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Annex III: the eight areas separately

Annex III names eight areas in which an AI system can be high-risk under Article 6(2). This object publishes those eight areas as separate objects, so that a question about recruitment, assessment, creditworthiness or border control lands on the point that names it rather than on the list as a whole.

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Address and citation

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-eight-areas
Payload hash (sha256): fefd34d9142cbbda7f5ba59c3a3ec858bd9f1101363c0e874cf8b071780790e6

Citation line

Praxikon, "Annex III: the eight areas separately", praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-eight-areas@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 fefd34d9142cbbda7f5ba59c3a3ec858bd9f1101363c0e874cf8b071780790e6

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 27 July 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 14 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Application date: 2 December 2027
Topics: high-risk

Review status: Placed against the official source (14 August 2026). Next check due by 10 February 2027. The check date is the knowledge date of this version; no later recheck has been recorded.

Who must act and who is affected

On an obligation the addressee is recorded separately from the party that is merely affected. That difference decides who a supervisory authority addresses and who has work to do without the duty resting on them.

Duty holder

Provider of an AI systempraxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

Affected actor

Deployerpraxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer

Oversight

Not recorded on this object.

Evidence owner

Provider of an AI systempraxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

What this object links to

Every relation appears below as a path: from the source with its locator, through the conditions and exceptions of the object carrying the relation, to the consequence. A locator belongs to a statement in the data and not to a relation, so the source is the source anchor of the carrying object.

Who carries the duty

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The duty rests on this role. A supervisory authority addresses this role when it is not met.

Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | any ofApplies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes.
- Condition | allClassification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order.
- Condition | any ofThe duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself.
- ExceptionArticle 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk.
- ExceptionThe derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Consequence
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

Who is affected without being the addressee

1 of 1 shown

This role is practically affected without being the addressee: it receives the information, has to cooperate, or absorbs the consequences in its own process.

Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | any ofApplies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes.
- Condition | allClassification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order.
- Condition | any ofThe duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself.
- ExceptionArticle 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk.
- ExceptionThe derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Consequence
- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer

Who owns the evidence

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This duty holder creates, maintains and can produce the evidence.

Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | any ofApplies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes.
- Condition | allClassification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order.
- Condition | any ofThe duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself.
- ExceptionArticle 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk.
- ExceptionThe derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Consequence
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

What has to be done

1 of 1 shown

This is what concretely has to be done under the obligation.

Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | any ofApplies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes.
- Condition | allClassification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order.
- Condition | any ofThe duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself.
- ExceptionArticle 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk.
- ExceptionThe derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Consequence
- ActionMap every system to a point of Annex III
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:map-system-to-annex-iii-area

What has to be recorded

1 of 1 shown

This is what has to be in the file to show that the action was carried out.

Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | any ofApplies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes.
- Condition | allClassification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order.
- Condition | any ofThe duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself.
- ExceptionArticle 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk.
- ExceptionThe derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Consequence
- EvidenceRecord of the mapping to a point of Annex III
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:annex-iii-area-mapping-record

What keeps it in place

1 of 1 shown

This is what keeps compliance in place over time, periodic or event-driven.

Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | any ofApplies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes.
- Condition | allClassification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order.
- Condition | any ofThe duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself.
- ExceptionArticle 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk.
- ExceptionThe derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Consequence
- ControlReassessment on a change of intended purpose
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:control:annex-iii-area-rescan-trigger

Public tools

1 of 1 shown

This is the public route a reader can actually use.

Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | any ofApplies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes.
- Condition | allClassification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order.
- Condition | any ofThe duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself.
- ExceptionArticle 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk.
- ExceptionThe derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request.
As long as this exception is not ruled out, the outcome stays conditional and you have to establish it yourself.
Consequence
- TemplateFull text of Annex III
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:template:annex-iii-eight-areas-legal-text

What points at this object

Objects hanging off this obligation

12 of 12 shown

The object belongs to this obligation. The source line it hangs off sits there.

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: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
- Condition | allTo be carried out before a system is placed on the market or put into service, and again on every change to the intended purpose. Well before 2 December 2027, because the answer determines how much work follows.
Relation recorded on: Map every system to a point of Annex III
Consequence
- ActionMap every system to a point of Annex III
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:action:map-system-to-annex-iii-area
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: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Reassessment on a change of intended purpose
Consequence
- ControlReassessment on a change of intended purpose
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:control:annex-iii-area-rescan-trigger
Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, point 1
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 5(1)(f) and (g), Article 50(3), Article 113
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Annex III, point 1: biometrics
Consequence
- DefinitionAnnex III, point 1: biometrics
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-1-biometrics
Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, point 2
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Annex III, point 2: critical infrastructure
Consequence
- DefinitionAnnex III, point 2: critical infrastructure
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-2-critical-infrastructure
Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, point 3
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Annex III, point 3: education and vocational training
Consequence
- DefinitionAnnex III, point 3: education and vocational training
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-3-education-and-vocational-training
Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, point 4
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Annex III, point 4: employment and workers management
Consequence
- DefinitionAnnex III, point 4: employment and workers management
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-4-employment-and-workers-management
Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, point 5
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Annex III, point 5: essential private and public services
Consequence
- DefinitionAnnex III, point 5: essential private and public services
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-5-essential-private-and-public-services
Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, point 6
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Annex III, point 6: law enforcement
Consequence
- DefinitionAnnex III, point 6: law enforcement
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-6-law-enforcement
Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, point 7
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Annex III, point 7: migration, asylum and border control
Consequence
- DefinitionAnnex III, point 7: migration, asylum and border control
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-7-migration-asylum-and-border-control
Source
Official fact on this object, with its locator.
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Annex III, point 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
  Locator: Amended Article 113, third paragraph, point (c)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2026-1744
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 50(2) and (4), Article 113
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Annex III, point 8: administration of justice and democratic processes
Consequence
- DefinitionAnnex III, point 8: administration of justice and democratic processes
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:annex-iii-area-8-justice-and-democratic-processes
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: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
Via
No condition or exception recorded on this object.
Relation recorded on: Record of the mapping to a point of Annex III
Consequence
- EvidenceRecord of the mapping to a point of Annex III
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:evidence:annex-iii-area-mapping-record
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: Annex III, points 1 to 8
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
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- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
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Relation recorded on: Full text of Annex III
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- TemplateFull text of Annex III
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:template:annex-iii-eight-areas-legal-text

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The introductory sentence of Annex III reads: High-risk AI systems pursuant to Article 6(2) are the AI systems listed in any of the following areas. Eight numbered areas follow. 1. Biometrics, in so far as their use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. 2. Critical infrastructure. 3. Education and vocational training. 4. Employment, workers’ management and access to self-employment. 5. Access to and enjoyment of essential private services and essential public services and benefits. 6. Law enforcement, in so far as their use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. 7. Migration, asylum and border control management, in so far as their use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. 8. Administration of justice and democratic processes. The full text of each point, with its lettered subpoints, sits on the object for that area.
- Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source
Annex III is not fixed. Article 7(1) empowers the Commission to add or amend use cases in Annex III by delegated act, and Article 7(3) to remove them. Article 7(1)(a) requires the system to be intended for use in one of the areas listed in Annex III. The eight areas are therefore the stable layer; the lettered subpoints inside them can change without the Regulation itself being revised.
- Locator: Article 7(1) and (3)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.

Seven of the eight areas are subdivided into lettered subpoints in the text: point 1 into (a) to (c), point 3 into (a) to (d), point 4 into (a) and (b), point 5 into (a) to (d), point 6 into (a) to (e), point 7 into (a) to (d) and point 8 into (a) and (b). Point 2 has no lettered subpoints. We therefore count twenty-four lettered subpoints across seven areas. That number appears nowhere in the Regulation: it is our count of the text as it stands at our knowledge date, and a delegated act under Article 7 can silently make it stale.
- Locator: Annex III, points 1 to 8praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source
Reading Annex III as one block leads to the wrong question. The question is not whether your organisation works in one of the eight areas, because nearly everyone does: a hospital touches point 5, a school point 3, and every employer point 4. The question is whether the intended purpose of this one system coincides with the description of a lettered subpoint. A CV parser that only deduplicates repeat applications does something other than a system that evaluates candidates, and yet both get filed under recruitment in practice. Note the order too. Points 1, 6 and 7 carry the condition that the use must be permitted, and that is where Article 5 comes first. Emotion recognition in the workplace and in education is prohibited under Article 5(1)(f), except where the system is placed on the market or put into service for medical or safety reasons; whoever reverses that builds a conformity file for something that is not allowed. Finally, the area also determines which duties then weigh heavily. Article 86 gives a right to an explanation for decisions based on any system listed in Annex III other than point 2, and Article 27 requires bodies governed by public law and private providers of public services to carry out a fundamental rights impact assessment on every Annex III route other than point 2, with point 5(b) and (c) extending that duty to any deployer. For systems already on the market before the application date, the separate transitional rule of Article 111(2) applies as well.
- Locator: Article 5(1)(f), Article 27(1), Article 86(1), Article 111(2) and Annex IIIpraxikon: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.

For every AI system, record in your register not that it falls under Annex III but which point and which lettered subpoint it touches, with the intended purpose in your own words alongside. The eight area objects sit in the graph under the slugs annex-iii-area-1-biometrics through annex-iii-area-8-justice-and-democratic-processes; refer to those rather than to Annex III as a whole. Add four fields: is the use permitted, and if not, why is Article 5 not engaged; has the Article 6(3) test been carried out, which of the four conditions was met, and has the assessment been documented and the system registered under Article 6(4) and Article 49(2); does the system perform profiling, because the exception then falls away; and who carries the provider role after Article 25. Repeat that record on every change to the intended purpose.
- Locator: Article 6(2)-(4), Article 25(1), Article 49(2) and Annex IIIpraxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

When this applies

1Applies where the intended purpose of the AI system falls within one of the eight areas listed in Annex III: biometrics, critical infrastructure, education and vocational training, employment and workers management, access to essential private and public services, law enforcement, migration and border control management, or administration of justice and democratic processes.
2Classification follows Article 6(2). For points 1, 6 and 7 the text adds the condition that the use is permitted under relevant Union or national law. We read that condition as meaning that a prohibition under Article 5 comes before the question whether the system is high-risk; that is our reading and not the literal text, which states the condition without naming the order.
3The duty rests on the provider, but the role can shift. Under Article 25(1) a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes a provider itself where it puts its name or trademark on the system, makes a substantial modification, or changes the intended purpose such that the system becomes high-risk under Article 6. From that moment it carries the mapping to a point of Annex III itself.

When this does not apply

Article 6(3) takes a system listed in Annex III back outside high-risk where it does not pose a significant risk of harm to health, safety or fundamental rights, including by not materially influencing the outcome of decision making, and one of four conditions is met: the system performs a narrow procedural task, it improves the result of a previously completed human activity, it detects decision making patterns or deviations from prior patterns without replacing or influencing the previously completed human assessment without proper human review, or it performs a preparatory task to an assessment relevant for the purposes of the use cases listed in Annex III. A system that performs profiling of natural persons is always high-risk.
The derogation is not free. Article 6(4) requires a provider who considers that a system referred to in Annex III is not high-risk to document its assessment before the system is placed on the market or put into service, subjects that provider to the registration obligation in Article 49(2), and requires it to provide the documentation to national competent authorities on request.

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Praxikon, "Annex III: the eight areas separately",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-eight-areas@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 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 fefd34d9142cbbda7f5ba59c3a3ec858bd9f1101363c0e874cf8b071780790e6,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/obligation/annex-iii-eight-areas
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/obligations?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aobligation%3Aannex-iii-eight-areas&effective_at=2026-07-27&known_at=2026-08-14&lang=en, accessed 2026-09-20)

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praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-eight-areas@1.0.0 (sha256 fefd34d9)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-obligation-annex-iii-eight-areas-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Annex III: the eight areas separately},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-eight-areas},
  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 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 fefd34d9142cbbda7f5ba59c3a3ec858bd9f1101363c0e874cf8b071780790e6},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/obligation/annex-iii-eight-areas},
  urldate      = {2026-09-20},
  language     = {en}
}

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