Chapter III · Section 5 · Standards, conformity assessment, certificates, registration
Article 49 — Registration
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1. Before placing on the market or putting into service a high-risk AI system listed in Annex III, with the exception of high-risk AI systems referred to in point 2 of Annex III, the provider or, where applicable, the authorised representative shall register themselves and their system in the EU database referred to in Article 71.
2. Before placing on the market or putting into service an AI system for which the provider has concluded that it is not high-risk according to Article 6(3), that provider or, where applicable, the authorised representative shall register themselves and that system in the EU database referred to in Article 71.
3. Before putting into service or using a high-risk AI system listed in Annex III, with the exception of high-risk AI systems listed in point 2 of Annex III, deployers that are public authorities, Union institutions, bodies, offices or agencies or persons acting on their behalf shall register themselves, select the system and register its use in the EU database referred to in Article 71.
4. For high-risk AI systems referred to in points 1, 6 and 7 of Annex III, in the areas of law enforcement, migration, asylum and border control management, the registration referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall be in a secure non-public section of the EU database referred to in Article 71 and shall include only the following information, as applicable, referred to in:
(a) Section A, points 1 to 10, of Annex VIII, with the exception of points 6, 8 and 9;
(b) Section B, points 1 to 5, and points 8 and 9 of Annex VIII;
(c) Section C, points 1 to 3, of Annex VIII;
(d) points 1, 2, 3 and 5, of Annex IX.
Only the Commission and national authorities referred to in Article 74(8) shall have access to the respective restricted sections of the EU database listed in the first subparagraph of this paragraph.
5. High-risk AI systems referred to in point 2 of Annex III shall be registered at national level.
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Recital 53 — interpretive context
It is also important to clarify that there may be specific cases in which AI systems referred to in pre-defined areas specified in this Regulation do not lead to a significant risk of harm to the legal interests protected under those areas because they do not materially influence the decision-making or do not harm those interests substantially. For the purposes of this Regulation, an AI system that does not…
Recital 131 — interpretive context
In order to facilitate the work of the Commission and the Member States in the AI field as well as to increase the transparency towards the public, providers of high-risk AI systems other than those related to products falling within the scope of relevant existing Union harmonisation legislation, as well as providers who consider that an AI system listed in the high-risk use cases in an annex to this Regulation is…
What this means for you
In your terms · Registration in the EU database
Claiming the not-high-risk carve-out is itself a registered, documented act.
In your terms · Registration in the EU database
Registration is an external, dated record of what you placed on the market and under what classification; it has to match your documentation.
- Registration entries per system
Failure smells likeThe system has been in service for months, the database entry was never made, and no internal step would ever have caught it.
Obligations derived from this article
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.