# Report serious incidents to market surveillance authorities

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: incident_handling
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-12-02
- **Provision**: Article 73

## In brief

Report serious incidents to market surveillance authorities is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 73). It applies from 2 December 2027. The record carries 2 evidence examples and mappings to 2 frameworks. In practice: Add AI serious-incident criteria and time limits to your existing incident-response playbook.

## What the duty requires

Providers of high-risk AI systems must report serious incidents to the market-surveillance authority of the Member State where the incident occurred, immediately after establishing a causal link (or reasonable likelihood) and no later than 15 days after becoming aware, with shorter limits for the most serious cases such as widespread infringements or death. Deployers must inform the provider and authorities when they identify a serious incident.

## What an organisation does about it

Add AI serious-incident criteria and time limits to your existing incident-response playbook.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI incident management and regulatory reporting (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-incident-management-and-reporting
- Automatic event logging and record retention (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/record-keeping-and-logging

## 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-0021 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0021; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-serious-incident-reporting
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 73
- **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). "Report serious incidents to market surveillance authorities (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0021, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0021 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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