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Articles 22-25: value chain and authorised representative

Role shifts in the AI value chain and the mandatory representative for non-EU providers.

Article 25 provides that a distributor, importer, deployer or third party becomes the provider when it puts its name on a high-risk system, substantially modifies it or changes its intended purpose so it becomes high-risk; Article 22 obliges third-country providers to appoint a written authorised representative in the Union.

Praxikon tracks Articles 22-25: value chain and authorised representative under the EU AI Act, checked against the official source on 8 August 2026, citing the source for every statement.

Status: Upcoming
Application date: 2 December 2027
Version: 1.0.0
Last reviewed: 8 August 2026

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.

From source to evidence

Why this obligation applies, what it asks of you, and what you show for it.

Applies

Upcoming · 2 December 2027

For whom

Deployer
Provider of an AI system

What you do

Assess the value-chain role per system and change

What you record

Value-chain file

Official source

Articles 22 and 25

Who this is relevant to

When this applies

Deployer
An organisation using an AI system under its authority, excluding personal non-professional use.
Provider of an AI system
A party that develops or has an AI system developed and places it on the market under its own name.

1A high-risk system is supplied, modified, rebranded or placed on the Union market from outside the EU.

What the official source establishes

For the Annex III route this requirement applies from 2 December 2027; for high-risk AI in regulated products (Annex I) from 2 August 2028.

Our interpretation

The official source remains authoritative. This general interpretation is not legal advice.

The most dangerous role switch is the unintended one: your own layer on top of a procured model, your own brand on a tool, and you suddenly carry the full provider duties. This belongs as a standing question in every AI project.

What you can do now

Include the role question in the AI register and in project gates, and contractually define who supplies which information and cooperation on changes.

01
Assess the value-chain role per system and change
On white-labelling, substantial modification or purpose change, assess whether your organisation becomes the provider, and arrange the representative for non-EU supply.

What to retain

Value-chain file

Record per system of role, contractual arrangements on information and cooperation, and the appointment of a representative where required.

Control and reassessment

Role reassessment on every change
Repeat the role assessment on every rebranding, modification or new use of an existing system.

Public tools

Full text of Article 25
The full legal text in the public AI Act Explorer.
Read Article 25 in the AI Act Explorer

Conditions and exceptions

Those acting solely as distributor or importer without the Article 25 triggers remain in that lighter role, with their own verification duties.

Official sources and locators

EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
European Parliament and Council | original-oj-2024-07-12
Source locator: Articles 22 and 25
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Digital Omnibus on AI 2026/1744
European Parliament and Council | official-journal-2026-07-24
Source locator: Amended Article 113 application dates
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Referring to this object

Citation block

Copy this reference into your advice, article or file. The identifier, the version and the hash keep the statement findable later, even once the dataset has moved on.

Reference

Praxikon, "Articles 22-25: value chain and authorised representative",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:value-chain-representative@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 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 38342a3db27dd0959f29e10415d9217331e2056d163b17a95fef284213092d52,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verplichtingen/value-chain-representative
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/obligations?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aobligation%3Avalue-chain-representative&effective_at=2026-07-27&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-09-07)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:value-chain-representative@1.0.0 (sha256 38342a3d)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-obligation-value-chain-representative-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Articles 22-25: value chain and authorised representative},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:value-chain-representative},
  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 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 38342a3db27dd0959f29e10415d9217331e2056d163b17a95fef284213092d52},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verplichtingen/value-chain-representative},
  urldate      = {2026-09-07},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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Version history

v1.0.0
27 July 2026
Articles 22-25: value chain and authorised representative
Role shifts in the AI value chain and the mandatory representative for non-EU providers.

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