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Provider

The role carrying the heaviest obligations, and the role organisations most often end up in by accident.

The official source remains authoritative. This is general information about obligations and not legal advice. See this object on the map

Address and citation

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-aanbieder
Payload hash (sha256): b8efafa63e2c337eb9399702aedafa0893df6229ccce4aeaef40b78aa10ee6cc

Citation line

Praxikon, "Provider", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-aanbieder@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 b8efafa63e2c337eb9399702aedafa0893df6229ccce4aeaef40b78aa10ee6cc

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 8 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Application date: 2 February 2025
Topics: definitions

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.

What this object links to

Every relation appears below as a path: from the source with its locator, through the conditions and exceptions of the object carrying the relation, to the consequence. A locator belongs to a statement in the data and not to a relation, so the source is the source anchor of the carrying object.

What this object is about

2 of 2 shown

The object is about this role. Undifferentiated: it does not follow that the duty rests on this role.

Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 3(3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Consequence
- ActorProvider of a GPAI model
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:gpai-model-provider
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

What this object states

Official fact

Attributable to a named primary source, with a locator. Where they differ, the official source prevails.

Article 3(3) defines a provider as a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge.
- Locator: Article 3(3)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Our interpretation

Our own reading. It can change without the law changing, and it is not the position of a supervisory authority.

Many organisations believe they are a provider because they use a model. Use alone is not the test: the dividing line is placing on the market or putting into service under your own name or trademark. Someone who modifies or fine-tunes a general-purpose AI model and places the result on the market does, however, become a provider of that modified model; recital 109 then limits the obligations to that modification or fine-tuning. Conversely, organisations wrongly assume they can never be a provider because they sell nothing: having a system developed counts, free of charge counts, and an internally built tool that you put into service under your own name for your own use makes you a provider alongside being a deployer. Article 25(1) also moves a distributor, importer, deployer or third party into the provider role for a high-risk system when it puts its name or trademark on it, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose so that the system becomes high risk.
- Locator: Article 3(3)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Recommended step

A practical step we consider appropriate. Not an obligation following from the Regulation.

Assess the role question per system, not per organisation, and record the answer with its reasoning. Include three fields in the register: under whose name or trademark the system is offered or put into service, who developed it or had it developed, and whether the intended purpose or configuration has changed since deployment. Reassess those fields on every substantial modification.
- Locator: Article 3(3)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

When this applies

No condition recorded on this object.

When this does not apply

No exception recorded on this object.

Referring to this object

Citation block

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Reference

Praxikon, "Provider",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-aanbieder@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 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 b8efafa63e2c337eb9399702aedafa0893df6229ccce4aeaef40b78aa10ee6cc,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-aanbieder
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-aanbieder&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-aanbieder@1.0.0 (sha256 b8efafa6)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-aanbieder-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Provider},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-aanbieder},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
  note         = {effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 b8efafa63e2c337eb9399702aedafa0893df6229ccce4aeaef40b78aa10ee6cc},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-aanbieder},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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