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Risk level: general Title IX — Post-Market Monitoring, Information Sharing, Market Surveillance

Article 86 — Right to Lodge a Complaint with Market Surveillance Authority

Right to explanation of individual decision-making 1. Any affected person subject to a decision which is taken by the deployer on the basis of the output from a high-risk AI system listed in Annex III, with the exception of systems listed under point 2 thereof, and which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects that...

Article 86
Right to explanation of individual decision-making
1. Any affected person subject to a decision which is taken by the deployer on the basis of the output from a high-risk AI
system listed in Annex III, with the exception of systems listed under point 2 thereof, and which produces legal effects or
similarly significantly affects that person in a way that they consider to have an adverse impact on their health, safety or
fundamental rights shall have the right to obtain from the deployer clear and meaningful explanations of the role of the AI
system in the decision-making procedure and the main elements of the decision taken.
2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to the use of AI systems for which exceptions from, or restrictions to, the obligation
under that paragraph follow from Union or national law in compliance with Union law.
3. This Article shall apply only to the extent that the right referred to in paragraph 1 is not otherwise provided for under
Union law.

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