AI Governance Check
EU AI ACT CHECK

Does the EU AI Act apply to you?

Answer ten questions against the post-omnibus text, five minutes, and see which duties are already yours.

Ten questions, answered against the amended text of the Act.

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What the check covers

Your answers settle whether Article 2 catches you, then sort your duties into the ones that apply now and the Annex III and Annex I high-risk obligations that Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 deferred to December 2027 and August 2028.

What it can't decide

The check works from the answers you give, so it can't decide every legal edge case or replace advice on a specific system, contract or use of AI, and its result is not a certification.

Check the text yourself

Start with the EU AI Act overview. The assessment is checked against Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the Artificial Intelligence Act and Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI.

Does the EU AI Act apply to the UK?The EU AI Act timeline after the omnibusTransparency requirements in force nowThe AI literacy requirement

What the check asks

Each question says which part of the Act it tests. A UK-only answer closes several of them off.

  1. What does your organisation do with AI systems?

    Tests Article 3

    Pick the closest fit.

    Answers offered

    • We build or sell AI systems under our own name
    • We use AI systems built by other organisations
    • We do both

  2. How does your AI activity reach the EU?

    Tests Article 2

    The UK-only answer stands on its own.

    Answers offered

    • We place AI systems on the EU market or put them into service for EU customers or users
    • Outputs from our AI systems are used in the EU
    • We are UK-only, with no EU customers, users or outputs used in the EU

  3. Do any of these practices happen in your organisation?

    Tests Article 5

    Tick every practice that applies.

    Answers offered

    • Manipulative or deceptive techniques that could cause significant harm
    • Exploiting vulnerability linked to age, disability, or social or economic situation
    • Social scoring of people
    • Predictive policing based solely on profiling
    • Untargeted scraping of facial images for recognition databases
    • Inferring emotion in a workplace or education setting
    • Biometric categorisation used to infer sensitive attributes
    • Real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces for law enforcement
    • Generating or manipulating intimate or sexually explicit imagery of a real person without their consent
    • Generating or manipulating child sexual abuse material
    • None of these

  4. Do you provide a general-purpose AI model?

    Tests Chapter V

    Answer based on models you provide, rather than general-purpose tools you only use.

    Answers offered

    • Yes
    • No
    • Not sure

  5. Does your AI operate in any of these areas?

    Tests Annex III

    These are the stand-alone high-risk areas listed in Annex III.

    Answers offered

    • Biometrics
    • Critical infrastructure
    • Education or vocational admission and assessment
    • Recruitment, worker management, promotion, termination, task allocation or monitoring
    • Credit, insurance, emergency dispatch, benefits or other essential services
    • Law enforcement
    • Migration or border control
    • Administration of justice or democratic processes
    • None of these

  6. Is AI a safety component of a regulated product?

    Tests Annex I

    This includes machinery, medical devices, toys, lifts, radio equipment, in-vitro diagnostics and similar products.

    Answers offered

    • Yes
    • No
    • Not sure

  7. Which of these does your AI do?

    Tests Article 50

    These are the uses Article 50 asks you to disclose.

    Answers offered

    • Chatbots or other AI systems that talk to people
    • Generating synthetic audio, images, video or text
    • Emotion recognition or biometric categorisation in use
    • None of these

  8. Which sector best describes your organisation?

    Answers offered

    • Financial services
    • Healthcare and life sciences
    • Education
    • Technology
    • Professional services
    • Manufacturing and engineering
    • Retail and consumer
    • Public sector
    • Charity and not-for-profit
    • Other

  9. What size is your organisation?

    Turnover is optional.

  10. What AI is already in use?

    Tests Article 4

    Optional. Include approved tools, anything you've built, and any use you suspect isn't approved.