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  "title": "EU AI Act - Judicial Redress Against Providers and Deployers: Draft Article 81 Remedy Not Retained in Regulation (EU) 2024/1689",
  "domain": "AI Governance & Law",
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  "bluf": "The standalone right to an effective judicial remedy against a provider or deployer that appeared in draft versions of the EU AI Act was not retained in the final Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; in the adopted text, Article 81 is the Union safeguard procedure, a Commission-level mechanism for reviewing contested national market surveillance measures, not an individual redress right. The individual-rights regime of the final Act consists of Article 85 (right to lodge a complaint with a market surveillance authority) and Article 86 (right to explanation of individual decision-making, exercisable against the deployer of a high-risk AI system). Private redress against providers and deployers for harm linked to EU AI Act non-compliance runs through national civil liability law, the revised Product Liability Directive (EU) 2024/2853 which expressly covers software including AI systems, and the Representative Actions Directive (EU) 2020/1828, to whose Annex I the EU AI Act is added by Article 110 of the Regulation, enabling consumer collective redress for AI Act infringements.",
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