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Publicly accessible space

Any physical place, publicly or privately owned, accessible to an undetermined number of people. Access conditions and capacity limits are irrelevant.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-openbare-ruimte
Payload hash (sha256): 896ab14f18c3e7c26c51a80be2ec11c4cb7993d3ab0327d4e9335cd0b954d295

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Praxikon, "Publicly accessible space", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-openbare-ruimte@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 896ab14f18c3e7c26c51a80be2ec11c4cb7993d3ab0327d4e9335cd0b954d295

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
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- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 3(44)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
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Consequence
- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer

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Article 3(44) defines a publicly accessible space as any publicly or privately owned physical place accessible to an undetermined number of natural persons, regardless of whether certain conditions for access may apply and regardless of potential capacity restrictions.
- Locator: Article 3(44)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 familiar argument "it is our own premises, so not a public space" does not hold. Shops, stations, airports, stadiums, cinemas, hospital waiting rooms and shopping centres are publicly accessible spaces, even where ticketing, house rules or a capacity cap apply. What matters is whether the circle of visitors is undetermined. An office floor open only to your own staff normally falls outside, because that circle is determined. This concept switches the Article 5 prohibition on real-time remote identification on or off, and feeds through into Annex III classification.
- Locator: Article 3(44)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.

In your camera and biometrics register, mark for each location whether it is a publicly accessible space within the meaning of point 44, with a short justification. Do this before you procure a system, not after.
- Locator: Article 3(44)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Reference

Praxikon, "Publicly accessible space",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-openbare-ruimte@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 896ab14f18c3e7c26c51a80be2ec11c4cb7993d3ab0327d4e9335cd0b954d295,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-openbare-ruimte
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-openbare-ruimte&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-openbare-ruimte@1.0.0 (sha256 896ab14f)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-openbare-ruimte-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Publicly accessible space},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-openbare-ruimte},
  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 896ab14f18c3e7c26c51a80be2ec11c4cb7993d3ab0327d4e9335cd0b954d295},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-openbare-ruimte},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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