Article 55 — GPAI Systemic-Risk Obligations
GPAI models above the 10^25 FLOP training-compute threshold carry additional systemic-risk obligations including evaluations, adversarial testing, incident reporting and cybersecurity.
What the Article requires
Article 55 adds obligations on top of Article 53 for GPAI models with systemic risk — defined as models trained on >= 10^25 FLOPs of compute, or otherwise designated by the AI Office. Obligations: state-of-the-art model evaluations including adversarial testing, assessment and mitigation of systemic risks at Union level, serious-incident tracking and reporting, and adequate cybersecurity protection for the model and its physical infrastructure.
In engineering terms
Article 55 affects very few enterprises directly — the threshold catches frontier-model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral. For enterprise integrators the question is which downstream evidence each frontier vendor provides under Article 55 — adversarial-test reports, systemic-risk assessments, incident logs. The vendor disclosures cascade into customer-side Articles 9-15 evidence.
Compliance checklist
- ✓Confirm whether your GPAI provider crosses the 10^25 FLOP threshold
- ✓Obtain vendor Article 55 disclosure pack
- ✓Cascade vendor Article 55 evidence into customer Article 11 documentation
- ✓Adversarial-test review (vendor-provided)
- ✓Incident-tracking integration if vendor-managed
Terms used here
All Articles in the reference · The EU AI Act compliance architecture
Get the Article 55 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.
Need audit-survivable evidence for Article 55?
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