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Safety component

One of the two routes into the high-risk classification of Article 6(1), and often overlooked outside manufacturing.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-veiligheidscomponent
Payload hash (sha256): 82b2bd6ae24f5ede7ef37bd40b03e99e2024a962e24dd7cbb7f7676595fe8e63

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Praxikon, "Safety component", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-veiligheidscomponent@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 82b2bd6ae24f5ede7ef37bd40b03e99e2024a962e24dd7cbb7f7676595fe8e63

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
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- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 3(14)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
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- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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Article 3(14) defines a safety component as a component of a product or of an AI system which fulfils a safety function for that product or AI system, or the failure or malfunctioning of which endangers the health and safety of persons or property.
- Locator: Article 3(14)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 definition contains two independent tests joined by an or, and the second is almost always forgotten. A component need not have an identifiable safety function: it is enough that its failure or malfunctioning endangers the health and safety of persons or property. Property counts too, not only injury. The second misconception is that this concept only matters for machinery and medical devices. It is the gateway to Article 6(1), and therefore to the high-risk route via Annex I, which becomes applicable on 2 August 2028 for AI embedded in regulated products. Being a safety component is not sufficient in itself. Article 6(1) sets two cumulative conditions: alongside point (a), point (b) requires that the product, or the AI system as a product, must undergo third-party conformity assessment under the Annex I Union harmonisation legislation.
- Locator: Article 3(14)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.

Run both tests separately for each AI system and record both answers: does it fulfil a safety function, and what happens on failure or malfunctioning. Involve the product safety specialist or the product manufacturer, because that assessment belongs alongside the existing product conformity assessment and not in a separate AI track.
- Locator: Article 3(14)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Praxikon, "Safety component",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-veiligheidscomponent@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 82b2bd6ae24f5ede7ef37bd40b03e99e2024a962e24dd7cbb7f7676595fe8e63,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-veiligheidscomponent
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-veiligheidscomponent&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-25)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-veiligheidscomponent@1.0.0 (sha256 82b2bd6a)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-veiligheidscomponent-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Safety component},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-veiligheidscomponent},
  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 82b2bd6ae24f5ede7ef37bd40b03e99e2024a962e24dd7cbb7f7676595fe8e63},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-veiligheidscomponent},
  urldate      = {2026-08-25},
  language     = {en}
}

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