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Article 91
Power to request documentation and information

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. 3 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 may request the provider of the general-purpose AI model concerned to provide the documentation drawn up by the provider in accordance with Articles 53 and 55, or any additional information that is necessary for the purpose of assessing compliance of the provider with this Regulation.

2. Before sending the request for information, the AI Office may initiate a structured dialogue with the provider of the general-purpose AI model.

3. Upon a duly substantiated request from the scientific panel, the Commission may issue a request for information to a provider of a general-purpose AI model, where the access to information is necessary and proportionate for the fulfilment of the tasks of the scientific panel under Article 68(2).

4. The request for information shall state the legal basis and the purpose of the request, specify what information is required, set a period within which the information is to be provided, and indicate the fines provided for in Article 101 for supplying incorrect, incomplete or misleading information.

5. The provider of the general-purpose AI model concerned, or its representative shall supply the information requested. In the case of legal persons, companies or firms, or where the provider has no legal personality, the persons authorised to represent them by law or by their statutes, shall supply the information requested on behalf of the provider of the general-purpose AI model concerned. Lawyers duly authorised to act may supply information on behalf of their clients. The clients shall nevertheless remain fully responsible if the information supplied is incomplete, incorrect or misleading.

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. 91(1)Cooperation with authoritiesGeneral-purpose AI

    The Commission may require a GPAI model provider to provide Article 53 and 55 documentation or other information needed to assess compliance.

    "The Commission may request the provider of the general-purpose AI model concerned to provide the documentation drawn up by the provider in accordance with Articles 53 and 55"
    Who
    Commission, GPAI model provider
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    Fine tier
    Art. 101
    Legal practice
    Reaches legal-AI vendors or public bodies — GPAI providers that supply models for legal AI may have to produce compliance documentation.
    See
    Art. 53 · Art. 55

  2. Art. 91(4)DocumentationGeneral-purpose AI

    Requests for GPAI information must state legal basis, purpose, required information, response period and Article 101 fines for incorrect, incomplete or misleading information.

    "The request for information shall state the legal basis and the purpose of the request, specify what information is required, set a period within which the information is to be provided"
    Who
    Commission
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    Legal practice
    Institutional — This is a procedural safeguard around Commission requests to GPAI providers.
    See
    Art. 101

  3. Art. 91(5)Cooperation with authoritiesGeneral-purpose AI

    The GPAI model provider or representative must supply requested information, with authorised persons or lawyers able to respond while clients remain responsible for completeness and accuracy.

    "The provider of the general-purpose AI model concerned, or its representative shall supply the information requested."
    Who
    GPAI model provider
    From
    (Art. 113 second subparagraph)
    Fine tier
    Art. 101
    Legal practice
    Reaches legal-AI vendors or public bodies — Lawyers can supply information for clients, but GPAI-provider clients remain responsible if it is incomplete, incorrect or misleading.
    See
    Art. 91(4)

Cite

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 91 (Power to request documentation and information), 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_91 — 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-91, accessed 2026-09-08, CC BY 4.0.