Article 10 Independence, impartiality and objectivity

Experts shall be appointed or assigned in their personal capacity. They shall not delegate their responsibilities to any other person.

Experts shall be independent from any provider means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge; of AI systems means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments; or general-purpose AI models means an AI model, including where such an AI model is trained with a large amount of data using self-supervision at scale, that displays significant generality and is capable of competently performing a wide range of distinct tasks regardless of the way the model is placed on the market and that can be integrated into a variety of downstream systems or applications, except AI models that are used for research, development or prototyping activities before they are placed on the market; within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, requiring that the expert shall be neither an employee nor in a contractual relationship with such a provider means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge; throughout the term of office referred to in Article 4, which could affect their independence, impartiality and objectivity.

They shall make a declaration of interest indicating any interest which may compromise or may reasonably be perceived to compromise their independence, impartiality and objectivity, including any relevant circumstances relating to their close family members. A template for such declaration of interest shall be provided as an Annex to the call for expression of interest and the declaration of interest shall be submitted as part of the application.

1. prior to the appointment to the scientific panel or prior to inclusion in the reserve list;

2. whenever a change of circumstances occurs.

Where the obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 to 4 are not met, the AI Office means the Commission’s function of contributing to the implementation, monitoring and supervision of AI systems and general-purpose AI models, and AI governance, provided for in Commission Decision of 24 January 2024; references in this Regulation to the AI Office shall be construed as references to the Commission; may take all appropriate measures, including dismissing the expert from the scientific panel.