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AER — Anchored Evaluation Receipts
Cryptographic proof of an AI Act evaluation event — conformity assessment or transparency disclosure for a high-risk AI system.
Purpose
An AER anchors the result of an AI system evaluation: a conformity assessment demonstrating compliance with applicable AI Act requirements, or a transparency disclosure documenting the capabilities and limitations communicated to users and affected persons.
AER receipts complement AIR (DPIA) receipts for AI deployments — the two families are often issued together when a high-risk AI system deployment triggers both an EU AI Act conformity assessment and a GDPR DPIA.
Event types
| Kind | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|
conformity | Conformity assessment | AI system evaluated against requirements. |
transparency | Transparency disclosure | AI system capabilities disclosed. |
Key fields
ai_system_id — stable identifier for the AI system, version, and deployment context. Consistent across related AER and AIR receipts for the same system.
risk_category — AI Act risk classification: unacceptable risk (prohibited), high risk (Annex III), limited risk, or minimal risk.
assessment_outcome — result of the conformity assessment: conformant, conditionally conformant (with conditions documented), or non-conformant.
Regulatory context
EU AI Act Art. 43 requires conformity assessments for high-risk AI systems listed in Annex III before they are placed on the market or put into service. Art. 52 imposes transparency obligations for AI systems that interact with natural persons, generate synthetic content, or make emotion-recognition or biometric categorisation inferences. AER receipts provide cryptographic evidence that these obligations were met — or, in the case of a non-conformant outcome, that a remediation process was initiated.