Forty-four questions professionals ask about proving AI Act compliance — risk management, logging, incident reporting, watermarking — each mapped to the SOURCE 0 term that answers it, and to the article of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 it rests on.

The Reference Legitimacy Gap designates the structural interval between what a governance architecture documents and what it can actually verify. Without prior fixation, the evaluative reference becomes a variable adjustable after the fact by any party with sufficient interest and access. This article establishes the Mandate of Antecedence as the minimum architectural condition under which governance produces proof rather than narrative.