# Article 21 — Cooperation with competent authorities

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- Page: https://eu-ai-act.standards.riskmandate.ai/articles/art_021/
- Structured: https://eu-ai-act.standards.riskmandate.ai/articles/art_021.llm.json
- Text version: 2026-07-27 (generated 2026-07-31)
- Site version: v0.1.4
- Provisions root hash: `77c4ca7c208d73adc24b9a41eb29724bee29a41df98b786b85c57852fa3ae6bd`
- Provision id: `eu-2024-1689/art_021`
- Location: Article 21 in CHAPTER III / SECTION 3
- Changes applied by the Digital Omnibus: no changes

## Text

**1.** Providers of high-risk AI systems shall, upon a reasoned request by a competent authority, provide that authority all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the high-risk AI system with the requirements set out in Section 2, in a language which can be easily understood by the authority in one of the official languages of the institutions of the Union as indicated by the Member State concerned.

**2.** Upon a reasoned request by a competent authority, providers shall also give the requesting competent authority, as applicable, access to the automatically generated logs of the high-risk AI system referred to in Article 12(1), to the extent such logs are under their control.

**3.** Any information obtained by a competent authority pursuant to this Article shall be treated in accordance with the confidentiality obligations set out in Article 78.

## Provisions

| provision id | status | sha256 of text | derivation |
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| `eu-2024-1689/art_021/par_001` | unchanged | `b4a28cb6d9d50b1503d0f8cf7bc04c5247729a657801a2d0e54ea0f56a6effb2` |  |
| `eu-2024-1689/art_021/par_002` | unchanged | `cd83940b79db37f9c8a8d6546c81f40cb409e24ae013a7d7b41f84f7c8539cf0` |  |
| `eu-2024-1689/art_021/par_003` | unchanged | `c457e392468ecc99573c9a4db880f1a6840c5669d4a0f6cfdb8cb2e553456540` |  |

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