ActionApplicablev1.0.0

Set up how you handle a request for an explanation

Ensure your complaints or objections desk recognises a request for an explanation of an AI-supported decision, that it can be traced per decision which system in which version contributed to it, and that someone is designated to give the explanation.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:handle-explanation-requests
Payload hash (sha256): 6d83a4b800363d3d8f968ea680b136c2f0c56a22919d0585434ecb16344783be

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Praxikon, "Set up how you handle a request for an explanation", praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:handle-explanation-requests@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 6d83a4b800363d3d8f968ea680b136c2f0c56a22919d0585434ecb16344783be

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 2 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 14 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Application date: 2 August 2026
Topics: fundamental-rights

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 86(1)-(3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
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- Condition | allTo be set up before an Annex III system contributes to decisions about natural persons, and to be revisited on every change to that decision process.
Consequence
- ObligationArticle 86: right to an explanation of a decision
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:article-86-right-to-explanation

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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 86(1)-(3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | allTo be set up before an Annex III system contributes to decisions about natural persons, and to be revisited on every change to that decision process.
Consequence
- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer

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Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 86(1)-(3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | allApplies 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.
- ExceptionParagraph 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.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Relation recorded on: Article 86: right to an explanation of a decision
Consequence
- ObligationArticle 86: right to an explanation of a decision
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:article-86-right-to-explanation

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1To be set up before an Annex III system contributes to decisions about natural persons, and to be revisited on every change to that decision process.

When this does not apply

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Citation block

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Reference

Praxikon, "Set up how you handle a request for an explanation",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:handle-explanation-requests@1.0.0,
dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0),
effective_at 2026-08-02T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 6d83a4b800363d3d8f968ea680b136c2f0c56a22919d0585434ecb16344783be,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/action/handle-explanation-requests
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aaction%3Ahandle-explanation-requests&effective_at=2026-08-02&known_at=2026-08-14&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:handle-explanation-requests@1.0.0 (sha256 6d83a4b8)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-action-handle-explanation-requests-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Set up how you handle a request for an explanation},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:handle-explanation-requests},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
  note         = {effective_at 2026-08-02T00:00:00.000Z; known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 6d83a4b800363d3d8f968ea680b136c2f0c56a22919d0585434ecb16344783be},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/action/handle-explanation-requests},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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