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ISO/IEC 12792: transparency taxonomy of AI systems

The international taxonomy of transparency information elements, usable as a checklist for the Article 13 instructions for use.

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praxikon:eu:ai-act:standard:standard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy
Payload hash (sha256)
f05c734a543acf72052d1f7a806928e4df6af5ae0509212b9892215750dfc967

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Praxikon, "ISO/IEC 12792: transparency taxonomy of AI systems", praxikon:eu:ai-act:standard:standard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy@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 f05c734a543acf72052d1f7a806928e4df6af5ae0509212b9892215750dfc967
Version
1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at)
8 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at)
8 August 2026
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Not closed
Topics
standards

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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    • ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42: international standards for artificial intelligence

      Locator: ISO/IEC 12792:2025, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:iso-iec-jtc1-sc42

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    • EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689

      Locator: Article 13

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689

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    • ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42: international standards for artificial intelligence

      Locator: ISO/IEC 12792:2025, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:iso-iec-jtc1-sc42

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    • EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689

      Locator: Article 13

      praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689

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  • ISO/IEC 12792:2025 (Information technology: Artificial intelligence: Transparency taxonomy of AI systems) was published in November 2025 by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42. It specifies a taxonomy of information elements to help stakeholders identify and address transparency needs, and describes the semantics of those elements and their relevance to different stakeholders' objectives. The text was adopted as a European standard as EN ISO/IEC 12792:2025. It is not cited in the Official Journal and therefore confers no presumption of conformity under Article 40. For Article 13 the designated deliverable is prEN 18229-3.

Our interpretation

Our own reading. It can change without the law changing, and it is not the position of a supervisory authority.

  • The value lies in the completeness check: the taxonomy shows which information elements you can forget, and that is exactly where instructions for use fall short in practice. What it is not: a template that satisfies Article 13. The regulation itself determines what the instructions for use must contain, including the provider's details, characteristics and limitations, accuracy metrics, oversight measures and expected lifetime. Also watch the confusion with Article 50: those transparency obligations have applied since 2 August 2026 and fall on providers of AI systems that interact directly with natural persons or generate synthetic content, and on deployers of emotion recognition, biometric categorisation and deepfakes. They apply regardless of high-risk classification. For systems already placed on the market before 2 August 2026, the machine-readable marking under Article 50(2) has a transition until 2 December 2026.

Recommended step

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

  • Structure your instructions for use as a numbered list following the elements of Article 13(3) one for one, and use the ISO/IEC 12792 taxonomy alongside it as a checklist for missing elements. Keep Article 50 transparency information separate, since it addresses the end user rather than the deployer.

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Reference

Praxikon, "ISO/IEC 12792: transparency taxonomy of AI systems",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:standard:standard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy@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 f05c734a543acf72052d1f7a806928e4df6af5ae0509212b9892215750dfc967,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/standard/standard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Astandard%3Astandard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-25)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:standard:standard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy@1.0.0 (sha256 f05c734a)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-standard-standard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {ISO/IEC 12792: transparency taxonomy of AI systems},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:standard:standard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy},
  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 f05c734a543acf72052d1f7a806928e4df6af5ae0509212b9892215750dfc967},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/standard/standard-iso-iec-12792-transparency-taxonomy},
  urldate      = {2026-08-25},
  language     = {en}
}

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