# Verify conformity before importing or distributing high-risk AI

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: vendor_governance
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-12-02
- **Provision**: Articles 23 and 24

## In brief

Verify conformity before importing or distributing high-risk AI is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Articles 23 and 24). Importers must verify that the provider completed conformity assessment, drew up technical documentation, affixed CE marking and appointed an authorised representative where required, and must indicate their name and contact details on the system.

## What the duty requires

Importers must verify that the provider completed conformity assessment, drew up technical documentation, affixed CE marking and appointed an authorised representative where required, and must indicate their name and contact details on the system. Distributors must verify CE marking, the declaration of conformity and instructions, and refrain from making non-compliant systems available.

## What an organisation does about it

Build AI Act checks into supplier onboarding and contract clauses.

## 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 (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/contractual-allocation-of-ai-duties
- Vendor and third-party AI due diligence (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/third-party-ai-due-diligence

## 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-0022 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0022; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-importer-distributor-obligations
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Articles 23 and 24
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-11-08
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Verify conformity before importing or distributing high-risk AI (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0022, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0022 (accessed 8 November 2026).

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