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term: "EU AI Act"
category: "AI regulation"
url: https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/eu-ai-act
source: AgenticOpenFinance glossary
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# EU AI Act

> The EU regulation that sets risk-based rules for AI systems and general-purpose AI models placed on the EU market.

The EU AI Act is the European Union regulation that sets harmonised, risk-based rules for AI systems and general-purpose AI models placed on the market or used in the Union. It bans a short list of practices, sets requirements for high-risk systems, imposes transparency duties on certain systems and sets obligations for general-purpose model providers. Its rules apply in stages, and the AI Omnibus amended the timeline for high-risk systems, so dates should be read from the Commission's current page.

Related terms: [High-risk AI system](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/high-risk-ai-system.md), [Prohibited AI practice](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/prohibited-ai-practice.md), [Provider (AI Act)](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/ai-provider.md), [Deployer (AI Act)](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/ai-deployer.md), [General-purpose AI model](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/general-purpose-ai-model.md)