# Enable and assign effective human oversight

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: human_oversight
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-12-02
- **Provision**: Article 14; Article 26(2) for deployers

## In brief

Enable and assign effective human oversight is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 14; Article 26(2) for deployers). It applies from 2 December 2027. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 2 frameworks. In practice: Document oversight roles, the "stop" mechanism and override paths for each high-risk deployment.

## What the duty requires

High-risk systems must be designed with human-machine interface tools so natural persons can effectively oversee them, understand capacities and limitations, avoid automation bias, interpret output, decide not to use the system, and intervene or stop it. Deployers must assign oversight to people with the necessary competence, training and authority. For certain remote biometric identification systems, action requires verification by at least two competent persons.

## What an organisation does about it

Document oversight roles, the "stop" mechanism and override paths for each high-risk deployment.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Human oversight design and override procedure (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/human-oversight-and-override
- AI literacy and role-based training programme (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-literacy-and-role-based-training

## 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-0011 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0011; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-human-oversight
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 14; Article 26(2) for deployers
- **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). "Enable and assign effective human oversight (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0011, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0011 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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