# Carry out a fundamental rights impact assessment before deployment

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: impact_assessment
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-12-02
- **Provision**: Article 27

## In brief

Carry out a fundamental rights impact assessment before deployment is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 27). It applies from 2 December 2027. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 2 frameworks.

## What the duty requires

Before deploying most Annex III high-risk systems, deployers that are bodies governed by public law or private entities providing public services, and deployers using systems for creditworthiness assessment or life and health insurance pricing, must assess the impact on fundamental rights: the processes, period and frequency of use, categories of affected persons, specific risks of harm, human-oversight measures and mitigation, and notify the market-surveillance authority of the results.

## What an organisation does about it

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

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI impact and fundamental-rights impact assessment (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-impact-assessment
- Privacy and data-protection controls for AI (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/privacy-and-data-protection-for-ai

## 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

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0016 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0016; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-fundamental-rights-impact-assessment
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 27
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: 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).

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