Art. 18 Documentation keeping | AI act regulation | AI act

1. The provider means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge; shall, for a period ending 10 years after the high-risk AI system means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments; has been placed on the market or put into service, keep at the disposal of the national competent authorities means a notifying authority or a market surveillance authority; as regards AI systems put into service or used by Union institutions, agencies, offices and bodies, references to national competent authorities or market surveillance authorities in this Regulation shall be construed as references to the European Data Protection Supervisor;:
  1. the technical documentation referred to in Article 11;
  2. the documentation concerning the quality management system referred to in Article 17;
  3. the documentation concerning the changes approved by notified bodies means a conformity assessment body notified in accordance with this Regulation and other relevant Union harmonisation legislation;, where applicable;
  4. the decisions and other documents issued by the notified bodies means a conformity assessment body notified in accordance with this Regulation and other relevant Union harmonisation legislation;, where applicable;
  5. the EU declaration of conformity referred to in Article 47.
1. Each Member State shall determine conditions under which the documentation referred to in paragraph 1 remains at the disposal of the national competent authorities means a notifying authority or a market surveillance authority; as regards AI systems put into service or used by Union institutions, agencies, offices and bodies, references to national competent authorities or market surveillance authorities in this Regulation shall be construed as references to the European Data Protection Supervisor; for the period indicated in that paragraph for the cases when a provider means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge; or its authorised representative means a natural or legal person located or established in the Union who has received and accepted a written mandate from a provider of an AI system or a general-purpose AI model to, respectively, perform and carry out on its behalf the obligations and procedures established by this Regulation; established on its territory goes bankrupt or ceases its activity prior to the end of that period.
1. Providers means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model or that has an AI system or a general-purpose AI model developed and places it on the market or puts the AI system into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge; that are financial institutions subject, for the purpose of real-world testing, means a natural person who participates in testing in real-world conditions; 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.