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AI compliance/EU authorised representative

For providers established outside the EU

Your authorised representative in the European Union under the AI Act.

A provider established outside the Union must appoint, by written mandate, a representative established in the Union before placing a high-risk AI system or a general-purpose AI model on the EU market. Anduril takes that mandate and answers to the authorities on your behalf.

Who it binds
Providers outside the EU
Legal basis
Articles 22 and 54
Covers
High-risk systems, general-purpose AI models
Form
Written mandate, held annually
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The obligation sits on the provider

Neither your distributors nor your European customers can discharge it for you. Until a representative is appointed, the system or the model cannot lawfully be placed on the Union market, whatever the sales channel.

It comes before market entry

The mandate must exist before launch, and the representative must have verified the documentation before accepting it. Your deadline is therefore your own EU launch date, less the time that review takes.

Does it apply to you

Three situations, one exemption.

High-risk AI system. Recruitment, creditworthiness, education, access to essential services, or AI embedded in a regulated product: Article 22 applies to the provider established in a third country.
General-purpose AI model. Article 54 requires the appointment before the model is placed on the Union market. This obligation already applies.
Model integrated by your customers. European customers building on your model will ask for the name of your representative in their vendor reviews.
The exemption. A general-purpose AI model released under a free and open licence, without systemic risk, does not have to appoint a representative. We check with you whether it holds.

The mandate

What we do on your behalf.

The tasks of the representative are set by the Act. The written mandate restates them one by one, so each party knows what is owed and to whom.

Prior verification. The technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity exist, and the conformity assessment procedure has been carried out. For a model, the obligations of Articles 53 and 55 are met.
Retention. Documentation, declaration of conformity and, where applicable, the notified body certificate are kept at the disposal of the authorities for ten years.
Point of contact. National competent authorities and the AI Office can address us, in addition to or instead of the provider.
Reasoned requests. We provide the information and documents needed to demonstrate conformity, including access to logs.
Cooperation. We cooperate with the authorities in any action relating to the system or the model, in particular to reduce and mitigate risks.
Registration. For a high-risk system, we carry out the registration in the EU database, or verify the information if you register it yourself.

A mandate is not a mailbox.

The representative carries duties of its own. It is required to end the mandate where it considers the provider to be acting against its obligations, and to inform the competent authority with its reasons. A representative that signs without reading exposes its client to that termination at the worst moment.

We therefore check the file before signing, and tell you what is missing then rather than when an authority asks.

Set-up

Four steps before your launch.

  1. QualificationYour role under the Act, the applicable regime, Article 22 or Article 54, and any exemption. You know within days whether an appointment is required.
  2. File reviewTechnical documentation, declaration of conformity, conformity assessment. You receive the list of gaps to close before signature.
  3. Written mandateThe tasks entrusted, the term, how documents are exchanged and the conditions under which the mandate ends.
  4. Holding the mandateRetention of the file, a register of exchanges with the authorities, an update at each substantial modification and an annual review.

You receive

Signed written mandate File review report Representative details for your documentation Register of authority requests Annual file review

If the review finds gaps

Where the technical documentation or the conformity assessment is incomplete, we can bring it up to standard before signature. See AI Act remediation

Next step

Give us your launch date.

Tell us which system or model you are placing on the EU market, and when. We will come back on the appointment obligation, the content of the mandate and its annual fee.

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