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Article 32
Presumption of conformity with requirements relating to notified bodies

Chapter III — Classification rules for high-risk AI systems, Section 4 — Notifying authorities. 1 distinct duty, power or definition is coded from this article, applying from 2025-08-02.

official text: EUR-Lex (consolidated 27 Jul 2026) · text © European Union (Decision 2011/833/EU) · coding CC BY 4.0 · data: obligations.json · Hugging Face · GitHub

The text

Where a conformity assessment body demonstrates its conformity with the criteria laid down in the relevant harmonised standards or parts thereof, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, it shall be presumed to comply with the requirements set out in Article 31 in so far as the applicable harmonised standards cover those requirements.

What it requires, coded

SafeLegalAI's reading of each duty in this article: who, what, from when, under which fine tier, and whether it reaches a firm, chambers, court or legal-AI vendor. Descriptive, not advice; the quoted words are the Regulation's.

  1. Art. 32Scope or definitionHigh-risk

    A conformity assessment body that demonstrates conformity with relevant harmonised standards is presumed to comply with Article 31 where standards cover the requirements.

    "Where a conformity assessment body demonstrates its conformity with the criteria laid down in the relevant harmonised standards or parts thereof, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, it shall be presumed to comply with the requirements set out in Article 31 in so"
    Who
    Other
    From
    (Art. 113(b))
    Legal practice
    Institutional — Notified-body infrastructure; indirect relevance to legal-AI vendors seeking or relying on high-risk conformity assessment.
    See
    Art. 31 · Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012

Cite

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 32 (Presumption of conformity with requirements relating to notified bodies), as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, consolidated text of 27 July 2026, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/2026-07-27/eng#art_32 — text © European Union; only the Official Journal is authentic. Coding: SafeLegalAI (published by Cognesio LLP), "EU AI Act, structured", safelegalai.com/regulation/eu-ai-act/article-32, accessed 2026-09-08, CC BY 4.0.