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title: Recital 146 | EU AI Act | AstroKube
description: 'Recital 146, EU AI Act: Moreover, in light of the very small size of some operators and in order to ensure proportionality regarding costs of innovation…'
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3.  Recital 146

# Recital 146

This is a recital of the 2024 act: interpretive context for the operative articles, not operative law itself.

▼ Primary text, verbatim. Our annotations appear below, visibly separated.

Moreover, in light of the very small size of some operators and in order to ensure proportionality regarding costs of innovation, it is appropriate to allow microenterprises to fulfil one of the most costly obligations, namely to establish a quality management system, in a simplified manner which would reduce the administrative burden and the costs for those enterprises without affecting the level of protection and the need for compliance with the requirements for high-risk AI systems. The Commission should develop guidelines to specify the elements of the quality management system to be fulfilled in this simplified manner by microenterprises.

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### Type

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### Amended by

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