# Recital (72)

To address concerns related to opacity and complexity of certain AI systems and help deployers to fulfil their 
obligations under this Regulation, transparency should be required for high-risk AI systems before they are placed 
on the market or put it into service. High-risk AI systems should be designed in a manner to enable deployers to 
understand how the AI system works, evaluate its functionality, and comprehend its strengths and limitations. 
High-risk AI systems should be accompanied by appropriate information in the form of instructions of use. Such 
information should include the characteristics, capabilities and limitations of performance of the AI system. Those 
would cover information on possible known and foreseeable circumstances related to the use of the high-risk AI 
system, including deployer action that may influence system behaviour and performance, under which the AI system 
can lead to risks to health, safety, and fundamental rights, on the changes that have been pre-determined and 
assessed for conformity by the provider and on the relevant human oversight measures, including the measures to 
facilitate the interpretation of the outputs of the AI system by the deployers. Transparency, including the 
accompanying instructions for use, should assist deployers in the use of the system and support informed decision 
making by them. Deployers should, inter alia, be in a better position to make the correct choice of the system that 
they intend to use in light of the obligations applicable to them, be educated about the intended and precluded uses, 
and use the AI system correctly and as appropriate. In order to enhance legibility and accessibility of the information 
included in the instructions of use, where appropriate, illustrative examples, for instance on the limitations and on 
the intended and precluded uses of the AI system, should be included. Providers should ensure that all 
documentation, including the instructions for use, contains meaningful, comprehensive, accessible and 
understandable information, taking into account the needs and foreseeable knowledge of the target deployers. 
Instructions for use should be made available in a language which can be easily understood by target deployers, as 
determined by the Member State concerned.

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Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act) as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, consolidated text of 27 July 2026 (Official Journal of the EU). This page is AI-generated legal information, not legal advice. Verify against the Official Journal.
Canonical: https://euaiactlaw.com/recital/72