AI Act Article 5: Obligations, Deadlines & Penalties

Prohibit the placing on the market, putting into service, or use of AI systems that deploy subliminal techniques or purposefully manipulative/deceptive techniques to materially distort behavior and cause significant harm. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Prohibit the placing on the market, putting into service, or use of AI systems that exploit vulnerabilities of natural persons or groups due to age, disability, or social/economic situation to materially distort behavior and cause significant harm. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Prohibit the placing on the market, putting into service, or use of AI systems for social scoring that leads to detrimental or unjustified treatment of persons based on social behavior or personal characteristics. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Prohibit the placing on the market, putting into service, or use of AI systems for predicting criminal offense risk based solely on profiling or personality traits, excluding systems supporting human assessment based on objective facts. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Prohibit the placing on the market, putting into service, or use of AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Prohibit the placing on the market, putting into service, or use of AI systems to infer emotions in workplace and education institutions, except for medical or safety reasons. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Prohibit the placing on the market, putting into service, or use of biometric categorisation systems to deduce race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious beliefs, sex life, or sexual orientation, excluding lawful law enforcement labeling/filtering. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Prohibit the use of real-time remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement, unless strictly necessary for specific objectives like searching for victims, preventing imminent threats, or locating suspects of serious crimes. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Ensure that the use of real-time remote biometric identification systems for law enforcement is deployed only to confirm the identity of specifically targeted individuals and takes into account the nature of the situation and consequences for rights and freedoms. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Comply with necessary and proportionate safeguards and conditions in national law regarding temporal, geographic, and personal limitations when using real-time remote biometric identification systems for law enforcement. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Complete a fundamental rights impact assessment as provided for in Article 27 before authorizing the use of real-time remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Register the real-time remote biometric identification system in the EU database according to Article 49 before use, unless in a duly justified case of urgency where registration must be completed without undue delay. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Obtain prior authorization from a judicial or independent administrative authority for each use of real-time remote biometric identification systems for law enforcement, issued upon a reasoned request. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Request authorization without undue delay, at the latest within 24 hours, if the use of real-time remote biometric identification systems is commenced in a duly justified situation of urgency without prior authorization. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Stop the use of the system with immediate effect and immediately discard and delete all data, results, and outputs if the authorization for real-time remote biometric identification is rejected. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5

Grant authorization for real-time remote biometric identification only if satisfied that the use is necessary and proportionate to achieving specified objectives, limited to what is strictly necessary regarding time, geography, and personal scope. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5, Article 5