Article 8 is the umbrella obligation: every high-risk AI system must comply with the substantive requirements in Articles 9 to 15. It also sets the proportionality principle — measures must take into account the intended purpose, the generally acknowledged state of the art, and the risk management system. This is the hook auditors and notified bodies use when an individual measure looks formally compliant but isn't fit for the system's actual context.
What you must do
- → Treat Art. 9–15 as a single integrated package, not a list of independent boxes.
- → Be ready to justify why your measures are proportionate to the system's specific risk profile.
The authoritative text of Article 8 is published by the Publications Office of the European Union on EUR-Lex. We link directly to it rather than mirror it, so you always read the current consolidated version straight from the source.
Read Article 8 on EUR-LexSource: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act). The only authentic version is the one published in the Official Journal of the European Union.