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3.  Article 21

Chapter III · Section 3 · Obligations of providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems and other parties

# Article 21 — Cooperation with competent authorities

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[1\.](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/law/art-21/#p-1) Providers of high-risk AI systems shall, upon a reasoned request by a competent authority, provide that authority all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the high-risk AI system with the requirements set out in Section 2, in a language which can be easily understood by the authority in one of the official languages of the institutions of the Union as indicated by the Member State concerned.

[2\.](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/law/art-21/#p-2) Upon a reasoned request by a competent authority, providers shall also give the requesting competent authority, as applicable, access to the automatically generated logs of the high-risk AI system referred to in Article 12(1), to the extent such logs are under their control.

[3\.](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/law/art-21/#p-3) Any information obtained by a competent authority pursuant to this Article shall be treated in accordance with the confidentiality obligations set out in Article 78.

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## What this means for you

In your terms · Cooperation with competent authorities

Producing months-old logs for one system on request is a retrieval procedure you can rehearse.

-   Evidence retrieval procedure

## Obligations derived from this article

[Cooperation with competent authoritiesArt. 21](https://ai-act.astrokube.com/explorer/?art=art-21)

## If you would rather not read the law

The basics page explains the Regulation's own categories in order: scope, role, tier, date. The engineering view groups the obligations by the platform capability they demand.

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## About this provision

### Status

Upcoming 2 Dec 2027

Moved from ~2 Aug 2026~

### Regime

High-risk

### Binds

Provider

### Type

Article · Chapter III · Section 3

### Amended by

Not amended

### Cited capture

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