# Non-EU providers must appoint an EU authorised representative 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 22

## What the duty requires

Before making a high-risk AI system available in the Union, a provider established outside the EU must appoint, by written mandate, an authorised representative established in the Union. The representative verifies that the EU declaration of conformity and technical documentation exist and that conformity assessment was done, keeps the provider's contact details and the documentation available for ten years, supplies information to authorities, cooperates with them, and must end the mandate if the provider acts contrary to the Regulation.

## What an organisation does about it

Sign a written mandate with an EU-established representative and give them a controlled copy of the technical file and declaration.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Conformity assessment, declaration and registration (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/conformity-assessment-and-registration
- Contractual allocation of AI duties across the supply chain (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/contractual-allocation-of-ai-duties

## 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-22-authorised-representative
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 22
- **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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