change to the intended purpose or to the function of the AI component.
Consequence
- ObligationArticle 6(1a) to (1c): the tightened classification route
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:article-6-1bis-1quater-route

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Source
This object carries no official fact of its own. The source line below sits on the obligation it hangs off; the link itself is recorded editorially.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 6(1)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Inserted Article 6(1a)-(1c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 3(14)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113 application dates
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 2(2), Article 43(3) and Annex I
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | allTo be carried out during the design of a product covered by the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Annex I, Section A, and again on every change to the intended purpose or to the function of the AI component.
Consequence
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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Source
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- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 6(1)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Inserted Article 6(1a)-(1c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 3(14)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113 application dates
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 2(2), Article 43(3) and Annex I
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
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- Condition | any ofApplies where it must be determined whether an AI system is intended to be used as a safety component of a product, or is itself a product, covered by the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Annex I, and whether that product is required to undergo a third-party conformity assessment. Because paragraph 1a writes itself for the purposes of this Regulation, the delimitation also bears on Annex III, point 2, where the notion of safety component is used for critical digital infrastructure, road traffic and the supply of water, gas, heating or electricity.
- Condition | allFor the consequences under Chapter III only Annex I, Section A, counts. For products under Section B, including machinery since Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 was moved there, the amended Article 2(2) means that only Article 6(1), Article 60a and Articles 102 to 112 apply.
- ExceptionParagraph 1a provides that AI systems solely used for non-safety related aspects of user assistance, performance optimisation, service efficiency, automation or convenience or quality control do not qualify as safety components. Paragraph 1b takes that exclusion back: AI systems the failure or malfunctioning of which would endanger health and safety do qualify as safety components.
- ExceptionParagraph 1c provides that a product required to undergo a third-party conformity assessment solely due to risks other than risks to health and safety, in particular risks relating to the distribution of radio spectrum or electromagnetic interference that do not affect health and safety, is not considered as fulfilling the condition in paragraph 1, point (b).
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Relation recorded on: Article 6(1a) to (1c): the tightened classification route
Consequence
- ObligationArticle 6(1a) to (1c): the tightened classification route
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:article-6-1bis-1quater-route

When this applies

1To be carried out during the design of a product covered by the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Annex I, Section A, and again on every change to the intended purpose or to the function of the AI component.

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Praxikon, "Determine and record whether your AI component is a safety component",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:assess-safety-component-role@1.0.0,
dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.2.0 (schema 1.5.0),
effective_at 2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 b97e18ebfc6b192d56b5cded8f3b3727de730dad73e5d36b3ecc82cb4580c289,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/action/assess-safety-component-role
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aaction%3Aassess-safety-component-role&effective_at=2026-07-27&known_at=2026-08-14&lang=en, accessed 2026-09-20)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:assess-safety-component-role@1.0.0 (sha256 b97e18eb)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-action-assess-safety-component-role-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Determine and record whether your AI component is a safety component},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:assess-safety-component-role},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.2.0, schema 1.5.0},
  note         = {effective_at 2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z; known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 b97e18ebfc6b192d56b5cded8f3b3727de730dad73e5d36b3ecc82cb4580c289},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/action/assess-safety-component-role},
  urldate      = {2026-09-20},
  language     = {en}
}

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