7 Steps to EU AI Act Compliance: Your Complete Checklist

Follow this comprehensive checklist to ensure your AI systems comply with the EU AI Act.

Step 1: Conduct Risk Assessment

• Identify your AI system's purpose and functionality
• Determine applicable risk category (Unacceptable, High, Limited, or Minimal)
• Document your assessment findings

Step 2: Check Prohibited Practices

• Verify your system doesn't use prohibited practices (Article 5)
• Review social scoring, manipulation, and biometric identification uses
• Ensure compliance with fundamental rights

Step 3: Identify Your Role

• Determine if you're a Provider, Deployer, Importer, or Distributor
• Understand obligations specific to your role
• Review multi-role scenarios

Step 4: Implement Compliance Measures

For high-risk systems:

• Establish risk management system
• Implement data governance procedures
• Create technical documentation
• Set up quality management system

Step 5: Ensure Transparency

• Provide clear information to users
• Implement disclosure notices for chatbots
• Document AI-generated content

Step 6: Conduct Conformity Assessment

• Perform conformity assessment (if required)
• Create declaration of conformity
• Register in EU database

Step 7: Maintain Ongoing Compliance

• Monitor system performance
• Report incidents
• Update documentation
• Conduct periodic reviews

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