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Annex III, point 1: biometrics

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Identifier
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-1-biometrics
Payload hash (sha256)
06d2c055970a09dc388a0c89907336f3aeb31ab93d97a70346acf440d068bc97

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Praxikon, "Annex III, point 1: biometrics", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-1-biometrics@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 06d2c055970a09dc388a0c89907336f3aeb31ab93d97a70346acf440d068bc97
Version
1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at)
27 July 2026
Knowledge time (known_at)
14 August 2026
Closed on
Not closed
Application date
2 December 2027
Topics
high-risk

Review status: Placed against the official source (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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    • EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689

      Locator: Annex III, point 1

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689

      Open official source

    • Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744

      Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744

      Open official source

    • EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689

      Locator: Article 5(1)(f) and (g), Article 50(3), Article 113

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689

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  1. Source

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    • EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689

      Locator: Annex III, point 1

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689

      Open official source

    • Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744

      Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744

      Open official source

    • EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689

      Locator: Article 5(1)(f) and (g), Article 50(3), Article 113

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689

      Open official source

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What this object states

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  • Biometrics, in so far as their use is permitted under relevant Union or national law: (a) remote biometric identification systems. This shall not include AI systems intended to be used for biometric verification the sole purpose of which is to confirm that a specific natural person is the person he or she claims to be; (b) AI systems intended to be used for biometric categorisation, according to sensitive or protected attributes or characteristics based on the inference of those attributes or characteristics; (c) AI systems intended to be used for emotion recognition.

  • The core rules of Chapter III, Sections 1 to 3, apply from 2 December 2027 to systems classified as high-risk pursuant to Article 6(2) and Annex III. That date follows from Article 113 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744.

    • Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744Open official source

  • Rules that were not postponed already apply in this area. Article 5(1)(f) has prohibited, since 2 February 2025, AI systems inferring emotions of a natural person in the workplace and in education, except where the system is put into service or placed on the market for medical or safety reasons, and Article 5(1)(g) prohibits biometric categorisation systems that categorise individually natural persons based on their biometric data to deduce or infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation, with the carve-out attached to it that the prohibition does not cover any labelling or filtering of lawfully acquired biometric datasets, such as images, based on biometric data, or categorising of biometric data in the area of law enforcement. Article 50(3) has required deployers of emotion recognition and biometric categorisation systems, since 2 August 2026, to inform the persons exposed. The date of 2 December 2027 applies to the high-risk rules, not to those prohibitions and that transparency duty.

    • Locator: Article 5(1)(f) and (g), Article 50(3), Article 113praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Our interpretation

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  • The area where order matters most: many biometric applications first engage a prohibition under Article 5 and only then the question whether they are high-risk. Note subpoint (b) too: the text covers not only categorisation on sensitive characteristics themselves but also categorisation based on the inference of those characteristics, and that inference element is exactly where this subpoint bites.

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Reference

Praxikon, "Annex III, point 1: biometrics",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-1-biometrics@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 06d2c055970a09dc388a0c89907336f3aeb31ab93d97a70346acf440d068bc97,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/annex-iii-area-1-biometrics
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Aannex-iii-area-1-biometrics&effective_at=2026-07-27&known_at=2026-08-14&lang=en, accessed 2026-09-20)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-1-biometrics@1.0.0 (sha256 06d2c055)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-annex-iii-area-1-biometrics-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Annex III, point 1: biometrics},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-1-biometrics},
  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 06d2c055970a09dc388a0c89907336f3aeb31ab93d97a70346acf440d068bc97},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/annex-iii-area-1-biometrics},
  urldate      = {2026-09-20},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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