Article 19: Automatically Generated Log Storage & 6-Month Retention Gate

Statutory Framework: EU AI Act Article 19 (Recitals 70, 71)
Rule ID: RULE-EU-018 | Severity: PROGRAMMATIC BLOCKER
Mitigation Action: RETENTION_STORE_MANDATE

1. Statutory Mandate & Legal Boundary

"Requires providers to retain automatically generated logs for at least 6 months under sovereign tamper-evident storage."

2. Technical Invariant & AST Engine Matcher

[POLICIES.RULE-EU-018]
rule_id = "RULE-EU-018"
statute = "EU AI Act Article 19 (Recitals 70, 71)"
severity = "BLOCKER"
action = "RETENTION_STORE_MANDATE"

[ENFORCEMENT]
fail_closed = true
audit_trail = "Ed25519_DAC"
latency_max_us = 800

3. Production Python / Rust Integration

from anchor import AnchorGuard

@AnchorGuard.guard(policy="RULE-EU-018")
def process_machine_payload(payload: dict):
    # Evaluated in <0.8ms against RULE-EU-018 AST query bounds
    return compliance_engine.enforce(payload)