The EU AI Act Evidence Checklist for AI Workflows

Transparency obligations bite in August 2026. High-risk obligations land later — and evidence capability cannot be retrofitted the month before. This checklist translates the legal text into 21 concrete engineering requirements your AI workflows must meet.

• Article-by-article mapping — Arts. 9, 12, 14, 15, 26, 50 and 72–73 turned into yes/no engineering checks.
• The Article 12 logging test — why editable text logs fail the evidential bar, and what automatic recording actually demands.
• The human oversight taxonomy — in-the-loop, on-the-loop and in-command, and when each model applies.
• What auditors will ask first — five questions from compliance reviews, with the evidence that answers each.
• 2026–2027 timeline — implementation dates, enforcement considerations and adjacent regulation.