# Deployers must tell natural persons that a high-risk AI system is used in decisions about them

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-08-02
- **Provision**: Article 26(11)

## What the duty requires

Deployers of Annex III high-risk AI systems that take decisions about natural persons, or help take them, must inform those persons that they are subject to the system. The notice is separate from any explanation owed under Article 86 and from the worker notice in Article 26(7). In law-enforcement contexts the duty follows the information rules of the Law Enforcement Directive.

## What an organisation does about it

Add a plain-language AI-use notice to application forms, decision letters or account terms for each affected decision process.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI interaction and use disclosure notices (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-interaction-and-use-disclosure
- Decision explanation, human review and appeal route (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/decision-explanation-and-appeal-route

## 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-26-11-notice-to-affected-persons
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 26(11)
- **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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