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Intended purpose

The use set by the provider on which the entire risk classification and assessment rest.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-beoogd-doel
Payload hash (sha256): 3fdd25e29c42777568dc8e8cac6eecbf53b2a1c6f8c092e9d09e9f6331010b1a

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Praxikon, "Intended purpose", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-beoogd-doel@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 3fdd25e29c42777568dc8e8cac6eecbf53b2a1c6f8c092e9d09e9f6331010b1a

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.

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Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 3(12)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
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Consequence
- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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Official fact

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Article 3(12) defines intended purpose as the use for which an AI system is intended by the provider, including the specific context and conditions of use, as specified in the information supplied by the provider in the instructions for use, promotional or sales materials and statements, as well as in the technical documentation.
- Locator: Article 3(12)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.

Two things are structurally missed. First, the intended purpose is set by the provider, not by what you as a deployer do with the system. Second, and this hits providers hard: the intended purpose is derived not only from the manual but also from promotional and sales materials and from statements. A marketing claim that the system is also suitable for recruitment or for creditworthiness assessment therefore widens the intended purpose and can shift the risk classification. For deployers the mirror-image warning applies: use outside the intended purpose is not free. It can amount to reasonably foreseeable misuse, and under Article 25(1)(c) it can amount to a change of intended purpose that makes you the provider yourself, but only where the system thereby becomes a high-risk AI system in accordance with Article 6.
- Locator: Article 3(12)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.

Have marketing and product management align claims about application areas explicitly with the instructions for use and the technical documentation, and record that those three sources carry the same scope. As a deployer, record per system the intended purpose as described by the supplier alongside your actual use, and flag every difference as a decision point.
- Locator: Article 3(12)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Reference

Praxikon, "Intended purpose",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-beoogd-doel@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 3fdd25e29c42777568dc8e8cac6eecbf53b2a1c6f8c092e9d09e9f6331010b1a,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-beoogd-doel
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-beoogd-doel&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-beoogd-doel@1.0.0 (sha256 3fdd25e2)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-beoogd-doel-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Intended purpose},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-beoogd-doel},
  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 3fdd25e29c42777568dc8e8cac6eecbf53b2a1c6f8c092e9d09e9f6331010b1a},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-beoogd-doel},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

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