EU AI Act Article 13 — Transparency to Deployers

Providers of high-risk AI systems must design and develop them so their operation is sufficiently transparent — specifically so deployers can interpret the system's output and use it appropriately. The system must come with instructions for use including: (a) provider identity, (b) characteristics, capabilities, limitations, (c) circumstances that may lead to risks to health/safety/fundamental rights, (d) human oversight measures, (e) computational and hardware resources needed, (f) lifecycle + maintenance + cybersecurity.

Article 13 is provider-to-deployer transparency (B2B documentation). Article 50 is deployer-to-end-user disclosure (consumer-facing notices, watermarks, deepfake disclosure). Different audiences, different timing, different evidence.

Closely linked. Annex IV is the format of the technical documentation a provider must keep. Article 13 specifies what must be communicated to the deployer (often a subset of Annex IV plus operational instructions). The /docs page on a B2B AI vendor's website is essentially their Article 13 documentation surface.

Article 13 binds providers of high-risk AI systems. The Digital Omnibus delayed Annex III high-risk to 2 December 2027 / Annex I high-risk to 2 August 2028. So providers building Annex III high-risk systems have until late 2027 to ship Article 13 compliant documentation.

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