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Only the assessment of natural persons falls within these use cases

Systems assessing only legal persons fall outside the relevant Annex III use cases. Self-employed people and sole traders do count as natural persons, however.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-natural-persons-scope
Payload hash (sha256): 4e7381817402e04bb3dd0998f913b3b24106a92090aad3a0fad3fffc67011457

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Praxikon, "Only the assessment of natural persons falls within these use cases", praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-natural-persons-scope@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 4e7381817402e04bb3dd0998f913b3b24106a92090aad3a0fad3fffc67011457

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 8 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Topics: guidance

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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- Draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems
  Locator: Section IV.2.2, paragraphs 72 to 74
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelines
  Open official source
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- ObligationAnnex III: high-risk AI
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-high-risk

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- Draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems
  Locator: Section IV.2.2, paragraphs 72 to 74
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelines
  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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The draft guidelines of 19 May 2026, published as a non-binding draft, clarify in paragraphs 72 to 74 that a natural person is distinct from a legal person and that the notion is not limited to consumers: sole traders, independent professions and other self-employed persons also count as natural persons in relation to their commercial activity, including persons acting in a professional capacity such as consultants, designers and journalists. A system that assesses natural persons falls within the use case regardless of whether it also assesses legal persons; systems intended only to assess legal persons or companies fall outside it. The draft gives as an example that a system assessing the creditworthiness of companies based on company data, balance sheets and financial statements does not qualify as evaluating a natural person, and that an owner assessed to back a company loan also falls outside point 5(b) because the company, not the individual, is the primary beneficiary of the credit.
- Locator: Section IV.2.2, paragraphs 72 to 74praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen 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 boundary does not run along sector or sensitivity, but along who is being assessed. Watch the trap on the other side: as soon as your B2B system also assesses freelancers and sole traders, you are back inside the use case.
- Locator: Section IV.2.2, paragraphs 72 to 74praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

Recommended step

A practical step we consider appropriate. Not an obligation following from the Regulation.

State unambiguously in the intended purpose whether natural persons are part of the assessed population. Exclude that use contractually and technically if you want to stay outside the use case, because mixed use pulls the whole system in.
- Locator: Section IV.2.2, paragraphs 72 to 74praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

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Praxikon, "Only the assessment of natural persons falls within these use cases",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-natural-persons-scope@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 4e7381817402e04bb3dd0998f913b3b24106a92090aad3a0fad3fffc67011457,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/guidance/guidance-high-risk-natural-persons-scope
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aguidance%3Aguidance-high-risk-natural-persons-scope&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-25)

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praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-natural-persons-scope@1.0.0 (sha256 4e738181)

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  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Only the assessment of natural persons falls within these use cases},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-natural-persons-scope},
  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 4e7381817402e04bb3dd0998f913b3b24106a92090aad3a0fad3fffc67011457},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/guidance/guidance-high-risk-natural-persons-scope},
  urldate      = {2026-08-25},
  language     = {en}
}

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