Provide deployers with clear instructions for use

Practical action

Ship an Article 13-structured instructions-for-use document with every high-risk system release.

Who does it apply to?

Providers of high-risk AI systems.

Actors

Provider / developer

Sectors

Cross-sector / all sectors

Use cases

AI in hiring and employmentAI in finance, credit and insuranceAI in education

Applies from: 2 December 2027

Which controls meet this duty?

Satisfies: the control, operated properly, does the work the duty asks for. Supports: it contributes but the duty needs more. Each control page lists every other duty it serves, so work done once can be counted once.

• satisfiesProcessProduct or model owner · at launch and on material change
  Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use

  Serves 14 recorded duties · evidence: Technical documentation file, Model card or deployer information pack, Instructions for use

  Instructions for use derived from the technical documentation.

• supportsContractual termLegal counsel · once per ai system
  Contractual allocation of AI duties across the supply chain

  Serves 9 recorded duties · evidence: AI supplier clause set, AI customer or deployer clause set, Contract clause index against the AI register

  Customer terms carry the instructions and feedback channels.

Templates that cover this duty

Generated from the records. Free · no account · links emailed to your work address. This duty is cited in each file with its source reference and a link back here.

• EU AI Act Role and Risk Classifier

  Checklist · XLSX · v4

• AI Agent Registry and Permission Matrix

  Register · XLSX and DOCX · v6

• EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Kit

  Kit · DOCX and XLSX · v32

• ISO/IEC 42001 Gap Assessment and Statement of Applicability

  Assessment · XLSX · v3

All 10 templates that cover it →

What evidence would a reviewer expect?

Framework mappings

Original editorial crosswalks. They cite clause numbers only and reproduce no standard text; confidence reflects how direct the mapping is.

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Frequently asked questions

Cite this record

AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Provide deployers with clear instructions for use (EU AI Act)” [AIPT-OBL-0010, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0010 (accessed 27 October 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Permanent id AIPT-OBL-0010: it never changes or gets reused, and its address keeps working if this page moves.

Cite the official text alongside it: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence, Official Journal of the European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj.

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Change history

Similar obligations in other instruments

• Employers must inform workers and their representatives before using high-risk AI at work — EU AI Act, European Union
• Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must tell natural persons that a high-risk AI system is used in decisions about them — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation must inform exposed persons — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated text published on matters of public interest — EU AI Act, European Union
• Providers of generative AI must mark synthetic output as artificially generated in a machine-readable way — EU AI Act, European Union
• Deployers must explain individual decisions taken with high-risk AI on request — EU AI Act, European Union
• Frontier developers must publish a transparency report before deploying a new frontier model — California SB 53, California (United States)