Recital 12 Procedures for assistance requests

Such request should be made by a member of the scientific panel who is appointed as rapporteur for a task of the scientific panel, supported by at least a third of the members of the scientific panel. The request should duly substantiate why a request for information and access to the requested information is necessary for the performance of the tasks of the scientific panel. The AI Office means the Commission’s function of contributing to the implementation, monitoring and supervision of AI systems and general-purpose AI models, and AI governance, provided for in Commission Decision of 24 January 2024; references in this Regulation to the AI Office shall be construed as references to the Commission; should assess the necessity and proportionality of the request, taking into account the need to protect trade secrets and confidential business information. When the AI Office means the Commission’s function of contributing to the implementation, monitoring and supervision of AI systems and general-purpose AI models, and AI governance, provided for in Commission Decision of 24 January 2024; references in this Regulation to the AI Office shall be construed as references to the Commission; decides to honour the request, it should prepare a request for information from a provider means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge;, to be issued by the Commission, and make the information received available to the relevant members of the scientific panel. The AI Office means the Commission’s function of contributing to the implementation, monitoring and supervision of AI systems and general-purpose AI models, and AI governance, provided for in Commission Decision of 24 January 2024; references in this Regulation to the AI Office shall be construed as references to the Commission; should put in place secure technical means, which should be fit for purpose and operate to an appropriately high standard, to give access to such information, which should be restricted to the requesting members of the scientific panel, who should be the appointed rapporteur, and the contributors for a task of the scientific panel. The requesting members should, before receiving the data, submit a self-declaration stating that they only intend to use the requested information for the stated purpose and describing the modalities and safeguards to ensure confidential data handling. The AI Office means the Commission’s function of contributing to the implementation, monitoring and supervision of AI systems and general-purpose AI models, and AI governance, provided for in Commission Decision of 24 January 2024; references in this Regulation to the AI Office shall be construed as references to the Commission; should be able to refuse a request if, based on the information submitted by a member of the scientific panel, it has grounds to assume that there are reasonably foreseeable risks means the combination of the probability of an occurrence of harm and the severity of that harm; related to data security or confidentiality.