# Do not deploy or provide AI for prohibited practices

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: prohibited_practice
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2025-02-02
- **Provision**: Article 5

## In brief

Do not deploy or provide AI for prohibited practices is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 5). It applies from 2 February 2025. The record carries 2 evidence examples and mappings to 2 frameworks.

## What the duty requires

Article 5 bans placing on the market, putting into service or using AI for listed practices, including subliminal or manipulative techniques that cause significant harm, exploitation of vulnerabilities, social scoring by public or private actors leading to detrimental treatment, untargeted scraping of facial images to build recognition databases, emotion recognition in workplaces and education institutions except for medical or safety reasons, biometric categorisation to infer protected characteristics, and real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement outside narrow exceptions.

## What an organisation does about it

Add a prohibited-practice screen to your AI intake or design-review process and document the outcome for every system already in use.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Prohibited and unacceptable-use screening gate (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/prohibited-use-screening-gate
- AI system inventory and classification (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-system-inventory

## 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-0004 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0004; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-prohibited-practices
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 5
- **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). "Do not deploy or provide AI for prohibited practices (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0004, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0004 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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