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Article 88
Enforcement of the obligations of providers of general-purpose AI models

Chapter IX — Post-market monitoring by providers and post-market monitoring plan for high-risk AI systems, Section 5 — Enforcement of the obligations of providers of general-purpose AI models. 2 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. The Commission shall have exclusive powers to supervise and enforce Chapter V, taking into account the procedural guarantees under Article 94. The Commission shall entrust the implementation of these tasks to the AI Office, without prejudice to the powers of organisation of the Commission and the division of competences between Member States and the Union based on the Treaties.

2. Without prejudice to Article 75(3), market surveillance authorities may request the Commission to exercise the powers laid down in this Section, where that is necessary and proportionate to assist with the fulfilment of their tasks under this Regulation.

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. 88(1)Enforcement powerGeneral-purpose AI

    The Commission has exclusive power to supervise and enforce Chapter V for GPAI models and entrusts implementation to the AI Office, subject to procedural guarantees.

    "The Commission shall have exclusive powers to supervise and enforce Chapter V, taking into account the procedural guarantees under Article 94."
    Who
    Commission, AI Office
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    Legal practice
    Reaches legal-AI vendors or public bodies — GPAI model providers serving legal-AI vendors are supervised at Union level.
    See
    Chapter V · Art. 94

  2. Art. 88(2)Cooperation with authoritiesGeneral-purpose AI

    Market surveillance authorities may request the Commission to use Section 5 powers where necessary and proportionate for their AI Act tasks.

    "market surveillance authorities may request the Commission to exercise the powers laid down in this Section"
    Who
    Market surveillance authority, Commission
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    Legal practice
    Reaches legal-AI vendors or public bodies — A national investigation of legal AI using GPAI may lead to a Commission enforcement request.
    See
    Art. 75(3)

Cite

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 88 (Enforcement of the obligations of providers of general-purpose AI models), 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_88 — 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-88, accessed 2026-09-08, CC BY 4.0.