Article 86
Right to Explanation of Individual Decision-Making
Any affected person subject to a decision which is taken by the deployer on the basis of the output from a high-risk AI system listed in Annex III, with the exception of systems listed under point 2 thereof, and which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects that person in a way that they consider to have an adverse impact on their health, safety or fundamental rights shall have the right to obtain from the deployer clear and meaningful explanations of the role of the AI system in the decision-making procedure and the main elements of the decision taken.
Paragraph 1 shall not apply to the use of AI systems for which exceptions from, or restrictions to, the obligation under that paragraph follow from Union or national law in compliance with Union law.
This Article shall apply only to the extent that the right referred to in paragraph 1 is not otherwise provided for under Union law.
Where Article 86 sits in the EU AI Act
Article 86 is provision 15 of 23 in Chapter IX: Post-Market Monitoring, Information Sharing and Market Surveillance, within Section 4: Remedies, which covers Articles 72–94 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
Provisions referenced in Article 86
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Source and verification
This is the text of Article 86 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.