Control A.6.2.7: AI system technical documentation
Decide what technical documentation each relevant category of interested party (such as users, partners and supervisory authorities) needs, and provide it in a suitable form.
What control A.6.2.7 asks
Decide what technical documentation each relevant category of interested party (such as users, partners and supervisory authorities) needs, and provide it in a suitable form.
Why it matters for privacy
Technical documentation is how someone outside the team understands the system well enough to assess it. For privacy, that includes the data, the purpose and the limits.
Where the draft lands: documentation for the people affected. The draft's evaluation has to be explainable to interested parties. Technical documentation is the base of that explanation.
Basis for A.6.2.7: the ISO page 56582 and the ISO/IEC 42001:2023 control record. The overlay is our reading of the published abstract and the stage record, not the draft text. Evidence, review and the date.
Evidence for control A.6.2.7
This is the evidence an auditor or a privacy reviewer asks to see. For control A.6.2.7 the list is written for an AI system that touches personal data, so a system with no personal data will need a subset.
- Technical documentation Documentation needs analysis per interested party category
- Technical documentation Technical documentation: description and intended purpose, usage instructions, deployment assumptions, technical limitations, monitoring functions
- Technical documentation Life cycle documentation and operational documentation (failure management, health monitoring, operating procedures, responsible roles, updates)
- Technical documentation Management approval and currency of documentation
Where control A.6.2.7 commonly fails
- Regulators or partners given no technical documentation
- Documentation out of date after system changes
- No rollback or failure management plan documented
What to do about control A.6.2.7 before the draft lands
Produce a technical pack per system: purpose, data, model, limits, retention, logging, known failure modes and the contact for a privacy question. Keep a dated version.
The requirement for control A.6.2.7 is ISO/IEC 42001:2023, and a certificate is issued against that standard or ISO/IEC 27701. The privacy work extends the control to personal data in an AI system; it is not a new system and not a certification.
Read across from control A.6.2.7
- Control A.2.4, Review of the AI policy
- Control A.6.2.3, Documentation of AI system design and development
- Control A.8.5, Information for interested parties
← Control A.6.2.6 | Control A.6.2.8 →
Open the full index. The public record behind control A.6.2.7 shows the scope and the lifecycle.
Control A.6.2.7 is cited to ISO/IEC 42001:2023, Annex A. The requirement, evidence and gaps are our wording from the control record; the privacy overlay is read from the ISO page and its abstract. The full list.