EU AI Act · Art.86
EU AI Act Art.86 - explanation of individual decisions on request
This control asks you to show: explanation of individual decisions on request. The EU's law on artificial intelligence. High-risk systems must manage risk, keep logs, be transparent and stay under human oversight.
What the law says: EU AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (official text) · Article 86 in plain English · Related hidden duties · Law graph (machine-readable)
What evidence passes
The check reads the field
explanation_on_request in the decision or governance record. It passes when that field is set to true (yes, it is in place). Anything else fails, with the reason stated.Check it now
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Run it from your AI assistant
Connect
https://sebbi.pro/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP app, then call:sebbi_run_check {"check": "sebbi_euaiact_056", "record": {"explanation_on_request": "..."}}Or run every EU AI Act control at once with sebbi_run_framework. How to connectOne piece of evidence, 7 more controls
This control is part of Explain decisions. 7 other controls across 5 laws ask for the same thing: Agent output: compliance gatesConsumer Credit Directive 2 (AI)EU AI ActEU Digital Services ActUS state AI laws
If it fails: how to fix it
Put in place: Tell people when an automated decision affects them, give the main reasons in plain language and let them respond.
Record it: the field explanation_on_request, which passes when it is set to true (yes, it is in place).
{
"record": {
"explanation_on_request": true
}
}Policy wording you can use:
[your organisation] tells people when a decision about them is made or supported by automated processing, explains the main reasons in plain language, and lets them give their view and ask for a human to look again.