# Recital (71)

> This recital applies to all high-risk AI systems within the scope of the EU AI Act.

## Introduction

It is essential to have understandable information on how high-risk AI systems were developed and how they function throughout their lifecycle to ensure compliance with this Regulation.

## Content

Having comprehensible information on how high-risk AI systems have been developed and how they perform throughout their lifetime is essential to enable traceability of those systems, verify compliance with the requirements under this Regulation, as well as monitoring of their operations and post market monitoring. This requires keeping records and the availability of technical documentation, containing information which is necessary to assess the compliance of the AI system with the relevant requirements and facilitate post market monitoring. Such information should include the general characteristics, capabilities and limitations of the system, algorithms, data, training, testing and validation processes used as well as documentation on the relevant risk-management system and drawn in a clear and comprehensive form. The technical documentation should be kept up to date, appropriately throughout the lifetime of the AI system. Furthermore, high-risk AI systems should technically allow for the automatic recording of events, by means of logs, over the duration of the lifetime of the system.

## Official source
- [Source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32024R1689#rct_71)