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Importer

Whoever places on the Union market a system bearing the name or trademark of a party established in a third country.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-importeur
Payload hash (sha256): 5929cd13fabbde75a31e8c36d3c791127c89b1aa48d8441e74ef87a49f5fd62c

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Praxikon, "Importer", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-importeur@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 5929cd13fabbde75a31e8c36d3c791127c89b1aa48d8441e74ef87a49f5fd62c

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(6)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Consequence
- ActorImporter
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:importer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

What this object states

Official fact

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Article 3(6) defines an importer as a natural or legal person located or established in the Union that places on the market an AI system that bears the name or trademark of a natural or legal person established in a third country.
- Locator: Article 3(6)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.

The practical trap is the assumption that importer has to do with customs or with the invoice flow. The test is different: do you place on the Union market for the first time a system bearing the name or trademark of a party from a third country. Someone who only takes a US service for their own use is not an importer but a deployer. Someone who passes on that same system under their own name or trademark is not an importer but a provider. The importer role sits exactly in between: passing it on with the third party's mark still on it.
- Locator: Article 3(6)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.

Record three data points per AI system in your supplier register: the country of establishment of the party whose name or trademark the system bears, whether your organisation is the first to make the system available on the Union market, and under which name that happens. Those three fields together determine whether you are an importer, a distributor or a provider.
- Locator: Article 3(6)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Reference

Praxikon, "Importer",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-importeur@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 5929cd13fabbde75a31e8c36d3c791127c89b1aa48d8441e74ef87a49f5fd62c,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-importeur
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-importeur&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-importeur@1.0.0 (sha256 5929cd13)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-importeur-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Importer},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-importeur},
  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 5929cd13fabbde75a31e8c36d3c791127c89b1aa48d8441e74ef87a49f5fd62c},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-importeur},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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