EvidenceEditorialv1.0.0

Justification of the state of the art

Per system and per version: which intended purpose was taken, which standards, specifications, evaluation methods and test sets were treated as the state of the art, which were deliberately not applied and why, who established that, and on what date the record was reviewed again.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:article-8-state-of-the-art-justification
Payload hash (sha256): 176cee8830401ce1f875026a5c8b547a06ec90b0f3764045749971944b8ea2f9

Citation line

Praxikon, "Justification of the state of the art", praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:article-8-state-of-the-art-justification@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.2.0 (schema 1.5.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 176cee8830401ce1f875026a5c8b547a06ec90b0f3764045749971944b8ea2f9

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 27 July 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 6 September 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Topics: conformity, evidence, high-risk-requirements

Review status: Editorially reviewed (6 September 2026). Next check due by 5 March 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 8(1)-(2)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Consequence
- ObligationArticle 8: compliance with the requirements for high-risk AI systems
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:article-8-compliance-with-requirements

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Source
This object carries no official fact of its own. The source line below sits on the obligation it hangs off; the link itself is recorded editorially.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 8(1)-(2)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Consequence
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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Where this evidence comes from

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Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 8(1)-(2)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | allApplies to every AI system that qualifies as high-risk under Article 6, along both routes: the system that falls under the Union harmonisation legislation of Annex I as a safety component of a product or as a product in its own right, and the system that falls within one of the areas of Annex III. For the Annex I route there is a limit that this Article does not state itself: Article 2(2), as replaced by Article 1, point (2)(a), of Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, makes only Article 6(1), Article 60a and Articles 102 to 112 applicable to systems related to products covered by Section B of Annex I. Article 8 is not in that list, so for Section B products, machinery among them since 27 July 2026, this provision does not bear. In addition, Article 2(13), inserted by Article 1, point (3), can limit the application of the requirements in Articles 9 to 15 and 17 to 25 for Section A products, but only once the delegated act it prescribes exists. Article 8 sets no additional threshold of its own: what is high-risk is the subject of Article 6 and not of this provision.
- Condition | allCompliance is not assessed in the abstract but against two measures at once: the intended purpose of the system, and the generally acknowledged state of the art on AI and AI-related technologies. The second measure lies outside the Regulation and has no fixed content, so what suffices changes without the text changing.
- Condition | any ofParagraph 2 only comes into play where a product contains an AI system to which both the requirements of this Regulation and those of the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Section A of Annex I apply. For a system that is high-risk through Annex III alone, paragraph 2 has no bearing.
- ExceptionThe integration in paragraph 2 is a choice and not a duty: providers shall have a choice of integrating, as appropriate, the necessary testing and reporting processes, information and documentation they provide with regard to their product into documentation and procedures that already exist. Anyone who does not integrate breaches nothing. What the provision does not permit is doing less: the responsibility for full compliance with all applicable requirements under the sectoral harmonisation legislation stands undiminished.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Relation recorded on: Article 8: compliance with the requirements for high-risk AI systems
Consequence
- ObligationArticle 8: compliance with the requirements for high-risk AI systems
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:article-8-compliance-with-requirements

When this applies

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When this does not apply

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Citation block

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Reference

Praxikon, "Justification of the state of the art",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:article-8-state-of-the-art-justification@1.0.0,
dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.2.0 (schema 1.5.0),
effective_at 2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 176cee8830401ce1f875026a5c8b547a06ec90b0f3764045749971944b8ea2f9,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/evidence/article-8-state-of-the-art-justification
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aevidence%3Aarticle-8-state-of-the-art-justification&effective_at=2026-07-27&known_at=2026-09-06&lang=en, accessed 2026-09-20)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:article-8-state-of-the-art-justification@1.0.0 (sha256 176cee88)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-evidence-article-8-state-of-the-art-justification-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Justification of the state of the art},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:article-8-state-of-the-art-justification},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.2.0, schema 1.5.0},
  note         = {effective_at 2026-07-27T00:00:00.000Z; known_at 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 176cee8830401ce1f875026a5c8b547a06ec90b0f3764045749971944b8ea2f9},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/evidence/article-8-state-of-the-art-justification},
  urldate      = {2026-09-20},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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