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Article 34
Operational obligations of notified bodies

Chapter III — Classification rules for high-risk AI systems, Section 4 — Notifying authorities. 3 distinct duties, powers or definitions are 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

1. Notified bodies shall verify the conformity of high-risk AI systems in accordance with the conformity assessment procedures set out in Article 43.

2. Notified bodies shall avoid unnecessary burdens for providers when performing their activities, and take due account of the size of the provider, the sector in which it operates, its structure and the degree of complexity of the high-risk AI system concerned, in particular in view of minimising administrative burdens and compliance costs for micro- and small enterprises within the meaning of Recommendation 2003/361/EC. The notified body shall, nevertheless, respect the degree of rigour and the level of protection required for the compliance of the high-risk AI system with the requirements of this Regulation.

3. Notified bodies shall make available and submit upon request all relevant documentation, including the providers’ documentation, to the notifying authority referred to in Article 28 to allow that authority to conduct its assessment, designation, notification and monitoring activities, and to facilitate the assessment outlined in this Section.

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. 34(1)Conformity assessmentHigh-risk

    Notified bodies must verify high-risk AI-system conformity using the Article 43 conformity assessment procedures.

    "Notified bodies shall verify the conformity of high-risk AI systems in accordance with the conformity assessment procedures set out in Article 43."
    Who
    Notified body
    From
    (Art. 113(b))
    Fine tier
    Art. 99(4)
    Legal practice
    Institutional — Notified-body infrastructure; indirect relevance to legal-AI vendors seeking or relying on high-risk conformity assessment.
    See
    Art. 43

  2. Art. 34(2)Conformity assessmentHigh-risk

    Notified bodies must avoid unnecessary provider burdens while preserving the rigour and protection required for Regulation compliance.

    "Notified bodies shall avoid unnecessary burdens for providers when performing their activities, and take due account of the size of the provider, the sector in which it operates, its structure and the degree of complexity of the high-risk AI system concerned, in particular in view of minimising administrative burdens and compliance costs"
    Who
    Notified body
    From
    (Art. 113(b))
    Fine tier
    Art. 99(4)
    Legal practice
    Institutional — Notified-body infrastructure; indirect relevance to legal-AI vendors seeking or relying on high-risk conformity assessment.

  3. Art. 34(3)Cooperation with authoritiesHigh-risk

    Notified bodies must make available and submit relevant documentation to the notifying authority on request for assessment, designation, notification and monitoring.

    "Notified bodies shall make available and submit upon request all relevant documentation, including the providers’ documentation, to the notifying authority referred to in Article 28 to allow that authority to conduct its assessment, designation, notification and monitoring activities, and to facilitate the assessment outlined in this Section."
    Who
    Notified body
    From
    (Art. 113(b))
    Fine tier
    Art. 99(4)
    Legal practice
    Institutional — Notified-body infrastructure; indirect relevance to legal-AI vendors seeking or relying on high-risk conformity assessment.
    See
    Art. 28

Cite

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 34 (Operational obligations of 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_34 — 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-34, accessed 2026-09-08, CC BY 4.0.