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Importer, meaning it places a non-EU provider's system: Under the EU AI Act's role framework, which role does

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A firm that brings a non-EU provider's high-risk system into the EU market is an importer and must verify the provider's compliance.

The question

A firm buys a high-risk AI system built by a company outside the EU and brings it into the EU market to sell to businesses there. It does not develop or substantially modify the system. Under the EU AI Act's role framework, which role does this firm most clearly occupy, and what does that imply?

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  1. Provider, meaning it bears the full development-stage obligations for designing and building the AI system itself
    Plausible but wrong: the firm neither develops nor substantially modifies the system, so it is not acting as the provider.
  2. Deployer, meaning it uses the system under its own authority within its internal business operations
    Plausible but wrong: the firm places the system on the market for others rather than using it under its own authority.
  3. Importer, meaning it places a non-EU provider's system on the EU market and must verify provider compliance ✓
    Correct: bringing a third-country provider's system into the EU market makes the firm an importer, responsible for verifying the provider's compliance before placing it on the market.
  4. Distributor, meaning it makes the system available in the chain after it is already on the EU market
    Plausible but wrong: a distributor acts further down the chain on systems already placed on the market, not the first entity importing from a third country.
The trap
Labeling any reseller a distributor when the entity is actually the importer bringing a non-EU system to market.

How to remember it

A firm that brings a non-EU provider's high-risk system into the EU market is an importer and must verify the provider's compliance.

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