# Operate a post-market monitoring system

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: post_market_monitoring
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-12-02
- **Provision**: Article 72

## In brief

Operate a post-market monitoring system is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 72). It applies from 2 December 2027. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 2 frameworks. In practice: Define performance and drift indicators, feedback channels and review cadence in a monitoring plan.

## What the duty requires

Providers must establish and document a post-market monitoring system proportionate to the nature of the AI technology and its risks, actively and systematically collecting and analysing performance data throughout the system's lifetime, based on a monitoring plan that is part of the technical documentation. The Commission is to adopt a template for the plan.

## What an organisation does about it

Define performance and drift indicators, feedback channels and review cadence in a monitoring plan.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Automatic event logging and record retention (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/record-keeping-and-logging
- Post-deployment monitoring and drift detection (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/post-market-monitoring-and-drift-detection
- AI incident management and regulatory reporting (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-incident-management-and-reporting

## Parent instrument

- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0020 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0020; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-post-market-monitoring
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 72
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Operate a post-market monitoring system (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0020, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0020 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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