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Downstream provider

A provider of an AI system, including a general-purpose AI system, which integrates an AI model, regardless of whether that model is provided by themselves and vertically integrated or obtained from another entity on a contractual basis.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-downstreamaanbieder
Payload hash (sha256): 64567f634b5d9591bc7e867174cd0cf0c7de78cd05d5943f26798df581a0927c

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Praxikon, "Downstream provider", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-downstreamaanbieder@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 64567f634b5d9591bc7e867174cd0cf0c7de78cd05d5943f26798df581a0927c

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 8 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Application date: 1 August 2024
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(68)
  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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Article 3(68) defines a downstream provider as a provider of an AI system, including a general-purpose AI system, which integrates an AI model, regardless of whether the AI model is provided by themselves and vertically integrated or provided by another entity based on contractual relations.
- Locator: Article 3(68)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.

This is the definition organisations most often get wrong about their own role. Anyone integrating a third party model into their own product or service and offering it under their own name is a downstream provider and therefore a provider, not merely a deployer. The words regardless of whether make clear that it does not matter whether you built the model yourself. Your position determines what information you must be able to obtain from the model provider: providers of general-purpose AI models must under Article 53 make documentation available to downstream providers, an obligation applying since 2 August 2025 and enforceable since 2 August 2026.
- Locator: Article 3(68)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.

For each AI system, record which underlying model is integrated, from which party, and whether that makes you a downstream provider. Include in the contract with the model provider which Article 53 documentation you receive, and keep that documentation in your own file.
- Locator: Article 3(68)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Reference

Praxikon, "Downstream provider",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-downstreamaanbieder@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 64567f634b5d9591bc7e867174cd0cf0c7de78cd05d5943f26798df581a0927c,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-downstreamaanbieder
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-downstreamaanbieder&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-downstreamaanbieder@1.0.0 (sha256 64567f63)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-downstreamaanbieder-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Downstream provider},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-downstreamaanbieder},
  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 64567f634b5d9591bc7e867174cd0cf0c7de78cd05d5943f26798df581a0927c},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-downstreamaanbieder},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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