Article 21
Cooperation with Competent Authorities
Providers of high-risk AI systems shall, upon a reasoned request by a competent authority, provide that authority all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the high-risk AI system with the requirements set out in Section 2, in a language which can be easily understood by the authority in one of the official languages of the institutions of the Union as indicated by the Member State concerned.
Upon a reasoned request by a competent authority, providers shall also give the requesting competent authority, as applicable, access to the automatically generated logs of the high-risk AI system referred to in Article 12(1), to the extent such logs are under their control.
Any information obtained by a competent authority pursuant to this Article shall be treated in accordance with the confidentiality obligations set out in Article 78.
Where Article 21 sits in the EU AI Act
Article 21 is provision 16 of 44 in Chapter III: High-Risk AI Systems, within Section 3: Obligations of Providers and Deployers, which covers Articles 6–49 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
Provisions referenced in Article 21
The text of Article 21 cites the following provisions. Read them alongside it: cross-references carry binding requirements.
Source and verification
This is the text of Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, unchanged since it was adopted. It has been checked against the consolidated text on EUR-Lex. Where this page and EUR-Lex disagree, EUR-Lex governs.