Annex IV
The annex to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 listing the nine minimum information elements required in the technical documentation for high-risk AI systems: general description, development process, monitoring and control, performance metrics, risk management, lifecycle changes, standards applied, EU declaration of conformity, and post-market monitoring plan.
Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 7 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in EU AI Act Implementation Expert.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The annex to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 listing the nine minimum information elements required in the technical documentation for high-risk AI systems: general description, development process, monitoring and control, performance metrics, risk management, lifecycle changes, standards applied, EU declaration of conformity, and post-market monitoring plan.
The annex to the EU AI Act that lists the item categories a high-risk system's technical documentation must cover, including the system's general description, its development process, its data and training methodology, its risk management measures, and its performance and lifecycle change history.
The list in the EU AI Act of the nine elements of technical documentation a provider of a high-risk system must draw up and keep current, referenced by Article 11. It functions as the table of contents for the conformity file.
The EU AI Act's list of the technical documentation a high-risk AI system's provider must maintain; the structure of the conformity file under attack here.
The required contents of the technical documentation a provider of a high-risk AI system must compile under Article 11; the "technical file" the role specifies and reviews but does not itself author in technical detail.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- Data governance for the conformity file: your chapter in the document the regulator reads · Lineage Under Audit, Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP)
- The conformity file: assembling the evidence for the system you shipped in Module 3 · The EU AI Act: The Executive Map, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- Your conformity file under attack: the red team finds what you missed · Adversarial Governance, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- Role Definition: What an EU AI Act Expert Does (and Doesn't) · The EU AI Act Expert Role, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
- Technical Documentation: Annex IV (Article 11) · High-Risk AI Requirements: The Technical File, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
- Assembling the Technical File · High-Risk AI Requirements: The Technical File, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
- Assembling the Complete Compliance Dossier · Capstone: The Compliance Portfolio, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where Annex IV starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Collects, labels and preserves the evidence that a control operated, a decision was made, and a claim can be defended to an auditor or regulator.
3 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Keeps the living record: each risk with a named owner, rating, treatment, residual risk, monitoring metric, threshold and review date.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Reads and applies content provenance infrastructure: C2PA content credentials, watermarking, machine readable AI labels, and the transparency duties that now require them.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- AI Controls Analystneeds working knowledge
- AI Governance Coordinatorneeds working knowledge
- GRC Associate (AI)needs it at depth
- Third-Party AI Risk Analystneeds working knowledge
- Chief Audit Executive, AI audit editionneeds it at depth
- Senior AI Compliance Analystneeds working knowledge
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: EU AI Act Articles 11 and 12; ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 7.5; NIST AI RMF MANAGE; ISO/IEC 42001 Clause 6.
One interview question about it
What evidence would you have ready before an auditor asks about an AI system, and how do you produce it as a byproduct of the work?
Asked of candidates for evidence collection and audit-ready documentation. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Compliance and regulatory affairs carries it as work you can show: Audit-ready documentation is what you produce.
- Internal audit and IT audit carries it as work you can show: Evidence evaluation is the profession.
- Project and program management carries it as a claim to back up: Decision logs and repositories are familiar.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.