EU AI Act / Chapter I / Article 2
EU AI Act · Article 2
Scope
What it means
Applies to providers placing AI on the EU market wherever they are based, to deployers in the EU, and to providers and deployers outside the EU whose AI output is used in the EU. Excludes military, defence and national security uses, pure scientific research, personal non-professional use and most free open-source AI unless it is high-risk, prohibited or covered by Article 50.
Plain-English summary by sebbi.pro of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. The official text is the only authoritative version: EUR-Lex.