Artificial Intelligence Policy Tracker

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 Data governance and quality European Union

Deployers must ensure input data they control is relevant and representative

EU AI Act · Article 26(4)

To the extent a deployer controls the data fed into a high-risk AI system, it must make sure that input data is relevant to, and sufficiently representative for, the system's intended purpose. The duty sits with the deployer even though the provider designed the system, because the deployer chooses what the system is run on.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Dec 2027
Legal requirement Governance and accountability South Korea

Operators of high-impact AI must prepare user-protection measures and keep records of their safety and trust measures

AI Basic Act · Article 34(1)

Operators of high-impact AI must prepare and implement a plan to protect users, and must prepare and keep documents describing the measures they take to secure the AI's safety and reliability, so that they can be shown to the Ministry of Science and ICT on request. Further items may be added by Presidential Decree, and the ministry may publish guidelines on how to meet these duties.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 22 Jan 2026
Legal requirement Human oversight United Kingdom

Apply safeguards to solely automated decisions with significant effects

ICO AI guidance · UK GDPR Article 22 as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

Individuals have rights in relation to solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, including being told about the decision, obtaining human intervention, and contesting it. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 amended these rules; the reviewer must confirm the current wording.

Source-linked (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement Human oversight South Korea

Operators of high-impact AI must ensure human management and supervision

AI Basic Act · Article 34(1)

Operators of high-impact AI must ensure that the AI is subject to human management and supervision, so that people remain able to monitor its operation and intervene in or override its outputs where those outputs may affect life, physical safety or fundamental rights.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 22 Jan 2026
Legal requirement Impact assessment European Union

Carry out a fundamental rights impact assessment before deployment

EU AI Act · Article 27

Before deploying most Annex III high-risk systems, deployers that are bodies governed by public law or private entities providing public services, and deployers using systems for creditworthiness assessment or life and health insurance pricing, must assess the impact on fundamental rights: the processes, period and frequency of use, categories of affected persons, specific risks of harm, human-oversight measures and mitigation, and notify the market-surveillance authority of the results.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Dec 2027
Legal requirement Impact assessment Colorado (United States)

Deployers must complete impact assessments for high-risk AI

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1703(3)

Deployers must complete an impact assessment before deployment, annually, and within 90 days of any intentional and substantial modification, covering purpose, risks of algorithmic discrimination and mitigation, data categories, performance metrics, transparency measures and post-deployment monitoring, and retain assessments for at least three years.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement Incident reporting and handling Colorado (United States)

Deployers must notify the Attorney General of discovered algorithmic discrimination

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1703(7)

If a deployer discovers that a high-risk AI system it uses has caused algorithmic discrimination, it must send a notice to the Colorado Attorney General within 90 days of the discovery, in the form the Attorney General prescribes, without unreasonable delay.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement Incident reporting and handling Colorado (United States)

Developers must notify the Attorney General and deployers of discovered algorithmic discrimination

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1702(5)

Within 90 days after a developer discovers, through ongoing testing or a credible report from a deployer, that a high-risk AI system it developed has caused or is reasonably likely to have caused algorithmic discrimination, it must disclose this to the Colorado Attorney General and to all known deployers or other developers of the system, without unreasonable delay.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement Post-market monitoring European Union

Deployers must monitor high-risk AI, suspend use on risk and report serious incidents

EU AI Act · Article 26(5)

Deployers must monitor a high-risk AI system's operation against the provider's instructions and feed observations to the provider under Article 72. If they have reason to think the system as used may present a risk to health, safety or fundamental rights, they must inform the provider or distributor and the market surveillance authority without undue delay and suspend use. On a serious incident, they must immediately inform the provider, then the importer or distributor and the authorities. Financial institutions meet this through their internal governance rules.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Dec 2027
Legal requirement Privacy and personal-data protection European Union

Deployers must use the provider's transparency information in their data protection impact assessment

EU AI Act · Article 26(9)

Where a deployer of a high-risk AI system is required to carry out a data protection impact assessment under Article 35 of the GDPR or Article 27 of the Law Enforcement Directive, it must draw on the information the provider supplied under Article 13, such as the intended purpose, performance, limitations and human-oversight measures, when producing that assessment.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Dec 2027
Legal requirement Prohibited practices Texas (United States)

Developers and deployers must not use AI with the intent to unlawfully discriminate against a protected class

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) · Business and Commerce Code Section 551.056

A person may not develop or deploy an AI system with the intent to unlawfully discriminate against a protected class in violation of state or federal law. A disparate impact on a protected class is not, by itself, sufficient to show an intent to discriminate, and insurers and financial institutions acting under their own regulatory regimes are treated separately.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 1 Jan 2026
Legal requirement Record keeping and logging European Union

Providers must keep high-risk AI documentation for ten years

EU AI Act · Article 18

For ten years after a high-risk AI system is placed on the market or put into service, the provider must keep at the disposal of national competent authorities the technical documentation, the quality management system documentation, any changes approved by a notified body, the notified body's decisions and other documents, and the EU declaration of conformity. Financial institutions keep these as part of their sector record-keeping.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Dec 2027
Legal requirement Record keeping and logging European Union

Providers must retain automatically generated logs under their control

EU AI Act · Article 19

Providers must keep the event logs that a high-risk AI system generates under Article 12, to the extent those logs are within their control, for a period appropriate to the system's intended purpose and in any case for at least six months, unless Union or national law on personal data sets a different period. Financial institutions keep the logs under their sector rules.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Dec 2027
Legal requirement AI 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.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement AI risk management Colorado (United States)

Deployers must use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1703(1)

A deployer of a high-risk AI system must use reasonable care to protect consumers from known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination. A deployer that runs the required risk-management programme, completes impact assessments, gives consumer notices and makes the required disclosures benefits from a rebuttable presumption of reasonable care; some deployers with fewer than 50 employees are relieved of parts of the programme and assessment duties when they rely on the developer's impact assessment.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement AI risk management Colorado (United States)

Developers must use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1702(1)

A developer of a high-risk AI system must use reasonable care to protect consumers from any known or reasonably foreseeable risk of algorithmic discrimination arising from the intended and contracted uses of the system. A developer that meets the documentation, public-statement and Attorney General disclosure duties in the rest of section 6-1-1702 benefits from a rebuttable presumption that it used reasonable care.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement AI risk management South Korea

Operators of high-impact AI must establish and operate a risk management plan

AI Basic Act · Article 34(1)

An AI business operator that provides high-impact AI, or a product or service using it, must establish and operate a plan for managing the risks of that AI. High-impact AI is AI used in areas such as energy, drinking water, health care and medical devices, nuclear safety, biometric analysis for criminal investigation, decisions on recruitment or loans, transport, public services and education, where it may materially affect life, safety or fundamental rights.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 22 Jan 2026
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.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement Technical documentation European Union

Providers must document and register a conclusion that an Annex III system is not high-risk

EU AI Act · Article 6(4); Article 49(2)

A provider that considers a system listed in Annex III to be outside the high-risk tier because it meets one of the Article 6(3) conditions, such as performing a narrow procedural task or only preparing a human assessment, must write down that assessment before placing the system on the market or putting it into service, register the system in the EU database under Article 49(2), and hand over the assessment on request from a national competent authority.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Dec 2027
Legal requirement Transparency and disclosure Colorado (United States)

Deployers and developers must disclose to consumers that they are interacting with an AI system

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1704

Any developer or deployer that makes an AI system available to consumers that is intended to interact with them must disclose to each consumer that they are interacting with an AI system, unless that would be obvious to a reasonable person. This duty is not limited to high-risk systems and covers chatbots and voice agents offered to Colorado consumers.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)
Legal requirement Transparency and disclosure European Union

Deployers must explain individual decisions taken with high-risk AI on request

EU AI Act · Article 86

A person affected by a decision that a deployer took on the basis of the output of an Annex III high-risk AI system, other than critical-infrastructure systems, which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects them in a way they consider adverse to their health, safety or fundamental rights, has the right to obtain from the deployer clear and meaningful explanations of the role the system played in the decision and the main elements of the decision. The right does not apply where Union or national law provides an exception.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Dec 2027
Legal requirement Transparency and disclosure Colorado (United States)

Deployers must publish a statement about the high-risk AI systems they use

Colorado AI Act · C.R.S. 6-1-1703(5)

A deployer must make available on its website, or in another public way, a clear and readily available statement summarising the types of high-risk AI systems it currently deploys, how it manages known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination from those systems, and the nature, source and extent of the information it collects and uses. The statement must be updated periodically.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review)

Frequently asked questions

What is an obligation on this site?

A single practical requirement pulled out of an instrument and stated on its own: keep a risk management system, log incidents, document training data, provide human oversight, and so on. Each one cites the article or section it comes from so you can check it against the source.

Does a voluntary obligation have legal force?

No, and every obligation is labelled either a legal requirement or voluntary guidance. Voluntary items still matter in practice, because procurement questionnaires and auditors ask about them, but only the binding ones carry legal consequence.

How do I find the obligations that apply to my organisation?

Filter by jurisdiction, category, actor, sector or use case. The applicability check asks a short set of questions and returns the duties that may reach you. It is an educational screen, not a legal determination, and it says so.

Why do some instruments have no obligations listed?

Because nobody has broken them out yet. Most instruments are recorded at summary level first; obligations are added jurisdiction by jurisdiction. The coverage and open-gaps pages publish exactly what is missing rather than hiding it.