# Providers must meet the full set of provider duties for high-risk AI

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: governance_accountability
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-08-02
- **Provision**: Article 16

## What the duty requires

Article 16 lists what a provider of a high-risk AI system owes: compliance with the Section 2 requirements, its name and contact details on the system or its documentation, a quality management system, retention of documentation and logs, conformity assessment, an EU declaration of conformity, CE marking, registration, corrective action when needed, cooperation with authorities on request, and accessibility in line with the EU accessibility directives.

## What an organisation does about it

Map each Article 16 point to an owner and an evidence location in a compliance matrix for every high-risk system.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI governance policy and accountability structure (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-governance-policy-and-accountability
- Quality management system for AI development and supply (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-quality-management-system

## Parent instrument

- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-art-16-provider-obligations
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 16
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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