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For you this is a voluntary route: you develop, train, test and validate an innovative AI system in a controlled, supervised environment under a plan agreed with the competent authority, before placing it on the market or putting it into service.","topics":["innovation"],"actor_ids":["raip:actor:deployer","raip:actor:provider","raip:actor:public-law-body"],"obligation_ids":[],"change_ids":[],"action_ids":["raip:action:article-57-sandbox-application-and-plan"],"evidence_ids":["raip:evidence:article-57-written-proof-and-exit-report"],"control_ids":["raip:control:article-57-sandbox-supervision-and-fine-shield"],"template_ids":["raip:template:article-57-regulatory-sandboxes-legal-text"],"conditions":[{"id":"article-57-regulatory-sandboxes-scope","operator":"all","description":"Relevant where you are a provider or prospective provider of an innovative AI system that you want to develop, train, test or validate before placing it on the market or putting it into service, and you want up-front certainty about classification or about how you meet the requirements of this Regulation."}],"exceptions":[{"id":"article-57-regulatory-sandboxes-exception","operator":"not","description":"Participation is voluntary. Article 57 places the duty on the Member State to provide a sandbox, not on you to join one. A Member State may also fulfil that duty by participating in an existing sandbox with equivalent national coverage. Article 57(4) leaves other regulatory sandboxes established under Union or national law unaffected."}],"statements":[{"kind":"official_fact","text":"Article 57(1) requires Member States to ensure that their competent authorities establish at least one AI regulatory sandbox at national level. The text of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 as published in the Official Journal provides that the sandbox shall be operational by 2 August 2026, and that wording still stands unchanged on 9 August 2026 in the article text published by the European Commission. The timeline the European Commission publishes after the Digital Omnibus, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, entered into force on 27 July 2026 places the milestone at 2 August 2027 instead, stating \"Member States should have at least one AI regulatory sandbox per country operational\". The consolidated text of Article 57(1) after the Omnibus has not been verified at article level; rely on the consolidated version on EUR-Lex for the exact date. Chapter VI, which contains Article 57, is not among the exceptions in Article 113 and therefore applies since 2 August 2026. Article 57(1) further provides that the obligation may also be fulfilled by participating in an existing sandbox, in so far as that participation provides an equivalent level of national coverage. Article 57(5) defines the sandbox as a controlled environment that fosters innovation and facilitates the development, training, testing and validation of innovative AI systems for a limited time, pursuant to a specific sandbox plan agreed between the provider or prospective provider and the competent authority, before the system is placed on the market or put into service. Such sandboxes may include testing in real world conditions supervised therein. Article 57(15) requires the AI Office to make publicly available, and keep up to date, a list of planned and existing sandboxes.","citations":[{"source_id":"raip:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Article 57(1)-(17), Article 58, Article 113; as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","eli":"http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj"}],"review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Responsible AI Platform release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"source_checked"}},{"kind":"editorial_interpretation","text":"The common mistake is to read the sandbox as a delay or an exemption. It is neither. Article 57(11) leaves the competent authority's supervisory and corrective powers fully intact and expressly empowers it to suspend your testing or your participation, temporarily or permanently, where risks cannot be effectively mitigated. A sandbox is useful for exactly one profile: you are building an AI system that is likely to fall under Annex III, you are uncertain about its classification or about how to meet Chapter III, Section 2, and you want that uncertainty resolved before you go to market. If you are purely a deployer buying a system, the sandbox is not your route: at most you can join as a partner of the provider under Article 58(2), point (b). Second trap: 2 August 2027 is a duty on the Member State, not on you. The date on this item is therefore 2 August 2026: from that moment Chapter VI applies and the route is open to you. You cannot hang your own preparation on that date, and the date says nothing about whether your national sandbox will actually have capacity by then. Third trap: people confuse the Article 57 sandbox with Article 60 real-world testing. These are two distinct routes with different conditions. Real-world testing can take place inside the sandbox (Article 57(5) and Article 58(4)) or outside it under Article 60, and the safeguards differ.","citations":[{"source_id":"raip:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Article 57(1)-(17), Article 58, Article 113; as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","eli":"http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj"}],"review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Responsible AI Platform release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"editorial"}},{"kind":"recommended_action","text":"First establish your role: only providers and prospective providers can enter on their own. Then use the AI Office's published list of planned and existing sandboxes (Article 57(15)) to find the sandbox open to you, in your Member State or jointly with others. Before you apply, state exactly which uncertainty you want resolved, ideally focused on classification under Article 6 or on a specific requirement in Chapter III, Section 2. Plan for the three-month decision period that Article 58(2), point (a), requires the implementing acts to ensure, build it into your product timeline, and ask the competent authority in writing which period it currently applies. On entry, record in writing what the sandbox plan covers, and on exit request both the written proof and the exit report.","citations":[{"source_id":"raip:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","source_locator":"Article 57(1)-(17), Article 58, Article 113; as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744","source_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","eli":"http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj"}],"review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Responsible AI Platform release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"editorial"}}],"legal_status":"applicable","deadline_at":"2026-08-02T00:00:00.000Z","links":[{"relation":"public_page","href":"https://www.aiactblog.nl/en/verplichtingen/article-57-regulatory-sandboxes","label":"Open the human explanation"},{"relation":"official_source","href":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","label":"Article 57 on EUR-Lex"}],"review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Responsible AI Platform release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"source_checked"}}],"included":{"sources":[{"id":"raip:source:reg-eu-2024-1689","title":{"nl":"EU AI-verordening 2024/1689","en":"EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689"},"publisher":{"nl":"Europees Parlement en Raad","en":"European Parliament and Council"},"canonical_url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","eli":"http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj","source_version":"original-oj-2024-07-12","verified_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","fingerprint_basis":"canonical_url|source_version|verified_at","source_record_hash_sha256":"bf0fca3e1fb47ce58924f6e736d572bb5db3812c3276c0b2891fbf328c42a5c6","review":{"reviewed_at":"2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z","reviewer":"Responsible AI Platform release validation","review_method":"source_link_and_rule_validation","legal_status":"source_checked"}}]},"links":{"self":"https://0.0.0.0:3000/api/v1/obligations?id=raip%3Aobligation%3Aarticle-57-regulatory-sandboxes&lang=en","alternate":"https://0.0.0.0:3000/api/v1/obligations?id=raip%3Aobligation%3Aarticle-57-regulatory-sandboxes&lang=en&format=jsonld","licence":"https://www.aiactblog.nl/nl/legal/terms"}}