AI Act — limited-risk dossier
Short public summary. The full reasoning lives in the repo: infra/ai-act-classification.md.
Classification
This tool qualifies as a limited-risk AI system under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act). The tool generates draft letters to airlines under Regulation (EC) 261/2004; the user signs and sends them themselves.
Why not high-risk (Annex III)
Annex III §8(a) targets AI systems that assist a judicial authority in researching or interpreting facts and applying the law. This tool does not assist a judicial authority. It is a consumer-facing drafting assistant where:
- The user is the principal and submits the letter themselves;
- Legal references come from a closed, hand-curated set — no free citation generation;
- No automated decision is made that has legal effect for the user without human intervention.
Compliance with limited-risk obligations
- Transparency (Art. 50 AI Act): The tool clearly indicates that the output is AI-generated, which model is used, which citations are included, and from which source.
- No deception: the tool is not positioned as «we do it for you» or as a legal advisory service.
- Hallucination control: citations are not generated by the AI but inserted deterministically from an allow-list. The AI may only rephrase existing citations, not invent them.
- Closed-set discipline: if the AI removes or alters a citation despite instructions, the tool falls back to the unpolished template version.
User-side risk
A Dutch court awarded full procedural costs to the opposing party in 2025 because a litigant submitted an AI-generated document with an ECLI that turned out not to exist (see ECLI:NL:RBOBR:2025:8495, analysis on IT-en-Recht). That's why: closed citation set, an explicit call to the user to verify every reference before sending, and visible flagging when a citation has not yet been manually verified.
Additional information
- Model output is not legal advice within the meaning of the Dutch Bar Act (Advocatenwet).
- No assignment of claims → no Wft/AFM supervision threshold.
- Data controller / contact: see footer (open-source project).
Sources on this page
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)
- Annex III to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — high-risk AI systems
- Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — limited-risk AI transparency
- Dutch Bar Act (Advocatenwet)
- Dutch Financial Supervision Act (Wft)
- Rechtbank Oost-Brabant 2025 — abuse of procedural rights through AI-generated submissions (full court-cost award)
- IT-en-Recht — Abuse of procedural rights through substandard AI-generated submissions