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Section 4: Notifying Authorities and Notified Bodies

Chapter III · Articles 28–39

What this part of the EU AI Act covers

Section 4 builds the assessment infrastructure. It governs the notifying authorities Member States must designate, the requirements a conformity assessment body must satisfy to be notified, the application and notification procedure, the obligations of notified bodies, and what happens when a notification is challenged or withdrawn.

It binds Member States and conformity assessment bodies rather than operators. It matters to providers because the availability of designated notified bodies determines whether the Annex VII route is practically usable, which was the stated reason the high-risk deadlines were deferred.

All 12 provisions

Art. 28Notifying Authorities Art. 29Application of A Conformity Assessment Body for Notification Art. 30Notification Procedure Art. 31Requirements Relating to Notified Bodies Art. 32Presumption of Conformity with Requirements Relating to Notified Bodies Art. 33Subsidiaries of Notified Bodies and Subcontracting Art. 34Operational Obligations of Notified Bodies Art. 35Identification Numbers and Lists of Notified Bodies Art. 36Changes to Notifications Art. 37Challenge to the Competence of Notified Bodies Art. 38Coordination of Notified Bodies Art. 39Conformity Assessment Bodies of Third Countries

All 12 provisions on this page have been checked against the EUR-Lex text of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. Where this site and EUR-Lex disagree, EUR-Lex governs.

Where to go next

Chapter III: High-Risk AI SystemsThe whole chapter, Articles 6–49 Section 1: Classification of AI Systems as High-RiskArticles 6–7 Section 2: Requirements for High-Risk AI SystemsArticles 8–15 Section 3: Obligations of Providers and DeployersArticles 16–27 Section 5: Standards, Conformity Assessment, Certificates and RegistrationArticles 40–49 Full EU AI Act table of contentsAll 13 chapters