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Technical documentation (Annex IV)

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The provider's technical file for a high-risk AI system, drawn up before placing on the market and kept up to date under Article 11: description, development process, data, testing, oversight, risk management, standards, declaration and post-market monitoring plan 1. Most items can be generated from pipeline records.

Developed in
ch. 14, Annex IV, element by element
Chapters
ch. 14, Development
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

6 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

  • Small mid-cap enterprise (SMC)

    An enterprise that has outgrown the SME definition but falls within the EU small mid-cap definition.

  • Post-market monitoring

    The AI Act Article 72 duty to actively monitor a high-risk system's performance and risks after deployment, throughout its lifetime.

  • Pre-determined changes

    Changes to a high-risk system that continues to learn, planned by the provider at the initial conformity assessment and described in the technical…

  • Placing on the market

    Under the EU AI Act, the first making available of an AI system or general-purpose AI model on the Union market; later supplies in the course of a commercial…

  • High-risk AI system

    Under the EU AI Act, an AI system that is a safety component of, or itself, a product under Annex I legislation needing third-party conformity assessment, or…

  • Risk management

    The organised practice of steering an organisation's decisions with its risks in view: identify, assess, treat and monitor, in a loop.

  • Notified body

    A conformity assessment body designated under the EU AI Act to carry out third-party conformity assessment of high-risk AI systems.

  • AI system

    For governance, the object the AI definition brings into scope.

Sources

  1. [1] Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), consolidated text as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI, in force 27 Jul 2026; definitions in Art. 3, incl. 3(1), 3(3) to 3(14), 3(14b), 3(20), 3(22), 3(23), 3(29) to 3(32), 3(49), 3(55) to 3(57), 3(60), 3(61), 3(63), 3(68); Arts. 4, 5, 6 (incl. 6(3) third subparagraph, profiling), 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22 to 27 (incl. 26(11)), 40, 41, 43, 47, 48, 50, 53 (incl. 53(1)(c)), 55, 57, 60, 72, 73, 86; Annexes I, III, IV). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2026-07-27. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/2026-07-27/eng (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Technical documentation (Annex IV). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/technical-documentation-annex-iv. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026technicaldocumentationannexiv,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Technical documentation (Annex IV)}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/technical-documentation-annex-iv}
}