CHAPTER III · SECTION 2
AI Act Article 12: Record-keeping
Amended text. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, amended this Regulation with effect from 27 July 2026. The articles it changed, and the six it inserted (4a, 60a, 75a, 75b, 75c and 75d), are shown here in their consolidated wording, taken from the official consolidated text of 27 July 2026. The recitals are those of the original Regulation. Consolidated text on EUR-Lex (CELEX 02024R1689-20260727).
This article was not changed by the amendment.
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:
(a) 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;
(b) facilitating the post-market monitoring referred to in Article 72; and
(c) 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:
(a) recording of the period of each use of the system (start date and time and end date and time of each use);
(b) the reference database against which input data has been checked by the system;
(c) the input data for which the search has led to a match;
(d) the identification of the natural persons involved in the verification of the results, as referred to in Article 14(5).
Source text: EUR-Lex, Official Journal HTML (CELEX 32024R1689), with the articles amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 taken from the consolidated text (CELEX 02024R1689-20260727). The parser was validated against the anchor articles verified in REP-08.