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Per-claim provenance."}],"not_medical_advice":true},"slug":"notified-body-ai-act-conformity","title":"Annex III conformity assessment needs a technical method for AI Act Article 12 logging and Article 14 oversight. There isn't one. This is one.","register":"technical","tags":["governance","eu-ai-act","adjudication","use-case"],"updated_at":"2026-07-30T13:31:28.422Z","body_excerpt":"## The position a notified body is in\n\nThe EU AI Act sends every high-risk AI system — the systems listed in Annex III: biometric identification, critical infrastructure, education and vocational scoring, employment and worker management, access to essential services and credit, law enforcement, migration and border control, administration of justice — through **conformity assessment** before it can be placed on the EU market. For most Annex III systems the provider may self-assess under internal control (Annex VI). But for remote biometric identification, and for any Annex III system where the provider has not applied harmonised standards in full, Article 43 routes the assessment through a **notified body** — a designated third party (TÜV SÜD, TÜV Rheinland, BSI, DEKRA, DNV and their peers) that examines the technical documentation and the quality-management system and issues, or refuses, the certificate.\n\nTwo of the requirements that assessment must cover have no established technical test method:\n\n- **Article 12 — record-keeping.** The system must *technically allow for the automatic recording of events (logs) over its lifetime*, to a standard that supports identifying situations of risk, post-market monitoring, and reconstruction of what the system did.\n- **Article 14 — human oversight.** The system must be designed so that natural persons can *effectively oversee* it: understand its capacities and limitations, remain aware of automation bias, correctly interpret its output, and **decide not to use it, or to disregard, override or reverse its output**.\n\nFor a machine tool or a pressure vessel, a notified body opens a harmonised standard and runs the listed tests. For Articles 12 and 14 there is no such standard to open.\n\n## Why there is no standard to open\n\nArticle 40 gives conformity assessment its normal backbone: harmonised standards, drafted by CEN/CENELEC under a Commission standardisation request and cited in the Official Journal, carry a **presumption of conformity** — a system that meets the standard is presumed to meet the corresponding legal requirement. The Commission issued that standardisation request to CEN/CENELEC JTC 21 in May 2023, covering exactly these areas: record-keeping and logging, human oversight, transparency, accuracy, robustness. As of mid-2026, the deliverables covering Articles 12 and 14 have not been adopted and cited in the Official Journal. The drafting is behind the application date.\n\nThe application date does not wait. The Act entered into force on 1 August 2024; prohibitions applied from February 2025; general-purpose model obligations from August 2025; and the high-risk obligations — Articles 8 through 15, including 12 and 14 — apply from **2 August 2026** for new Annex III systems. So a notified body assessing an Annex III system this year must form a technical opinion on logging and oversight from first principles: no presumption of conformity, no listed test procedure, no reference implementation.\n\nThat is the gap this page addresses. What follows is a candidate method — one running system whose logging and oversight properties are produced by construction and are therefore *testable* rather than merely *documented*. Every claim opens to a live record.\n\n## Article 12, mapped to the artifact\n\nRead Article 12 as an assessor would, requirement by requirement:\n\n**\"Automatic recording of events (logs) over the lifetime of the system.\"** In this method, every governed decision *is* the record. The rule set under which the decision is made is pinned to a content hash. The complete exchange with every model — request and response, verbatim, no summaries — is captured. The clause-by-clause derivation each model produced, the verdict, and the gate's disposition are appended to a ledger *before the result returns to the caller*. There is no code path that produces a decision without producing its log, because the log and the decision are the same object. 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