Carry out a fundamental rights impact assessment before deployment

Practical action

Reuse GDPR DPIA workflows and extend them with the Article 27 elements; the AI Office is to provide a template.

Who does it apply to?

Public bodies, private providers of public services, and deployers in credit and insurance use cases.

Actors

Deployer / user organisationPublic authority / government body

Sectors

Financial services and creditPublic services and government

Use cases

AI in finance, credit and insuranceAI in public services

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.

• satisfiesProcessAI system owner · once per ai system
  AI impact and fundamental-rights impact assessment

  Serves 11 recorded duties · evidence: AI impact assessment, Impact assessment approval, Impact assessment procedure and template

  A rights-focused assessment template covering the required elements.

• supportsProcessData protection officer · once per ai system
  Privacy and data-protection controls for AI

  Serves 13 recorded duties · evidence: Data protection impact assessment for an AI system, AI data-flow and legal-basis record, Privacy notice section on AI use

  Reuse of the DPIA workflow and findings.

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

• Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA)

  Assessment · DOCX and XLSX · v5

• AI Impact Assessment

  Assessment · DOCX and XLSX · v5

• EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Kit

  Kit · DOCX and XLSX · v32

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). “Carry out a fundamental rights impact assessment before deployment (EU AI Act)” [AIPT-OBL-0016, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0016 (accessed 27 October 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Permanent id AIPT-OBL-0016: 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

• Significant Data Fiduciaries must appoint a DPO and run impact assessments and audits — India DPDP Act, India
• Carry out a data protection impact assessment for high-risk AI processing — ICO AI guidance, United Kingdom
• Conduct a data protection impact assessment for high-risk processing using new technologies — UAE PDPL, United Arab Emirates
• Deployers must complete impact assessments for high-risk AI — Colorado AI Act, Colorado (United States)
• Map context, intended use and potential impacts (Map) — NIST AI RMF, United States (voluntary)
• Operators of high-impact AI should assess its impact on fundamental rights before use — AI Basic Act, South Korea (voluntary)