# Recital (73)

High-risk AI systems should be designed and developed in such a way that natural persons can oversee their 
functioning, ensure that they are used as intended and that their impacts are addressed over the system’s lifecycle. To 
that end, appropriate human oversight measures should be identified by the provider of the system before its placing 
on the market or putting into service. In particular, where appropriate, such measures should guarantee that the 
system is subject to in-built operational constraints that cannot be overridden by the system itself and is responsive 
to the human operator, and that the natural persons to whom human oversight has been assigned have the necessary 
competence, training and authority to carry out that role. It is also essential, as appropriate, to ensure that high-risk 
AI systems include mechanisms to guide and inform a natural person to whom human oversight has been assigned 
to make informed decisions if, when and how to intervene in order to avoid negative consequences or risks, or stop 
the system if it does not perform as intended. Considering the significant consequences for persons in the case of an 
incorrect match by certain biometric identification systems, it is appropriate to provide for an enhanced human 
oversight requirement for those systems so that no action or decision may be taken by the deployer on the basis of 
the identification resulting from the system unless this has been separately verified and confirmed by at least two 
natural persons. Those persons could be from one or more entities and include the person operating or using the 
system. This requirement should not pose unnecessary burden or delays and it could be sufficient that the separate 
verifications by the different persons are automatically recorded in the logs generated by the system. Given the 
specificities of the areas of law enforcement, migration, border control and asylum, this requirement should not 
apply where Union or national law considers the application of that requirement to be disproportionate.

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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/73