Clause 5, Robustness assessment during the life cycle
The public titles set out a nine-stage life cycle: summary, inception, design and development, verification and validation, deployment, operation and monitoring, continuous validation, re-evaluation and retirement. The body text for each stage is withheld. The titles alone give a buyer the map on which to place evidence and owners.
The requirement in plain English
The public titles set out a nine-stage life cycle: summary, inception, design and development, verification and validation, deployment, operation and monitoring, continuous validation, re-evaluation and retirement. The body text for each stage is withheld. The titles alone give a buyer the map on which to place evidence and owners.
What the public record says
The public table of contents lists clause 5 and subclauses 5.1 Summary, 5.2 Inception, 5.3 Design and development, 5.4 Verification and validation, 5.5 Deployment, 5.6 Operation and monitoring, 5.7 Continuous validation, 5.8 Re-evaluation and 5.9 Retirement. The body text is not public.
| Subclause | Public title | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Robustness assessment during the life cycle | Withheld |
| 5.1 | Summary | Withheld |
| 5.2 | Inception | Withheld |
| 5.3 | Design and development | Withheld |
| 5.4 | Verification and validation | Withheld |
| 5.5 | Deployment | Withheld |
| 5.6 | Operation and monitoring | Withheld |
| 5.7 | Continuous validation | Withheld |
| 5.8 | Re-evaluation | Withheld |
| 5.9 | Retirement | Withheld |
Why it matters to you
This is the most useful public structure in the document. It says robustness assessment is not a single test at the end of development; it runs from inception to retirement. That maps directly to the life cycle controls a 42001 organisation already runs at A.6.1 and A.6.2, and to the risk process at 23894. A team can use the nine titles as a checklist tomorrow: who owns each stage, what evidence exists, and which stage has none. A statistical result that arrives only at verification and validation is late and has no baseline.
Evidence a reviewer asks for
- The life cycle map, one row per stage, with the owner and the evidence held.
- The stage gate records: what was decided, by whom and when.
- The baseline captured at inception or design, against which later performance is compared.
- The retirement record, including what happens to the model, the data and the evidence.
- A note on the stage with no evidence.
Checks to run this month
- Does every one of the nine stages have an owner?
- Is there a baseline before the first robustness test?
- Which stage has no evidence at all?
- Is retirement planned, or does the model simply stop being used?
Dates
FDIS registered 2026-08-21. The clause body is not public.
Cross-references
- Map the work to the AI management system and the risk process
- Assemble the evidence pack a reviewer will test
- Write the sampling and perturbation plan
What this page does not state
The body text of clause 5 and its nine subclauses is not public.