# Non-EU providers of GPAI models must appoint an EU authorised representative

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: governance_accountability
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2025-08-02
- **Provision**: Article 54

## What the duty requires

Before placing a general-purpose AI model on the Union market, a provider established in a third country must appoint, by written mandate, an authorised representative established in the Union. The representative checks that the Annex XI documentation exists and the Article 53 duties are met, keeps a copy of the documentation and the provider's contact details for ten years after market placement, provides information to the AI Office on request, cooperates with authorities, and must end the mandate if the provider breaches the Regulation. Open-source models without systemic risk are exempt.

## What an organisation does about it

Appoint an EU representative under a written mandate covering document retention and AI Office liaison before the model reaches EU users.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Contractual allocation of AI duties across the supply chain (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/contractual-allocation-of-ai-duties
- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/technical-documentation-and-model-cards

## 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-54-gpai-authorised-representative
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 54
- **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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