The Cyber Resilience Act's Latent Log-Integrity Obligation: Why Europe's Action-Logging Duty Cannot Discharge Its Own Demonstration Architecture

European Union product-cybersecurity law harbours a latent, unfulfilled log-integrity obligation. The Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) imposes, in Annex I Part I, both an integrity duty over data, commands, programs, configuration (point (2)(f)) and a separate duty to record relevant internal activity in a security log (point (2)(l)). On its text, the integrity duty does not reach the security log generated under (2)(l): the objects of (2)(f) are a closed enumeration into which a self-produced audit log does not naturally fall. Yet the Act own demonstration-and-retention architecture -- Article 13(7)/13(13), Article 31 with Annex VII, and a disposal horizon of ten years or more -- cannot achieve its purpose unless that log is tamper-evident and independently verifiable. A record the custodian can silently rewrite cannot discharge a decade-long duty to demonstrate. The (2)(f)/(2)(l) coverage gap is therefore not a neutral legislative silence but an effet-utile defect: on a purposive reading the Act already implies a latent integrity obligation over the action log. The contribution is a defended doctrinal holding, an effet-utile argument, a standardisation-design analysis at the delegation seam, and a falsifiable record-custodian-as-adversary threat model.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-06-28
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20980914
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Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
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The Cyber Resilience Act's Latent Log-Integrity Obligation: Why Europe's Action-Logging Duty Cannot Discharge Its Own Demonstration Architecture

Anton Sokolov
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
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The Cyber Resilience Act's Latent Log-Integrity Obligation: Why Europe's Action-Logging Duty Cannot Discharge Its Own Demonstration Architecture

Anton Sokolov
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Abstract

European Union product-cybersecurity law harbours a latent, unfulfilled log-integrity obligation. The Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) imposes, in Annex I Part I, both an integrity duty over data, commands, programs, configuration (point (2)(f)) and a separate duty to record relevant internal activity in a security log (point (2)(l)). On its text, the integrity duty does not reach the security log generated under (2)(l): the objects of (2)(f) are a closed enumeration into which a self-produced audit log does not naturally fall. Yet the Act own demonstration-and-retention architecture -- Article 13(7)/13(13), Article 31 with Annex VII, and a disposal horizon of ten years or more -- cannot achieve its purpose unless that log is tamper-evident and independently verifiable. A record the custodian can silently rewrite cannot discharge a decade-long duty to demonstrate. The (2)(f)/(2)(l) coverage gap is therefore not a neutral legislative silence but an effet-utile defect: on a purposive reading the Act already implies a latent integrity obligation over the action log. The contribution is a defended doctrinal holding, an effet-utile argument, a standardisation-design analysis at the delegation seam, and a falsifiable record-custodian-as-adversary threat model.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
University of Tyumen (RU)
Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
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