Article 26(5) — suspension and notification Law
The provision that makes the case against checklists. A checklist renders this as one box, and the box can be ticked with half the obligation unmet.
Article 26(5) — suspension and notification
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The reading
It is a dual obligation. Suspension without notification is not compliance, and notification without suspension is not either.
Two acts are required of a deployer who identifies a relevant condition, and they are required together. That is not an unusual drafting pattern in EU law, and it is precisely the pattern that a compliance checklist destroys: one row, one tick, and no way to record that an organisation did the operationally obvious half and skipped the one that involves telling somebody outside.
Modelled as a graph rather than a row, the two obligations are separate nodes with separate evidence requirements, and an assessment can be partially grounded — which is the honest state most organisations are actually in.
| Limb | What evidence would ground it | Typical state |
|---|---|---|
| Suspend use | An operational record showing the system was actually stopped, with a timestamp | Usually evidenced — it is a visible operational event |
| Notify | A record of the notification, to whom, when, and what it contained | Frequently unanswered. This is the half a checklist loses |
Where this is used
This provision is one of five in the worked example, and it is the one that produces a finding of a different kind from the arithmetic one — a finding about a capability that has never been exercised rather than a number that is too small.
Crosswalk edges
No bridge attaches to this provision, in either direction. Why there are none, and what has to be true before there are →
Citing this provision
https://standards.sgit.ai/eu-ai-act/provisions/art-026-para-05.html positional hash: d8fc6df65f292bf3 (sha256 of "eu-ai-act/art-026-para-05", first 16 hex)
The positional hash is the canonical identity; the alias is a projection of it. If the Act renumbers, the alias moves and the hash does not — which is what lets a crosswalk drawn today survive a consolidation. The scheme →