HR lead
“We want an AI tool to screen job applications. Is that high-risk under the EU AI Act, and what would we have to do?”
Very likely, yes. You would be its deployer.
The AI Act lists systems used to analyse and filter job applications as high-risk, and Article 26 gives the company using one five concrete duties.
The route it took
- Rekvira switched on (signed in to Datailo; Rekvira itself needs no account)switch on · 94 ms
- 25 passages in the EU AI Actregulation search · 523 ms
- Article 6(2), full textpassage read · 408 ms
- Article 26: Obligations of deployers of high-risk AI systemsobligations lookup · 468 ms
- Article 26, paragraphs 1, 2, 6, 7 and 11passage read · 5 calls · 1793 ms
What came back
In addition to the high-risk AI systems referred to in paragraph 1, AI systems referred to in Annex III shall be considered to be high-risk.
Your duties as deployer
- Use it the way the provider's instructions for use say 3.
- Put people with the right competence, training and authority in charge of overseeing it 4.
- Keep the logs it generates for at least six months 5.
- Tell workers' representatives and the affected workers before you start using it at work 6.
- Tell applicants that a high-risk AI system is used in decisions about them 7.
EU AI Act: Annex III(4), Article 6(2), Article 26(1), Article 26(2), Article 26(6), Article 26(7), Article 26(11). Official text from EUR-Lex (CELEX 32024R1689), held by Rekvira as of 2 Sep 2026. Each link opens the regulation on EUR-Lex.
Ask it yourself
We want an AI tool to screen job applications. Is that high-risk under the EU AI Act, and what would we have to do?