Article 12

Record-Keeping

Updated on 31 July 2024 based on the version published in the Official Journal of the EU dated 12 July 2024 and entered into force on 1 August 2024.

1. High-risk AI systems shall technically allow for the automatic recording of events (logs) over the lifetime of the system.

2. In order to ensure a level of traceability of the functioning of a high-risk AI system that is appropriate to the intended purpose of the system, logging capabilities shall enable the recording of events relevant for:

  • identifying situations that may result in the high-risk AI system presenting a risk within the meaning of Article 79(1) or in a substantial modification;
  • facilitating the post-market monitoring referred to in Article 72; and
  • monitoring the operation of high-risk AI systems referred to in Article 26(5).

3. For high-risk AI systems referred to in point 1 (a), of Annex III, the logging capabilities shall provide, at a minimum:

  • recording of the period of each use of the system (start date and time and end date and time of each use);
  • the reference database against which input data has been checked by the system;
  • the input data for which the search has led to a match;
  • the identification of the natural persons involved in the verification of the results, as referred to in Article 14(5).

Table of Contents

Chapter III: High-Risk AI Systems
Chapter IX: Post-Market Monitoring, Information Sharing and Market Surveillance