Article 13 — Transparency and Information to Deployers
Providers must accompany high-risk AI systems with clear instructions for use, system characteristics, intended use, performance metrics, and the level of accuracy expected.
What the Article requires
Article 13 requires providers to design high-risk AI systems with sufficient transparency to enable deployers to interpret outputs and use them appropriately. Instructions for use must include provider identity, system characteristics, intended use, level of accuracy/robustness/cybersecurity, foreseeable circumstances that may lead to risks, performance regarding specific groups, training data information, and the human-oversight measures designed in.
In engineering terms
For internal AI systems the 'deployer' is the customer's own operational teams; the documentation must enable the team to use the system within its intended scope. For vendor-supplied systems the deployer must validate that the vendor's Article 13 disclosures match the actual system behaviour. The most common gap: vendor disclosures are written for marketing rather than operational use.
Compliance checklist
- ✓Clear instructions for use for downstream deployers
- ✓Provider identity and contact information
- ✓Intended-use boundary clearly specified
- ✓Performance characteristics and limitations disclosed
- ✓Human-oversight measures designed in and documented
Terms used here
All Articles in the reference · The EU AI Act compliance architecture
Get the Article 13 checklist as a fill-in template
The EU AI Act Readiness Kit puts this checklist, and the other 13 Articles', into one fill-in PDF with room for an owner, evidence location and target date on every item. Plus an AI system inventory, a classification record, an Annex IV outline and a FRIA template.
- 01How to use this kit. Four steps, and which checklists apply to each classification result.
- 02AI system inventory. One row per AI system: owner, what it does, built or bought, your role and its classification.
- 03Classification record. The five questions from our applicability checker, with space for answers, notes and the result.
- 04Evidence checklists. 72 evidence items across Articles 9 to 15, 25, 26, 27, 50, 53, 55 and 72, each with an owner, evidence location and target date.
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