EU AI Act Art. 11: technical documentation (Annex IV)

Technical documentation (Annex IV) drawn up and kept up to date

From clause to evidenceThe chain from EU AI Act Art. 11 to its evidence record, in 6 steps; the text alternative lists them and the facts under the figure state each in full.ClauseEU AI ActArt. 11Duty holderProviderApplies from2027-12-02DeferredArtefactAIBOMLayerLayer 02Inventory &TransparencyEvidence recordModel card+1 moreSame topic in 18 frameworks (41 clauses): EU AI Act, ISO 42001, China AI Labelling, China GenAI Measures, China DeepSynthesis, GPAI Code, GDPR and 11 moreAs of 2026-09-24 · illustrative, not a claim of conformity From clause to evidenceThe chain from EU AI Act Art. 11 to its evidence record, in 6 steps; the text alternative lists them and the facts under the figure state each in full.ClauseEU AI Act · Art. 11Duty holderProviderApplies from2027-12-02 · DeferredArtefactAIBOMLayerLayer 02Inventory & TransparencyEvidence recordModel card · +1 moreSame topic in 18 frameworks (41 clauses): EUAI Act, ISO 42001, China AI Labelling, ChinaGenAI Measures, China Deep Synthesis and 13…As of 2026-09-24illustrative, not a claim of conformity
From clause to evidence Build the artefact, then file every output it produces as a record that names AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART11. Drawn from chapter 08.
Text alternative
  • Clause: EU AI Act, Art. 11.
  • Duty holder: Provider.
  • Applies from: 2027-12-02, Deferred.
  • Artefact: AIBOM.
  • Layer: Layer 02 Inventory & Transparency.
  • Evidence record: Model card, +1 more.
  • Record schemas: Model card , Design record .
  • The same topic in 18 other frameworks; the crosswalk section below links each clause.
Id
AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART11
Instrument
EU AI Act (post-Omnibus) law
Compared side by side
ISO 42001 vs EU AI Act · NIST AI RMF vs EU AI Act
Clause
Art. 11
Duty holder
Provider
Authority
National MSA
Applies from
Deferred · Annex III
Later dates
  • Applies to Annex I embedded (product safety-component) systems
  • Deadline for legacy high-risk systems intended for use by public authorities (Art. 111(2))
System class
High-risk (Annex III) · High-risk (Annex I)

The artefact that evidences it

AIBOM (CycloneDX ML-BOM, SPDX 3.0 AI); auto-generated technical documentation; model cards.

Patterns that build it

The same topic in other frameworks

From the topic crosswalk: the clauses filed under the same topics as this one. Mappings are illustrative, not a claim of conformity.

Documentation and transparency

Open controls that evidence it

Draft controls in the open control profiles that map to this row: each states a requirement and the evidence it must leave behind.

Source

Chapter 08, section EU AI Act, post-Omnibus, checked against its sources on the review date above.

Machine-readable

Cite this obligation

García Aibar, J. (2026). EU AI Act Art. 11: technical documentation (Annex IV) (AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART11). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-euaia-art11. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026obligation,
  author       = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title        = {{EU AI Act Art. 11: technical documentation (Annex IV) (AIGE-OBL-EUAIA-ART11)}},
  howpublished = {In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {0.5.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url          = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-euaia-art11},
  note         = {Version 0.5.0}
}