Provider, because placing a high-risk system on the market: Under the EU AI Act, which role does the European
Placing a high-risk system on the market under one's own name makes an entity a provider under the EU AI Act.
The question
A European firm buys a high-risk AI system built by a US developer, rebrands it under the firm's own name, and sells it across the EU without altering the underlying model. Under the EU AI Act, which role does the European firm most likely assume by placing the system on the market under its own name?
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- Distributor, because merely making an already-marketed system available does not change the responsible party at all.Almost right but wrong: a distributor supplies without rebranding; putting it out under one's own name triggers provider status.
- Importer, because bringing a non-EU developer's system into the Union is the firm's only regulated function here.Almost right but wrong: importing is relevant, but rebranding under its own name elevates the firm to provider.
- Deployer, because using a high-risk system under one's own authority is the sole role that rebranding can create here.Wrong: the firm is selling, not using the system, and rebranding creates provider, not deployer, status.
- Provider, because placing a high-risk system on the market under one's own name assumes the provider's obligations. ✓Correct: putting a high-risk system on the market under one's own name makes an entity a provider under the Act.
The trap
Classifying a rebrander as a mere importer or distributor and missing that own-name marketing creates provider status. How to remember it
Placing a high-risk system on the market under one's own name makes an entity a provider under the EU AI Act.
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