EU AI Act
EU AI Act compliance your auditors accept
Map every AI system to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, run conformity assessment with score gates, auto-generate Annex IV dossiers, and prove PASS/FAIL before deployment.
EU AI Act compliance is the process of classifying AI systems by risk tier, meeting obligations for high-risk and GPAI systems, and maintaining technical documentation and conformity evidence that Notified Bodies and enterprise auditors can verify.
Key takeaways
- Extraterritorial scope: providers placing AI on the EU market and deployers in the EU must comply regardless of HQ location.
- High-risk systems require conformity assessment, technical documentation (Annex IV), and human oversight evidence before deployment.
- AgenticAssure tracks 16 articles, 30 EU AI Act controls (13 critical), and outputs Annex IV dossiers from live test results.
- Risk Classification Wizard maps five questions to Article 6 risk tier — not spreadsheet guesswork.
Who needs EU AI Act conformity assessment?
Deployers and providers of high-risk AI systems listed in Annex III (and certain GPAI with systemic risk) must complete conformity assessment before placing systems on the market or putting them into service. Prohibited practices under Article 5 are out of scope for deployment entirely.
- Credit scoring, recruitment, law enforcement, migration, critical infrastructure, and medical devices are common Annex III triggers.
- Asian and US exporters serving EU customers still face extraterritorial obligations when output affects persons in the EU.
What is Annex IV and how do you generate it?
Annex IV defines the technical documentation package for high-risk AI: system description, development process, monitoring, human oversight, accuracy, robustness, and cybersecurity. AgenticAssure assembles this from inventory metadata, test runs, control posture, and EvidenceExtractionAgent attestations — not manual copy-paste.
How AgenticAssure operationalises EU AI Act compliance
The Govern module runs a Conformity Pipeline with severity-weighted Conformity Scores per system per framework. Analysis links red-team results to OWASP and EU articles. External Auditor Seats give Notified Bodies read-only verification endpoints with RFC3161 timestamps.
- 30 EU AI Act controls in the posture matrix with 13 critical-severity.
- Pre-deployment PASS/FAIL certification verdict on test completion.
- Blockchain-anchored evidence chain for audit defensibility.
Questions compliance teams ask
Is the EU AI Act extraterritorial?
Yes. Providers placing AI systems on the EU market and deployers whose AI output is used in the EU must comply even if headquartered elsewhere. Singapore, UK, and US firms serving EU customers need conformity evidence.
What is Annex IV?
Annex IV is the EU AI Act's technical documentation template for high-risk AI systems. It covers design, data, training, performance, human oversight, and cybersecurity. AgenticAssure auto-generates Annex IV dossiers from platform evidence.
Who needs a conformity assessment?
Providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems under Annex III must complete conformity assessment before market placement or use. The Risk Classification Wizard outputs Article 6 risk tier from structured questions.
What is a Notified Body?
A Notified Body is an EU-conformity assessment organisation authorised to review high-risk AI systems. AgenticAssure External Auditor Seats provide time-boxed, read-only access scoped to verification endpoints for Big-4 and Notified Bodies.
How does AgenticAssure differ from legal-only EU AI Act consultancies?
Consultancies produce policy documents. AgenticAssure produces byte-verified technical evidence: 34 attack techniques tested, 30 controls tracked, Annex IV assembled from live runs, and hash-chained audit trails your auditors can replay.