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Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
Is your AI system high-risk under the EU AI Act?
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EU AI Act pre-screen
Has the Digital Omnibus changed what applies?
Yes, mainly the timeline. The Digital Omnibus on AI, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, has been in force since 27 July 2026. It moved the high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027 for Annex III systems and to 2 August 2028 for AI in products regulated under Annex I, and it reworded the AI literacy duty in Article 4: providers and deployers must still take measures, but no particular level is required of anyone. The Article 5 prohibitions, the GPAI obligations and the Article 50 transparency duties still apply, and knowing where each of your systems sits is still the first step to every one of them. Check where your system stands →
What you get
A preliminary risk class
Where your system likely sits: prohibited, high-risk, transparency-only or minimal — with the articles that put it there.
Which obligations land on you
Provider, deployer or importer — the Act treats each differently, and the result reflects the role you actually have.
What to do next in Maditon
A free account turns the pre-screen into a real classification, an obligation checklist, and a place to keep the evidence.
Why Maditon
EU-built, EU-hosted
Swedish company, EU infrastructure end to end. No US CLOUD Act exposure anywhere in the chain.
Grounded in the regulation text
Classifications cite the articles and annex points they rest on — retrieved from the authoritative corpus, not remembered by a model.
A human stays accountable
Every AI-generated classification is a draft until a named person accepts it. Nothing reaches “compliant” on its own.
Who is behind this
Maditon is built by Abiton Ventures AB, Gothenburg, Sweden. GDPR applies to everything we do, and your data stays in the EU. Privacy policy
Questions people ask
Is this pre-screen legal advice?
No. It applies a fixed set of rules to your answers and points at the relevant parts of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. It is informational, it creates no lawyer-client relationship, and the preliminary result is resolved by the full classification inside Maditon — which itself stays a draft until a person accepts it.
Do I need an account or an email address to see my result?
No. The pre-screen runs entirely in your browser and shows the preliminary result without asking who you are. An account is only needed for the full classification — and the free plan needs no card.
What makes a system high-risk under the EU AI Act?
Two routes. Article 6(1): the system is a safety component of — or itself — a product under EU product-safety law requiring third-party conformity assessment. Article 6(2) with Annex III: the system is used in a listed area such as employment, education, essential services or law enforcement, unless the narrow Article 6(3) derogation applies and is documented.
What is the Article 6(3) derogation?
An Annex III system that only performs a narrow procedural or preparatory task — where a human assessment stays decisive and no profiling of natural persons occurs — may fall outside high-risk. The assessment must be documented before the system is placed on the market, and registration may still be required.
My system is built on GPT, Claude or Mistral. Am I the provider?
Building a product on a third-party model does not make you the provider of that model — the model provider carries the Chapter V GPAI obligations. You are typically the provider of your own AI *system* (or its deployer), and the system-level rules — risk classification, transparency, high-risk obligations where they apply — are yours.
What does the free Maditon account include?
One AI system and ten assessments a month, shared between EU AI Act classifications and document readings, with the complete classification, article citations and your obligation checklist — no card required. The PDF dossier export comes with the paid plans, and more AI systems with their EU AI Act add-on.
Where do my answers go?
The pre-screen is scored in your browser. When you finish, the answers are stored under an anonymous identifier — no name, no email — so that if you create an account they can prefill your first AI system. Unclaimed submissions are deleted after 90 days.
When does the EU AI Act actually apply?
It entered into force on 1 August 2024. The Article 5 prohibitions have applied since 2 February 2025 and the GPAI provisions since August 2025. The Digital Omnibus on AI postponed the high-risk obligations to 2 December 2027, and the rules for AI in regulated products to 2 August 2028. The prohibitions and transparency duties are not waiting for anyone.