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Informing workers' representatives and affected workers

Verified · last checked 2026-10-21Settled, with the evidence a claim at this level needs.

Under the EU AI Act, before putting into service or using a high-risk AI system at the workplace, deployers who are employers must inform workers' representatives and the affected workers that they will be subject to the use of the system, and that information is to be provided, where applicable, in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down in Union and national law and practice on information of workers and their representatives.

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Who, whom and when

Deployers who are employers
inform workers' representatives and the affected workers
before putting into service or using a high-risk AI system at the workplace

How

Where applicable, in accordance with the rules and procedures of Union and national law and practice on information of workers and their representatives

Where the book relies on it

The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, Two dates, and one of them has passed. About The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI
The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, You are the deployer, and someone inside must answer. About The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI
The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, Telling employees and their representatives first. About The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI

Kind of evidence: documentarySettled by a first-hand source, quoted below with the day it was read.

The evidence

7. Before putting into service or using a high-risk AI system at the workplace, deployers who are employers shall inform workers' representatives and the affected workers that they will be subject to the use of the high-risk AI system. This information shall be provided, where applicable, in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down in Union and national law and practice on information of workers and their representatives.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 26(7), both sentences, in the consolidated text CELEX 02024R1689 as consolidated on 27 July 2026 (English). Read on 2026-10-21 from out/legal/consolidated-en.txt, the plain text of sources/eu-ai-act/02024R1689-20260727-consolidated-EN.html, downloaded from EUR-Lex on 2026-10-08. Article 26 carries the base marker. The typographic apostrophe is transcribed as a plain one., read 2026-10-21

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