CHAPTER III · SECTION 3
AI Act Article 18: Documentation 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. The provider shall, for a period ending 10 years after the high-risk AI system has been placed on the market or put into service, keep at the disposal of the national competent authorities:
(a) the technical documentation referred to in Article 11;
(b) the documentation concerning the quality management system referred to in Article 17;
(c) the documentation concerning the changes approved by notified bodies, where applicable;
(d) the decisions and other documents issued by the notified bodies, where applicable;
(e) the EU declaration of conformity referred to in Article 47.
2. Each Member State shall determine conditions under which the documentation referred to in paragraph 1 remains at the disposal of the national competent authorities for the period indicated in that paragraph for the cases when a provider or its authorised representative established on its territory goes bankrupt or ceases its activity prior to the end of that period.
3. Providers that are financial institutions subject to requirements regarding their internal governance, arrangements or processes under Union financial services law shall maintain the technical documentation as part of the documentation kept under the relevant Union financial services law.
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.