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EU AI Act for govtech

*Engineering guidance, not legal advice. Your legal team decides how the Act applies to your products.*

Where this sector lands

Annex III point 5(a) covers AI systems used by public authorities to evaluate eligibility of natural persons for essential public assistance benefits and services, including healthcare, and to grant, reduce, revoke or reclaim them. Public deployers also have to perform a fundamental rights impact assessment under Article 27 before first use, and high-risk systems must be registered in the EU database.

The logging duties that follow

• Art. 12 (providers of high-risk systems): automatic recording of events over the system's lifetime, so functioning can be traced and risks identified.
• Art. 19 (providers) and Art. 26(6) (deployers): keep the automatically generated logs for at least six months, unless other law says otherwise.

See Art. 12 logging and log retention. Logs cannot be backfilled: runs you do not record today will not exist when someone asks about them.

What counts as evidence

Citizens can ask for an explanation of decisions (Article 86) and can complain. A public body needs to show what the system did in a specific case months later. Verifiable per-run records, kept for the required period, are the practical basis for that.

A log in your own database is your word. What convinces an outsider is a hash chain over the run's events, so edits and deletions are detectable, plus an independent signature verifiable with a public key.

How Vetro Attest fits

Vetro Attest accepts an OpenTelemetry GenAI trace (OTLP/JSON) or a native Vetro ledger, with nothing to install. Verification is free. For 29 USD per ledger, one-off:

• a full EU AI Act report (Markdown and HTML) mapping the run onto the logging obligations, with an explicit list of what the log cannot show;
• an ed25519 countersignature over the ledger digest, event count and timestamp, verifiable by anyone with our published public key.

Limits, stated plainly: the countersignature proves the log verified clean at a time, not that a decision was fair or the data correct. The report supports a compliance conversation; it is not a conformity assessment. Paid ledgers are deleted after 7 days, and the report and attestation are emailed to you to keep.

Next steps

• Run the free EU AI Act Art. 12/14 checker against your current setup.
• Verify a trace free, then get the countersigned report for 29 USD.
• Compare approaches: vs. WORM storage, vs. signing your own logs.

See a sample ledger verified in one click, check your own logs free or get the countersigned EU AI Act report.