Recital 21

(21) In order to enhance competitiveness and innovation, it is essential to support economic operators that are required to comply simultaneously with the requirements or obligations set out in Chapter III, Sections 2 and 3 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, and with the relevant requirements and obligations laid down in the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Annex I to that Regulation. To support and simplify the regulatory compliance pathways of such economic operators, the Commission should request that, without undue delay, the European standardisation organisations develop standardisation deliverables, including, where appropriate, harmonised standards. Those standardisation deliverables should be based on the harmonised standards published in the Official Journal of the European Union that give the presumption of conformity with the requirements or obligations of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, as well as any relevant harmonised standards published in the Official Journal of the European Union that give the presumption of conformity with the relevant requirements or obligations set out in the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Annex I to that Regulation. Such standardisation deliverables should help reduce legal uncertainty, avoid unnecessary duplication of conformity assessment activities, testing, documentation and reporting obligations, and lower compliance costs, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups. Timely development of such deliverables is essential in order to provide economic operators with practical and reliable technical solutions, strengthen legal certainty and facilitate the placing on the market, putting into service and use of AI systems in accordance with this Regulation and the Union harmonisation legislation listed in Annex I to that Regulation.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.