AI compliance obligations

Practical requirements extracted from policy instruments, with the source article, the actors they bind, evidence examples and original framework mappings. Legal requirements are marked; everything else is voluntary guidance.

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Legal requirement risk management United States

Apply minimum risk-management practices to high-impact AI

OMB M-25-21 · Section 4

For AI whose output serves as a principal basis for decisions with significant effects on rights, safety or access to services, agencies must complete pre-deployment testing, an AI impact assessment, ongoing monitoring, operator training, human oversight and a mechanism for affected people to seek remedy, or stop using the AI.

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Legal requirement risk management Colorado (United States)

Deployers must implement a risk management policy and programme

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1703(2)

Deployers of high-risk AI must implement a risk-management policy and programme governing deployment, specifying principles, processes and personnel used to identify, document and mitigate known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination, and reasonable in light of recognised frameworks such as the NIST AI RMF or ISO/IEC 42001.

Source-linked Applies from 30 Jun 2026
Legal requirement risk management European Union

Establish a risk management system for high-risk AI

EU AI Act · Article 9

Providers of high-risk AI systems must establish, implement, document and maintain a continuous, iterative risk-management system across the system's lifecycle: identifying known and reasonably foreseeable risks to health, safety and fundamental rights, estimating and evaluating risks including from reasonably foreseeable misuse, evaluating post-market data, and adopting targeted risk-management measures, with testing before placing on the market.

Source-linked Applies from 2 Aug 2026
Legal requirement safety testing California (United States)

Large frontier developers must publish a frontier AI framework

California SB 53 · Business and Professions Code, Chapter 25.1 (as added by SB 53)

Large frontier developers must publish and maintain a framework describing how they incorporate national and international standards, assess catastrophic risk, apply mitigations, secure model weights, and govern internal processes, and must review it at least annually.

Source-linked Applies from 1 Jan 2026
Legal requirement safety testing European Union

Manage systemic risk for high-impact general-purpose models

EU AI Act · Articles 51, 52 and 55

A general-purpose model is presumed to have systemic risk when the cumulative compute used for training exceeds 10^25 floating-point operations, or when the Commission designates it. Providers must notify the Commission, perform model evaluations including adversarial testing, assess and mitigate systemic risks, track and report serious incidents, and ensure adequate cybersecurity for the model and infrastructure.

Source-linked Applies from 2 Aug 2025
Legal requirement technical documentation Colorado (United States)

Developers must document high-risk systems and disclose known risks

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1702

Developers must make available to deployers a general statement of intended uses, documentation of known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination, training-data summaries, limitations, performance evaluation and mitigation measures, and information needed for deployer impact assessments, and must publish a public statement describing their high-risk systems and how they manage discrimination risks.

Source-linked Applies from 30 Jun 2026
Legal requirement technical documentation European Union

Draw up technical documentation before placing a high-risk system on the market

EU AI Act · Article 11 and Annex IV

Technical documentation must be drawn up before a high-risk system is placed on the market or put into service and kept up to date. It must demonstrate compliance with the Section 2 requirements and contain at least the elements in Annex IV, including a general description, development process, monitoring and control, risk-management description, and the applied standards. SMEs may use a simplified form provided by the Commission.

Source-linked Applies from 2 Aug 2026
Legal requirement transparency European Union

Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content

EU AI Act · Article 50

Providers must ensure AI systems intended to interact with people inform them they are dealing with AI unless obvious; providers of systems generating synthetic audio, image, video or text must mark output in a machine-readable, detectable format; deployers of emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems must inform exposed persons; deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest, subject to exceptions.

Source-linked Applies from 2 Aug 2026
Legal requirement transparency Colorado (United States)

Notify consumers and explain adverse consequential decisions

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1703(4)

Before a high-risk system makes a consequential decision, deployers must notify the consumer that AI is used, describe its purpose and nature, and provide contact and opt-out information where applicable. After an adverse decision they must state the principal reasons, the data used and its sources, and offer an opportunity to correct data and to appeal for human review where feasible.

Source-linked Applies from 30 Jun 2026
Legal requirement transparency European Union

Provide deployers with clear instructions for use

EU AI Act · Article 13

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.

Source-linked Applies from 2 Aug 2026
Legal requirement vendor governance European Union

Verify conformity before importing or distributing high-risk AI

EU AI Act · 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. Distributors must verify CE marking, the declaration of conformity and instructions, and refrain from making non-compliant systems available.

Source-linked Applies from 2 Aug 2026
Voluntary guidance governance accountability Nepal

Government bodies to promote ethical, responsible and inclusive AI (policy commitment)

Nepal National AI Policy · Policy objectives and strategies (to be confirmed against the official text)

The policy commits the government to ethical, transparent and inclusive AI, data governance and institutional oversight. The specific strategies and any obligations on private actors must be confirmed from the official document; this record intentionally does not state details that could not be verified.

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