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Post-market monitoring (Art. 72)

Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the ongoing, documented collection, analysis, and corrective-action process that providers of high-risk AI systems must operate after the system is placed on the market.

What this means in practice

Feeds into serious-incident reporting and into updates of the Article 9 risk-management system.

Synonyms

EU AI Act post-market monitoring , Article 72 monitoring

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Related terms for Post-market monitoring (Art. 72) Network graph showing 4 related glossary terms connected to Post-market monitoring (Art. 72). Post-market mo… High-risk … Risk manag… Serious in… Provider
4 related concepts connected to Post-market monitoring (Art. 72).

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  • High-risk AI system — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, an AI system falling under Article 6(1) because it is a safety component of, or is itself, a product covered by Annex I Union harmonization legislation, or under Article 6(2) because its use case falls within Annex III — unless exempted by the Article 6(3) derogation..
  • Risk management system (Art. 9) — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, a continuous, iterative process running across the entire lifecycle of a high-risk AI system that identifies foreseeable risks, estimates and evaluates risks, adopts risk-management measures, and documents residual risks.
  • Serious incident (Art. 3(49)) — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, an incident or malfunction of an AI system that directly or indirectly leads to the death of a person or serious harm to a person's health, to a serious and irreversible disruption of critical infrastructure, to infringement of fundamental-rights obligations, or to serious harm to property or the environment..
  • Provider — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model — or has it developed — and places it on the market or puts it into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge..

See also

  • High-risk AI system — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, an AI system falling under Article 6(1) because it is a safety component of, or is itself, a product covered by Annex I Union harmonization legislation, or under Article 6(2) because its use case falls within Annex III — unless exempted by the Article 6(3) derogation..
  • Risk management system (Art. 9) — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, a continuous, iterative process running across the entire lifecycle of a high-risk AI system that identifies foreseeable risks, estimates and evaluates risks, adopts risk-management measures, and documents residual risks.
  • Serious incident (Art. 3(49)) — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, an incident or malfunction of an AI system that directly or indirectly leads to the death of a person or serious harm to a person's health, to a serious and irreversible disruption of critical infrastructure, to infringement of fundamental-rights obligations, or to serious harm to property or the environment..
  • Provider — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that develops an AI system or a general-purpose AI model — or has it developed — and places it on the market or puts it into service under its own name or trademark, whether for payment or free of charge..