Article 15 Request for assistance of the AI Office

Where the scientific panel requests, in accordance with Article 91(3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the Commission to issue a request for documentation or information to 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; of 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; and to grant access to the information received to the extent this is necessary and proportionate for the fulfilment of a task referred to in Article 68(3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (‘request for assistance’), due regard shall be given to the need to protect trade secrets and confidential business information.

A request for assistance may be issued to 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; by the member of the scientific panel who has been appointed by the Secretariat as rapporteur for a task of the scientific panel. Such a request shall only be made where at least one third of the members of the scientific panel have authorised the rapporteur to do so.

1. that a refusal to grant the requested assistance will prevent the requesting rapporteur from carrying out his or her task referred to in Article 68(3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689;

2. that the amount, scope, granularity and type of documentation and information requested does not exceed what is necessary to achieve performance of the task.