European UnionAI Act, Article 4 (AI literacy)
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 4
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In force since 2 February 2025.
An AI governance rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 23 September 2026.
What it requires
- Take measures to support the development of AI literacy among your staff and other people who operate or use AI systems on your behalf, if you are a provider or deployer of an AI system, taking into account their technical knowledge, role, and the context the AI system is used in.
- This duty does not require you to guarantee any specific level of AI literacy for any individual.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
National market surveillance authorities, at least one designated by each Member State under Article 70.
What it reaches
How the hook was established
express
What makes it apply
Market targeting, Operator establishment, Place of effect
Obligation class
Governance
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 4 requires providers and deployers to take measures to support AI literacy among staff and other persons operating or using AI systems on their behalf. It states no duty to create, keep, or later produce a log or record of that support.
- Kind
- None
- As of
- 23 September 2026
Who checks it
Audit expectation
none
Also on the record
EEA status
- Status
- Pending
- Source link
- https://www.efta.int/eea-lex/32024r1689
What this law does
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Providers and deployers of AI systems must take measures to support the development of AI literacy of their staff and other persons who operate or use AI systems on their behalf, taking into account their technical knowledge, experience, education, training, and the context of use, and considering the persons or groups the AI systems are used on.
The Digital Omnibus on AI (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force since 27 July 2026) replaced this Article: the original text required providers and deployers to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy; the current text asks them only to support its development and states expressly that it does not require guaranteeing any specific level of AI literacy of any individual.
The Commission and Member States must support and facilitate providers' and deployers' efforts, in particular for SMEs, including by publishing practical compliance examples, and the European Artificial Intelligence Board must adopt recommendations setting common objectives for the promotion of AI literacy.
Article 113, third paragraph, point (a), places this Article in Chapter I, which applies from 2 February 2025; the Digital Omnibus's amendment of that point carves out an exception only for the new Article 5(1), first subparagraph, points (ba) and (bb), and Article 5(1a) and (1b), so Article 4's own application date is unchanged.
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Read the law
official consolidated Official Journal text, EUR-Lex, as replaced by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744
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