# Article 19 — Automatically generated logs

> COMPOSED TEXT - NOT AUTHENTIC. This is the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) with the Digital Omnibus on AI (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force 27 July 2026) applied by a deterministic, gated parser. Only the Official Journal publications are authentic law; no official consolidated version existed when this was generated. Corrigenda R(01)-R(04) do not correct the English text (verified against CELLAR). Every fragment's derivation chain is available in the source graphs (vault: data/graph/). Not legal advice.

- Page: https://eu-ai-act.standards.riskmandate.ai/articles/art_019/
- Structured: https://eu-ai-act.standards.riskmandate.ai/articles/art_019.llm.json
- Text version: 2026-07-27 (generated 2026-07-31)
- Site version: v0.1.4
- Provisions root hash: `77c4ca7c208d73adc24b9a41eb29724bee29a41df98b786b85c57852fa3ae6bd`
- Provision id: `eu-2024-1689/art_019`
- Location: Article 19 in CHAPTER III / SECTION 3
- Changes applied by the Digital Omnibus: no changes

## Text

**1.** Providers of high-risk AI systems shall keep the logs referred to in Article 12(1), automatically generated by their high-risk AI systems, to the extent such logs are under their control. Without prejudice to applicable Union or national law, the logs shall be kept for a period appropriate to the intended purpose of the high-risk AI system, of at least six months, unless provided otherwise in the applicable Union or national law, in particular in Union law on the protection of personal data.

**2.** Providers that are financial institutions subject to requirements regarding their internal governance, arrangements or processes under Union financial services law shall maintain the logs automatically generated by their high-risk AI systems as part of the documentation kept under the relevant financial services law.

## Provisions

| provision id | status | sha256 of text | derivation |
|---|---|---|---|
| `eu-2024-1689/art_019/par_001` | unchanged | `e29d01e413d34e25e1363c0bf128ade6fea8cf532ec8bb1a502a61061c357820` |  |
| `eu-2024-1689/art_019/par_002` | unchanged | `dafe689b7aa30a35ae2c8320af5abdef4a33c7df9fbad9b143fee1fe8a6b9a53` |  |

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