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Instructions for use

The information the provider supplies to inform the deployer about, in particular, the intended purpose and proper use of an AI system. It is the hinge between the provider's obligations and the deployer's.

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

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-gebruiksinstructies
Payload hash (sha256): 36ea5a9c1adf2d4c04734855fb040c503286546625eeaacfec1e1e732f4bf78c

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Praxikon, "Instructions for use", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-gebruiksinstructies@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 36ea5a9c1adf2d4c04734855fb040c503286546625eeaacfec1e1e732f4bf78c

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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What this object is about

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Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 3(15)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Consequence
- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- 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(15) defines instructions for use as the information provided by the provider to inform the deployer of, in particular, an AI system's intended purpose and proper use.
- Locator: Article 3(15)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.

In practice this goes wrong in two directions. Providers deliver marketing material or a technical manual instead of instructions that state the intended purpose and the limits of correct use. And deployers file those instructions without reading them, even though Article 26 requires them to use the system in accordance with them. A deployer operating outside the instructions for use can be treated as a provider under Article 25 and thereby take on the full set of provider obligations.
- Locator: Article 3(15)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.

Keep the current instructions for use for each AI system in your dossier, with version number and date of receipt. Also record who in your organisation has read them, which uses you derive as permitted, and which uses you have explicitly prohibited in your own internal work instruction.
- Locator: Article 3(15)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Referring to this object

Citation block

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Reference

Praxikon, "Instructions for use",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-gebruiksinstructies@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 36ea5a9c1adf2d4c04734855fb040c503286546625eeaacfec1e1e732f4bf78c,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-gebruiksinstructies
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-gebruiksinstructies&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-gebruiksinstructies@1.0.0 (sha256 36ea5a9c)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-gebruiksinstructies-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Instructions for use},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-gebruiksinstructies},
  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 36ea5a9c1adf2d4c04734855fb040c503286546625eeaacfec1e1e732f4bf78c},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-gebruiksinstructies},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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