# Presumption of Conformity for AI Systems — legal context bundle

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This new topic is needed because the content specifically addresses the legal mechanism of 'presumption of conformity with requirements relating to notified bodies,' which is a distinct procedural concept in the AI Act that deserves its own dedicated topic for proper classification and retrieval of related regulatory content.

## Legislation (full text of key provisions)

### Presumption of conformity with requirements relating to notified bodies

*Source: AI Act, aiact-art-32-en, 2024-06-12 — https://overview.legal/posts/92508*

Where a conformity assessment body demonstrates its conformity with the criteria laid down in the relevant harmonised standards or parts thereof, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, it shall be presumed to comply with the requirements set out in Article 31 in so far as the applicable harmonised standards cover those requirements.

### Presumption of conformity with certain requirements

*Source: AI Act, aiact-art-42-en, 2024-06-12 — https://overview.legal/posts/92625*

### Recital 117 — general-purpose AI model compliance codes

*Source: AI Act, aiact-rec-117-en, 2024-06-12 — https://overview.legal/posts/93916*

The codes of practice should represent a central tool for the proper compliance with the obligations provided for under this Regulation for providers of general-purpose AI models. Providers should be able to rely on codes of practice to demonstrate compliance with the obligations. By means of implementing acts, the Commission may decide to approve a code of practice and give it a general validity within the Union, or, alternatively, to provide common rules for the implementation of the relevant obligations, if, by the time this Regulation becomes applicable, a code of practice cannot be finalised or is not deemed adequate by the AI Office. Once a harmonised standard is published and assessed as suitable to cover the relevant obligations by the AI Office, compliance with a European harmonised standard should grant providers the presumption of conformity. Providers of general-purpose AI models should furthermore be able to demonstrate compliance using alternative adequate means, if codes of practice or harmonised standards are not available, or they choose not to rely on those.

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