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Article 45
Information obligations of notified bodies

Chapter III — Classification rules for high-risk AI systems, Section 5 — Harmonised standards and standardisation deliverables. 4 distinct duties, powers or definitions are coded from this article, applying from 2026-08-02.

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 inform the notifying authority of the following:

  1. (a)any Union technical documentation assessment certificates, any supplements to those certificates, and any quality management system approvals issued in accordance with the requirements of Annex VII;
  2. (b)any refusal, restriction, suspension or withdrawal of a Union technical documentation assessment certificate or a quality management system approval issued in accordance with the requirements of Annex VII;
  3. (c)any circumstances affecting the scope of or conditions for notification;
  4. (d)any request for information which they have received from market surveillance authorities regarding conformity assessment activities;
  5. (e)on request, conformity assessment activities performed within the scope of their notification and any other activity performed, including cross-border activities and subcontracting.

2. Each notified body shall inform the other notified bodies of:

  1. (a)quality management system approvals which it has refused, suspended or withdrawn, and, upon request, of quality system approvals which it has issued;
  2. (b)Union technical documentation assessment certificates or any supplements thereto which it has refused, withdrawn, suspended or otherwise restricted, and, upon request, of the certificates and/or supplements thereto which it has issued.

3. Each notified body shall provide the other notified bodies carrying out similar conformity assessment activities covering the same types of AI systems with relevant information on issues relating to negative and, on request, positive conformity assessment results.

4. Notified bodies shall safeguard the confidentiality of the information that they obtain, in accordance with Article 78.

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. 45(1)Cooperation with authoritiesHigh-risk

    Notified bodies must inform the notifying authority about issued certificates and approvals, refusals or restrictions, notification-scope circumstances, authority information requests and requested assessment activities.

    "Notified bodies shall inform the notifying authority of the following:"
    Who
    Notified body
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    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
    Annex VII

  2. Art. 45(2)Cooperation with authoritiesHigh-risk

    Each notified body must inform other notified bodies about refused, suspended, withdrawn or restricted quality-management approvals and Union technical documentation assessment certificates, and issued ones on request.

    "Each notified body shall inform the other notified bodies of:"
    Who
    Notified body
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    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. 45(3)Cooperation with authoritiesHigh-risk

    Each notified body must provide similar notified bodies with relevant information on negative conformity assessment results and, on request, positive results.

    "Each notified body shall provide the other notified bodies carrying out similar conformity assessment activities covering the same types of AI systems with relevant information on issues relating to negative and, on request, positive conformity assessment results."
    Who
    Notified body
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    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.

  4. Art. 45(4)Record keepingHigh-risk

    Notified bodies must safeguard the confidentiality of information they obtain under Article 78.

    "Notified bodies shall safeguard the confidentiality of the information that they obtain, in accordance with Article 78."
    Who
    Notified body
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    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. 78

Cite

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 45 (Information 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_45 — 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-45, accessed 2026-09-08, CC BY 4.0.