Article 41 — Common specifications

AI Act — Regulation (EU) 2024/1689

In the actEU 2024/1689
ChapterIII · High-risk AI systems
CELEX32024R1689
Read on2026-08-14

Official text

Read from the EU Publications Office for this CELEX number. The wording stands as published; nothing here is rewritten or summarised.

1. The Commission may adopt, implementing acts establishing common specifications for the requirements set out in Section 2 of this Chapter or, as applicable, for the obligations set out in Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter V where the following conditions have been fulfilled:

(a) the Commission has requested, pursuant to Article 10(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012, one or more European standardisation organisations to draft a harmonised standard for the requirements set out in Section 2 of this Chapter, or, as applicable, for the obligations set out in Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter V, and:

(i) the request has not been accepted by any of the European standardisation organisations; or

(ii) the harmonised standards addressing that request are not delivered within the deadline set in accordance with Article 10(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012; or

(iii) the relevant harmonised standards insufficiently address fundamental rights concerns; or

(iv) the harmonised standards do not comply with the request; and

(b) no reference to harmonised standards covering the requirements referred to in Section 2 of this Chapter or, as applicable, the obligations referred to in Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter V has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012, and no such reference is expected to be published within a reasonable period.

When drafting the common specifications, the Commission shall consult the advisory forum referred to in Article 67.

The article continues in the official text.

Open the article on EUR-Lex

Other articles in this chapter

The text is quoted from the official source and is not legal advice. A national court reads the language version that binds in its jurisdiction.

Back to the act · EU acts, read down to the national law

ExploreWorldAI is operated by Valkiv Ventures AB (Reg. no. 556995-1311), Kungsgatan 8, 111 43 Stockholm, Sweden. EU-hosted, with data processing assessed against the GDPR. Contact: hello@exploreworldai.com.

Machine-readable summaries for AI agents: /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt.