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Guidelines on the definition of an AI system

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines
Payload hash (sha256): f50ff3430cd1811fa195bea40d12ca839169924ffcb0d8d6aa72772c7838fc62

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Praxikon, "Guidelines on the definition of an AI system", praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines@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 f50ff3430cd1811fa195bea40d12ca839169924ffcb0d8d6aa72772c7838fc62

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 29 July 2025
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Application date: 29 July 2025
Topics: scope

Review status: Placed against the official source (8 August 2026). Next check due by 4 February 2027. The check date is the knowledge date of this version; no later recheck has been recorded.

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- Guidelines on the definition of an AI system, C(2025) 5053 final
  Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2025) 5053 final, 29.7.2025
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-ai-system-definition-guidelines
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- ObligationAnnex III: high-risk AI
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-high-risk
- ObligationArticle 4: AI literacy
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:article-4-ai-literacy

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- Guidelines on the definition of an AI system, C(2025) 5053 final
  Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2025) 5053 final, 29.7.2025
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-ai-system-definition-guidelines
  Open official source
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- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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Guidelines C(2025) 5053 final of 29 July 2025 explain Article 3(1) through borderline cases, such as classical optimisation, statistical estimation and expert systems.
- Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2025) 5053 final, 29.7.2025praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-ai-system-definition-guidelinesOpen official source

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Praxikon, "Guidelines on the definition of an AI system",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines@1.0.0,
dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0),
effective_at 2025-07-29T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 f50ff3430cd1811fa195bea40d12ca839169924ffcb0d8d6aa72772c7838fc62,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/change/2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Achange%3A2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines&effective_at=2025-07-29&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

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praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines@1.0.0 (sha256 f50ff343)

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@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-change-2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Guidelines on the definition of an AI system},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:change:2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
  note         = {effective_at 2025-07-29T00:00:00.000Z; known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 f50ff3430cd1811fa195bea40d12ca839169924ffcb0d8d6aa72772c7838fc62},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/change/2025-07-29-ai-system-definition-guidelines},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

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