# Provide deployers with clear instructions for use

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-12-02
- **Provision**: Article 13

## In brief

Provide deployers with clear instructions for use is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 13). It applies from 2 December 2027. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 2 frameworks. In practice: Ship an Article 13-structured instructions-for-use document with every high-risk system release.

## What the duty requires

High-risk AI systems must be designed so their operation is sufficiently transparent for deployers to interpret output and use it appropriately, and must be accompanied by instructions for use covering the provider's identity, the system's characteristics, capabilities and limitations, performance for the intended purpose and known foreseeable misuse, human-oversight measures, expected lifetime and maintenance.

## What an organisation does about it

Ship an Article 13-structured instructions-for-use document with every high-risk system release.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Technical documentation, model cards and instructions for use (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/technical-documentation-and-model-cards
- Contractual allocation of AI duties across the supply chain (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/contractual-allocation-of-ai-duties

## 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-0010 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0010; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-transparency-to-deployers
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 13
- **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). "Provide deployers with clear instructions for use (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0010, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0010 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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