What the Article requires
Article 72 requires providers to establish a post-market monitoring system proportionate to the risks of the high-risk AI system. The system must actively and systematically collect, document and analyse relevant data on the AI's performance after placing-on-market, evaluate continuous compliance with Articles 8-15, and feed back into corrective actions. Implementing acts may further specify the monitoring requirements per use case.
In engineering terms
The lowest-scoring Article on MindMap's 50-enterprise readiness benchmark (19% audit-survivable). Most customers have not built the operational substrate for AI-specific post-market monitoring. The fix is a Langfuse-or-equivalent observability layer with structured drift detection, an incident-and-near-miss registry, and a periodic review cadence (typically monthly) feeding into corrective-action workflows.
Compliance checklist
- ✓Observability platform deployed (Langfuse self-hosted or equivalent)
- ✓Drift-detection rules per AI system
- ✓Incident and near-miss registry with workflow
- ✓Monthly performance-review cadence
- ✓Corrective-action workflow with audit trail
Terms used here
All Articles in the reference · The EU AI Act compliance architecture
Get the Article 72 checklist as a fill-in template
The EU AI Act Readiness Kit puts this checklist, and the other 13 Articles', into one fill-in PDF with room for an owner, evidence location and target date on every item. Plus an AI system inventory, a classification record, an Annex IV outline and a FRIA template.
- 01How to use this kit. Four steps, and which checklists apply to each classification result.
- 02AI system inventory. One row per AI system: owner, what it does, built or bought, your role and its classification.
- 03Classification record. The five questions from our applicability checker, with space for answers, notes and the result.
- 04Evidence checklists. 72 evidence items across Articles 9 to 15, 25, 26, 27, 50, 53, 55 and 72, each with an owner, evidence location and target date.
Need audit-survivable evidence for Article 72?
MindMap runs a 90-day path from standing start to audit-survivable evidence. Talk to the engineering team.