ISO/IEC 42001 · EU AI Act

Two questions.
One defensible boundary.

Your role determines what you are responsible for. Your certification scope determines where your AI management system applies. Neither can be safely inferred from a logo or a certificate headline.

2 vocabularies compared 12 operating examples 5 scope tests
Classification map Interactive below
ISO vocabulary How you
participate
ProviderProducerCustomerPartner
EU AI Act Which legal
function you perform
ProviderDeployerImporterDistributor
Your operating reality

! “Provider” appears in both vocabularies, but do not assume the label carries identical consequences.

Role workbench

Classify the activity,
not the company name.

One organisation may hold several roles at once—and a role can change by product, market, or contract. Start with the facts of a specific AI system.

Question 1 of 520%

Market control

Do you place the AI system on the market or put it into service under your own name or trademark?

This can include commissioning another party to build it for you.

Certification scope lens

A certificate is a boundary.
Make it visible.

Certification can legitimately cover an organisation, a business unit, or a defined product activity. The decisive question is whether the stated boundary matches what you rely on.

Choose the scope described on the certificate

Current readingMeaningful, if the unit boundary is explicit

Confirm interfaces with central teams, shared data, suppliers, and out-of-scope AI activities.

Illustrative organisation Inside certified boundary
ACME GROUP Legal entity
Retail AISelected unit
OperationsOther unit
PeopleOther unit
Credit AssistAI product
Fraud SignalAI product
Certified AIMS boundary
Five buyer-side tests

Click each test as you verify the certificate and scope statement.

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