AIMSS §10.2
External assurance & independent re-audit
Governance
✓
Full
Notified-body conformity assessment for many high-risk systems.
Art. 43, Annex VII
European Union · Phased: Aug 2024 → Aug 2027
Scope
Risk-based horizontal regulation of AI systems placed on the EU market, in service, or whose output is used in the EU.
Who must comply
Providers, deployers, importers, distributors, and product manufacturers of AI systems used in the EU.
AIMSS coverage
72%
Weighted overlap with this regulation
Clause map
AIMSS §10.2
External assurance & independent re-audit
Governance
✓
Full
Notified-body conformity assessment for many high-risk systems.
Art. 43, Annex VII
AIMSS §4.1
AI inventory & system register
Governance
✓
Full
Article 49 requires registration of high-risk systems in the EU database.
Art. 49
AIMSS §4.3
Risk classification & impact assessment
Governance
✓
Full
Risk categories and conformity assessments mandated.
Art. 6, Annex III
AIMSS §4.4
Third-party & supply-chain AI obligations
Governance
✓
Full
Importer, distributor and downstream-deployer obligations defined.
Art. 23–27
AIMSS §5.2
Human oversight & meaningful intervention
Ethics
✓
Full
Human oversight measures mandated for high-risk AI.
Art. 14
AIMSS §5.3
Explainability of automated decisions
Ethics
✓
Full
Right to explanation of individual decisions for high-risk AI.
Art. 86
AIMSS §5.4
Disclosure to affected persons
Ethics
✓
Full
Article 50 transparency obligations for AI systems interacting with humans.
Art. 50
AIMSS §8.1
Bias & disparate-impact testing
Society
✓
Full
Art. 10 data and bias requirements for high-risk systems.
Art. 10
AIMSS §8.2
Demographic-data governance for fairness testing
Society
✓
Full
Permitted processing of special-category data to detect and correct bias.
Art. 10(5)
AIMSS §8.3
Accessibility for users with disabilities
Society
✓
Full
Compliance with EU accessibility requirements mandated.
Art. 16(l)
AIMSS §8.5
Content provenance & synthetic-media labelling
Society
✓
Full
Machine-readable marking of AI-generated and deepfake content.
Art. 50(2)–(4)
AIMSS §9.1
Post-market monitoring & incident reporting
Lifecycle
✓
Full
Articles 72 & 73 mandate post-market monitoring and serious-incident reporting.
Art. 72–73
AIMSS §9.2
Cybersecurity & adversarial robustness
Lifecycle
✓
Full
Accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity requirements for high-risk AI.
Art. 15
AIMSS §9.4
Audit trail & technical documentation
Lifecycle
✓
Full
Automatic logs and detailed technical documentation required.
Art. 11–12, Annex IV
AIMSS §10.1
Continuous integrity programme
Governance
◐
Partial
Conformity reassessment after substantial modification.
Art. 43
AIMSS §4.2
Documented AI policy & accountable executive
Governance
◐
Partial
Quality-management system required for providers of high-risk AI.
Art. 17
AIMSS §5.1
Independent ethics review
Ethics
◐
Partial
Fundamental rights impact assessment required for some deployers.
AIMSS §6.1
Water & cooling impact disclosure
Climate
◐
Partial
GPAI Code of Practice asks for compute-environment energy reporting; water not specified.
Art. 53
AIMSS §6.2
Training & inference emissions accounting
Climate
◐
Partial
GPAI providers must report energy use of training.
Art. 53(1)(a)
AIMSS §6.3
Lifecycle carbon disclosure to buyers
Climate
◐
Partial
GPAI providers must document known or estimated energy consumption in technical documentation passed to downstream providers.
Art. 53(1)(a), Annex XI
AIMSS §7.1
Data-worker labour conditions
Labour
◐
Partial
Data governance Art. 10 implies labelling quality; no direct labour standards.
AIMSS §7.3
Red-team psychological safeguards
Labour
◐
Partial
Adversarial testing required for systemic-risk GPAI.
Art. 55
AIMSS §7.4
Workforce displacement notice & re-skilling
Labour
◐
Partial
Workers' representatives must be informed before workplace AI deployment.
Art. 26(7)
AIMSS §8.4
Misuse & dual-use assessment
Society
◐
Partial
Systemic-risk evaluation for advanced GPAI.
Art. 55
AIMSS §9.3
Public complaints register
Lifecycle
◐
Partial
Right to lodge complaint with market surveillance authority.
Art. 85
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